A letter for Avi Arid on My Marvel movies are
Okay I've never blogged b4 so I just tried getting into the first blog I could. This is just a letter that I hope gets to Mr. Avi Arid from a very frustrated Marvel fan and movie fan.


I could give you so many reasons why you shouldn't do X-Men 4. Reasons, that to this day, I can not comprehend how you guys let happen. But I will give you just 2 very definitive reasons that alone should be enough, Brett Ratner and Bryan Singer.

First I'll start with Bryan Singer. Although he improved on the series with X-Men 2 (which I thought was the best) he still lacks the vision and talent or even the Marvel Universe knowledge, to which he made a mess of it, with the first movie. His portrayals of the X-MEN characters felt so watered down, it was hard to imagine how they have endured on comic books for so long. They were one dimensional and lack any depth and this almost remains true even in the 3rd movie. The changes in storylines for each character are unforgivable to any true Marvel fan. For example Pyros’ character, why make him an integral part of the movie story line? He is not being used correctly at all. His "manipulation powers" of fire, seems only to be just stretching a big flame, rather then truly manipulating it into forms or other creatures the way he did in the books or even the early 90's animated show. No way should his character have been allowed to grow into someone so threatening and as a "rival" to Iceman when there are better and far more interesting characters out there.
Rouge is another character that I'm sure must be frustrating the hell out of every Marvel fans out there. This insistence by you people not to let her have her other inherited powers is ridiculous. It seems obvious to me the reasoning for this was that no one could come up with a way to show how she took them from Mrs. Marvel. Cause then it wouldn't fit into the storylines used in the movies.

Brett Ratners X-Men 3 was appalling. It is incomprehensible to me how you people are destroying the X-Men franchise. A franchise that needed no tweaking or changing to fit the non-fan base audience. Yet it was done so consistently it felt like a stew made with the first few ingredients you could pick off the shelf. Case in point Juggernaut, how and why was his relation to Xavier not mentioned??? Not only that but the assumption made by Ratner that his powers are Mutant to fit the movie plot with the boy was unforgivable. Nor was the mention of the true purpose of his helmet. It was instead just hinted to with that stupid lame joke of "Nice Helmet"...."it keeps me pretty" bantering he does with Pyro. I cannot tell you how incensed I became when Juggernaut simply waltzed right by Xavier without so much a glimpse when they were in Jean Grey's home. Angel's character was so poorly done and laughable it was almost asking why he was even introduced. And again it seems to me he was just thrown in there to fit the plot of the movie. I'm not even going to get into the stupidity of the level 5 mutant nonsense. This then brings me to Callisto. Nothing at all was mentioned of her being the leader of the Morlocks or no mention of the Morlocks themselves. And the “Blowfish” character? Seriously, you guys couldn’t do better then that? This constant changing of storylines to fit the movie is outrageous. You cannot have something more perfectly set up for to make a movie from. All you people need to do is turn on the cameras!

It’s so disappointing that for years Marvel comic fans clamored for a movie based on their heroes and for years many people thought that it wouldn’t be a good idea. Now that we are getting flooded with movies based on the Marvel universe it is apparent that it’s solely being done for the profit of the industry. To milk as much money off the characters as you can. Kind of like how we are milking the planet of all the oil we can find without and consequence to the future. And by that I mean sure, you guys are making a profit now but what happens when the fans get tired of all these bad movies later on? How much longer do you think we will keep paying money at the theaters for bad movies like Ghost Rider? Again another movie so poorly done and so perfectly setup it’s hard to imagine how easily you guys screwed it up yet again. I’m not going to get into it but wow, that was some of the WORST and lamest villains ever. Who approved the “Wind” demon villain anyway??? Did that person actually ever read a comic book? Or did he just pick the first old issue of Ghost Rider he could find as a reference??

I’m sure Spider-Man 3 will be a huge hit. But come on people, you couldn’t even give us the Venom Costume??? How hard was that?? I guess my main point for all of this is people read comic books as a form of escapism. It nurtures our imagination. It gets our creative juices going. And when all that is happening we take a sec to tell ourselves....”wow wouldn’t this issue be cool to see in a movie? Or “wow this story line in X-Men would make a great movie”. And when all is said and done and when we do finally get to see one of our heroes on the silver screen, it’s nothing like what we’ve ever read. It’s nothing like we’ve ever imagined it would be. Instead we get something completely different and unimaginative. Because to me the “Venom” costume in Spider-Man 3 simply looks like they filmed the guy in the same costume and then the special effects people took over and simply took out the coloring.

It doesn’t take a NYU film student to make a movie based on the Marvel Universe. It simply takes a fan of the Marvel Universe who knows it and knows that Juggernaut would kill Professor X on the spot rather then just walk right by him.



A Very Frustrated Fan

Juan F. Espejo

JEdeBKLYN25@aol.com


Posted by jedebklyn on 2007-04-30 09:49:30
as everybody know, very frustrated too...
In an interview, Neil Gaiman answered, besides all the success he got with his run onto "SaNdman ", and very respectful for his readers too, Mr Gaiman answered that " one moment or another, the comic-book fans should let the comic book where he is and go outside, find a girl friend ". I think it's pretty true.
I hadn't seen X-Men 3 yet, despite all the respect I got for Synger, I don't know if it was the moment to begin with "Dark Phoenix saga ", maybe we ( or spectators ) need some time to know the character a little more before change them.As I saw it , the X-Men are ready to be a movie-theatre institution like Star Trek, and my incredible optimism tends to think that the better is to come, now we're ready for one or two trilogy with the best story-arcs of X-Men now that the whole X-Universe had take place.
I understand perfectly your anger, Daredevil or Ghost Rider are ones of my favourites characters and at first time , I'm not sure that I really appreciate Matt and Elektra 'singing in the rain session, but it is clear that the producers couldn't begin with the " born again "
story arc, as comic-books, movies tends to grow-up with us.
I'm waiting for the next Daredevils, like the next X-Men, like the future Doctor Strange or Iron Fist.
You know, sometimes the movie -makers are less mature than you are.

Posted by notapotatoe on 2007-04-30 13:19:17