Well said. One of the reasons all of us haters are so ticked off is because X3 had the potential to be epic like Return of the King. I personally didn't think it would be that good but, I expected to be at least as good as the last film. I have no problem with movie companies hyping up their films. However, if the end products fail to meet expectations these companies should be prepared for fan backlash. Kinberg clearly wasn't ready for this because he bailed from thexverse in May and was never seen again.
Sadly X3 didn't even come close to rivaling the Matrix Revolutions in terms of epicness. The Matrix Revolutions was a bad movie but, at least it had some spectacular action sequences, great special effects, and was 30 minutes longer. I'm still amazed that X3's budget was 60million more.
Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with a director, actor, or writer hyping up their own movie. I remember when Return of the King was about to be released and Elijah Wood said "It's better than Fellowship and Two Towers combined in my opinion."
When he said that I was truly excited and couldn't wait for the film, and guess what? He was and is right. Both Fellowship and Two Towers are GREAT films that are faithful to the source material(despite slight changes) and maintain a sense of epic emotional conflicts.
Return was released and it just blew both films away. The entire trilogy is amazing and I don't see any film actually surpassing them anytime soon. Only film I see that could surpass it is when the Hobbit is made, and that's only if Peter Jackson directs it and he should direct it.
Ideally I would've preferred that Kinberg, Ratner, and Penn hadn't conversed with the fans. My opinion? The backlash would've happened but it wouldn't have been as bad as they not tried conversing with the fans and intentionally misleading them, showing misleading pictures, and so forth. I truly believe had they stayed away, not answer any questions, and just hyped the film it wouldn't have been a big deal.
But since they mislead many fans about the final battle, Rogue, Cyclops, Jean, Colossus, Angel, and Gambit, all it did was make the fans bitter about the entire experience and it turned out that some of the fans were right about them being hacks. Granted some loved the film, loved what Ratner did with it, and loved how he provided a more kinetic faster paced film that was just full of energy.
If Singer stayed would we have received a better film? Yes, I do believe we would've received a better film in terms of story, acting, and emotional conflicts with the necessary action that was more elegant and heartfelt instead of just explosion, explosion, death, death, death, and so forth.
I bet if Singer went with Wolverine killing Jean in the climax it would've been a lot more emotional, powerful, epic, and more or less would've been truer to the character rather than him breaking down and saying a corny line.
Yes, nothing can be done about it now, but we can still talk about it and demand a better product. If a sequel or a restart is considered I'd like to see Zack Synder, James Cameron(not writing the script), or even Raimi take a crack at the X-Men.
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