^ That's irrelevant if you look at the big picture. Avi turned a bankrupt company into a one of the top 3 licensing power houses on the planet. He sold the idea of superhero films back to the studios and got this whole genre out of the gutter. Period. He's allowed a few misktakes here and there but does not (even as a producer) have control of the studios who bought them. Finally Marvel used avi's magic to build up the confidence in the genre to get 525 in financing and start it's own studio division and video game division.
Nothing is perfect but Avi's the man.
Also I 100% support Avi's "idiots' comment. That was taken out of context and what he's talking about was before X3 was even made all of the harsh bashing of Brett Ratner on AICN (after Vaughn was booted) and from Harry and the talkbackers and from anyone else calling Ratner names like loser, hack, POS, cokehead, how X3 was gonna be a failure, etc...These so called fans were tearing Ratner apart on a very personal and hateful level. It's like a lynch mob bandwagon of haters. They are idiots. Theres a difference in not liking one's work and personally attacking and bashing someone. It was very bad and I felt bad for the crap Ratner went through from all the Singer worshipers. It was immature and pathetic.
You have said what needed to be said my man. Ungrateful is a word that characterizes a lot of uninformed people these days.
The man works his butt off to save a company that was about to become a laughing stock and was spiralling into bankruptcy.
He made Marvel viable again and went to hollywood and convinced them that marvel characters were a valuable property.
Evidence of the esteem the characters were held in prior to Avi can be seen in a little 1994 movie by one Roger Corman, a movie that though it was made in a hurry due to some licensing shenanigans should never have been conceived by any self respecting producer, director or studio.
This movie represented the lot that fell on marvel, they were a joke in the movie world.
And now Avi working with Marvel has given us Spiderman 1 & 2, Xmen 1-3, Blade 1-3, Daredevil, Electra, Hulk, FF 1-2 and now Ghostrider and now because of the success we now have a new movie studio by the House of Ideas themselves.
And people are saying he should not be let near another movie because he did not give them every little thing that they wanted.
I am a fanboy but this is so pathetic, ungrateful and juvenile that it boggles the mind.
Some talk about how some movies are geared towards the kiddies but their insipid attacks at times borders on the ridiculous and it is becoming the norm to nit pick everything to death and insult hard working people.
These people are under the tremendous pressure and strain of 100 million dollar epics and are being rediculed because of, let me quote it from one discerning soul "sinned against all humanity by forgetting to have the Devil change his attire once or twice during the film". These guys lost countless hours of sleep trying to get fire effects and other stuff to look believable and in the pressure cooker of the production cycle forgot one or two things or through sheer difficulty had to cut a few action scenes short as they just did not have the money.
And they probably did not have the money because the studios know how we are. We can turn on a project like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat.
Well fine, go ahead and spew all the vitriol that at times seems almost like self imolation, as if they want the movies and the genre to tank, because as they put it all these people that have brought us all of this are hacks who hate the fanboys and just want to make money.
Well at least they are being productive.
And I am done, just had to get that off my chest.
