X-men Origins: Wolverine–It’s no Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Far less dancing. Although I am glad to say I called Wolvy running around naked without probable cause. If you’re feint of heart regarding spoilers you might want to give this post a miss. I’m not going to through anything I think will ruin it for you, but I do need to get some stuff off my chest. Ye be forewarned, the first few rows may get spoiled.
To all the naysayers: Guys was it really all that bad? When you take into account that you knew already that the lead character was played by the same guy that starred in Van Helsing and SwordFish, how good a film were you expecting? I have to admit I haven’t seen Australia yet(it seemed like Moulan Rouge 2: The Mediocrity), but to me it’s not surprising that our buddy Hugh can’t carry a great movie by himself. He’s not a bad actor, he’s just hard to picture in a serious movie with good actors. That being said I went in with fairly low expectations, especially due to the internet bashing that went on with the early release copy.
I think the biggest failing about the movie, was that it tried to walk the tight rope between serious and campy. This very seldom works out. I know you’ll say that 3/4 Indiana Jones Movies would disagree. Yes it can be done, those had better scripts, better directing, and subtlty. While Hugh Jackman has a very Indy smirk, he needs better plot surrounding it. There are some comic connoisseur complaints regarding the movie. Let me help you out here, comics, have a history of rewriting their own canon every time a new writer takes over a book. This happens, we have to expect it with a film. I know, I know, I love Deadpool too. Let’s hug it out. AS to not laying everyone’s powers out verbally on the table (I heard quite a few people complaining about this), well I thought it was a brave decision. We are expected to know what mutants are and use our own faculties to determine the exact level of seriousness of a particular mutant’s badassitude. I like this.
Some improvements could have been made to the hackneyed portions of the movie. Why does wolverine end up boxing with the blob, their past relationship (from earlier in the film) makes this silly. I know they wanted to jam more mutant effects into the film, but seriously the crowbar is bending here. After having visited the Blob in this way, we’re stretched even further into contorted acceptance when we go through the same ritual with Gambit. I like Riggins on Friday Night Lights he’s got that angsty after school special drunkard teen down pat. I really wanted to like him here, but I didn’t really see anything special here, I mean ihe didn’t get blown of the screen by Hugh Jackman or anything but I just wanted to see more out of him. Two Guy’s a Girl and a Pizza Place’s Ryan Reynolds did a phenomenal job of delivering the best lines in the movie. Don’t get up to potty while he’s on camera though because he will be gone when you get back. For me, all he did was make me wonder when Deadpool was coming back. ‘Can it be Deadpool times now’ I said; my girlfriend let me not yet, and that I wasn’t as funny as I thought I was. And lets just say, when he finally does come back, if you liked the portrayal of Wade Wilson, you’re going to be disappointed with Deadpool. It’s kind of like when we went into TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze. We wanted Bebop and Rocksteady, we got Tokka and Rahzar.
All and all I liked it, but found myself wanting them to have tried a few different things and for it to have been more. I really liked everything they did with Sabertooth. One of his I’m a bad-ass lines fell a little flat for me but other than that Cotton Weary did a pretty good job. I liked that we finally got to see Wolvy stick his claws into a road to stop his momentum. All and all I give it a C+/B- it was a fun actiony flick, but I could go on nitpicking it for days. Also I wished they would have touched on Wolvy in the Cold War a bit, see I’m still doing it.
-Matt
We also got Vanilla Ice in TMNT2. :-O
OMAGADS U R MISSIN’ AN “AND” IN FIRST BAWKS.
And is that Dave Grohl ala the devil from Tenacious D stuff?
AND AND Deadpool is going to be having his own movie, wherein he is… you know, actually Deadpool.
On second review, no it isn’t dave grohl.
The begining montage of war footage would have been a much better story line… instead they made it more of a Marvel movie than a Wolverine movie. Aside from the comments about the Blob, I agree with how you describe all the characters in the movie; Gambit was more of a puss than anything… not the smooth talkin bad ass Cajun that I remembered. Wade was a pimp as I expected, Ryan Reynolds has the golden tongue and I knew he could pull off Wade… but the butchered the shit out of Deadpool. Sabertooth on the other hand carried this movie all the way through. By the end I was thinking: “Fuck Wolverine! I want a movie based around Sabertooth!”
For better results, go stoned or drunk and you wont be upset!
PS. Laf@ “More dancing than…. Spiderman 3.”
Jinrai, think more 80s
Good one guys
When I first read this strip I hadnt noticed Hellboy in the background striking a heroic pose, which quickly became homoerotic in light of the strip dialogue. Suddenly those rippling abdominals and meaty biceps stood out like mountains. haha
Good stuff! If he didn’t have a Vest I would have thought the poster was Tim Curry from Legend which makes me old and wonder what Ridley Scott was doing at the same time. At least there was some soft core Uniporn in Legend.
I’m guessing you totally would have touched the unicorn. Gj, yeah it was inspired by Tim Curry.
How the FUCK could wolverine get fooled by drugs that make your vital signs mostly go away? NOT! c-, matt. c-.
I'm amazed the doppelganger hasn't killed Matt after all that!
Hey, do I detect a certain demon from Legend in the poster in the background?
You are right on the demon from Legend. The hunk pose is quality.