![]() The initial prequel/spin-off from the lucrative X-Men franchise is memorable for all the wrong reasons. ![]() Note: Much of X-Men: Days of Future Past takes place in 1973, but we’ve slotted it in 2023 so as not to spoil anything for you. Apart from a horribly miscast January Jones as Emma Frost, and the handful of Marvel characters nobody but the diehardiest of Marvel diehards could possibly could give a crap about, it’s an excellent jumping off point for extending a franchise. Placing the mutants in the era from which they originated, Vaughn got to play with the popular cinema touchstones of the time: First Class incorporates a distinctly 007 vibe. ![]() Though all continuity’s out with the baby and bathwater by this time, when Matthew Vaughn, Bryan Singer and company decided to go back in time to show the founding of the X-Men, something equally indulgent happened. Here’s how to watch the X-Men movies in order, from X-Men: First Class to Old Man Logan: But figuring out which X-Men movie to watch is almost as difficult as figuring out when the one you picked to watch actually occurs, either in the real life franchise timeline or in the context of the film universe. The mutants are linked together by some of the most recognizable comic characters of all time, embodied by performances like Hugh Jackman’s star-making turn as Wolverine, Patrick Stewart’s definitive Professor X, and Ian McKellen’s engrossing Magneto. Watching the X-Men movies in order has gotten…complicated. The X-Men cinematic universe, up until the acquisition of Fox by Disney (which allowed for all the Multiverse madness in the second Doctor Strange film), has been a mixed bag-in terms of quality, temporality and quantity of its heroes.
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