All this hate for Bryan Singer is bizarre. We wouldn't have the blockbuster film franchise if it wasn't for his experts efforts in launching it. So he left X-Men 3 and crossed the street; he's back now.
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X-Men 1 was meh and 2 was "okay". Marsden brought nothing to the Cyclops role and Halle Berry brought nothing to the Storm role.
The last above average film Singer personally directed was Valkyrie, and before that was the usual suspects...13 years prior.
Not really sure why people would have faith in him to begin with.
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I actually felt like we'd turned a corner with Vaughn. Here we had a director that could balance the mutant angle and yet still make the movie exciting, something that I felt Singer didn't really achieve.
He never captured the significant level of what us fans of the comic wanted in an X-men film in the first place.
He lacks the vision and imagination readers have witnessed in the comic medium.
For an example the 90's X-men animated series represented the lives of the X-men perfectly. Even though the animation and action scenes were sub-par.
The show was brave enough to force the audience to witness the lives and drama and power levels of these heroes and villains on an extreme level, and it worked.
The films downgraded the whole execution. And suffered as a result.
I have to say that I appreciated Singer's efforts in the first two films. When the first film came out I was around 8 years old and I loved his darker and more realistic interpretation of the film. It was something.. "different." That being said, I do believe that an X-Men film can be made of the caliber of Avengers or even DC's Batman resurgence. There are so many layers and plots and characters to play with. I wouldn't mind seeing another director step in to bring fresh vision to the series.
Oh ****, he's going all bad 90's on this movie? Who cares about Bishop and Cable. This movie needs Rachel Summers.
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