@Dualmask: I watched the first two Blade Movies and I honestly forgot them when I wrote this. Both are awesome movies, and the first Blade played a role in proving comic book movies were still viable.
X-Men deserves alot of the credit due to it being the first blockbuster movie based on a comic book since Batman and Robin, but Blade was successful and helped stop the bleeding. Blade and X-Men both saved comic book movies.
@TrueLink: Amazing Spider-Man 2 had its share of problems, but it and even the worst X-Men movies will never be in the same tier as Batman & Robin.
Batman and Robin is in the garbage tier alongside Superman IV, Catwoman, and Fantastic Four 2015.
The Superhero movie tier goes something like this.
Classic Masterpiece tier(These are genre defining movies that changed how people view Super Hero movies)
Batman, Superman, X2, Spiderman 2, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, Logan, Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool
Great Movie tier(Movies that are worth watching, but were not as ground breaking as the movies in the tier above them)
Batman Returns, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, X-Men, Spider-Man, X-Men: Days of Future Past, most of the MCU movies.
Good Movie tier(Good movies that are fun to watch)
X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, Superman Returns, Amazing Spider-Man, Superman II, Ghost Rider
Watchable tier(These are movies that are watchable, but have very divided fanbases. Some people love them, some people hate them with the burning passion of a billion suns)
Green Lantern, Man of Steel, The X-Men movies that are not listed above, Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man 2, the first two Fantastic Four Movies, Batman vs Superman, Suicide Squad, Batman Forever
Garbage Tier(These are movies that everyone agrees have no redeeming qualties and nobody will ever be caught defending them. Most of these movies have killed careers, franchises, or even set back comic book movies in terms of popularity)
Batman and Robin, Superman IV, Fantastic Four 2015, Catwoman, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengence, Supergirl
@Tanares: There is no licensing issue with the X-Men! All Fox has the rights to is to make movies based on the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. All other rights, be it TV shows, cartoons, video games, etc are in Disney's hands.
@Simulator_Shock: All they own are the film rights. Disney owns all the other rights to the X-Men, so they have no valid reason not to have them in the game.
@spartanx169x: Honestly, did we need a mission statement for Voyager when it had a very clear premises from the start?
How would it go anyway? Something like this?
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Voyager. Its continuing mission to find short cuts back to earth, to avoid being blown up by the powerful races native to the Delta Quadrant, to boldly go where no other Federation Starship will go besides us since we blew up The Caretaker."
Now, I think Enterprise could have used a mission statement given the show went back to the exploration formula for its first few seasons, and I'm undecided on how it would work with DS9.
But yeah, Voyager never really needed a mission statement.
You know what amazes me about Sega? How they can sit on a goldmine of retro games from their glory day as well as tons of viable IPs and they refuse to do a thing with them! All we get nowadays is Sonic!
Honestly, I wonder if Sega even pays attention to anything. Fighting Games have gained popularity, and old IPs like Killer Instinct are back, and others like Mortal Kombat have gotten their groove back. So, where is a reboot of Eternal Champions? Nintendo is finding success with Fire Emblem, so where is a new Shining Force? Hell, even a remake of III would be awesome.
Sega sits on a rich selection of franchises, and they do nothing to push them. You wanna know how bad Sega is? They can't even make a retro Sonic game on their own. They had to hire the guys who did rom hacks of Genesis Sonic games to make it. Sonic Mania looks amazing, but that's the cold truth.
Its like Nintendo hiring the Project M team to make Smash 5.
@darthrevenx: What are you talking about? All the X-Men movies have done well at the box office. If they were flops, then 10 movies in the series would not have been made.
Daredevil and Fantastic Four have done poorly at the box office. The X-Men movies have all been successful well before there was an MCU. In fact, the first X-Men movie can be credited(alongside Blade) with showing studios that Comic Book movies were viable after the failure of Batman and Robin.
Could you honestly see Marvel do a movie like Logan or Deadpool even if they had the rights to the X-Men movies? Not trying to start a war here, but the MCU has been hit or miss in recent years as well.
Iron Man 3 was a bad movie, and the second Avengers movie was not worth the time considering the hype that went into it.
Yeah, Fox has dropped the ball numerous times especially with the Fantastic Four. But can you honestly tell me Disney could do a better X-Men movie then the first X-Men, X2, X-Men First Class, or Days of Future Past? Or that they would even do something like Deadpool or Logan?
I'm a fan of the X-Men movies, and I'll be the first one to agree that The Last Stand, the first Wolverine movie, and Apocalypse were movies that has numerous flaws.
But I have never gotten how people think Disney is the magic formula to help the X-Men movie series. Fantastic Four? Hell ya, they should have been back in Disney's hands after the last disaster.
X-Men? I think Fox has done a pretty good job with the franchise. Here's the thing, if the X-Men went back to Disney, then many of the lesser known Marvel heroes might not get a chance to shine.
I personally enjoyed Sucide Squad, but to each their own I suppose.
But here's one thing I would never do, and that's make the Joker the main villain of Suicide Squad. I know people may not agree with what I'm about to say, but I honestly think the Joker is overplayed in both the Batman series and the DC universe as a whole. If you're going to have the Squad fight a Batman villain, then why not someone else? Or how about showcasing someone from the DC universe for a change?
I get that the Joker is iconic, but seems like he shows up in everything now. That said, I think he had the perfect role in Sucide Squad as an outside factor that got in the way of the Squad's mission.
Plus, there was nothing wrong with using Enchantress in Suicide Squad. Her biggest problem was that she was pretty much a generic doomsday villain that had little to set her apart from the pack. Both DC and Marvel have this problem, and I think too many comic book movie villains have fallen into the trap of "Generic all powerful being hatches a plan to take over the world and wipe out humanity with an army of (Robots, Aliens, Demons, genetically engineered super humans) while the heroes race against the clock to shut down something that may or may not have opened a sky hole.
Honestly, we have not had a good villain in a Comic Book movie since Loki and Bane, and the Avengers and Dark Knight Rises both came out in 2012. Since then, almost every villain has been a punch-clock doomsday villain. Deadpool was the only one that broke the trend, and the villains were good in that movie.
But everything else? You could swap out Ultron for Enchantress, change their armies slightly and their motivations and pretty much have the same villain. The problem is not Ultron or Enchantress, the issue is that even villain is now cut from the same cloth.
I have owned an Xbox One for over a year now, and I can honestly say I'm very happy with my choice. I love having 360 BC at my fingertips since it allows me to play older games that I either missed or I want to play again, I have loved some of the exclusives such as Halo 5 and Killer Instinct, and its a very good all around.
I'm not going to get into a debate over how the PS4 has AAA titles or more exclusives then the Xbox One or the sad notion that I don't need an Xbox One because I can just play everything on a PC.
All I will say is that I have been very happy with the Xbox One, and I have had not reason to go pick up a PS4. Outside of a handful of games, nothing on the PS4 really interests me.
I think too any people downplay what the Xbox One brings to the table. Backwards Compatibility? It's an awesome feature if you want to play Black Ops or Oblivion again. The Xbox One is unneeded if you have a PC? That's a ridiculous notion if you don't have a gaming PC or don't want one. Maybe people just want a console to play Gears of War without all the headaches a PC brings to the table?
Point is, the Xbox One has a place in the home console market, and it's been a nice year having a mix of Xbox One, Wii U, and a 2DS as my main gaming platforms.
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