TheVileOne said:
Just like I'm annoyed by the people who still think Cyclops is still alive. Still think the movie is 2 hours and 15 minutes. Still think guys like Cyclops, Rogue, and Angel have big roles. Believe that the screenwriters and directors go through message board and change things like Cyclop's fate because of what they read.
So you can still be annoyed with me. And I will be annoyed as well.
Well, I think people were living in hope of those things being fact so that they would feel happier because THEY were getting what THEY want from an X-Men movie. But the movie is bigger than what fans of the source material want, and those fans vary greatly. Some would gladly see an X3 without Storm, some wouldn't; some want Gambit to be in there, others don't; some wanted Nightcrawler back, some don't mind. There was no way they would please everyone.
Way back in X1, great deviations were made... particularly in making Rogue an insecure teenager without the flight and strength of her comicbook version, and in making Iceman a student rather than an original member. Rogue was never going to meet Ms Marvel/Warbird in X3 and gain those powers.. it's difficult to imagine movie Rogue having flight or superstrength at all...
I think the general structure of X3 seems logical and natural...they needed to conclude the story arcs for main characters, so many of the other characters were going to be peripheral and not developed, just as they were in X1 and X2. The role of Angel (who, at first in the comics, was a vigilante operating solo) seems about right for this movie and I can't see someone as FX-heavy as that ever becoming anything more. They're never going to have the budget for continuing prosthetic wings, high-altitude wirework and digital effects for Angel... and they're also never going to have the budget for an army of Sentinels. The story arc for Cyclops was shaped by external factors, although Singer still managed to give him little time in X2, so there must have been parameters on him then as well.
The running time was shorter than many fans would have liked, and shorter than fans expected.. but it doesn't mean the film is bad.
What's annoying is people saying the movie is crap before they've even seen it.
Personally, I hope (and think) i am going to enjoy it greatly, despite any shortcomings it may have, because i have been awed by the trailer material. A friend who watched the trailers with me today (the first time he'd seen them) was awed too. He loved the film's cinematographic scale, and he loved the deep socio-political theme of the story which he felt took it a notch above other sci-fi and a notch above the first two X-Men movies.
