I actually watched those again after I saw Avengers, cuz I didn't wanna compare hyped up memories to something fresh.
Spidey 1 and 2, yea. 1's really good with sketchy effects. 2 is still great. Everything holds up like it was yesterday.
X1 is what it is, forget that. That was the beta. They had no clue what they were doing, and just threw **** at the wall.
X2 is really, really good for what it is. It's not Spidey 2 or TDK good, but what is?
The script isn't that great, but the ideas are, and the action beats are always just well done and on time, and the pacing is smooth.
It hit these real, memorable, awesome moments. You remember Nightcrawler in the White House...Mystique owning the every scene she's in...Magneto taking the metal outta the security guard...the attack on the school...Iceman's parents...Pyro fighting the cops...the X-Wing and the missiles...that little girl in Prof. X's delusion...Jean vs. crazy Cyclops...Wolverine vs. Kelly Hu...the hype of what's to come with that ending.
It's been a decade. I know you remember those.
They're still really well done, memorable, comic book movie moments. Flicks like that hope to have a couple, this had like 10.
No, it didn't especially age well. And it's pretty basic and simple. And it doesn't hit as deep as a Spider-man or Nolan Batman...but that is damn good comic book movie.
The problem is, it's attached to the 1st movie which is a joke, then everything they built up got ripped apart by the Last Stand, which is straight trash.