THANKS FOR FUCKING UP EVERYTHING I BUILT, ASSWIPE.
Professionally yours, the Bry-guy."
Ratner did what I expected him to do - sacrifice character development and plotline development for the sake of a big summer action movie. Look at what each director's big movie was before they stepped into X. Singer: The Usual Suspects, a highly character-driven piece. Ratner: Rush Hour I & II. Both very entertaining purely action films.
Yes, yes, yes and yes. Although I do like Bobby, I agree with pretty much everything else you said. I started worrying the moment I heard Singer *wasn't* doing it and well, Ratner did nothing to allay my fears. As you said, for what it is, it's an entertaining movie. I'm sure I'll buy it on DVD and hell, I'll probably end up buying the bootleg as soon as I see it on the street. But it could have ended up being so much more, so much better than it was and for that, I blame Ratner.
Honestly, and I have to throw some mud on Singer here, too, but I've been annoyed with how Bobby Drake's been handled since the beginning. Bobby Drake is one of my favorite "old school" X-Factor, original X-Men'ing days characters. He is NOTHING like this version in the film. Iceman is not like his codename - cold and boring. He was a jokester! The life of the party! The one who'd play pranks on everyone, even Scott, just to get people laughing. He's a fun guy! I don't know who the hell this comatose movie-verse version is supposed to be.
I'm baffled on why they altered the personalities of a lot of these characters. I blame Storm on the choice of actress. Someone like ... Angela Bassett would've done a wonderful job portraying a statuesque African weather goddess. Berry's Storm was too weak, too unsure. Before she came to Xavier, she was being worshipped by an African tribe as a goddess! You think a goddess is going to be unsure of herself? Scott's boring in the books, but at least he DID something there, you know? I understand why Rogue's different. Her history in the films is different and she didn't spend years absorbing other people's personalities. That's how she became such a sassy little Southern flirt who says, "sugah" to everybody she meets.
Serena was FANTASTIC in this movie. I'm totally overloading on him this week, as I saw Da Vinci code twice, X3 yesterday, and the whole trilogy (for the first time in MONTHS... stupid exams) a few days ago. Gahds, I love him so. And the chess thing was so badass. XD
I agree on a lot of stuff you wrote, especially about Jean, Scott and Rogue... I never read the comics, but I've been ranted to by my fanboy cousin enough to understand their characters pretty well... but overall it was pretty good for a movie. ^____^
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"Dear Brett,
THANKS FOR FUCKING UP EVERYTHING I BUILT, ASSWIPE.
Professionally yours,
the Bry-guy."
Ratner did what I expected him to do - sacrifice character development and plotline development for the sake of a big summer action movie. Look at what each director's big movie was before they stepped into X. Singer: The Usual Suspects, a highly character-driven piece. Ratner: Rush Hour I & II. Both very entertaining purely action films.
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I agree on a lot of stuff you wrote, especially about Jean, Scott and Rogue... I never read the comics, but I've been ranted to by my fanboy cousin enough to understand their characters pretty well... but overall it was pretty good for a movie. ^____^
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YES. THAT WOULD OWN EVERYTHING. O_O
My opinions were very similar. Worth seeing it intheaters, but #2 was the best by far. And #1 beats this one with a really big stick.
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