Not Comics: X-Men As Movie Franchise

I don't comment on films based on comics a whole bunch because a) films aren't comics even if they have comics things in them, b) the comics industry is isolated in a lot of ways even from those films that directly adapt their content, and c) I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to movies. Still, I was struck by this article by the LA Times film and comics/comics and film guy Geoff Boucher because it seems to me less of an article than a thriving word colony of dangling, unsubstantiated argumentation.

I recognize the fact that people are going to actively consider the possibility of more X-Men movies because the three X-Men movies made a basket-load of cash money. That's the way those nice people work. I'm just not sure I buy what seems to Boucher's general assertion: that they'd be better off making more X2s than the so-far successful strategy of solo movies and concept re-launches they're considering now. Part of it is that as is the case with many superhero properties with which I'm familiar, I honestly don't know how rich the soil is for future movies that cling to the original conception of the X-Men comics. I read a staggering number of those comics, and I'm kind of lost as to something I'd enjoy seeing on film.

The thing is, I agree with Boucher there was an under-recognized sizable audience for that material ten years ago based on the number of people that encountered the comic book at some point or watched one of the cartoons. That audience is different now. In fact, I think there are some manga properties that operate just below widespread mainstream recognition in the same way right now that X-Men did back then and that this will serve those manga properties if they ever get around to making live-action movies of those stories. Maybe they should concentrate on making those movies as opposed to more X-Men exactly the way involved X-Men fans think X-Men movies should be made.
 
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