x-fan said:
they could have given us the nonfurry beast but didnt and instead corrupted another character, and when beast came onto the scene his position had to be changed to polition instead of dactor said, thanks singer for giving me shadowrogue and jean mccoy broodybobby and on and on is it too much tohhope that when they finally do another x-men movie they give us a creative team that will indeed give us the x-men in all their glory and not more of the this watered down stuff they call the movie verse x-men??????????
I agree 100%. The Jean-as-doctor change is a major deviation from how she has been portrayed since the inception of the X-Men. It's not just adding the title "Dr." to her name and upping her intelligence. (I never felt she was stupid in the comics, she just had her own set of priorities, namely shopping, Scott Summers and the X-Men.) However, given what attaining the "Dr." title requires, it fundamentally changed the very heart and soul of who Jean Grey is and what her life is all about.
Same goes for Rogue. Singer made Rogue a symbol for people suffering from HIV/AIDS. The metaphor works given the nature of her powers, but he portrayed her as primarily a victim suffering from an unwanted mutation that could potentially kill someone she comes in physical contact with. So when she decided to get the cure in X3, it completely fit with they way Rogue was established in Singer's movieverse. Wanting to touch someone is not a cheap or shallow motivation for Rogue deciding to get cured, making physical and emotional connections with another person is one of our funtamental desires as human beings.
Same goes for Iceman. Singer made him a symbol for someone "coming out." I didn't think this metaphor was as effective and seemed forced, especially the "Have you ever tried not being a mutant?" line.
Singer nailed the X-Men theme of mutants as outsiders but totally missed the real message of the X-Men, that when people work as a team their differences become an advantage. That is why the lack of team battles in X1 and X2 is such a major deviation from the spirit of the comics.
I like all the X-Men movies, but in reality they are all XMINOs. X1 and X2 would more accurately be called "Bryan Singer's X-Men." Which is why I wouldn't have minded seeing his version of X3 since the X-Men movies were really HIS vision of the X-Men. I love X3 but feel the creative team always had WWBD? in the back of their mind.
I would love to see a reboot directed by someone who places comic-book canon over their personal "vision." But really, if you are willing to accept these movies for what they are--Hollywood "interpretations"--they are all good movies. The anti- and pro-Singer divide is getting old; he left, it's over and done. I know the fans of Bryan Singer have had a painful summer seeing their hero knocked off the pedestal they placed him on, but their negavitiy, especially given the box-office results, is to be expected.
I think Bryan Singer should stay away from comic-book movies and direct movies like his Harvey Milk project. I think he is better suited to directing introspective dramas than he is to directing superhero movies.