Brett Ratner is tired of all you jackasses ragging on “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the third and so-far last installment of the “X-Men” series.
“If I buried the franchise how the fuck did they make a ‘Wolverine’?” Ratner asked MTV in exasperation. “I mean, that’s ridiculous. And they’re making three other fucking ‘X-Men’ movies. Mine kept the franchise alive!”
He may have a point and does have the math on his side, “X2: X-Men United,” grossed $407 million worldwide while ‘Last Stand’ amassed $459 million worldwide. The difference also being ‘X2,’ directed by Bryan Singer is actually a very compelling and engaging super-hero movie and cost $110 million to make. Ratner’s film cost over $200 million to make and as of the quality… apparently it’s just never good enough for the geeks.
“You can’t make these people happy,” he said. “I’m kind of the anti-Christ to these comic book geeks. Every single person that wrote shit went to see that [‘X3’] multiple times because a movie doesn’t gross [$200 something million] unless people go to see it more than once.”
Dear Brett, we honestly don’t know anyone who paid to see that, but some people obviously did, we won’t deny that. Ratner does have one mutant-related achievement under his belt: making an ‘X-Men’ movie that was actually better than “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” though that’s not exactly difficult.
On that note, we’re happy to report that Ratner’s segment in the already-mediocre, “New York, I Love You,” is terrible and easily the most ham-fisted entry of them all. Good work, Brett. Up next for Ratner is probably “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” though he also has a DeLorean biopic, potentially a “Conan The Barbarian” remake (or did he drop out of that already?) and a biopic about Hugh Hefner in the works.
Don't forget the comic adaptation Youngblood, a despised macho nineties comic with big muscles and big tits. A poor man's X-men. But seeing as he still holds a fanboy grudge (4 years later, who is actually still talking about X3??) this might not happen.
X 2 was definitely one of the better superhero flicks. X 3 was….possibly not even one of the better Brett Ratner flicks.
Yeah X2 was great, fully agreed.
Hilariously, Ratner's section in "New York, I Love You" is the best one. That movie ate it.
Oof, forget it. that movie did eat it. And Ratner's was directed like a gradeschooler.
Marcus Nispel is on Conan now. And Ratner's "You can't please any of them" stance won't win him any new fans. This guy needs a dose of humility. Credit where credit's due, though- he was only ONE of X3's billion problems.
The reason so many people went to see X-3 is because X-2 was awesome. People didn't know that X-3 sucked when they bought the ticket, as they hadn't seen it yet. They went in hoping it was as good as the last one. Too bad it wasn't. He owes the success of that movie to X-2. To say differently just makes him more of an ass. And then look at Wolverine– nobody went to see that. Why not? Because the X-men movie before it sucked. Brett Ratner can eat a dick.
There is nothing more pityful than an overreacting lying blogger. First of all, Ratner has the chopes and his directing of X3 was more than adequate consindering the script.
Second, his segment of NYILY was arguably the best one. You are an idiot. So shut up.
Ratner has neither "chops" nor "chopes." Either claim would be outlandish. Particularly the "chops."
^haha. "Pete" is evidently Ratner's Blogger handle. Seriously if you're defending Ratner, why the fuck are you visiting this site? Go post on MTVMovieBlog or wherever they celebrate commercial crap on the web. Even Harry Knowles idiot cronies hate Ratner.