It seems like when all superhero comic book movie trailers first come out, I think to myself, "I'll never see that."
But then the movie comes out and I can't wait. Like last years Batman Begins, and the last Spiderman movie, and this past weekend with the new X-Men movie, and even for next month's Superman movie (the new Superman trailer that was shown before X-Men was spectacular). However, I don't think I'm that excited about Ghost Rider with Nicholas Cage and never will be.
Going into the new X-Men movie, I was really skeptical. I read that MSN Movies gave it a 1.5 star out of 5. That's harsh. But most of the criticism I read was about the director (Brett Ratner) and how he can't do action movies. But wasn't he the guy that directed both Rush Hour movies?
With that said, I really enjoyed this movie. It felt a lot like the Rush Hour movies actually... a lot of action sequences mixed in with humor. As I was leaving the theater, I realized it was a pretty short movie, and I remember saying, "That was really efficient." There was a ton of action and not that much dialogue. There were some cheesy lines in there, but all of the X-Men movies have had that, so I don't blame this director.
I can see why hard core fans of the comic books would be upset. There are so many characters in the X-Men series that it's impossible to give every one of them a lot of face time. And forget character development. The only "new" character to really be given a back story was the guy with wings (Angel I think it was). And that was about 2 minutes worth.
Still, I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I did NOT enjoy X2 - X-Men United when I saw that in the theater. I was soooo bored. I think most people just want a lot of action in their superhero movies, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense. So maybe a change of directors was necessary, at least from my perspective.
