Goldsmith's Two Cents: X-Men 3

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Imagine for a moment that you have at your disposal a nearly unlimited budget with which to make a superhero action movie. Now imagine that one of your main characters is omnipotent and indomitable; her powers allow her to do, quite literally, anything she can imagine. You'd make a pretty sweet movie, don't you think? I know I would. I'd have my almighty demigoddess flying all over the place, creating solar systems with her bare hands, growing armies of mythical creatures to fight by her side, etc.

Well, if you think that's what a Hollywood director would do when presented with this very set of circumstances, you'd be wrong. Instead of showing off the awesome powers of The Phoenix (formerly Jean Grey), director Brett Ratner botched this tremendous opportunity and left me fanaticizing about what could have been one of the coolest moments in superhero-movie history.

If I'd wanted to use my imagination I would have spent that $7 on an old X-Men comic. You blew it, Brett. You blew it.