Oh wow, the hatred for this film knows no bounds, up to the point where it seems the only way it can be fixed is through time travel with Bryan Singer returning to the helm with the upcoming "Days of Future Past." The pure evil rhetoric that comes out of mouths of fan boys about Brett Ratner and how he almost destroyed the franchise I seriously haven't heard outside of a Klan rally (so I have seen on film, ha). "This man took Bryan Singer's X-Men franchise and reduced it to nonsensical garbage that completely misused or miscast every character, destroyed the iconic back story and mythos that surrounds Jean Grey as the Phoenix and completely wrecked the trilogy. And they killed off Cyclops in the first 10 minutes." According to these people, Brett Ratner should be stripped of all directing credentials and sent back to the dungeon of doom that is filming commercials. Now I am not the biggest fan of Breett Ratner, far from it. But lets look at a few actual "facts" about X Men 3. After the success of the first X-Men film, Bryan Singer signed on to a 3 picture deal with Fox which included both sequels. But when the Superman Returns project got placed in front of him by Warner Brothers his massive fan boy love for Richard Donners iconic adaptation of the character mean't that he just couldn't pass this up or hold it off, so he asked the powers that be if he could put off the finale to the X-Men so he could go make Superman Returns. But the thing was, X-Men 3 had already started pre-production (which costs money) and he was already signed. In an extremely rare event for Hollywood the execs were in fact 100% right in everything that was occurring. But no, Bryan Singer had to have his cake and eat it too, and once the negotiations fell apart, he was subsequently dropped (or left by his own will according to some sites). Now remember, the movie was already in full swing when it came to pre-production so the execs were forced to shop around for a new director at the very last minute, and even though several high profile directors were offered the job, essentially the only reason Brett Ratner was hired was for his ability to complete rushed productions under budget (see Rush Hour). He was given the basic synopsis and had to go from there. And considering the end product, I think he did a fantastic job with what was given. "But he killed Cyclops you say." Well, guess what. It's not quite hard to find out with a bit of research that apparently that was the plan all along. Singer was either going to kill him off or reduce his role to simply being background fodder. So your argument if this is the case becomes completely invalid. Add to that the very fact James Marsden left X-Men 3 mid pre-production as well to work on Superman Returns at either Bryan Singer's request or that he is also a douchebag indicates one simple and logical fact. If you have any problem with X-Men 3, then your beef is with Singer, not Ratner. Singer is the one who bailed on his own franchise, Singer is the one who bailed on the fans to make Superman. All Ratner did was pick up the pieces (and perhaps even saved it in the eyes of those money hungry execs). And like the previously mentioned David Fincher, if anything Ratner should get all the credit in the world for what he accomplished. He even left it open for it all to be fixed at a later date by Singer (unforeseen obviously) even though it was initially developed as the final X-Men movie ever. Which alone would've have you fan boys screaming all types of nonsensical ramblings about characters that were never to be used or storylines that would've been so much better. Not that there is anything wrong with the movie as an action flick. It has many subtle references to the comic for which it's based (the Fastball Special, the Danger Room and the Sentinels), has great action set pieces (anyone's who's mouth didn't drop open at the Golden Gate sequence simply cannot be entertained) and again can be seen as a definitive end to a trilogy, that's if you don't wish to hang around for the post credit scene, WHICH by the way was added at the behest of fan boys wanting more sequels after test screenings rejected the endings finality. My God you X-Men fans should be cheering this guy's name. He had a lot of courage to film this when he really didn't have to. And by the way, I don't understand the hate for this version of "Juggernaut." The arguments I read don't seem to make any sense, as the main one seems to be "he is nothing like the original Juggernaut." Well, upon my research for this article I find a little snippet of info regarding the "Ultimate X-Men" series and the fact that the movie version is based on this Juggernaut and not the one found in the original Marvel comics, where he is not a mutant but gets his powers from a rock or something as ridiculous. Now that version not only doesn't make sense but is so stupid on infinite levels. Plus, I grew up on 80's one liners. "Don't you know who I am, I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!" My favourite part of the film, ha. It's up there with the "Running Man" when it comes to iconic one liners with me. Goes hand in hand with "Here is Sub Zero, now....plain zero!" Speaking of X Men....
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Oh wow, the hatred for this film knows no bounds, up to the point where it seems the only way it can be fixed is through time travel with Bryan Singer returning to the helm with the upcoming "Days of Future Past." The pure evil rhetoric that comes out of mouths of fan boys about Brett Ratner and how he almost destroyed the franchise I seriously haven't heard outside of a Klan rally (so I have seen on film, ha). "This man took Bryan Singer's X-Men franchise and reduced it to nonsensical garbage that completely misused or miscast every character, destroyed the iconic back story and mythos that surrounds Jean Grey as the Phoenix and completely wrecked the trilogy. And they killed off Cyclops in the first 10 minutes." According to these people, Brett Ratner should be stripped of all directing credentials and sent back to the dungeon of doom that is filming commercials. Now I am not the biggest fan of Breett Ratner, far from it. But lets look at a few actual "facts" about X Men 3. After the success of the first X-Men film, Bryan Singer signed on to a 3 picture deal with Fox which included both sequels. But when the Superman Returns project got placed in front of him by Warner Brothers his massive fan boy love for Richard Donners iconic adaptation of the character mean't that he just couldn't pass this up or hold it off, so he asked the powers that be if he could put off the finale to the X-Men so he could go make Superman Returns. But the thing was, X-Men 3 had already started pre-production (which costs money) and he was already signed. In an extremely rare event for Hollywood the execs were in fact 100% right in everything that was occurring. But no, Bryan Singer had to have his cake and eat it too, and once the negotiations fell apart, he was subsequently dropped (or left by his own will according to some sites). Now remember, the movie was already in full swing when it came to pre-production so the execs were forced to shop around for a new director at the very last minute, and even though several high profile directors were offered the job, essentially the only reason Brett Ratner was hired was for his ability to complete rushed productions under budget (see Rush Hour). He was given the basic synopsis and had to go from there. And considering the end product, I think he did a fantastic job with what was given. "But he killed Cyclops you say." Well, guess what. It's not quite hard to find out with a bit of research that apparently that was the plan all along. Singer was either going to kill him off or reduce his role to simply being background fodder. So your argument if this is the case becomes completely invalid. Add to that the very fact James Marsden left X-Men 3 mid pre-production as well to work on Superman Returns at either Bryan Singer's request or that he is also a douchebag indicates one simple and logical fact. If you have any problem with X-Men 3, then your beef is with Singer, not Ratner. Singer is the one who bailed on his own franchise, Singer is the one who bailed on the fans to make Superman. All Ratner did was pick up the pieces (and perhaps even saved it in the eyes of those money hungry execs). And like the previously mentioned David Fincher, if anything Ratner should get all the credit in the world for what he accomplished. He even left it open for it all to be fixed at a later date by Singer (unforeseen obviously) even though it was initially developed as the final X-Men movie ever. Which alone would've have you fan boys screaming all types of nonsensical ramblings about characters that were never to be used or storylines that would've been so much better. Not that there is anything wrong with the movie as an action flick. It has many subtle references to the comic for which it's based (the Fastball Special, the Danger Room and the Sentinels), has great action set pieces (anyone's who's mouth didn't drop open at the Golden Gate sequence simply cannot be entertained) and again can be seen as a definitive end to a trilogy, that's if you don't wish to hang around for the post credit scene, WHICH by the way was added at the behest of fan boys wanting more sequels after test screenings rejected the endings finality. My God you X-Men fans should be cheering this guy's name. He had a lot of courage to film this when he really didn't have to. And by the way, I don't understand the hate for this version of "Juggernaut." The arguments I read don't seem to make any sense, as the main one seems to be "he is nothing like the original Juggernaut." Well, upon my research for this article I find a little snippet of info regarding the "Ultimate X-Men" series and the fact that the movie version is based on this Juggernaut and not the one found in the original Marvel comics, where he is not a mutant but gets his powers from a rock or something as ridiculous. Now that version not only doesn't make sense but is so stupid on infinite levels. Plus, I grew up on 80's one liners. "Don't you know who I am, I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!" My favourite part of the film, ha. It's up there with the "Running Man" when it comes to iconic one liners with me. Goes hand in hand with "Here is Sub Zero, now....plain zero!" 