Well to be fair you can't compare a movie with a real life tragedy. X-Men 3 is not as bad as 9/11, the Iraq war, or even the war in Lebanon.
But, the reason why we(X-Men fans) are complaining is that we feel robbed.
I understand some of you think the film is great, and that's fine, but don't insult us or our intelligence if we don't feel the same way. We feel that after a three years waiting for this movie, an ultimate payoff should've happened to the 100th extent degree.
But did that pay-off happen? For some it did, for others it didn't. I'm part of the pack who didn't feel satisfied by the overall product of this film. Could it have been done with more time, focus, and less politics? No doubt in my mind. Fox rushed this movie out to beat Superman Returns, and as far as I'm concerned, the movie suffered because it was based on money, greed, politics, and petty revenge.
Some Fox loyalists, Wolverine loyalists, and Rothman loyalists laugh and accuse us of being conspiracy theorists. Give us a break, you mean to tell me this film would've been released had Singer not got on SR? I bet if SR wasn't supposed to come out for another two years Fox would be sitting on their asses still.
For Ratner, Penn, and Kinberg to say this is "Our Return of the King" is just outright laughable. I don't care if it was an analogy or a metaphor, but to mention this film in the same breath as Return of the King? All I can do is laugh at the sheer stupidity that was on their minds.
So for those who enjoyed the film, that's awesome. I'm glad you found it more enjoyable than myself and others. But it just didn't do it for me as an X-Men film. No one is saying it's on the level of CINO, Batman and Robin, Doom, or even Elektra. Hell, X3 is not even a horrible film. It's decent/average at best, however it could've been so much better with the potential it possessed.
Some are not willing to just accept anything. So either accept that some didn't like this movie, or leave to the Xverse where all negative comments are screened and deleted.