This was INSANE!!!

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2003)

Comic book movies get better and better as time goes on.
First it was Superman, which definitely was a groundbreaking movie considering what time it was made in.
Then it was Batman, which was my favorite movie of all time for about 15 years.
Then there was a big gap in the middle. I do not want to consider sequels for some of these movies because they were not really groundbreaking.
Finally, in 1999, The Matrix. This was a special effects masterpiece. Definitely in the top 5 of best comic book adaptations.
Then, in 2000, X-Men came out. This was Marvel's first big hit, and paved the way for many comic books to become silver screen classics.
I personally did not like Spider-man. I thought it was a 120 million dollar fanboy movie. Do not get me wrong, it was very well made, but it was way too comic oriented, and the movies cannot be too much like the comics. Spider-man 2 will be awesome, though.
Daredevil is my #1 comic book movie of all time. It was dark, violent, and I didn't have to take my mom to it because it was PG-13. It is a shame it didn't do better in the box office. If it was known more fondly by the world, it would probably have grossed almost as much as Spider-man.
Now we come to X2. It is definitely the best written movie of all the comic book movies. It should be nominated for an Oscar for screenplay, not just Visual Effects, which it will win, without a doubt. The Nightcrawler beginning sequence was so breathtaking I had to whip out my puffer just to catch it (I don't have asthma.) Mystique was also very cool. When Pyro started throwing those flames around, I was like Beavis yelling "FIRE!!! FIRE!!!" Batman is #2A, but X2 is definitely 2B.
THIS MOVIE WAS NUTS!!!!!!!!!!