X-Men

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Year: 2000

Synopsis:
In protest of the government's Mutant Registration Act, Magneto plans to turn all the world's leaders into mutants. The X-Men soon discover that the machine Magneto is using kills its subjects. After Magneto kidnaps Rogue to power the machine, the X-Men race to Statue of Liberty to stop him.

Flash Gordon

Starring: Sam J. Jones, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton
Directed By: Mike Hodges
Year:

Synopsis:
Flash Gordon and Dale Arden travel to the planet Mongo to stop Ming the Merciless from destroying the Earth. They are captured, but Flash is rescued by Princess Aura. Flash is able to bring two alien species that Ming has pitted against each other together in order to defeat the despot and rescue Dale from being married to him.

I'm not a huge fan of Flash Gordon. The X-Men movies on the other hand, are pretty darn good. The first one hadn't hit it's stride in the franchise but it was still a thought provoking and emotional movie and definitely worth a spot among the best comic book movies.

Flash was OK in a hokey 80's sort of way. X-Men is not hokey, and is a good movie.

If X-Men had a soundtrack by Queen, Alex Ross-designed art, and midgets then it would be the best comic book movie ever. As it is, it's still better than the campy fun of Flash Gordon.

Haven't seen Flash Gordon, so I'll vote for X-Men, which was pretty decent.

"Cyclops! He will save ev-ery one of us!"

X-Men is definitely worthy of getting my vote. From what little I've seen of Flash Gordon, it isn't.

I wouldn't say that. Flash was a perfectly fun camp film with a great soundtrack and a lot of fun moments. If it was up against perhaps 20 other films in this battle it would certainly be getting my vote, just not against this one.

Flash Gordon has the best movie song ever.

EVER.