Originally Posted by 7thson
As an avid collector of comics in the past, and a huge X-Men fan I enjoyed the X-Movies more, so I may be biased somewhat. Still I collected many other comics and these movies gave me that same excitement that I got when I read comic books back when I had to scrounge together $1.00 for three comics and an RC cola on Saturday afternoon. The Spiderman movies were great also, and if he happened to be my fav comic character I may have swayed more that way. But thanks for thoughts. I Have not read Road to Perdition, but have seen the movie, good stuff.
I really like how things are moving more toward the "Grant Morrison" X-Men, if you will; and the character interaction is strong enough in the films to maintain that. While I thought Colossus was used in X2 simply to "wow" fans, I was glad to see Nightcrawler. His inclusion finally made me feel like I was really watching the X-Men onscreen.
I'd still like to get more of a stable sense of the "mutant threat" issue that makes X-Men what it is. They introduced it well in the first film, but the second film only showed episodes of it (Bobby's family, characters talking about it between themselves, etc). It was really just a centralized story regarding Stryker's motivations, which I guess didn't hold my attention as much as I wanted it to.
Nevertheless, the X-films are going in the right direction. Hopefully, they'll do something awesome with the "Phoenix" idea (because we certainly don't need Lilandra and the Shiar running around in X3).