Fox makes terrible superhero movies.

It had some good moments, but overall I left the cinema quite dissapointed. Even on DVD it’s not one that I’ll watch all that often.

I would like to see an (A list) Director take on the X Men, prefably someone with a command and respect for strong chracter development, continuity and cohesive storyline narratives.

It would be awesome to develop Cyclops as a strong and powerful team leader as in the books, someone to keep Wolverine in line.

Adding a bit of depth to Storm’s character and having The Beast, Angel, Iceman, Marvel Girl/Phoenix as part of the frontline team would surely make for a fantastic action packed blockbuster.

What Brett does not realise is that his predecessor built up a raving, slavish, guaranteed audience with the X-Men franchise. It was just Brett’s bad luck that this audience happens by default to be a little more thoughtful and/or educated than the audience Hollywood normally aims for. But then, it is difficult for Hollywood accountants to understand that when you put the story of an oppressed, mostly hidden minority on the big screen, there is a damned good chance that a significant part of the audience will be part of an oppressed, mostly hidden minority.

And one thing the minority in question where X-Men is concerned find most insulting is being told that Albert Einstein was not one of them. The people seeking to “cure” them try to say that, too. Then when we confront them with the fact that Einstein did not speak a word before his third birthday, began speaking in whole sentences rather than one-word utterances, and often repeated what he heard others say around him, their response is to pretend we said something else entirely. Bryan Singer would have researched this and demanded that line be tossed out of the script, never to be uttered. Ratner apparently thought it was a good idea.

Ratner also thought it was somehow possible that if the real world’s X-Men were faced with an army weaponising a “cure” and attacking them with it, that any single one of us would lift a finger to defend that army when our people come to tear their heads off.

Sorry, Brett, but you took what was once one of the best, if not THE best comic book franchises on the big screen and flushed it down the toilet. You are in no position to diss Uwe Boll, leave alone Jon Favreau.

Granted, X3 didn’t really stay very true to the comics, but it didn’t ever do anything that was untrue to the comics or strayed too far from them either, at least in my mind. heroes died, Dark Phoenix was resolved, but the victory was bittersweet, Kelsey Grammer pulls of the Beast the only way he could, being the only person who could really pull off the character, and we finally see a fight where the whole team works together instead of splitting up and doing a “1-on-1″ fight with another mutant. if someone told me “Kitty Pryde goes up against the Juggernaut in this movie”, I wouldnt have seen it, but I thought that moment in the movie was great when I watched it!

Again, there were things that upset me, but when I watch the trilogy as a whole, X3 is my favorite. sure, Bryan Singer is a great director (with Superman Returns as a major exception), but Brett Ratner stepped up to the plate and I stand firm in believing that he did an excellent final chapter in a series that needed a conclusion. Brett Ratner is not a Singer or Nolan, but he did just fine in my book. bravo, Brett, bravo.

and I kinda liked the Rush Hour flicks…

Old wounds open again. Disappointment so full. I think the stereotype of evil mutants=rave mutants really kicked a good amount of it all…but at the same time, I only ever watched the movie once in theaters. Maybe I’ve grown to…I’m not ready. Maybe in a year or two.

Okay, first, your caps lock key is broken, may want to see to that.

Second, When Singer left, he didn’t leave the movie in jeopardy, there was hardly a completed script, he wasn’t under contract, there was almost no money in the movie at the time, it’s not as if he left mid-production.

And as for the third movie staying true to the first two, that’s rather debatable.

Everyone may take it as me complaining or being picky but comments coming from people say: A WELL YOU KNOW X-MEN WAS NOT BAD IT HAD NICE ACTION IN IT. only reason i own X-men is because of the specials features mainly-because of the special effects and the CG related stuff.
I could keep going but my ranting will continue another day

Also the actress who played Jean could of done better I mean I know she just stood there and starred off in to space doing nothing, but she could of convinced me of it more (note sarcasm on that last part.)

Vic

People hate the 14 thousand plot holes in the film. The unnecessary killings of characters. The fact that Jean/Pheonix stands around for 2 hours and does nothing for the most part. The fact that the only point to the movie at all was mindless action and about 3 mins of story. The over populating of the film with a million mutants further taking away screen time from Xmen who haven’t gotten hardly any focus in one or two either. The only things good about X3 were the actors did well and it had good SFX. The rest of the film was so poorly put together it almost seemed like it was a joke. I had to double check to see if the release of the film was April First.