how could you Brian singer? Ratner was just awful.

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2006)

This contains mega spoilers. but i will keep this short and sweet. my problems with this movie are as follows: 1)main characters die. Cyclops,professor X, Jean(needlessly,I might add because wolverine could have just stabbed her with the cure). They all died.
2)It seems as though Huge Jackman and Halle Berry were the pivotal characters of a movie seemingly geared toward selling tickets. So naturally make It's mostly about Jackman and Storm,who by the way has apparently forgotten that she's supposed to have an accent. I wonder if Ratner spent all his time catering to the whims of those two while cheating the other characters of their significance.
3)Collosus doesn't have an accent but juggernaut does.
4)When going to see phoenix at Jean's house professor X just walks by Juggernaut as if they have no history in the comic books and doesn't even acknowledge his presence.
5)When Juggernaut hits the wall, the implication is that he is a mutant and can lose his powers when he comes in contact with the source of the cure.
6)Angel is there essentially for a cameo.
7)X-men took a dive at the box office in consecutive weeks because of the negative word of mouth that people like who read the comic and who were big fans for years are going to give it. This isn't like killing off the Joker in Batman where you can simply introduce a new a new villain in a sequel. They disposed of the main characters. I don't understand the business decision to kill off the main characters and alienate comic fans from the movie just to appeal to the masses. They could have let them live and still have made a good movie and not have us resent this movie's creation for the rest of our lives. The great build-up of the first two movies came undone in X3.
8) Nightcrawler was eliminated due to the costs of having to costume 3 blue mutants in make-up(mystique & beast)were already written in.
9)Major character relations emphasis of rouge & bobby, Jean/cyclops, were done away with to focus on the big stars Jackman,Berry,and Grammar.
A word of advice to all the marvel fans on this message board. Please join with me to petition marvel to not let people unfamiliar with the spirit of our beloved comics be allowed to ruin them on the big screen. It seems as though this movie was entirely money-driven and that the writers had no intimate knowledge of who their audience actually was. I wonder if they were just a couple of geeks that hadn't even heard of X-men before they were handed the responsibility of writing this movie. How could marvel let them do this. I feel betrayed for many years of supporting marvel comics and movies (I even saw both Punishers to contribute to their profits).Sure it made money for one weekend but its legacy will not endure as a great cult phenomenon. The disappointment I feel with this movie is akin to the disappointment I felt with the two matrix sequels, blade 3, the Hulk (Bana and Connelly were completely miscast and delivered an utterly bland performance while Noltie stole the show), and Daredevil (where the superb acting of Afleck and Garner was negated by the absurd acting of Colin Farrell and Michael Clark Duncan,and even both Punisher movies (Tom Jane looked the part but didn't have the benefit of having the script of the first 80s movie,which was good except that Frank Castle was miscast much like Bruce Banner; Dolf Lungren's countenance has the look of a glassy drug addict).