Storm22 said:
Well that's a matter of opinion really. The Hulk and X-Men are 2 totally different movies, the Hulk demanded more SFX work. As for X-Men, Singer established a realistic tone with the first 2 films therefore didn't go ott with SFX(although the FX, especially in X2 were great!) and Ratner, staying true to Singers vision of the X-Men, is following suit. Having said that, you haven't seen X3 yet so you don't know what/how many FX we're gonna see in X3. From what we've seen in trailers etc. the FX look fantastic and from what the writers have said we're gonna see more action and FX than X1 and X2. They've got a good crew working on action sequences and SFX so I'm confident we'll see some impressive stuff in X3 and the money was well spent!
I don't consider people morphing into other people, or cars exploding and flipping over "Special Effects". Those are basic effects that have been done for decades. What Singer should have done was raise the bar in terms of effects. He has an army of mutants to choose from to make movie history, and all he establishes is a character piece of people with problems. It makes you see why Spiderman was by far so much more successful than either X-Men film.
Rami knew how to bring out the real Peter Parker, and he knew how to bring out the real Spiderman. Special effects or not, Rami got an outstanding performance out of Tobey. Everyone is glorifying both X-Men films for Singer's brilliant work, but they really have no merrit to the original material created decades ago. So what if it's modernized to today's standards, so was Spiderman. But at least it paid homage to the original, rather than bring in the most popular characters (Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Kitty, & Rogue). "Johnny-come-latelys", compared to the original team. Who says they couldn't have been introduced in the second film?
Singer could have done the first film like the first comic book, and towards the end, when Magneto was about to be defeated, Magneto could have introduced the Brotherhood, and they kick the crap out of the first X-Team. The second film could have introduced the second wave of X-Men (mentioned above) to assist the first X-Team overpower Magneto's growing Brotherhood. And by the third film, they could have all come together to battle the Sentinels. The first film could start to establish how society felt about the growing population of mutants. The second film could go into what happens when bad mutants get out of control, and the third film could be about coming together to mutually bennefit from each other (say, mutants stopping the Sentinels from tearing the city apart).
And I'm not claiming to be a great writer, but what's so hard about creating a movie to appease the fans, yet come up with a basic storyline that appeals to everyone. Not some "Wolverine Orgins" movie. If people want to find out about him, let them pick up a comic book. I don't need to see that on screen. Part 2 was a complete waste of time and resources. You wait your whole life to see a movie about your favorite mutants, and all you get is a story about a guy with a screwed up past and claws.... What an utter waste, and misrepresentation of who the X-Men are. If Singer had any respect for the X-Men as a whole, he should have known better than to come up with that story.
