2006 - X MEN THE LAST STAND is the future of movies

The future of movies will not be pretty because it's X Men The Last Stand.

 

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is "the" summer family movie this year, more so than Pixar's Up. Concurrently all of the "adult" type films released in the last couple of month have flopped. In tough financial straits, Hollywood is looking for the golden goose. Hollywood thinks they have found it with Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. 

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is just another version of X Men The Last Stand. 

 

 
Released in 2006 as part of the X Men trilogy. 20th Century Fox sold it as a wrap up of the story arc. The truth was that cheapskate studio Fox was no longer interested in paying the large salaries of the big cast. Bryan Singer had directed the first two films and had done a decent job but Singer left the franchise to direct Superman Returns,  which as it turned out didn't really work out all that well for him. Faced with a summer 2006 release date, the studio turned to legendary hack director Brett Ratner to take over the direction of the third film and get this sucker into the theaters in time. Fanboys, X Men comic book readers, and science fiction nerds whined that the untalented Ratner would ruin the conclusion of the series. They were right the finished movie was very lame but it also made a lot of money.
 

  

But Brett Ratner wasn't to blame for the movie. The truth was that Ratner never really directed the movie, the special effects department did. Every five minutes of the film had some sort of special effects sequence. As the movie went on, the effects just got more and more over the top. The actors were basically props for the ever increasing explosions, laser blasts and flying thru the air crap that ran throughout the film. In the end what the audience was left with was a movie full of pretty people stuck in some ridiculous action sequences. 

 

With an over engineered sound track and a lot of computer simulated explosions, the exhausted viewer probably returned home to medicate themselves with lots of alcohol to calm their nerves.  The success of this film and the horrible Spiderman 3 revealed the future of movies.   It would be lots of crappy cartoonish films coming at the audience in the years to come.

 

As if the movie wasn't annoying enough, X Men The Last Stand featured Ellen Page the grating star of Juno. Apparently the special effects department decided not to blow her up.  

 104 minutes, (BOOM).