User blog comment:ProfessorKilroy/X-Men Films: Are they any good?/@comment-3008558-20111018110042

Thing is, the X-Men have been around so long that what any individual wants to see from a movie largely depends on what their particular 'era' was. I grew up with the original X-Men and then the Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne runs, and still tend to think of any character introduced after Kitty Pryde as 'new', so I don't really see any of the movies as being really the X-Men. I'd reboot the whole franchise starting with a movie based on the original team, the first five, and then move on to an adaptation of the Krakoa storyline which introduced the 'new' X-Men in 1975. No Gambit, Rogue or any of the newer characters needed. But I'd make sure Banshee and Thunderbird were in there for the second one.