Then don’t watch them.

It’s a dumb take.  Watching them isn’t mandatory and you can just assume that if you aren’t interested in them any more then they aren’t being made for you anymore.  They’re being made for the next round/generation of people. 

I mean... we’re not all stuck in Boston 

Pitaro was hoisted by his own Le Batard.

...and had to rebuild himself.

I’m sure watching it on grass makes the experience even better.

Exorcist III doesn’t get any credit because Exorcist II was so bad but it is a very good horror movie.

This. Just watch it.

Just make it Deadspin’s version of The Onion’s mass shooting article

Damn, this is pretty much all my fears about this movie confirmed.

People love to shit on these films, but I’ve honestly enjoyed them all. I mean, they are not award worthy, but I find them fun. Sure, they don’t stand a chance when held against Marvel films, but what does?

None of this is to say that Dark Phoenix is a terrible movie, because as X-Men movies go, it truly isn’t. What it is, though, is a by-the-numbers, mildly interesting attempt at telling a classic story that, unfortunately, it just doesn’t have the time, space, or range to do.

It's interesting that Charles makes the parallel between the Infinity Gauntlet and the Phoenix, because one shows you the proper way to build characters and bring them to an endgame so to speak and another shows you how not to apparently. 

The problem isn’t that X-Men doesn’t work on film, it’s that Fox has refused to expand the scope of the film’s or do any long term story planning.

Apocalypse had the odd thing of seeming to say that she already was Phoenix, even if she didn’t know it. Much the same way as X3 did.

It always baffles me that they always try to cram the whole Phoenix thing into a single movie. I haven’t even read it and it seems obvious to me that it needs a loooong build up similarly to the infinity saga in the MCU. Heck, have Jean actually be the Phoenix without going dark for a movie or two. 

This review is kinder on the movie than some others that appeared on my Facebook feed (Nerdist was brutal to it), so it’s not a dealbreaker. I was there for the beginning of these movies when I was 15, never missed one in theaters for good-to-uncanny (1st 2, First Class, The Wolverine, DoFP, Logan, both DEADPOOLS), OK…

I might have agreed before Infinity War and Endgame. But if you can do those right then you can do X-Men right. I simply think no one who ever touched these movies really understood them.

I think an issue of Classic Xmen backups also added some more to that scene (or the time right around it).  There was also some stuff in Inferno (so ~1989?) where Wolverine kisses Jean Grey, but I agree with you and OP that there was no “love triangle” to speak of until post-Claremont, and certainly not in the Dark…

COTY material