Post by scabab on Jun 21, 2018 15:12:05 GMT
That's what happened in X-men Apocalypse though. Apocalypse was dumbed down, he should have been the Thanos of the X-men movie series and he is literally best remembered now as a joke because of the whole Ivan Ooze thing. That movie had the same big 20 minute CGI fest action scene too except it wasn't that good.
I'll say again 6 of the last 7 Xmen based Fox films have been good. Apocalypse broke the trend which Dark Phoneix could restore.
Saying six of the last seven movies have been good...is true but isn't exactly painting the right picture towards it. Two of those movies came from the Wolverine spin-off series. That's now over with because Hugh Jackman is done with it. Two of those movies came from Deadpool which barely classify as a spin-off anyway because they aren't really that connected to the X-men movie series.
So when it comes to the actual X-men movies, then it's two out of the last three (or two out of the last four) with the last one being no good. Also of the three, First Class and Apocalypse didn't do that well because unlike Days of Future Past it didn't have Wolverine in it. The next one won't have him either.
Yes the MCU movies are more light hearted but not by a whole lot, Black Panther or Civil War weren't particularly less light hearted and family friendly than X-men Apocalypse.
Xmen content is not for all ages, its a mismatch and as shown by the backlash to Spiderman and Star Wars, fans wont accept the Disneyfication of well established IP.
X-men belongs to the same comic brand as all the other heroes so why shouldn't they be for the same market as all those others?
I don't recall any significant backlash to Spider-man. In fact Sony did the two Amazing Spider-man movies, they weren't well liked and they did so so at the box office and then once Marvel Studios stepped in and made Homecoming then that movie was well liked and was very successful. Star Wars is made by another studio altogether and the prequels had massive backlash themselves so nothing has changed with that.
Fans are already not accepting the X-men series right now. People didn't like the last one, they didn't turn up to see it, the amount of fans who want to see X-men under Marvel Studios so they can be in the MCU far out number those who don't and the next movie coming up which is Dark Phoenix nobody is all that interested in because the Dark Phoenix has already been done and Wolverine won't be in it.