Wolverine: Origins
May. 3rd, 2009 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effexWent to see Wolverine with the family. It was... well. It was epic. With the man!pain, and the cliched cinematography, and the cliched writing (I should *not* be able to say half Logan's lines along with him on the first viewing.). Just... think of every man!pain epic you've ever seen/read, and remember what happens to the girl/black dude/asian dude/old couple. Yeah. Boring and skeevy and unintentionally hilarious.
Also, I totally failed at playing spot the mutant - Emma Frost? Missed her *completely.*
On the other hand, unexpected Deadpool is unexpected! I somehow missed that he'd be in the movie and might have spent the first ten minutes of the film chanting Wadewadewadewadewade!not so quietly under my breath. If Wolverine opens up a chance for a Deadpool movie, it will have been so worth it.
Additional notes:
* I revise, a *decent* Deadpool movie. Which, upon reflection, I do not trust them to make.
* Gambit did not get to blow enough shit up.
* All those (cliched) narrative threads left loose at the end of the movie? Totally fucked by X-men 3. Just sayin'.
* There is a scene at the end of the credits, but it's not worth it (I was hoping for Waaaaaaaade).
* Had to give my sister a brief Rogue/Gambit info dump (she hadn't realized they were ever a couple) - her boyfriend was bouncing around going Remyremyremyremy while I was doing my Wade schtick, adorable.
* Although, wow, there's got to be a... 15 year? At least? Age difference between Rogue and Gambit in the movie-verse. At least we know she likes older men...
Additional Notes the Second - Linkage:
*nepenthe: Gambit of Wolverine: X-Men Origins
* K. Tempest Bradford: X-Men Origins: Wolverine — The Greatest Story Never Told? and X-Men Origins: Wolverine — Same Old Story
Also, I totally failed at playing spot the mutant - Emma Frost? Missed her *completely.*
On the other hand, unexpected Deadpool is unexpected! I somehow missed that he'd be in the movie and might have spent the first ten minutes of the film chanting Wadewadewadewadewade!
Additional notes:
* I revise, a *decent* Deadpool movie. Which, upon reflection, I do not trust them to make.
* Gambit did not get to blow enough shit up.
* All those (cliched) narrative threads left loose at the end of the movie? Totally fucked by X-men 3. Just sayin'.
* There is a scene at the end of the credits, but it's not worth it (I was hoping for Waaaaaaaade).
* Had to give my sister a brief Rogue/Gambit info dump (she hadn't realized they were ever a couple) - her boyfriend was bouncing around going Remyremyremyremy while I was doing my Wade schtick, adorable.
* Although, wow, there's got to be a... 15 year? At least? Age difference between Rogue and Gambit in the movie-verse. At least we know she likes older men...
Additional Notes the Second - Linkage:
*
nepenthe: Gambit of Wolverine: X-Men Origins* K. Tempest Bradford: X-Men Origins: Wolverine — The Greatest Story Never Told? and X-Men Origins: Wolverine — Same Old Story
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Date: 2009-05-03 08:07 pm (UTC)A friend asked me via chat to watch it with her, and I pretty much went "Remyremyremyremyreeeeeemyyyyy" too. She's not - a geek, let's say, so her reaction was "Who?"
Me: http://www.lediableblanc.com
I didn't even have to look it up or anything, hahaha.
Re: Emma Frost - Wasn't Crystal Girl supposed to be her?
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Date: 2009-05-05 03:28 am (UTC)I too wanted lots of Gambit. Lots and lots and lots of things going *BOOM*, and shirtless Gambits, if at all possible.
I think Hugh Jackman's naked ass streaking through a field made up for a lot, at least for me. Still, it wouldn't have hurt if the characters had, you know, characterization.
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Date: 2009-05-05 12:53 pm (UTC)I *adored* Remy as a kid, he was my very favorite and Rogue/Gambit was my otp. Haven't really been following him (or the X-men at all, outside a stint with Ultimites) now that I'm back into comics... hmm.
[points up]