many thanks to my friend anderson for setting up the screenings and putting the movies into some kind of chronological order!
i've seen origins and x1 now, so the only one i'm missing is x-men: first class. i know that one's gonna put me in the washing machine spin cycle
finally got around to watching this one on my own. i didn't think it was quite as bad as it's made out to be tbh! deadpool is always a welcome guest here at jouxlsworld even if they did revoke his mouth privileges after maybe 10 minutes. i liked that he was the team's translator. also kayla 
love u queen. this one might be peak logan hair for me? overall i had an ok time. i reeeeeally couldve done without the fat shaming though
watched this one with 2 of my very dear friends and we enjoyed it a lot! love how quickly they establish that logan is the world's fakest idgafer. pretty good with all the other characters too. #myhouseandschool
lalala funnnnnn!!!!
everyone was acting kind of weird in this one. i havent seen community but to me this is the xmen equivalent of "the gas leak semester"
i got to look at logan a lot so i liked it. hi yukio 1.0
me when im in an "incomprehensible timeline" competition and my opponents are the xmen movies and fnaf
but actually i liked this one a lot even though i spent most of it super confused. maximum divorce energy from charles and erik here love to see it. this too is toxic yuri. probably #1 on my want to rewatch list
i had a lot to say about this bad boy apparently. there were several things i enjoyed about this movie and they are as follows:
ERIK!!! he finally got to be well written (was SUUUUUPER ooc in last stand imo) but at what cost. i think this one did a good job of showing how much his whole thing is a product of circumstances. he truly feels like he has no other option because at every turn he is punished for simply existing. man. i really liked charles subverting apocalypse’s little eggman announcement. that’s what it’s ABOUT i liked jubilee even though she got like 5 seconds of screen time (fox im killing you for this) the scenes with peter (quicksilver) and mystique together were also good. and kurt :) #I’m blue i will expand upon my thoughts regarding logan’s appearance in this movie in the other section but the shot of him just running into the wilderness VR headset freshly ripped off nothing but a pair of swim trunks on was silly... botw speedrunhowever there were also several things i did NOT enjoy about this movie. actually more than several and i more than didn't enjoy them. welcome to the hatery
this is where i expand upon those thoughts about logan. specifically the part with him and jean which i HATEDDDDDDDDDD i understand narratively why they did it i GUESS but i do wish they had executed it wayyy differently. could it have been worse? well yes. could it have been much better considering that jean is literally in high school at this point? it absolutely could have! it was very uncomfortably drawn out and just all-around weird. why does the movie just straight up forget about jubilee two thirds of the way through speaking of thirds and halves and parts and fractions: act one of this movie is soooooooo long i aged 10 years and speaking of aging 10 years: they took peepaw’s hair :(
the vibes were very weird here... for one thing they didn't even put x-men in the title they just didn't care at this point i fear. i think they just don't know how to write jean. they need to stop letting that woman get on airplanes literally nothing good ever happens. once again i thought erik was very well written here but it sucks that they couldn't have put that same energy behind writing the character for whom the movie is named. not a super satisfying conclusion to the franchise tbh i kind of feel like they could have stopped at dofp? although this one did make me appreciate apocalypse a lot more in hindsight and you can decide for yourself what this implies about the quality of either film. congratulations to the x-men film franchise for setting the world record of Longest Parent Trap Scheme With Most Casualties Sustained
i like him hes like an oomf to me. negasonic teenage warhead you will always be famous
society doesn't want you to know this but this movie is awesome actually. no it doesn't feel like you're watching an x-men movie but sometimes things that are different are interesting! i liked the horror/mystery tone of this a lot and i loooooove the characters. if you're interested i strongly recommend looking at content warnings as there's some pretty heavy scenes in this movie but imo they were handled reasonably well. i seriously wish they hadn't fumbled the marketing AND delayed the release until after dark phoenix which was supposed to be the finale of the fox x-men series AND finally dropped it into theaters right before the initial COVID lockdown because like i said the characters here are awesome and i would love to see a sequel or series, but that's probably way off the table at this point. whatevar
ok this one is totally on me because i did not do my research before watching but if things such as Knowing You're Losing A Loved One While Not Being Able To Do Anything About It and/or Sole Responsibility and/or Living With Regrets are bad for you maybe don't watch this movie. unrelated i only saw like 20 minutes of it. and by unrelated i mean directly consequential thereof
don't worry i'm ok! /gen
very fun! and also at some points very harrowing. disney where is russell i would like to see him. also YUKIO!!!!!
this is the only one of these movies i'd seen before, albeit with an exactly 2 month break in the middle. glad to report it was still fun in one sitting! great group watch tbh. i do hope they make an excuse to bring cassandra nova back at some point, because she's a very cool character and her back-and-forth with everyone was really good. the X-Montage over the credits did make me a little emotional this time i'm ngl
yes, sadly no more Thursday Night X-Men Appointment for jules. i do plan to rewatch at least a few of these asap and i'll try to write more detailed reviews when i do. again, thanks so much to anderson and everyone else in the server for introducing me to these movies!! i think i genuinely prefer them to the mcu for reasons i'd like to expand upon here at some point. and NO i am NOT going to watch doomsday