User blog comment:Gwen Stacy-Parker/Should the X-Men get a reboot?/@comment-4652104-20121202190745/@comment-3317214-20121202223433

I think a better option than retconning, or retroactively rebooting, or utilising alternate universes, is just to simply reboot the franchise. I wasn't a huge fan of "X-Men", and it's probably because I love the X-Men and feel they deserve a better representation on screen. There were a lot of things in "X-Men" that worked, and it did a lot of good things for superhero movies, but the whole feel of the movie doesn't feel right to me. Same with the rest of the trilogy. The Wolverine Origins movie didn't feel quite right either, but on top of that, it was just a horrible movie. "First Class" is a brilliant direction for Fox. It was the first that I think actually felt like the X-Men.

So having said that I don't think that retroactively making "First Class" a reboot to start its own series, is a good idea, because there were a lot of elements in "First Class" that were used specifically to set up the original trilogy, and retconning it won't work. Re-shooting scenes from previous films isn't practical. And the studios won't bother with it.

Why hate reboots? Look at what they've done: "The Incredible Hulk" is much better than Ang Lee's; the Nolan trilogy of Batman are some of the best movies ever made, whereas the previous ones aren't; "The Amazing Spider-Man", I enjoyed more at least; "Man of Steel" looks like it's gonna be much better than the older ones; and it's probably not even fair to compare "The First Avenger" or "Fantastic Four" to their predecessors...

Reboots give studios a second chance. They learn from previous mistakes, and should end up making better movies, overall.

So what I want to see, is after these two movies, Fox and Sony strike a deal with Marvel Studios. Have them keep the properties they have, and work closely with each other in creating the films, so that the films can be interconnected in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm not saying I want the X-Men in the Avengers, or Wolverine or Spider-Man. Just, that I'd love it if they could at least acknowledge eachother's existence. Maybe have them take a couple of years for a break from whatever continuity they've got going themselves, and then work in closely with Marvel, in creating the best films they can that are part of the MCU.