10 Terrible Films That The Wrong Person Got Blamed For
9. Brett Ratner - X-Men: The Last Stand
Who Else Was To Blame: Matthew Vaughn.
The X-Men franchise has some balls. Whereas Spider-Man will hit the reboot button the moment things get a little bit sloppy, Xavier's lot continue slogging through in the established continuity, treating every misfire as a lesson to be learned from. While that approach led to us having to suffer the first standalone Wolverine film, the sequels were worthy of the saga.
The first time the series faltered was with the final film in what was then the X-Men Trilogy. Bryan Singer, who had brought the first two films to life in genre-redefining fashion, left for the ill-advised Superman Returns, leaving the directorial space of the third movie open. Cut forward two years and the The Last Stand arrives with Brett Ratner at the helm to a barrage of fan hate.
Ratner is typically more Bay than he is Singer, so it's easy to conclude that he was the cause of all the problems that sunk what should have been a triumphant conclusion of the Dark Phoenix saga. But that isnt the case; before Ratner the film passed through the hands of Matthew Vaughn, who would later direct First Class. It was Vaughn who cast Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut and who made massive headway on forming the story.