1. X-Men: Days Of Future Past...Because X-Men: The Last Stand & X-Men Origins: Wolverine P*ssed Comic Fans Off
The Awesome Movie: Bryan Singer returned to the X-Men series to clean things up, and that he certainly did with easily one of the best entries in the franchise to date, arguably the best or second-best behind X-Men 2. Bringing the past and future X-Men timelines colliding together, Singer delivered on his promises, adapting the famed comic book arc with endless invention and a welcome tease for even more ambitious storytelling with the impending X-Men: Apocalypse. How It Got Made: While Days of Future Past may have been made regardless of the previous movies, it would have likely been in a drastically different form if Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine hadn't summarily crapped on the series from a great height. Their bizarre creative decisions led to Singer returning to the franchise to play tidy up, using the time travel premise of Days of Future Past to perform a soft reboot, getting rid of everything he didn't like from those two movies while still retaining most of the same cast. The results were magnificent, but without The Last Stand and Origins sucking so hard (despite making solid box office returns), the movie wouldn't have had the same visceral impact. Its course-correction of the franchise only made it that much sweeter to audiences. Which movies are you most glad happened off the back of terrible flops? Shout it out in the comments!
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