X-Men Origins: Wolverine Movie Blurb by Shale May 1, 2009 I loved this movie! When I went into Rottentomatoes.com to get some production pix, I discovered that I was in the 38% minority of reviewers who liked it. But that has to do with my disability. I am seriously unable to view comic book movies as an adult, instead seeing them as if I were a 15-year-old boy. I loved this movie! Our story opens in the middle of the 19th Century where young James Logan (Troye Sivan) discovers that he is half-brother to Victor Creed (Michael James Olsen). There is a family dispute in which young James stabs daddy Creed with his bony claws and the two boys run off together. There is then a montage showing these indestructible mutants, Logan (Hugh Jackman) and Victor (Liev Schreiber) fighting in every American war from the Civil War to Vietnam taking enemy hits but living on to fight another. Around the Vietnam era, William Stryker (Danny Huston) appears and recruits the two mutants into his Team X weapons program, which brings us up near the time of our first X-Men movie where some of the characters such as a young Scott Summers (Tim Pocock - later known as Cyclops) appear. The Characters Gambit-John Waith-Sabretooth-Wolverine-Scott Summers-Deadpool-Kayla Silverfox Logan gets tired of all the killing and parts ways with his brother Victor and Stryker's team. He tries to lead a simple life as a lumberjack in Canada with his woman Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). Of course you know bad things have to happen to any girlfriend of a superhero (go ask Lois Lane, Mary Jane, and Pepper Potts about that). Logan goes after Victor for doing those bad things to his girl but the two are equally matched and the fight is never ending. Sibling Rivalry - Wolverine & Sabretooth Logan agrees to let Stryker give him the Adamantium treatment that will make him impervious to anything his equally immortal brother might dish out in the fight. We all know Stryker is the bad guy and he is talking to his associates about double crossing Logan while he is still in the tank. However, he didn't know that Logan could hear him. That is when Logan comes up from the tank in a Wolverine rage and escapes naked into the north country. (Of course I enjoy watching the very well built Hugh Jackman in his many shirtless scenes - I think it is part of his contract.) After Adamantium Treatment The rest of the movie is a delight of mutant's trying to recapture Wolverine, with the many fights which have been seen in the trailers and Wolverine trying to off his brother with a vengeance. Oh, and does this movie stay true to the storyline as established in the first X-Men movie where Logan doesn't know where he comes from and for the first time meets Dr. Xavier and the X-men? Yep. So, that is what this movie is about. If you go see it, leave your adult out on the sidewalk to impatiently wait for your 15-year-old boy who will love this movie.
Well, I did say I liked this movie. Ended up watching it again today. I'm usually not that kind of movie fanatic - I have seen where ppl will see a fav movie 6 or more times in first run. But, I intend to get it on video when it comes out. Also, really enjoy watching the very buff Hugh Jackman on screen, sweaty and mean and shirtless. But hey, that's just me (And maybe a few million women - and a couple other guys). Wolverine Shirtless
My 15 year old me remembers seeing Tora Tora Tora with surround sound ! 1970 My first real job was working as an Usher in the movie theater. 71-73 I remember seeing the Exorsist ( 73 ) about 150+ times. I wish I didn't. The Sci-Fi genre has come a long way. My 15 yr old can handle the comic book stuff, but the ol' fart math dude in me just has a hard time getting past the really bad science. I'll let my kids enjoy this one. :cheers2:
I'm only excited because Gambit is coming in on this one. I used to have a huge crush on Gambit. But I'm not getting my hopes up.
Ah, another one like my grandson who actually follows the comix and knows the backstory. Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) is Remy LeBeau, a handsome young man in a New Orleans that is more quaint than when I discovered it in 1968. His character has a way with tossing cards as weapons and also uses a staff with some kind of force. He is able to put up a fight with the big mutants but not beat Wolverine or Sabretooth alone. He was one of the fun characters in this movie along with John Wraith.
I'm not sure about the movie, but this commercial for the Wolverine video game is awesome!! I don't play video games, but this is by far the best commercial I've seen in a while, just based on how suspenseful it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSj345-3YUI
Wolverine was amazing. I've seen it twice already. They leave it very open-ended, c'mon Wolverine 2!?
I guess I'm the minority in this thread because I didn't like it. See, X-Men 1 and 2 were fantastic comic book movies and just very good movies in general. Solid writing, acting, special effects, music, etc. It helped that X2 had David Hayter who is a pro in general, and wrote the Watchmen script that almost got Alan Moore's approval. He knows comic books. I even kind of liked the third because there was some emotional pay-off with Professor X. Origins had Skip Woods, who isn't a bad writer, really, but he's not great. He wrote the Tarantino rip-off (still enjoyable, though) Thursday and Swordfish (meh). What disappoints me is David Benioff, who wrote Stay, which was a great movie. He also wrote Troy (blegh) and The Kite Runner (just wasn't for me). Not really a duo of people who seem credible for comic book movies, though, despite their talent. It showed. I'm saddened by the ruined potential. I will admit that a good or bad Deadpool would sway my opinion by at least, say, 2-3 points if we're rating the movie out of 10. I will never deny that, because he's such a fascinating character he deserves a proper movie life. But they destroyed Deadpool. What was up with the end? I hear now that it wasn't the "real" Deadpool, but why would they even do that? Wade Wilson was fine, and Ryan did a good job with him, though. Gambit was useless. Chuck him. The fight scenes were uninspired and the helicopter part was the best example of that. I couldn't get into most of the fights, especially the end one, which should be the climax. You have mutants with cool powers and that's the best they could come up with? Some of the scenes were just awkward instead of cool. CGI was decent. It's just there. It didn't amaze me but even if it did, it's rare -- if it ever happens -- that CGI can save a bad movie and this is something Hollywood needs to learn. I don't think viewing this as a 15 year old will do much. I don't think you should have to abandon your standards to enjoy a movie. I don't watch artfilms all the time, I watch tons of dumb action movies as well, but the movies I like are done well in their respective genre. Well, not always, sometimes I like bad movies (who's perfect!). A problem is comic books are viewed as low form of art by a lot of people. All they want, and all Hollywood gives, is dumb movies (for the most part, this isn't always true) to make some money. Comic books are rich with mythology and great plots, but that's not the focus with a lot of these movies. Origins was a cash-in. Nice review, OP, though. Cheers.
Actually you're in the 62% majority of reviewers who did not like this movie. Sorry, but at some points of this movie were scenes that were drawn visually right out of a comic book panel - which brought me back to what this was. And no, I don't consider comic books high art or literature, I consider them the amusements of 12-year-old boys who can easily suspend disbelief and immerse themselves in fantasy. That was so much fun I miss it and actively strive to keep it alive.
Aye, I know where I stand in regards to critics but I did say "in this thread," silly. Comic books have always been reflections on culture though. They take extreme situations and extreme people and examine normal situations, like a lot of art. X-Men and racism, for example. And I'm just talkin' about superhero comics in this paragraph. But when I say comic books, I mean stuff like Maus as well. Stuff like Blankets. Some comics are definitely just punch up fests meant for pure amusement and that's cool, but comics as a whole shouldn't really been seen as such. But I don't actually believe in high art or low art, but for the sake of everything I use the terms, nawmean? It's cool you like it. I go into every movie hoping to like it but sometimes I can't.
