re: X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Don't forget they also pissed away the Hellfire Club with Shaw and Frost, and cast a charisma desert to play Frost.

But I wanted to post everything you did. It's amazing that they took two stabs at Dark Phoenix without encountering the Shi'ar. Marvel went full gusto on cosmic powers and aliens, and that added a lot of energy to the MCU. The X-Men had multiple alien encounters, and somehow Fox missed the chance to be the first comics franchise in outer space. The Starjammers could have spun off a stand-alone movie. This is why I'm glad Disney/Marvel is getting the X properties.

At least the McAvoy series got beyond Hugh Jackman (mostly) and black rubber suits. But Singer was obsessed with the one storyline of bigotry & oppression, and we all know why.