X Men Origins:Wolverine

I thought the same. It seemed like:

The close-up was shot separately (with some dodgy digital de-ageing technique) and he wasn't actually there in the longer shot. Probably wasn't worth getting him on set for such a brief scene.

In fact, even before the long shot you could tell he wasn't actually there, just from how the character was shot from behind as he exited the helicopter. It was obviously a body double.

On a general point, I did think much of the CGI looked like ... well, really obvious CGI, unfortunately.

Overall, I quite liked it, but the ending was totally sequel-tastic, and not particularly satisfying, in my view. I wasn't sure about the boxing scene. It seemed more like something befitting of Austin Powers rather than Wolverine. Just a bit too silly.

It didn't really feel like an X-Men film, but I suppose that was the point. Oh, and it seemed like:

They spent a massive amount of time preparing Weapon XI, for it to last only a couple of minutes.
 
well, I watched the leaked Workprint (After I saw the film because I missed part of the beginning and wanted to catch up what I missed, of course :D) but that scene was one of the ones that was heavily CG-Ied and still unfilled, Stewart was there, but he was at a green screen by the looks of things so most likely filmed serparately
 
I don't think he meant that having a healing factor in general was unique, but that having one which could handle the Adamantium bonding process was unique. Sabretooth "tested negative" for Adamantium compatibility, while Deadpool was only able to undergo the process because he/it had *Wolverine's* healing factor. So Deathstrike would have been the first since Wolverine who could handle it "naturally".

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Was I the only person who hated Wade?

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Hmm. Anyway...

Some bits I enjoyed, some bits irritated me.

Regarding Logan & Creed being brothers... OK, not canon, but it has been hinted at in the comics, & they did borrow heavily from "Origin" for the start of the movie. It worked for me, & their relationship was quite interesting & at least gave both some motivation (pity they both forgot all about it by the time of X1 eh? OK, so Wolverine lost his memory, but what about Sabretooth?).

Gambit was OK. Underused though.

Wade... sod off. As soon as I saw him, I thought "Oh crap, I think it's that irritating "funny" one who spoiled my enjoyment of Blade Trinity". Then he opened his mouth & I thought "Yep, it really is that irritating "funny" one who spoiled my enjoyment of Blade Trinity. Arse". He was just that c**k Hannibal King but with a pair of sworRAB.
If only he'd had his mouth sewn shut earlier on. Oh, & in Blade Trinity too.

Liev Schreiber was good as Sabretooth. Although I guess we are supposed to assume that in the period between this & X1, Sabretooth loses his memory, becomes a bit stupid, & gets really hairy.

The Blob at the wrestling ring... Sorry, but all I could think of was "Fat Bastard" from Austin Powers.

And who hired the guy from the Black Eyed Peas? :confused:

Adamantium bullets can pierce Wolverine's Adamantium skull? Adamantium bullets? Frak. Right. Off. Adamantium does not beat Adamantium. They should have come up with a different explanation for Wolverine losing his memory, instead of being shot in the head with Adamantium bullets RAB. Maybe shock/grief from his girlfriend dying for real (shock/grief has caused him to lose memories before). Just something other than being shot in the head with Adamantium bullets!

Stryker spent $500 million giving Wolverine Adamantium, just to check that his healing factor could handle it before using his DNA to give the same healing factor to Weapon XI? Arse.

What was the point in the mid-credits bit where Stryker is taken into custody for killing the General? We know it comes to nothing, as by the time of X2 he still has a lot of clout & resources & has the ear of the President.

In fact... what was the point of any of it? The Wolverine/Sabretooth stuff was ultimately pointless, given that the relationship has not been touched upon in the X-Men movies, so - going solely by the X-Men movies & ignoring the comics - the viewer doesn't know or care what the two of them did prior, nor even know that Wolverine & Sabretooth knew each other. And we know how Wolverine got his Adamantium, even if it was only a flashback in X2. Actually, thinking of X2, I would have liked some backstory on the movie continuity's version of Lady Deathstrike.


I did enjoy it in places, but thinking about it lessens that.

I wish that Bryan Singer had stayed with the franchise for X3, instead of sodding off for that lame Superman movie, & had then done a Wolverine movie himself.
 
thought this had some of the worst effects i have ever seen in a blockbuster. the scene with the bike and helicopter was so obviously back projection - haha with a hair dryer pointed at wolverine to make it look like he was riding his bike.

the bit with the mutants at the end in the wooRAB - all back projection.

the rubbish fight on the nucleur chimney thing - cheap cgi

i assume none of this was filmed in america either, it looked more like new zealand

and as for the script...

why did he only stop aging when he looked like hugh jackman??

why did gambit stop him killing victor - only to then agree to help him get victor??

what was the point of making him indestructible? he already was!
 
magneto has been in pre-production for a long time now though?

i hope we see more x-men films like first class,magneto and wolverine 2,,,and GAMBIT

i bet x-men 4 will prob comeaobut sooner or later too like spidey 4
 
I was disappointed with the film. I felt there was no apparent storyline to follow as a viewer. I was expecting a more detailed and fulfilling portrayal of Wolverine's past. But i feel it failed to do that. Plus part's of the film didn't make sense. For example Gambit intervining in a fight between Wolverine and Sabertooth ? Wolverine losing his memory due being shot with Adamantium bullets ?

The only postive part, was how well they portrayed Sabertooth. Who made the film viewable for me. It would of been more interesting if the film was given higher auidence rating though.
 
I thoroughly agree there. Wierdly though, the Official Video Game of the film is one very gory affair. Lots of violence and blood. The game that the film should've been...
:(
 
I found it entertaining enough but I couldn't help but be rather disappointed at the same time. They could have made so much more of certain characters (Ryan ReynolRAB is so good as Wade for example), and the whole
Deadpool is Weapon XI
was rather annoying too as it kind of left the character with nowhere to go.

Mind you I've heard rumours that there are actually two alternative post-credit scenes (at the very end - not the bit with Stryker after the first couple of credits), one featuring Wolverine in a bar and the other featuring
Deadpool picking up his head and also breaking the fourth wall. It supposedly suggests that not only might he not be dead, but that Weapon XI wasn't Wade afterall but rather a clone of somesort - though that second bit seems a bit unclear due to conflicting things I've read.
Which one you see apparently depenRAB on which reel the cinema is showing. Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a scene at the very end so I didn't stay for it. Has anyone else waited right till the end and seen one or other of them?
 
Eh?

He was in the flick for all of 5 minutes as the X-Men equivalent of Darth Maul.

Talking of which X-Men Origins: Wolverine could have constituted continuity hell like the Star Wars prequels but they did a pretty good job overall I think.

They even got away with working in Cyclops without totally invalidating the previous films.
 
I loved it!! I ain't a whole XMen comic book fan but i enyoyed the other movies and loved this as it was focused on Wolverine (My fave).
The whole Hugh Jackman naked was pretty hot too!!
 
If you watch X1 again, there are references to a history between Sabertooth and Wolverine. Things like Wolverine picking up his scent before seeing him and at one point Sabertooth goes back to get Wolverines dog tags from Magneto or something? Small bits.

The CGI in this film was absolutely terrible.

Sabertooth was the best thing about it. I just look at him in the future as having given in to the animalistic nature thus going all 'shaggy' dog. Plus that movie was a long time ago.

The Hugh Jackman credits ending is a nod to them doing the Japan saga next (its Jackmans favourite wolvie story)

and the Deadpool ending is a nod to the comics 'breaking the 4th wall' (him saying 'shhh' directly to the audience) and the possibility of a deadpool movie. I think the 'The bonding process isnt complete' line is the set up to him losing all the Weapon XI powers and becoming dead pool again.

This is just a brainless action flick though. but I enjoyed it, mostly.

Love Gambit, he is totally forgetable in this movie though, his accent wasnt thick enough to me. waste, as was deadpool. Will.I.Am awful.
 
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