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News FOX selling out to Disney?

I liked the Fox X-Men universe, warts and all. It was inconsistent in quality and continuity, sure, but let's not forget that it was the original X-Men film in 2000 that started the modern age of superhero cinema by showing that a comic-book movie could be smart, serious, sophisticated, and worthy of critical acclaim. And the franchise that followed was the only really long-running, successful comics-based film universe other than the MCU, even if it was less consistent than the MCU. It was good to have an alternative shared universe that was different in style and approach to the MCU, that could tell a completely different story on an equally global scale.
 
Christopher said:
I liked the Fox X-Men universe, warts and all. It was inconsistent in quality and continuity, sure, but let's not forget that it was the original X-Men film in 2000 that started the modern age of superhero cinema by showing that a comic-book movie could be smart, serious, sophisticated, and worthy of critical acclaim. And the franchise that followed was the only really long-running, successful comics-based film universe other than the MCU, even if it was less consistent than the MCU. It was good to have an alternative shared universe that was different in style and approach to the MCU, that could tell a completely different story on an equally global scale.
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I don't disagree with any of that but honestly feel that the FoX-Men universe has run its course. Twice over. It's time to start over. I would believe that even if the property had stayed with Fox or had moved to somewhere other than Disney / Marvel.
 
I could be wrong, but I do not believe there has been a single film in the XMCU to date that has failed to make a profit relative to its budget, even the much-maligned Origins: Wolverine and Apocalypse; that is a massive accomplishment regardless of fan and/or critic response to those films and the franchise as a whole.

Turtletrekker said:
I don't disagree with any of that but honestly feel that the FoX-Men universe has run its course. Twice over. It's time to start over. I would believe that even if the property had stayed with Fox or had moved to somewhere other than Disney / Marvel.
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FOX had multiple opportunities to pull the trigger on a franchise reboot and chose not to go that route.
 
Dark Phoenix might break new ground by being worse than Last Stand. The early buzz is awful, they had to push it back a year for reshoots to fix it and that doesn't seem to have helped. I've seen reviews that call it laughably bad.
 
Awesome Possum said:
Dark Phoenix is a remake of The Last Stand.
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It's still part of the same continuity that began back in 2000 with the first X-Men film.

Awesome Possum said:
Dark Phoenix might break new ground by being worse than Last Stand. The early buzz is awful, they had to push it back a year for reshoots to fix it and that doesn't seem to have helped. I've seen reviews that call it laughably bad.
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Poor advance reviews mean nothing, and poor post-release reviews can also mean nothing.
 
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