As a long time X-Men fan since the late 80s early 90s. I greatly enjoyed seeing the mutant heroes from Marvel show up on the big screen in Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000. I also enjoyed X2 in a different way from X-Men, but felt "X-Men: The Last Stand" (aka the third movie in the trilogy) was missing a beat (or two) despite all the time, effort, and money that was spent on that project. Same for "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". I enjoyed "X-Men: First Class", and "Days of Future Past". But again thought some beats were missed in "The Wolverine" (although thumbs up to Ninja/Japan Wolvie adventures), Apocalypse (strong outing, but not quite as much as First Class or Days of Future Past), and lastly (I know this isn't the consensus/popular opinion, but....) Logan. I'm going to try and just stick to the X-Men Cinematic Universe (movies), instead of looking at Legion or the mid-90's television movie Generation X. Oh and thumbs up Ryan Reynolds and the creative team's behind Deadpool/2/Once Upon a Deadpool.
Secondly, this may be a silly exercise since Marvel looks like they're going to be able to bring the X-Men (and Fantastic Four) into the fold, and team them up with the other heroes in the MCU. "People" have been clamoring for Avengers vs X-Men, despite it's relatively recent standing in the Marvel mythos. I'd rather see the Marvel heroes dealing with the Mutant Right's, or Mutant Crimes against Humanity (Magneto vs. the Avengers) (Red Skull doing something shady with the Mutants (not necessarily Axis or taking Xavier's brain etc, just really hitting home that Red Skull is a terrifying nazi and that mutants are often seen as "lesser" or a threat to perfection/greater humanity), which might be difficult given that Days of Future Past was released, only a few years prior.
Anywho, a friend of mine challenged me years ago since I wasn't a fan of X-Men: The Last Stand, to set my own narrative. That's the point of this exercise. So I want to lead off with my revisioning of the X-Men cinematic universe starting from "X2: X-Men United"
