PowersOfMind said:
But why is that going to far with artistic license? X3 falls in line with what X1 and X2 set up.
No, it didn't. X1 and X2 had their own storylines, so plot-wise, nobody was really expecting an adaptation of
anything. Well, except if they were doing Wolverine's past like in X2, there should be some Weapon X elements in it, which there were. And character-wise, X1 and X2 did a fantastic job with the character adaptation.
Wolverine was basically comicbook Wolverine. Same goes for Magneto, Xavier, Jean, Scott, etc. (but Storm, meh).
Just for example, X2 was more a Weapon X story than anything else. It was Wolverine's story, and he got the spotlight. Fine with everyone, stayed true to the constraints to artistic license in a Weapon X story. Weapon X should be about Wolverine.
But in X3, this formula was abandoned. They tried a small Phoenix side-plot, but they just ended up glorifying Wolverine, without any real good reason to do so plot-wise. the impression I got was that rather than "adapting" the Phoenix story to the plot, they
changed it to
fit the plot. And that's an important difference, and where they went too far with their artistic license.
XCharlieX said:
So you enjoyed the film, ok. Im just seriously baffled when people , maybe not you, go on and on about directors rights to alter things and then hate the film and then start writing their own weird version of the film when thats the entire nature of movies. One cant overrun movies just because comics are their lord...thats absolutely cartoonishly ridiculous. thats all im saying. People still left bashing x3 because some comic detail was altered really need to move on. And its absolutely rampant here... who complains about some firebird effect... really
Yeah, I agree with you - some people just want to turn things into their own fanfic. But on some things, like X3's adaptation of the Phoenix story, I somewhat agree with them. Just a matter of opinion I suppose.