I didn't count any of them because the best one could say about any of those is that they're middling or "good for their time" which is just a way to say they're crap movies, but there wasn't anything that was capable of doing much better at the time.
There was also Blade, Superman, X-men, The Mask, Ninja Turtles and Hellboy.
Blade I & II still hold up well, outside of some really dodgy CGI. This more so applies to the second movie with the crappy CGI.
Blade Trinity on the other hand can fuck right off.
The Mask, while being an in-name only adaption, has become iconic for a reason and still told a great comedy story. Despite the comic being the opposite and more dark and cruel. If the adaption were more accurate, it would been another
Nightmare on Elm Street franchise for New Line. Which is what they wanted originally. Not to mention the cartoon adaption, and the fact comics were made based off the movie/cartoon continuity for extra irony.
The first
TMNT is the best and holds great on its own and compared to all of the sequels. Where each installment either had diminishing returns, became mediocre/terrible, or just plain average. I do love the two reboot movies that came out in 2014 and 2016 respectively. With
Out of the Shadows I consider almost as good as
TMNT (1990).
Hellboy I don't remember too much, but I know
Golden Army is hands down way better than the first movie.
While I respect the classics, both
Superman I & II have their flaws. Don't even get me started on which cut is the "superior" version argument.
Superman III & IV are not good, though at least IV can be entertaining.
Superman Returns sucks and is full of lazy nostalgia baiting.
Man of Steel I love.
MoS ain't perfect, but I consider it an excellent movie and one that finally lets the Boy Scout cut loose for once in live-action format.
X-Men is a rocky beast as it has some advantages and disadvantages. The first film does not exactly hold up and the original trilogy has its own set of issues of early 2000s "adult/realistic" costuming. Bryan Singer, the teen chasing and sexual harassing fuck-tard can get knee bashed in the groin a 1000 times. That whole dick-wad comment about "Were you expecting blue and yellow spandex" was way out of line and insults the target audience. Singer had a well known hatred of comic books and would not allow anyone to bring said comics on the set. Say whatever you will about Chris Nolan, but he was more than happy to have Batman comics on the sets for the
TDK Trilogy. A reminder, Singer also directed
Superman Returns; the pretentious douche. I'll take memorable colors over generic black leather that is hard to move around in and trying too hard to come off as "adult" or cool any day. Hugh Jackman and many other actors stated the suits were hard to move around in the first movie.
Not to mention after the disaster of
X3, all films afterward varied in quality. Wolverine got way too much focus no matter how you slice it, for one. Two: the most popular
X-Men movies are the spin-offs that have little to do with them. Insert both
Deadpool movies and
Logan. Another layer of extra irony as Wolverine becomes the focus...again, and now has three solo movies. I will say that I lost interest with
X-Men after
First Class.
The Wolverine is average, and
Days of Future past is good, but I never felt the need to watch it again. Though
DoF is superior to the original trilogy and better than
FC.
Apocalypse,
Dark Phoenix, and
New Mutants are all garbage.
