“Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left with tentpole potential.  It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted (‘Youngblood’).”

First, about X-3:  I've been thinking along those same lines, that the blame does go to the writer(s) of that movie, not just the director.  However, Ratner should have realized, like you said, that killing off so many important and beloved characters was a big mistake--unless there is a plan to "resurrect" them.   It happens in comics all the time. 

Back to Youngblood.  Hmm.  I don't know.  I think a movie about this title actually has potential.  While I'm still not keen about Ratner, Liefeld's comic was well liked for some time.  Can't say I ever got into it, but all I can say is that is has potential. 

Yeah, it shows Ratner can direct a big crappy superhero movie.  Which makes him perfect to work on a big crappy project like Youngblood.

Sorry.  I wouldn't go see a movie based on characters both created by Liefield and ripped off from Teen Titans if it was directed by Spielberg.  Throw in a hack director like Brett Ratner and you have a recipe for failure.

EDIT:
How do you "do justice" to something that was absolutely awful in the first place?

I feel sorry for Ratner.  If I remember rightly he was brought in to Last Stand very late in production.  It's like you said, if it wasn't an X-Men movie, then it would have been a fantastic action movie... and if you ask me he did a great job with all the pieces he was left to play with.  Otherwise it was bloody awful, doesn't resemble anything X-Men and I disown it :p  But I don't blame Ratner :)

Youngblood has enough originality to be worthy of a film. why the hell not?

hey, as far as i'm concerned, ANY superhero film is a good film. better than nothing. i even enjoyed me some Ghost Rider. the more the merrier.

i really don't understand all the hate for films like Last Stand. its not that hard to accept that films will have an alternative take and approach to characters. is it? its like some fans have some weird ownership and control issues, or something. if they look good and don't have annoying actors and the dialogue is not impossibly bad, i'm in.

as for comics, other than superhero books, being adapted to film, my opinion is that Wanted represents a case-study on how to completely balls it up in an attempt to produce something for non-comic heads.

"Youngblood has enough originality to be worthy of a film."

b'ah. rubbish. by that logic nothing beyond superman and batman should be made into a film.

Because Superman and Batman are the only good heroes?
Are you high?

How did you go from the statements:
Youngblood sucks
Youngblood is not original

to the statement:
Only Batman and Superman deserve movies?

I havent read Youngblood in YEARS but i wouldnt mind to see a movie. just maybe not Ratner but we will all see how it turns out

I've never heard of Youngblood but I'm still less than a year old as a comic book fan. Anyway, it sounds good and I do have faith in Ratner. X3 was MUCH MUCH MUCH better than the dull X2. Yes X3 did make way too many mistakes though, but I heard the script was finalized before they got Ratner on the movie so its not his fault. The only concern I have is Rush Hour 3 sucked. That means that Ratner could be losing his touch as a director and that's not good. We already have too many hasbeen directors these days (George Lucas, George Romero, etc.)

Generally, the more comic movies the better, I think. Better for the comics industry that is, whatever spurs sales, works for me. Youngblood could be good if done over the top with big visuals and stupid, ridiculous violence that Ratner could pull off. One good thing about something like Youngblood is beyond the basic premise, there's not a whole lot of history to the team or characters that will turn people off if they retcon stuff in the film like all the random characters thrown into X3 in a nonsensical way did (for me at least). 

Well This news leaves me skeptically intrigued. Ratner has proved himself by far and he would be an excellent choice. Youngblood is a successful Image name to work with. now what leaves me skeptical is The Spawn movie. It was a questionable movie production in parts was gritty but that might have been it's best selling point for me. However Spawn was a single 2 character plaot for the most part: Spawn and Violator the classic spawn story. Youngblood would have to capture several different characters. I just dont think that it would turn out right. Image should do a few more movies with thier solo characters then, do maybe Gen 13. I mean start soft and move up that how gritty things work, and Image if not original is defintely ahead of the game when it comes to gritty, sexy, bad ass wise cracking, big gun haven, Awesome comics.

Maybe there's still a chance to see Youngblood movie - if the new adaptation of Spawn will be popular.