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"Ok Noeland, I see what you mean about the future being uncertain. \n  \n\nI loved X3 and stand by that despite the general [purist] consensus. \n  \n\nA small percentage of people, specifically the purists, despised X-Men: The Last Stand. The ultimate slap in the face to that small percentage was being pointed out a small percentage as X3 brought in $234 Million making it the 5th highest grossing Marvel film, 4th highest grossing film of 2006 and the 7th highest grossing comic book movie of all time. \n  \n\nTim Bradstreet dropped his thoughts on X3 in the SUNSHINE thread, they clearly show he's part of that small percentage... \n  \n\n\"I can't get on any kind of X3 bandwagon either. Aside from the characters I already love from the first two there was nothing there. It felt like entire chunks of that film were missing, and it seemed badly edited. And a few good lines don't rescue something that doesn't hold a candle to the previous films. It looks great, granted. And Brett Ratner may be a player, but directing Rush Hour shouldn't hand this guy instant credibility. Red Dragon paled in comparison to Manhunter, Silence Of The Lambs, and even the not so universally accepted Hannibal. And it BOASTED the acting talents of Hopkins, Norton, and Ralph Fiennes. I did enjoy After The Sunset but only because it was a fun little romp that didn't pretend to be something it wasn't. Brosnan, Hayek, Harrelson, and Cheadle are simply fun to watch. Ratner just seems to me to be a guy that can get the job done on budget and play the studio game. I don't hate him personally or anything, and I'd love to see him prove me wrong and do something genuinely good. X3 ain't it. All I'm saying here is that just because the characters we love are up there on screen, played by actors we enjoy, it shouldn't mean we have to like it if the rest of the thing falls flat. To me it's definitely more disappointing when you have all that in place and it still doesn't work. We should demand more if Hollywood is going to continue to pump out sequels and remakes. Just because we are a fan of the first or second film, it shouldn't give a studio license to phone it in. We pay for it cause we gotta know. We're suckers. But if it doesn't cut the mustard then stop supporting it on DVD or otherwise. Because THEN the formula works, and Hollywood will say, hey, we know Fantastic Four, or X3, or Ghost Rider was a joke, but consumers are buying the DVDs in DROVES. We made an assload of money on this stuff so we totally have a market for even substandard crud! This is a big reason why Hollywood LOVES us comics fans. Sure, a lot of the material is unmined (that's the positive), but we're also fucking MARKS, because bad taste knows no bounds. And man oh man are we good for opening weekend box office. And right now? Opening a film has become EVERYTHING to the bean counters.\" \n  \n\nWhat I say to the general purist criticism towards X3 is, \"If its so bad, why is it I pop it into the DVD player more than the other two?\" \n  \n\nI feel the negativity towards the film comes from areas with no real argument against it. Its clearly the most dramatic of the trilogy and also contains the most action. It builds from a story Singer set up during the first film and its bold and grounded enough to have casualties. The acts of heroism in X3 are amazing and the impending sense of doom spread out throughout the entire film culminates perfectly through Ratner's execution. \n  \n\n-TL "
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