X-Men 3 changed my life!!

No, not really. But I really don't understand what all the criticism is about. Was it greatest movie I've ever seen in my life? No. Was it an entertaining way to spend a Sunday afternoon? Sure.

I've always felt that adaptations like this should say something more along the lines of "inspired by" rather than "based on." In a 2 hour movie, it's going to be necessary to take some cinematic short cuts. You just don't have the screen time to get in to the whys and hows of every character. It was a Sci/Fi Action movie, which is exactly what I went in expecting. My kids liked it and we had a fun family afternoon.

So there. :P

I agree with you on the entertainment value of movies like this. That's their reason for existing.

People expect certain things, and when theyr'e not delivered get uppity. When you adapt a comic book pretty much everyone understands that you'll have to change the story a bit to fit on screen. The problem then becomes...Well how do you adapt it.

Many times people get upset because it's not how 'they'd have done it'. Or they think the person adapting the story 'missed the point'.

I think the adaptation of the phoenix story line was brutal, but I still enjoyed the film. The adaptation was horrendous. Sort of like making a spiderman film but making Peter Parker 50 years old, and living in Brimingham Alabama where he is a second tier wannabe Nascar driver. It might be a good story, but it just ain't spiderman. No matter how good the movie is people are gonna bitch, and probably rightfully so.

Plus moving the Golden Gate Bridge was idiotic.

But a good time.

are the ones saying it sucks, because they want to be right, despite the fact they made the stupid choice of believing every bull$hit lie and half-truth from the likes of AICN and company, and those re-imagining Brett Ratner as being Uwe Bolls fatter brother.

At a certain point people were going to enter that cinema and no matter what they saw on screen honestly and truly believe that it was crap. Then they pick out a couple of the less faithfull adaptation aspects, and a couple of plot or script quibbles and blow them up accordingly.

I'm not sure exactly why the Meme 'This movie is gonna suck' started, but I have no doubt AICN is involved somehwere along the tree.

Anyone else's version would undoubtedly be a shock and in turn might adversely affect the experience.

While X-Men (1) was welcomed there were plenty of problems with it from dialog to story to adaptation. If Singer had made X-Men as the third movie people would have also jumped all over it as well I believe, though he wasn't adapting one of the most famous stories in Canon. In fairness to Ratner, Singer left that bomb for him to deal with and Fox provided him the script he recieved.

But you're right though. A change in vision can adversely effect the outcome for people and modify their expectations.

Wolverine is a complete 180 from his real life personality. That's what I call brilliant acting.

I'm giving serious consideration to copycating this thread.

:rofl:

And thoroughly entertained the second time.

It was worth seeing twice because I couldn't stop laughing after the "I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch" line even though there were some very serious parts after that. I couldn't stop thinking about how it's awesome that the creators watch the same internet videos that we do.

:thumbsup:

:D

I find that all to often people seem to expect way too much out of a movie....my basic requirement is to be ENTERTAINED.

Though, somethings just didn't quite feel right about it. I wish the Phoenix saga would have been better developed...but there are certain constraints you have to deal with when making a movie.

Unfortunately, I left "early" and missed the scene after the credits (had I known I would have told my friends to keep their asses in the seat). I may see it again, but I'll likely end up waiting to see it on DVD.

Contrived, wooden, cliched, two dimensional. Frankly the Jean Gray subplot should have been the whole film, not that cure thing.

What is Jean's motivation for killing Scott?

Why is there so little concern/grief over the disappearance/death of Scott?

Why is Magneto allowed to roam free after losing his powers? He killed scores of people, but gets no trial?

Where was Nightcrawler? Or an explanation of his absence?


Lots of eye-candy, for sure. But not fulfilling.