User blog comment:ProfessorKilroy/X-Men Films: Are they any good?/@comment-4054197-20111016184719

First of all, I must commend you on your views of evolution. I don't often see that combination of open-mindedness to its possibility, tempered by an understanding of it as still highly theoretical. Refreshing. As for my views on the X films; you and Spencerz have covered anything I would have proposed. I think your philosophy of creating films as an interconnected series should be the standard for film adaptations of long running comic book characters. Think of it everyone; take all of the major storylines in a character's or team's history and streamline them over the course of a trilogy or quadrilogy, in the same manner as the Prof. outlined for X-men. It can potentially work even better with a shared universe, and (getting really starry-eyed here) we could perhaps have films, or film series, based on the universe-wide events like Secret Invasion or Civil war. The Avengers film seems to be heading in the right direction, but we'll have to see if they can overcome the obvious concern with these kinds of things; can the heroes share a spotlight.