X-Men 3 good or bad?

[drew70]

Tam, instead of reading the comics, i would suggest just using wikpedia as they tend to have a fairly detailed description of the charactors, and their past.

I don't know. My experience with Wikipedia is that it's about as reliable as lightening.

 

[MrMacphisto]

My perspective, its comments like that which bug me. An example from when i saw X3. Sittin durin the previews,ghost rider came on. Odds are over 50% of the crowd didnt know who or what ghost rider was. Some kid was a few seats from me, his words were "I dont know who that it is but its a marvel, im prob gonna see it." My problem with that is theyre seeing it cuz of the genre, not cuz they got into the characters over years. They are blindly going into a movie simple cuz of the name sponsoring it. Its the same for any novel thats made into movie, the movies butcher the book so much that reading the book is nearly better cuz u get a better picture in your mind and the book supplies more content then the movie could ever do(i commend dreamcatcher tho, it was fluid and almost identical to the book)

So when i was a loyal comic fan from 3rd grade till freshman of college, reading these stories every day of my life, then seeing them put on screen, not being what theyre supposed to be and changed because the "non fans" want action and suspense, well that bothers me, because it is killing what something origionally was.

Don't mean to bug ya, but when I go to see a movie, I just want something that's satisfying with regards to action and acting. For a movie of this genre, X3 seemed pretty good to me. I realize you might be very familiar with the stories behind the movies, but honestly, what matters from a studio's perspective is whether the movie is good enough to appeal to a wide audience. Considering its sales so far, X3 has done pretty well. Granted, it hasn't stayed at the top of the box office as long as X2 did.

When something like a comic book is translated into a movie, you can't possibly cram all the storyline of a comic series into 2 or 3 hours, so you pick and choose as a screenwriter. Once again, I don't know how far off from the original stories this movie was, but it seemed pretty coherent within the context of the movie series. That's all I was really asking for.

Let me put this in perspective. Harry Potter fans bash the Prisoner of Azkaban, but movie critics generally loved it. It left out a ton of story in the movie version, but the style of the movie was enough to keep people like myself interested in watching it. Considering the adamant following that comic book and literary movies often have from the original stories, it is important to remain somewhat close to the source material, but then again, movies can even improve upon what the original stories were like....

Take Batman Begins, for example. I'm not that familiar with the original Batman comics, but I'm pretty sure that Christopher Nolan took a lot of poetic license with Batman's backstory. Nevertheless, it was a good movie. X3 strikes me as the same, albeit nowhere near as good as Batman Begins....

 

[MrMacphisto]

I guess money really does talk. These people have no loyalty to the people that MADE there product what it is.

Kust

Probably not... but do you honestly expect them to? The film industry is like any other big business. The bottom line is the ultimate concern. Then again, many comic writers (like Alan Moore) are famously pretentious pricks. It's no wonder that many studios distance themselves from many comic writers (or even the materials themselves). Oftentimes, a storyline in a book or comic is not very well-suited for a movie, so screenwriters alter things. Film generally aims at a very different audience than print.

 

[Limeoutsider]

See in the comic books, if I remember correctly, the "cure" didnt actually work but made their abilities stronger? Im thinking that theyre saying its the last full xmen movie but they left it too wide open for it to be....I honestly thought after seeing it the first time that in the next movie theyre going to kill Iceman because he and Rogue are going to be on a date and her "cure" is going to wear off at an inopportune time....anyway I cant wait for the Magento and Wolverine movies