Personally, I haven't come across many people in public who've greatly enjoyed this film.
My friend I saw it with for the midnight showing called it a "storyboard" film, where it was just one thing to the next, with no real connection or translation between scenes.
My other friend who I saw it with on my birthday wasn't a big fan of it. Though I didn't expect much from him. He's not a big X-Men fan period, and wasn't huge on the other 2 movies.
A girl I work with hated it the first time she saw it, though she saw it again and said she warmed up to it.
And I've had other random encounters of people who were disappointed.
And I think that's the general reaction is disappointment. I think everyone knows this movie could have been a lot bigger and better than it was. But somewhere along the line, the epicness of it got lost. Some people just flat out hate it, and I've come across those too.
As for this:
Optic Rage said:
As for the question...it is much easier for people who like this movie to label us whiney fanboys because it makes them feel our claims of a poor movie are silly whiney complaints and the only reason we dont like it because cyclops dies etc etc.
When in fact the movie was just crap...regardless of cyclops...look at all the poor reviews compared to X2&X1
You notice they are never able to argure in favour for x3 and make a good point when someone slags it off...if you dont like it and slate the movie..instead of making a smart point they will label you a whiney fan boy..to make themselves feel better
I've never called anyone a fanboy for not liking this movie (and I know none of this was directed at me), and in fact, the problems with this movie are MAJOR deviations, it's not just "well these are movies, not the comic book" changes. The essence of the characters and stories were changed into something they are not. This isn't Dr. Jean Grey, or Wolverine being an X-Men before Beast and Angel.
But if you want an explanation, I can fire off a list of everything I feel this movie did right, and why I feel that overall, this is a very good movie.
And for an earlier post, I don't care how much non-X-Men fans won't realize was changed, that's no excuse to change it. I've never read a
Lord of the Rings book before, but that didn't stop me from highly enjoying the movies (my favorite movies of all time, even more so than X-Men, and X-Men is my favorite fictional universe ever), as well as giving the
Lord of the Rings fans their dream come true in seeing THEIR favorite universe brought to life.
And the worst part is, keeping Cyclops in a major role WOULDN'T have lost them money! People were gonna see this movie either way! They wouldn't have had a lower opening weekend or anything just because Cyclops was involved the whole way through!
This is a very bittersweet movie. It's very enjoyable, a very good movie, a great addition to the trilogy, but it did so much wrong in the process...