So dark the con of this movie - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

My God, my God. I am so, so, so disappointed. If Hollywood wonders why it's loosing money these days, X-Men: The Last Stand is one very good reason. First, I am a life long X-Men fan. Second, I am a college educated, at one time militant, African American. That means I relate to the X-Men story in ways people who are not like me can't understand. Being born a mutant in the community majority's eyes. Of course I know what it feels like to be viewed as "different." Of course I know what it feels like to have your view of the world dismissed as 'mutant'. I was born with it, like the X-Men. I speak from deep, psychological regions when I say I relate to the whole X-Men story line. So, to me, this movie, and the first two movies are profoundly important in ways that I can't put into words. Before you start saying I'm taking this way to seriously, remember, "Birth of A Nation" still has an impact on American movie making and Hollywood stereotypes today. Now to the movie. ***Spoiler Alert*** First, Cyclops getting killed off in the first 10 minutes of the movie is just plain wrong. It's obvious the movie's pollsters asked fans who should go? Wolverine or Cyclops. Take the red eye. And correct me if I'm wrong, here, but did Prof X call Dark Phoenix "Raven" at one point? Who is that? While I'm on that subject, why did Ratner (the Director) make her look like some anorexic demon-possessed bird when she flared up? And why was she made to be so important anyway when in the comic she killed herself. This was incredibly dumb, insulting, etc. It seems the producers said in a smoke filled room: "No one really reads that comic anyway. Who cares what they think. Most fans don't know ***** about the story so let's make it sexy." For some reason, assasination comes to my mind right now. But let me digress. As for the story itself, if they wanted to, the mutants could easily wipe out mankind. That's never a question; The question of should they and how would the world go on without the delicate balance is the foundation of the coexistence in the comic. The movie really played up the Us Against Them angle when, if it were all real, it wouldn't be that way at all. It would be Us killed by Them, quite easily. The movie is an abomination in the eyes of real X-Men fans and I have to believe the major reviewers are getting some kind of payoloa to promote this waste of time. So much expository was just a bore. So much of it was all on the nose that it seemed like an amateur script writer and director put it together... not the brilliant mind of someone who would direct "The Usual Suspects." The whole Golden Gate Bridge thing was obvious superfluous C.G. and distasteful considering the number of innocent people who had to have died. (I know it's movie making, but writers of good movies have respect for life, fiction, fantasy or not. It's like blowing up the entire planet... that's not cool, man.) There's so much to say about this movie, but I'm getting angry thinking about the movie to write this review. So, let me end by saying this plain and simple. This movie sucked. Bad. With teeth!!!