X-Men Origins: Wolverine

[tommo]

Saw Wolverine yesterday.

*I liked the movie for about the first 2/3, and then it went totally off the rails and sucked pretty hard for the last act.

*Hugh Jackman continues to be a great Wolverine.

*Actually, the casting was generally solid. Schreiber made a brilliant Sabertooth, Zero was pretty badass, Ryan Reynolds made a great Wade Wilson during the opening sequence, and I'd love to see him play a proper version of the character in a stand-alone film.

*The opening "break in" sequence where you get to see all the characters being cool and using their powers? That was fun :)

*You remember how I did a post a while back about hating it when movies manufacture a "last minute villain" using the same tech/magic/whatever that gives the hero their powers? Yeah, it's even more annoying when movies do that when THERE'S ALREADY A PERFECTLY GOOD VILLAIN WHO HAS A CONFLICT WITH THE HERO AND YOU'VE BEEN SETTING UP AN IMPENDING CONFRONTATION FOR THE ENTIRE FILM. Hell, you've got two established antagonists if you include Stryker. And you unnecessarily fuck up Deadpool in the process. Nice job.

*So, yeah, that's the "disappointing third act" I was referring to with dot point number 1.

*I liked the opening credits sequence, with all the little freeze-frame bits.

*I can't get used to de-aged Xavier. It just looks weird.

*Gambit was a bit of a non-event, but I didn't mind the actor portraying him. Hopefully they'll have some more of him in future films.

*I like how when someone with the power of suggestion tells you to walk until your feet bleed and then just keep on walking, it actually means "walk until someone talks to you, then just stop, it's cool."

*This film featured a lot of yelling at the sky. Once per film is enough.

*And someone actually said "I'm so cold" during their death scene. Nice one, Johnny McClichePants.

*I can't think of anything else worth mentioning.

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[thanners.livejournal.com]

*You remember how I did a post a while back about hating it when movies manufacture a "last minute villain" using the same tech/magic/whatever that gives the hero their powers?
I don't actually recall a post like that, but it does vaguely irritate me, too. Maybe not 'hate', but.. yeah. Oddly, I was about to type 'not a fan of mirror bad guys', but I realised that I'm not totally against it. So it really must be something about the 'last-minute-made-like-but-bigger/uglier/better-than-you' variety of mirror bad guy.

Suddenly I'm thinking about Hulk, or Ironman.

*I like how when someone with the power of suggestion tells you to walk until your feet bleed and then just keep on walking, it actually means "walk until someone talks to you, then just stop, it's cool."
Heh. On the suggestion thing, I did have slight issues with her saying that she could've made him pull the trigger on himself, but it would make her too much like him. Or something to that effect. So instead, she proceeds to order him to go and (what I'd thought at the time) not die right now, but suffer horribly with the walking and the bleeding stumps and stuff. Because apparently that's better? (Turns out it was, since, as you'd pointed out, it was negated when someone came for a chat.)

Oh. But even then, I still didn't mind the film. I didn't feel it was horribad, but then as you know, I'm fairly forgiving of things even when I am picking them to pieces.

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

Suddenly I'm thinking about Hulk, or Ironman.

Those are quite precisely the two films I had in mind when I made said post :)

I also had the same reaction to the "I'm not bad, so I'll horribly torture you to death instead of killing you quickly" thing.

[almightybean.livejournal.com]

That didn't bother me so much because those villains (Ironmonger and Abomination) are actual villains from the comics whereas THAT'S NOT DEADPOOL. The whole "a heroes powers turned against them" is a pretty common comic plot I think cause it basically shows it's the person that makes them a hero not the abilities so on so forth, blah blah :P

Off the top of my head, Venom also fits that story, and a whole mess of Hulk badguys.