Wednesday
14Oct2009
Brett Ratner Bitches About 'X-Men' Fans
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 2:42AM
Brett Ratner took over for Bryan Singer for the third X-Men movie, a film most fans of the series put at the bottom of the list. But The Rat now says that he's responsible for the burgeoning future of the frachise and that people who said he ruined the X-Men movies are hypocrites.
"The most ridiculous statement I've read is - and of course I looked at the internet after the movie came out - that I buried the franchise. If I buried the franchise how the fuck did they make a Wolverine? I mean, that's ridiculous. And they're making three other fucking X-Men movies. Mine kept the franchise alive!"More facts to which Ratner is oblivious: When people say he buried the franchise, they're not talking financially, they're talking artistically. From a fiscal standpoint, X-Men: The Last Stand cost more than the first two movies put together, about $35 million more than The Dark Knight, if you can believe it. Did it make more than the others? Yes, but not appreciably so, particularly when you count profit margins. Also, Fox made a movie about Wolverine because the X-Men series as a whole was really profitable and Hugh Jackman is a big star who wanted to come back and play Wolverine. He also served as a producer. So, it's no mystery why they made a movie about Wolverine. Ratner's movie kept the franchise alive? If only because it left such a sour taste in the mouths of the same people the director seems hellbent on insulting that everyone else involved felt they owed it to audiences to not leave the series in a pile of Ratner's rubble.
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Reader Comments (5)
Ratner is a hack director. He is obviously having delusions of grandeur. Hey ratjerk why dont you go make another Jackie Chan movie!! Loser.
Ratner is going to team up with Uwe Boll for another X-men film, that'll show the fans!
As long as movies like this or Transformers 2 make as much money as they do, it doesn't matter how much the fans complain - the directors will hide behind the dollar signs. A box office disaster is about the only thing that will humble these smug bastards but that will require fans to take a stand and not see the movies.
I HATE brett ratner, he ruined this series
Hey Brett: You drove a really cool boat that someone else built and nearly crashed it into the pier. STFU and go make another Rush Hour movie.
Thanks.