Last night, I saw
X-Men Origins: Wolverine with a bunch of people. In fact, most of the people who read this (that I know of) were there.
Overall, it was fun. More entertaining than insulting, so not quite an
Akiva Goldsman-style movie (ooh, I'll go check IMDb... I wouldn't be surprised if he was attached. I'll feel sullied, but not surprised. No, but...
Doom Patrol?
Teen Titans? Those could've been great! and he's
in Star Trek - but only as an actor, so maybe he can't mess it up too much. I'll still watch it...)
I had gone in expecting the movie to be an adaptation of this:
Being an encyclopaedia, it shows you a bunch of characters without giving you a real feel for them; it just describes them, covers a bit about their history, and shows you pictures*. Given the number of characters and events covered by the movie, I didn't expect time for much else.
I was right about that part; but another assumption I'm making about the Encyclopedia, or an expectation I have of it, is that it's
accurate. The movie version is not. Characters are attached to the Weapon X program at random. Relationships are jumbled.
The movie dumbs it down a lot.
Producers, here's a hint: there's this law scientists are developing. It's called 'gravity'. It means that half the stuff that happened in this movie couldn't. Trust me on this.
It not only messes up the comics, it messes up continuity from the previous movie. Remember Stryker's line in X2 about "Logan, we always thought there were several others just like you and we can make our own anyway"? 'Coz I remember it being more like "We always thought you were unique".
This is one of those movies where they reference the comics by having characters reject them. For example, one of the characters'
Berserk Buttons is, in the comics, his codename.
Worst moment, for me: When we see Ma and Pa Kent (not the hip younger versions from
Smallville, the older versions from the comics and movies), their screen credit is Travis and Heather Hudson. Heather Hudson?!? To quote Darth Vader: "NOOOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOooooOOOooo"!!!
Annette O'Toole as Heather I could handle. But no! Bad movie! No biscuit! She is not a sweet little old lady!
Anyway, the movie
was enjoyable, for all its many flaws, but barely. It wasn't as good as
X3 (which is saying something), but the lack of disappointment factor made it rise above that movie.
* Actually, I'm assuming. I've read bits of Marvel encyclopaedias, but not this one.