Maze said:
Or sentinels
Nell , it will be nice if you have a little more understanding about why people are really *****ing..
i think a lot of people did have it with you and Gambit ( i'm not a fan , and i could understand why you were upset )
lol...
Understanding is the last thing I got with the Gambit situation.
I was told that I should get over it, he's not in it. Everyone told me how I should want to see the character, instead of letting me make the decision for myself. I've been told that I shouldn't care about one character, because the X-Men is bigger than any one character. I've been told I wasn't a true fan of the X-Men because I liked Gambit better than Kitty Pryde. People have gone into the official Gambit thread and told us to shut up about the character. There was no understanding for us Gambit fans.
But this isn't some kind of "out for revenge" thing, no. There's a difference. The difference being, I'm not running around calling this movie a failure because Gambit isn't in it. I've even acknowledged how adding characters like Kitty Pryde works better than Gambit for storytelling purposes, and I've apologized for my aggressive nature towards Kitty Pryde and her fans, because I realized I was out of line for my reaction towards her.
I might not agree with it, but people who say "I'm concerned over the runtime because of...", that's understandable. Do I agree with it? No.
But it's people "This movie HAS to be 2 and a half hours", "this movie is gonna suck", and officially dooming this movie because of the runtime is what I'm talking about. I never recall stating this movie was DOOMED because I didn't get to see Gambit, or might not get to see Sentinels. I stated that I feel those things should be in the movie, and the movie would be more enjoyable for me if I saw those things (as they are some of my favorite things in X-Men), but I never said the movie would suck. It's totally different.
And it's funny that you say that we're judging ONLY from the trailer (the people who are supportive of the film)... what exactly are the negative people judging it on? The AICN script review? Oh, that incomplete DRAFT that was reviewed like, a year ago, and the entire draft wasn't even reviewed? The same one that's also undergone extensive changes since the review? As has been proven by the fact that we've seen a lot of things since that were never included in that script, and the entire 3rd act has been reworked? That's what you're judging on?
Or are you judging it on the director, who is a big fan of the previous 2 movies, wants to keep the same tone, and at the same time is adding in even more of the comic book elements than Singer ever did, including the fan favorite Danger Room?
Or is it the writers? Simon Kinberg, who worked on LATE REVISIONS on movies like
Fantastic 4, and wasn't a full part of that production? Or is it Zak Penn, who made the great
X2 movie, and who's story was used for the most part by Singer, Hayter, Harris, etc...?
Oh, now you have to blame the studio. Cuz they made
Fantastic 4 and
Daredevil, which are very different from 'X-Men' even in the comics, and inherently came out as different movies (which weren't bad at all, by the way). Despite the fact that this is the same studio that churned out the first 2 beloved 'X-Men' movies. This is also the same studio that has churnned out movies like
Titanic and
Walk The Line... respectable movies to say the very least...
Questionable evidence at the least. Meanwhile, I'm over here praising what I've actually
SEEN, with my own 2 eyes. Photage from 2 trailers and 3 TV commercials. Countless pictures. And I've seen a very limited number of trailers in my lifetime that had a comparable impact on my anticipation that
X-Men 3's trailer had on me;
Return of the King,
Matrix Revolutions,
Revenge of the Sith... all 3 of those movies had me utterly pumped up from the trailers. And the only one that disappointed in the least bit was
Matrix Revolutions, a movie that one it's own was still pretty damned good. So the fact that
X-Men 3 is in the same league as
Revenge of the Sith and
Return of the King in terms of trailer quality is a pretty damned good sign to me.
But no, I stated an obvious disappointment to
NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER brought to life on the big screen, a disappointment to possibly not seeing what I consider to be the most definitive X-Men villian behind Magneto, and all of a sudden that is the same as running around like a chicken with my head cut off, declaring this movie a disaster of epic proportions because of a running time, despite the fact that nobody has seen this movie, and nobody knows how these stories are going to play out.
Yup, really the same thing there. You ****ing got me. ***** on. Despite the fact that you have no evidence to back up your *****es, and despite the fact that your *****es are obviously over-reacting, just go ahead and keep *****ing. Because my expression of disappointment is the same thing as declaring this movie a failure without anything to back it up.