*HORRIBLE* Watered down Hollywood garbage

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

The first two X-Men movies were tolerable. The characters were cast pretty well, and seeing them in "action" made it all worth while. There wasn't very much "action" in the first two movies, and none of the mutants really utilized their powers. For a bunch of super powered mutants, the action scenes were pretty lame...
In this third film (X3), a lot of the mutants get to use their powers and it looks good on screen. But then "Hollywood" makes up their own characters that are completely foreign to the Marvel universe just to fill in plot lines. Then they come up with a ridiculous storyline involving a weapon that turns mutants into humans and it all goes down hill. Then they water down all the mutant's powers to the point that they might as well not even have their powers to begin with.
I've read the comics since I was a kid, and always loved the series... The first two X movies were tolerable. But this was just plain terrible. Now I understand the fact that you can't re-use stories from the comics, but the characters and their powers should at least stay true to the comics. The movie seems like it was written by people who know nothing about the comics, and they're just using the character's name and likeness and just making up the rest as they go. (Totally ignoring many of the powers and abilities that make the characters who they are!!!)
In a nut shell:
Mistake #1 Not allowing people who actually know ANYTHING about the comics to write the screenplay.
Mistake #2 Not waiting for Bryan Singer to finish 'Superman'.
Mistake #3 Not choosing Joss Whedon to direct X3.
Mistake #4 Choosing Bret Rattner to ruin the series.
Mistake #5 Making up characters for the sake of the movie.
Mistake #6 X-Men 3