Brett Ratner Offers Heated Response To X-MEN: THE LAST STAND Haters
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- By Venkman
The douchiest director in Hollywood, Brett Ratner, doesn’t like that his X-Men: The Last Stand film is getting trashed on by comic book fans, and movie geeks. I admit it, I hated X-Men: The Last Stand and still feel that he ruined the franchise. To this response Ratner takes a last stand of his own, and has an issue with the idea that he killed the X-Men film franchise.
If I buried the franchise how the f— did they make a ‘Wolverine’? I mean, that’s ridiculous. And they’re making three other f—ing ‘X-Men’ movies. Mine kept the franchise alive!
Bull crap you Hollywood whore! I call shenanigans! The three films are proof you killed the X-Men franchise, you fail to realize the the films are a reboot of the franchise, which you did in fact destroy. Had you kept the “franchise alive,” we would have seen a X-Men Part 4, but guess what? We didn’t. Fox is now rebooting the X-Men franchise with origin stories and possibly an X-Men: First Class film, which is also a reboot. Fox NEEDS to keep making X-Men films or they will lose the property. We just all happen to notice they decided to go into a different direction of where you wanted to take the franchise. Plus, I serious doubt Fox will come to you and ask you to direct any more X-Men films. Why? Because you ruined it! Ratner continued saying:
You can’t make these people happy. I’m kind of the anti-Christ to these comic book geeks. Every single person that wrote s— went to see that movie multiple times because a movie doesn’t gross [$200 something million] unless people go to see it more than once.
These people? What do you mean by “These” people? Now he’s racist against movie and comic book geeks. He says you can’t make these people happy? I’m sorry to burst your bubble Rat, but we were all happy with the first two X-Men films. We were happy with the last two Batman films, we were happy with Iron Man and will most likely be happy with the sequel. We were happy with the first two Spider-Man films as well, so how in the hell can you come in and say, “you can’t make these people happy.” We can just tell a good film from a bad film. At least Sam Raimi is man enough to come out and admit that Spider-Man 3 wasn’t his best film–that he wasn’t happy with it, and that it could’ve been better.
You still think you made a good movie? We all got in line in hopes that it would be as good as the first two films. Bryan Singer set the standard the market was already built in, and guess what? I didn’t see it a second time. Then he says:
Every single person who said, ‘I’m never seeing that movie,’ they were the first ones there,”What are they concerned about? It’s out of the filmmaker’s hands. A film is a collaborative effort. How’s a person sitting at home going to worry about how a movie is going to turn out to be?
We just all want to see an awesome movie with all of our favorite comic book characters, which you didn’t deliver for most X-Men fans. As for the film being a collaborative effort, I understand that, but if you had better ideas than what the studio was offering then you should’ve fought for your vision like most great directors do. If you didn’t have any good ideas and you did everything that the studio told you to do, then you’re a tool that lacks imagination. Either way, the fate of the film falls on your shoulders. You have no excuses! In the end, Ratner did indeed kill the X-Men franchise that Fox had rolling. By the way, don’t expect any love from the geek community for your new Youngblood movie. You’ve lost any hope of gaining any respect from “these people” after this little attack you made on the fanboy/fangirl community.
What are your thoughts on the words of Brett Ratner?
Source: digitalspy
What a jackass. He definitely ruined the franchise with Last Stand; I don't care how he wants to justify otherwise.
It was crap. And so is he. Stick to making Rush Hour movies. "If I buried the franchise how the f— did they make a Wolverine?" I guess his piece of sh*t was the inspiration for another one.
Haha. X-Men 3 was the ONLY movie I have ever been to where the entire theater BOOED at the end (and in the middle, and at the I'm the Juggernaut bitch part). I dont care if it made a billion dollars, it fuckin sucked, Brett Ratner fuckin sucks, and no one asked him to come back (meaning he FAILED). He saved the franchise from being halfway decent, if anything. I may be a comic book geek according to Fatner, but at least I'm not a giant hollywood douche.
I think I'll send Brett here an invitation letter to They Ruin It Productions.
No I don't blame Ratner for ruining the franchise. Yes, there were several people working on that movie. The writers could have done something about it. The actors could've done something about it. The producers could've definitely done something about it. Nobody did because…. I have no idea why actually. I have no idea why they allowed the movie to degrade like that. Maybe because they figured it would make money regardless and yet you are right. The franchise is getting a reboot. Ultimately nobody did anything about it because they wouldn't get the blame should the movie turn out terrible.
Brett Ratner received that honor. Which is silly, he does have a point. It was a collaborative effort, but he also needs to acknowledge it's a bad freaking movie and he did have A HAND in the end result. Maybe he's not solely responsible, but blaming fans for not accepting a crappy movie is definitely not justified.
he ended the xmen franchise, he knows that, if the xmen franchise still alive, why isn't he filming xmen4? and by the way Wolverine movie really suck
brett ratner is an egotistical bafoon
I would never watch a movie that this jackass is involved in seriously. This a-hole single handley managed to destroy the X-men franchise.
It wasn't great, but people forget he was last minute replacement for Brian Singer who pulled out to put out the stinkbomb that positively ended the Donner/Reeve/Superman franchise. Brian should've stuck to what he can do best, X-movies. Now with Siegel and Schuster estate taking partial control of the Superman franchise, WB cannot do reboots with the original Superman story intact.
He destroyed X-Men, absolutely destroyed. I didn't hate him as a filmmaker before that. Now, he's up there with Uwe Boll for me.
He made the worst one, not that the first X-Men was all that great, but 2 was KICK ASS.
douche. bag.
faaaaaail on ratner's part. complete and utter douchebag.
Not all franchise can be James Bond. Then again, even Bond had it's ups and downs. Ratner and company did a good job with Xmen 3, usually at movie 3, the general public and movie goers are bored or tired of the franchise, Superman3, Batman forever, Blade3, Spiderman3.
For Xmen 3, kill half the cast and start anew with a new Xmen movie, new characters, new adventures, new direction, etc. Check out Astonishing Xmen with Emma Frost driving the Xteam nuts, …Now that should be in Xmen4.
Like most other Hollywood androids (and I'm speaking only about the androids themselves, not the real artists and filmmakers), Brett Ratner lives in his own little world where he is the greatest. That anyone should challenge that vision of himself is immediately derided and cast off, all the while complaining of his imagined persecution. Well, you know what? I went to see Last Stand. Once. That's it. I didn't like it, but I gave him sympathy because he came on to the project very late in its production to make any sort of difference. He got stuck with all the crap and that sucks. But instead of making his case that way, he chose to insult our intelligence and say that we don't like the film because we're hard to please douchebags? Not to mention hypocrites, apparently. Well, Mr. Ratner, to that I say a big SCREW YOU and good luck getting any of us to see any of your movies. In this business you need to learn to take criticism, both the constructive and the destructive. The fact that he takes it so personally and lashes out against us just proves he's a whiny little bitch who is not worthy of our notice.
Ha ha ha ha ha! I love it!
Ooooh Uwe Boll. Another bloke who is in the list of Directors who should not be working and I'm sure just signed up for the We Ruin It Productions. LOL!
ok seriously, whats with all the old news? this is not the first time i've read something on here that i read months ago on other sites.
Well I had a comment or two, but you know? Why bother? It's sounds like Ratner's so entrenched in his own self-delusional take on this, he'd never see it more than more unreasonable "hated" against his masterpiece.
Bottom line is all the ranting and raving in the world isn't going to change anything (if so Rogan and his Green Hornet Debacle would have long since vanished into the pits of hell). The Almighty Dollar, however will.
Let do the only thing we really can, the next time you have a choice between paying 12 buck to see a Ratner film, or 12 bucks seeing anything else… don't be a sheep and follow your favorite characters to watch them die in some horribly gruesome hack-job of a film, or go see it to "give it a chance." or even see it "just to prove how bad it was… just go see something else. If the Box Office is horrible, you can bet Ratner won't be hired for the next one.
Too easy, right?
((PS a hand written letter to the distribution company, making a short, to-the-point, and polite statement saying "I will not attend "Movie X" for the following reasons: *fill in the blank* is always a nice touch… the less douchey you come across, then better the chance of someone actually caring what you have to say. a hundred-thousand or so of letter like this and see how fast things change))
So then stick to the other sites
Brett ratner messed the whole pheniox thing up big time, she was more like a evil harpy from hell then what she is supposed to be,
I don't love Ratner, but I was APPALLED at the way he handled major character moments in X3. Just glossed right over the deaths of a few of the most important characters in the entire canon of X-Men like they were afterthoughts. It had its moments, but not very many of them.
To lay all the blame on him isn't accurate though– the writing was feeble too, and some of the casting in this franchise is total crap. Storm, Jean, and Rogue's casting just doesn't work. They're all okay actors, in fact, I really like Famke Janessen, but she's not Jean.
But Ratner is pretty out of touch with the fans. His response just shows how very little he cares about the characters and the history of the X-Men.