by Benjamin Haines » Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:05 am
I'm a big fan of both Fox's X-Men film series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but I've got to hand it to Fox. Their X-Men movies tend to be superior.
To me, Marvel Studios has really only produced four top-tier superhero movies to date: the first Iron Man, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and both Guardians of the Galaxy and Vol. 2.
Meanwhile, I'd say Fox's top-tier offerings have included X2, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Logan.
Everything else that's come from Marvel has ranged from decent but pretty bad (Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 2), to just good (Doctor Strange, Ant-Man), to actually really good (Thor, The Avengers, Iron Man 3).
On Fox's side, I would apply the "really good" label to almost everything else they've put out that isn't top-tier: the original X-Men, The Wolverine, Deadpool, and X-Men: Apocalypse.
To Marvel's credit, I don't think they've churned out anything as bad as X-Men: The Last Stand or X-Men Origins: Wolverine.