X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The first swing at an X-Men prequel is so bad it hasother movies within its franchise making fun of it to this day. You think Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t going to have at least a few gags referencing the catastrophic shitshow that was turning Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool into a mouthless superweapon? While the poor treatment of Deadpool is one of the most memetic things about X-Men Origins: Wolverine (one that spawned an entire spin-off series with the intent to correct it), that’s hardly the movie’s only issue. It’s plodding, focuses on the parts of Wolverine’s origins that are far less interesting than the stuff it glosses over, and for a movie that is supposed to be about Logan, ends up having a bloated cast of characters that contribute very little. Luckily, Jackman and audiences got a much tighter film focusing on Wolverine eight years later, but Origins: Wolverine is still a stain on a series that really needed a win after, well, the next movie on our list. — Kenneth Shepard