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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: The New Mutants (2020)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. 

As Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was being dubbed the movie that would save cinema, The New Mutants was always touted as the movie that would never get released. After many delays in the script writing process, director Josh Boone (The Fault In Our Stars) swears that this movie, finally being released after almost three years of delays, is his vision and his vision only. Is it worth the wait? And does this spell the end for the X-Men franchise?

Listen in as Matt and myself welcome Batch back to review the movie that almost wasn’t. Then again, isn’t that true of ALL X-Men movies?

The New Mutants (2020) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

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BingeCast: Night of the Comet Commentary

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Chad, Batch, and Pete celebrate the 35th anniversary of Night of the Comet by recording a commentary. Special thanks to Catherine Mary Stewart for an amazing introduction as well as a special Happy Birthday!!!

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: Dark Phoenix (2019)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

I can’t remember a retrospective which had more doom and gloom at the end of the tunnel than this one we are doing for X-Men. From the very beginning, bad press and bad word of mouth seemed to go hand in hand with Dark Phoenix, and I was wondering whether this series was worth diving into. But I feel we put together a hell of a series, and the least we could do was cap it off with this review of new director Simon Kinberg’s conclusion Dark Phoenix. But will the film be worth YOUR time?

I would like to thank both Batch and Matt for seriously bringing their A-Game for this series, and stay tuned, as there are plans for a MUCH bigger set of shows with the three of us down the road.

Dark Phoenix (2019) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

After X-Men Days of Future Past ended up becoming a huge box office and critical success, director Bryan Singer wasted little time in jumping right back into the director’s chair for X-Men: Apocalypse. Released to the worst reviews thus far -as well as $200 million less at the box office- Apocalypse is looked at by many to be the worst X-Men film of the series. But Matt and myself proclaimed at the end of the Deadpool podcast that we originally left the 2016 film feeling like its critical backlash was kind of unwarranted. How do we feel now?

Listen below not only to hear us review the film, but also get into the Bryan Singer rumors that actually began years before but really came to the forefront with this and Bohemian Rhapsody two years later. I also talk about actually working at 20th Century Fox during the film’s making. All this and more below!

And be sure to join us on Friday for our review of Dark Phoenix!

X-Men Apocalypse (2016) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

Surging on their X-Men franchise, 20th Century Fox seemed content with not expanding upon characters which did not have ‘Wolverine’ in their title. Yet in the background lay a Canadian actor trying to get his dream project made named Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds had played the little known character of Deadpool in 2009’s X-Men Origins Wolverine. But he was determined to right the wrong with an origin story that remained true to the character. His persistence paid off as in 2016, Deadpool arrived and ended up being a monster hit, making almost $800 million in the process.

I was not one who fell in love with the film when it was originally released, and I had not seen it since when we picked it up for review this week. With Deadpool and Deadpool 2, myself, Batch, and Matt delve even deeper into the X-Men franchise and I try to see if I was missing something three long years ago. Also, how did the sequel pan out?

Join us for yet another confrontational podcast in this retrospective series that has had it all. Will a change of opinion be added to the list?

Deadpool (2016) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

Deadpool 2 (2018) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

Eight years after promptly leaving Fox in the dust to do Superman Returns, director Bryan Singer felt he had something to prove. So, in his own little way, he set off to make his own version of Marvel’s The Avengers by gathering both his old and Matthew Vaughn’s new casts together for the ultimate in X-Men movies, an adaptation of the much heralded series of comic books entitled Days of Future Past.

Join Matt, Batch, and myself for perhaps the most spirited discussion in this series yet, as two of us find Singer’s 2014 film to be a new standard of X-Men films in a class all by itself. And one of us….doesn’t.

X-Men Days of Future Past (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: X-Men: First Class (2011)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

By the time 2011 rolled around, X-Men was no longer the only successful comic book property on the block. The Marvel Cinematic Universe were al most finished with their first Phase, and DC was not only one year away from concluding their Nolan trilogy of Batman films, they were also entering the fray with the Ryan Reynolds starring Green Lantern. Enter director Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men First Class, a movie whose advertising campaign left a lot to be desired. A movie that looks this bad couldn’t possibly be good, could it?

Join myself, Matt, and Batch as we mosey along toward our review of the just released Dark Phoenix, this time taking a look at Vaughn’s lone X-Men entry. Did we like it as much as its legacy has told us to?

X-Men First Class (2011) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: X-Men Origins Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

It was fairly obvious early on that star Hugh Jackman had embodied the character of Logan and Wolverine was in fact the standout of the X-Men series. So following the third -and at the time final- film in the overall X-Men franchise, execs saw dollar signs in exploring the origins of certain characters within the universe. Why not start with the most popular? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Join myself, Matt, and Batch in this two in one podcast, as not only do we look at 2009’s X-Men Origins Wolverine, we also dissect director James Mangold’s first film in his X-Men efforts, 2013’s Japan based The Wolverine, and we answer the question of whether it was a good job to explore (exploit?) the popular character in his own set of films.

X-Men Origins Wolverine (2009) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

The Wolverine (2013) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

 

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Binge Movie Aftertaste – X-Men Retrospective w/ Matthew Goudreau and Mike Batchelor: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

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Before Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe took over all things comic book, there was 20th Century Fox and X-Men. If someone wants to see what the comic book film landscape looked like, just take a look at 1989’s Punisher and 1994’s Phantom. But then came Blade (which we’ll cover eventually), a movie that came out in 1998 and proved that cinematic movies based on comic books could indeed be financially successful. And after a lot of false pretenses and multiple script changes, Marvel’s X-Men was finally ready to roll before cameras with little known director Bryan Singer behind the camera. Little did we know that not only would this franchise have a lot of peaks and valleys, but the Mouse House would eventually swallow its rights up whole. Will Garrett, Matt, and Batch enjoy the ride up to and through this year’s Dark Phoenix?

By 2006, almost everyone associated with the X-Men was done with it. Bryan Singer had moved on to another movie about capes called Superman Returns. And all the cast were up for renegotiation, as word was that the third movie of the trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand, was going to be it. With new director Brett Ratner signed on and The Dark Phoenix saga ready to finally leap from page to screen -much to the delight of long time X-Men readers- this would have to be the best X-Men movie yet. Right?

Join Matt, Batch, and myself as we continue this look through the X-Men series, and review our first non Bryan Singer directed entry. Will The Last Stand’s budget of $168 million be enough to make fans and film audiences alike happy? Listen to find out!

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)

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