Comments on: How Terrible IS X-Men Origins: Wolverine? The Critics’ Bad Reviews Pour In

By: Starcasm

Starcasm — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:46:51 +0000

Kimberly – I completely agree! I’m hoping Marvel can maintain the bar they set for themselves as a movie production company with their first release Iron Man. I think Wolverine was one of those instances where they took a chance on a director and it just wasn’t a good match. The comic book world is a weird reality that is being replicated in film. Comic book titles change artists and writers all the time – with some emerging as fan favorites and others not so much. When I think about a comic book writer getting a call one Wednesday afternoon asking if he’d like to write the next 12 issues of Spider-Man, I liken it to Mark Twain getting a call asking if he’d like to write the next couple Sherlock Holmes novels. But that’s the reality of comic books and comic book movies. A character like the Incredible Hulk can be completely different from one movie to the next – which can be a bad thing but can also be a good thing. The X-Men franchise will rebound I’m sure (there’s too much money behind it) it’s just a shame they dropped the ball on the Wolverine origin story.

By: Kimberly Moore

Kimberly Moore — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:01:55 +0000

Marvel seriously needs to buy back the rights for any and all of their characters from Fox. When Fox makes terrible comic book films, it makes everyone involved look like talentless hacks. When your film is compared to Catwoman, its time to think about taking your properties elsewhere or handle them yourself. Wolverine should have been just as good as Dark Knight, Ironman, Spiderman, the original Superman…the list goes on. It is possible to make a good film if you remain true to the subject material and have people involved that truely care about what they are doing.

By: Melody

Melody — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:06 +0000

Jackman might be the only good thing about this movie. I thought the nude canter through the field was entertaining but it took away from the intenseness of the previous scene.

Even one of my favourite characters, Gambit, was reduced to Wolverine’s sidekick, even if he wasn’t a part of Wolverine’s past in the comic books… that really bothered me. And since when was Sabretooth Wolverine’s brother? Because of that not many people know that Victor is actually Sabretooth in this movie.

The scene where Logan was walking away from the exploding helicopter was so cheesy that I started laughing (but stopped quickly because no one else seemed to find it funny.)

I left the theater with mixed feelings, having liked the story and the gratuitous amounts of eye-candy provided but really feeling irritated about how butchered the script and in turn how hackneyed and bland the movie turned out to be.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:57:53 +0000

i almost laughed out loud when the helicopter blew up, then blew up again, then one more time…

By: Brian Ranson

Brian Ranson — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:03:05 +0000

TheSnackHound- I have to say i have read a fair amount of comics….not enough to not have a social life…..but enough. Without considering the mass change of story and even characters like deadpool, the film was in a way shocking.

i saw the trailers and got giddy inside, expecting mass cgi and epic story. there was mass cgi but it was sooooo pooor. for the budget that they had they could have spent an extra year on it and made it epic!

From the comic book side, i was dissapointed so much that so much effort has been put into the xmen graphic novels with drawing and narrative so why couldnt they do this on the big screen WHY!!!

By: TheSnackHound

TheSnackHound — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:20:19 +0000

Okay, you can hit me. Maybe I am in the minority, but I enjoyed Wolverine. Academy Award Winning? Nope. But it was fun. Isn’t that what going to the movies on a Saturday night about? I have to admit that I never read even one X-Men comic, so have no expectations about “changing the story.” Or do you think I am in the demographic of y’all thinking I will watch anything Hugh Jackman dishes out? Except Australia. I steered away from that one for the time being.

Starcasm, maybe there should have been a musical number since Jackman won accolades for his star turn on Broadway and London’s West End? But then that would have been a different sort of movie…

By: Starcasm

Starcasm — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:12:26 +0000

TheMother – I read A LOT of reviews and no one said Hugh didn’t look mighty fine! Actually, not many criticized his acting abilities, merely the fact that they weren’t enough to overcome the insurmountably bad writing, plot and special effects. (I have to say that I’m glad there wasn’t a musical number)

By: The Mother

The Mother — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:51:49 +0000

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

But Hugh Jackman is STILL gorgeous.