Brett Ratner is tired of all you jackasses ragging on “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the third and so-far last installment of the “X-Men” series.
“If I buried the franchise how the fuck did they make a ‘Wolverine’?” Ratner asked MTV in exasperation. “I mean, that’s ridiculous. And they’re making three other fucking ‘X-Men’ movies. Mine kept the franchise alive!”
He may have a point and does have the math on his side, “X2: X-Men United,” grossed $407 million worldwide while ‘Last Stand’ amassed $459 million worldwide. The difference also being ‘X2,’ directed by Bryan Singer is actually a very compelling and engaging super-hero movie and cost $110 million to make. Ratner’s film cost over $200 million to make and as of the quality… apparently it’s just never good enough for the geeks.
“You can’t make these people happy,” he said. “I’m kind of the anti-Christ to these comic book geeks. Every single person that wrote shit went to see that [‘X3’] multiple times because a movie doesn’t gross [$200 something million] unless people go to see it more than once.”
Dear Brett, we honestly don’t know anyone who paid to see that, but some people obviously did, we won’t deny that. Ratner does have one mutant-related achievement under his belt: making an ‘X-Men’ movie that was actually better than “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” though that’s not exactly difficult.
On that note, we’re happy to report that Ratner’s segment in the already-mediocre, “New York, I Love You,” is terrible and easily the most ham-fisted entry of them all. Good work, Brett. Up next for Ratner is probably “Beverly Hills Cop 4,” though he also has a DeLorean biopic, potentially a “Conan The Barbarian” remake (or did he drop out of that already?) and a biopic about Hugh Hefner in the works.