The Ones said:
Im sorry, but X-3 ruined X-1 and X-2's continuity to the point i pretend X-3 doesnt exist and just classify it as a cheesy attempt at working a camera. For this reason, I say bring on a restart with Sony and a competant director and screenwriters who actualy read the comics instead of looking at the covers (unlike Penn or Kinberg). I dont want to see more X-men movies after what Fox did to X-3. Theres no way to continue it or the general public will get mad or confused about characters coming back. No problem, redo X-3. Then the general public will be mad and confused that there redoing a movie that just came out. Restart all the way and finaly give the X-men franchise some justice and be more than a X-men duo+1 failed attempt
What you are mad at is that the box office takings did not teach Fox the lesson you had hoped for. You wanted a flop, you didn't get it. You wanted everything to fail. Well, if it had, you still wouldn't get any more X-movies, they'd just give up on the idea.
At least though you are thinking about what the mainstream general public would think, and that's good. They wouldn't accept a remake of X3 (which would never ever ever ever get done, that is total fantasy). They might accept other X-movies in the future.
The movies haven't been perfect from Day 1. They have always been a big-screen VERSION or REPRESENTATION of the comicbooks, not a carbon copy. Many characters have varied from the source material, in the casting, the acting, the storylines, the characterisation. In the movies, Storm has never been an exotic goddess of Masai/Amazon/supermodel stature, Rogue has never been a sassy southern tomboy, Iceman has never been a wisecracking member of the original team, Sabretooth has never been a monstrous murderous beast, Magneto has never been a musclebound hunk (his voice was best in the 90s cartoon, i think, i liked the European inflections). Deathstrike was a mindless drone who had her best moments and died all in the space of five minutes with no reference to Wolverine's past, Mastermind (a key player in the Phoenix saga) was instead wasted as wheelchair-bound Jason, Stryker's key comicbook role as a churchman who saw mutation as against God's order was scrapped for him to become a scientist who helped create Wolverine. Changes, changes, everywhere you look.
X3 did continue the stories set up (Magneto's war, the return of Jean, in particular), it just didn't do what you wanted. What you and many others wanted was simply a Jean/Scott love story with no Wolverine (because you hate him stealing Cyclops role), no Storm (because you hate Halle), no Angel (because you think he was a waste of time), no Beast (because you think his role was wasted or you hate Kelsey or cannot disconnect your brain from Frasier), no Danger Room, no mutant cameos... in fact nothing much of anything except Scott and Jean in this narrow confined world where we have a handful of mutants.
But that wasn't going to happen. Jackman shone as Wolverine and the character was favoured by Bryan himself (who as an adopted child related to Wolverine's mystery background) and by Schuler-Donner; Storm is needed for diversity (even though she has yet to be truly 'nailed', especially in X1 where Bryan Singer had her scared of humans... when she was once worshipped by humans!); Angel and Beast have been crying out for inclusion in this series since the beginning, as has the Danger Room; and we did need to see a more global picture of these mutants - and we did: we were told of Magneto's movements in Lisbon, Geneva, Montreal, we saw an underground Omega Mutants movement of outcasts shunned by society, we saw mutants in line at the clinic, we finally got to see how many there are out there in society rather than everything being confined to a few people in a mansion.
Jean and Cyclops' love story was not given proper service - very few people will deny that - but it was never going to be the main thrust of the story. The return of Jean was woven quite well into the main 'cure/war' story where she became a cross between the Hellfire Club's Black Queen, the Scarlet Witch and Dark Phoenix. Yes, no firebird and a lot of standing and staring... that could have been improved, though only fans will truly be aware of that.
You need to face facts that a Wolverine movie will be made - and hopefully will be chance to see a few more mutants who haven't yet made it on screen. And while there may not be an X4 (unless the Wolverine movie becomes that), I reckon the Magneto movie itself may morph into an 'X-Men Begins' featuring younger versions (maybe better versions) of key characters.
In the meantime, it will be interesting to see fanfics that show people's alternative ideas of an X3 (so I can really see if i prefer what we got) and by all means contact Marvel or Fox or whoever else to express your views.
