X-Men /X2 /X-Men: The Last Stand [4K UHD]

This is the Blu Ray set to get. It has all of the extras that the new Blu Ray version omits. Each movie has it's own case and bonus disc which has making the film featuretts and interviews from X-Men comic writers.The movies are great and are the roots that launched the comic book movie Hollywood takeover. Fun fact Marvel's Kevin Feige was involved in all 3.X1 gets the best Blu Ray upgrade. Being a movie from 2000, it has been cleaned up greatly. X1 is a bit dated however.X2 is the premier movie in this set. Based on the popular God Loves Man Kills story arc this movie is widely considered the best of the original trilogy. Great action, special effects hold up surprisingly well (Nightcrawler's white house attack, so GOOD). Say what you will about Bryan Singer as a writer but when it comes to action scenes and camera position and camera shooting (LOOKIN AT YOU RUSSO BROTHERS WITH YOUR INABILITY TO SHOOT NON CLOSEUPS...) he's gold. In my not so humble opinion X2 ranks just as high as much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.X3.... Where to begin with this one. It's a maligned movie but I don't know if I'd call it bad per say...Every problem this movie has form their beginning with Fox's piece of crap former head Tom Rothman. This detestable man hates comic book movies. He cut the X1 and X2 budgets and advanced X1s release. Miracle it turned out so well. Greveous of all he chased Bryan Singer away from X3. Singer was working on Superman but Rothman wouldn't wait for him to finish it. Instead he rushed X3 into production to compete with Superman as some type of punishment. It wasn't ready actors were all busy Singer had taken Marsden (Cyclops) with him which is why he was in so little of X3 and also why a certain part in the early movie happened. X3 was set to start shooting and still had no director. Bret Ratner came in last minute to direct. Ratner wanted to adapt The Cure story arc from the comics. While Singer and his producers had been setting up Dark Phoenix in X2. See the problem...We ended up with an okish cure plot but Dark Phoenix set a new definition of butchering source material. The 2 stories just didn't mesh together. One or the other would have been better.That being said I still enjoy X3. It has the best action/powers effects of the original trilogy. It's cool. I like the fights scenes as well. And we can't leave out the awesome bridge scene. The movie has grown on me since it's been written out of current X-Men timeline lore. Knowing that these events are now a 'what if' scenerio make the film more watchable and enjoyable knowing that it no longer screws up the core team (see Days of Future Past). At least to me anyway.

The movies are great fun, a bit preachy at times, but in a controlled relevant way. the X-Men were more or less a morality tale about tolerance from the beginning. So nothing new here. I like the fact it is three standard cases in a slipcover as opposed to slimline cases as when the slip cover goes it ruins the set. The movies look and sound great and there's tons of extras included. A great action series with strong characters and strong performances all around. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan being the standouts among a stellar cast. This is a great way to own the movies at a reasonable price and if they make more movies in the series (aside from the spin-offs) then you can easily take out the discs and place them alongside the new additions. Unfortunately they all include a digital copy disc with codes that are expired. While that isn't a deal breaker for me I know people who love the fact they get the digital copies. I still think movies should all go to ultraviolet or at least make the digital copy a digital download, because once the code expires that disc is useless and simply just takes up too much room). Or the should include a dvd copy with the digital copy on the same disc, as other companies do. Sorry to vent, but the digital copy disc is something they should have done away with as soon as ultraviolet started. It's a waste of materials and for those who forget to read the really fine print on a dvd case it can be really annoying when you try to upload it. Also if you reformat your computer you may lose your authorization to play the movie as well. But, I digress, this is a great series, all of the movies in the series including First Class and the two Wolverine movies are excellent. Very well done. First Class didn't feel like a reboot as much as it was just a prequel. It didn't feel like a cash grab. It felt organic and added more depth to the series. So I'd highly recommend this set for anyone wanting to catch up on the series before the new movie comes out. The price is more than reasonable.

What we have here is a simple boxset for the X-men Trilogy of movies. You get X-Men , X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. While the box-set itself is not very impressive, the quality of the DVDs is.The package comes in a simple laminated box with each DVD having its own standard sized case. Each disk looks great on my DVD player(1080p up-scaled) and the audio is crisp.SPECIAL FEATURESDISK 1: X-Men- Deleted Scenes** - Animatics - Art Gallery - Storyboards - Trailers & TV Spots - Hugh Jackman Screen Test - "Metant Watch" Featurette - Charlie Rose Interview**The Deleted Scenes are part of a 10 minute addition of the film. To view them you must watched the film in "Branching" Mode (in the options). This is perhaps the weakest part of the DVD as instead of smoothly transitioning the scenes into the movie they are loaded in. What this means is when a deleted scene comes up, the DVD stops playing a moment(black screen) and loads the deleted scene, which has the X-Men symbol in the corner. When finished the DVD goes to a black screen again and reloads where you were in the film. It makes for a very clunky play-through. On Older DVD's you could select the scenes individually. On the DVD I got you are unable to.Disk 2: X2: X-Men United- Audio Commentary by Bryan Singer & Newton Thomas Sigel- Audio Commentary by the Writers & Producers* Outside of the commentary there is no bonus features what-so-ever on the disk I received. The movie itself was great!Disk 3: X3: The Last Stand- Audio Commentary by Director/Screenwriters and Producers- Deleted Scenes- 3 Alternative EndingsOVERALL: If you are looking to own all 3 movies then this set is a great deal, as you get all 3 movies for a fair price here. While this does not constitute a complete collection, since there are special features are missing (especially the 2nd movie) you can't go wrong with this set.

Qualité parfaite

Un coffret rare et pas cher que je conseille fortement

Was kann ich schon sagen ? Es ist die erste X-Men Trilogie aus den 2000er Jahren, enthalten in diesem Box Set für einen mehr als fairen Preis. Natürlich hätten mir drei separate Hüllen in einem Schuber besser gefallen aber nochmal, für den Preis kann man sich hier überhaupt nicht beschweren. Zudem sieht die Box an sich ganz schön aus.Zu den Filmen selbst will ich hier wie immer nichts sagen, das ist Geschmackssache und das sollte jeder für sich entscheiden. Ich persönlich mag die ersten zwei Teile und der dritte lässt dann etwas nach, aber bereuen tu ich ihn in dieser Box nicht. Qualität der drei Discs ist DVD-Standard, bezogen auf Bild und Ton. Es gibt auch ein paar Extras in den Menüs sowie mehrere Sprach- und Untertiteloptionen.Insgesamt ein mehr als empfehlenswertes Set solange man auf der Suche nach diesen drei Filmen ist.

Excelente paquete con la trilogía original

For myself, films like these are why we invest in 4k technology, with awesome special-effects (CGI) in all three films in the trilogy, certainly worth owning on this format.Key cast includes - Charles Xavier / Professor X (Patrick Stewart)Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Ian McKellen)Storm (Halle Berry)Jean Grey (Famke Janssen)Rogue (Anna Paquin)Cyclops (James Marsden)Iceman (Shawn Ashmore)Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos )Toad (Ray Park) Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison) Colonel William Stryker: (Brian Cox)Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming) Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast (Kelsey Grammer)Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones)Pyro (Aaron Stanford )Shadowcat (Ellen Page)From Marvel Comics -In the first of the trilogy we learn that once great friends Charles Xavier and Magneto now stand some distance apart in their strategies toward the so-called normal occupants of Earth, Charles wants to forge understanding, Magneto seems set on confrontation.Early on Logan (Wolverine) is attacked in his truck along with hitch-hiker Rogue by Magneto's minions but are saved by Cyclops and Storm and are taken to Xavier's school.Charles believes that Wolverine was the target and wants to investigate.However, Magneto will capture his real target eventually intending to use her as a weapon against World leaders.Wolverine, Storm and Cyclops attempt to save Rogue and prevent Magneto's plans....In the second after an attack on the White House military scientist William Stryker convinces the president to investigate Xavier's Mutant School.Stryker's forces attack the school taking many of the student's prisoner, Colossus leads some to safety while Logan, Rogue, Iceman and Pyro escape.Meanwhile, shape-shifter Mystique helps Magneto to escape from jail.Strangely Magneto who learns of Stryker's intent to kill all Mutants will tell Logan and the team of Stryker's compound, a place that holds memories of the past for Wolverine.The race is on to rescue the captured students and prevent Stryker from achieving his aim.The team will struggle to get away from disaster after achieving their task and only the apparent self-sacrifice by Jean will help them escape the threatened territory.In the third, it emerges that the development of an Inoculation to suppress the X-Gene that give the Mutants their power has been developed, Magneto will gather his forces and more to go to war with the Government.Meanwhile, Scott travels to the lake where the love of his life had died saving her colleagues, however, Jean appears to Scott, but there is something different about her, Charles will have her placed in care and observation at the mansion.Jean unwittingly with extra powers will over-power Charles and indeed link-up with Magneto.The war begins, the government forces are no match against Magneto, Jean and his followers.In the spirit of Charle's memory, the few led by Wolverine will face Magneto in battle.Who will be lost?An action-packed trilogy well worth a second glance on the 4k format if you have access to it.Can Recommend the investment.Footnote -Other movies watched recently include -Mulan (2020) 9/10 (The best 'Live-remake' to date in my opinion)Plus two items reviewed on Blu-ray a while back -Concussion (4k) 9/10Kong 'Skull Island' (4k) 8/10