Marvelywood

I just came back from cinema and I saw X-men3-The last Stand. For people that know me; even those that know me remotely, know that I am into comics big time. I grew up reading most of Marvel's comic books and (even though fewer than Marvel) a number of DC comics books as well.
And like most comic book fans I enjoyed and loved such series like Spiderman, The Hulk (which happens to be my favorite character till date), Thor, The Avengers and The X-men etc.

When I decided to write this blog I knew there was a big risk of sounding like a fretful type fan because I know for a fact that most fans complaints are in vain, because most times the fans take the books too bloody serious and hate any single deviation from the comic books they grew up on, which ends up making them look like losers with nothing better to do. Also the men in charge don't really give two kuso simply because their making their money.

With all that said, can you really blame most of them? Everyday people complain about the government and how blah blah leader was better than blah blah blah (I apologies for the blahs but my knowledge and interest in politics are extremely and embarrassingly poor) and even though to some people politics is much more important compared to comics to me it all boils down to interests. So seeing comic book fans complain about the adaptation of their favorite comics to terrible, trite, cheesy, unoriginal, shallow, idiotic and childish films and I can honestly say that it is usually justifiable bitching.

so here goes my justifiable bitching.

One reason why I got into comics was that it was always a good source for originality and totally out of the circle of thinking kuso. I mean where else would you get to read about a guy with a Jekyll/Hyde syndrome whose Hyde was a raging green bashing smashing machine? The action were superb, the stories fantastic and the characters (which was the most important thing) wondrous. Then comes in Hollywood, who always manage to fuck such things that should be left alone up. I know there seems to be a trend to diss Hollywood and I wanna remove myself from the trend by stating I love Hollywood for bringing out some of my favorite films ever, but I guess its like a person that saved your life but wants to fuck you..A sign of your appreciation. So even with all the shit I'm gonna talk about Hollywood I guess I still love it cos I know there's good in there, you just have to look hard.

X-men3, directed by Brett Ratner whose famous for directing Rush Hour 1 & 2, took the directional reigns for the third installment of the X-men series. When this film was still in production I read that Ratner left the Superman Returns for this and took most of the staff with him. Bryan Singer who did the first two X-men films went on to direct Superman Returns (lets see how that one turns out) it was said that Ratner is a actually a comic fan, after seeing this book I'm pretty sure the guy has never come in contact with a comic book let alone read a X-men comic.

I really do try and see the good points in films even when their bad, but truthfully I couldn't find much that was good in this. So much was wrong and not the fact that it in no way had anything to do with the comic book but because it was such a terrible film to watch.

Ratner do you know why people liked wolverine so much? I don't think you do, its simply because he's always been the underdog, like most comic book readers that are nerds, geeks and other fellow losers they have always loved him because he was different to the other members. He wasn't handsome like Cyclops,he wasn't as cool as Gambit, his powers weren't even great compared to the rest of the members, he smoked and he was mostly the prick, I remember him being the only X-men back then that they said killed, the guy just wasn't a proper superhero compared to the rest of them....Wolverine was more like a stubborn kid in the midst of proper super heroes and that's why a lot of people liked him. But it seems like Ratner doesn't know this and then gets it into his head to make Wolverine the main guy, the guy that gets the girl, the guy that gives advice, the guy that does things his way and doesn't care much about team work at all.
The portrayal of Wolverine in this film is retarded to the extent I actually ended up hating one my fav comic characters.

There was so much wrong with this film, the obvious things like them killing off Cyclops so bloody early, not giving Angel enough screen time, letting Vinnie Jones speak, making Pyro to be some sort of Fabian Cortez (look him up if you don't know who he is), the stupid part with Jean Grey trying to kill wolverine but not being able to (his healing powers aint that great, she would kill him in a second) most of this I could forgive but I will never forgive them for making Jean Grey, Wolverine's love interest, acting like she cares for him more than Cyclops. They actually managed to make Cyclops the underdog and I wanted him to be the main character....I kept expecting him to come back somehow.

Suprisngly the only character worth watching in this whole film was Storm. There really wasn't anything in this film that did justice to the comics that many of us grew up on, for that fact I implore all of you to boycott it.

They might as well have called this film Wolverine and others.

I think the saddest thing I felt after watching this film was the fact that Marvel is now run by unoriginal, greedy, twats that are getting it up the ass by Hollywood (which was the reason I choose the title MarvelyWood...Get it wood as in cock? I made a funny) so we're going to be seeing many more of terrible and idiotic adaptations of comic books into films.