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The X-Men Trilogy Rewatch

Now here's a set of films I haven't watched in quite some time and I'm trying to actually get some use out of my bonus Disney plus subscription so I sat down to watch these over the last week. If you want the quick version, these held up much better than I was expecting and even X-Men 3 which is the DMC2 of this series really isn't that bad with the benefit of perspective. Longer version: I'm not going to waste a thousand words talking about the X-Men franchise as a whole but it would be tricky to not talk about so I'll cover the basics and quickly move on. This series has definitely had its ups and downs, from the disaster that was Origins: Wolverine and the core plot never really changing over the course of nearly 20 years and the moon sized elephant in the room of why they never show up in MCU the X-Men universe has had a bumpy road. Couple that with the business side of things and who knows what kind of craziness is going to have to take place in order to ma