WOLVERINE!!!!!

[telophase]

Just came back from Wolverine, and I had a very enjoyable time. The movie was exactly what I expected, and I expected Wolverine's ass. I did not expect great scriptwriting, involving plot, great acting, or much of anything else.

The plot was, of course, Yet Another Marvel Retcon, but as the X-movieverse is a retcon of the comicverse, that's not surprising. And a trawl through Amazon.com to see what Weapon X stuff there is produced an approximate 2497358923749374 versions of Weapon X, Wolverine: Origis, and so on.

Color me so surprised. *rolls eyes*

I quit reading the X-books about the point where Magneto pulled the adamantium out of Wolverine's bones* (and started reading them about the time the first Weapon X storyline started) - anyone out there know how many different versions of his origin there currently are?


* Spurred, actually, by stupid writing involving Sabretooth, of all people. He's my favorite evil villain, because I showed up in the X-verse right when they were doing interesting things with his character, and then someone screwed it all up again, completely reversing all the character-building they'd done, I got disgusted, and I left. If anyone actually wants me to rant about that, let me know.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

They screwed up his interesting development AND THEY TOOK BOOM BOOM WITH HIM!!!

[octopedingenue]

But Boom Boom showed up in Nextwave: Agents of H.A.TE. for the epic win!

maybe not in terms of characterization consistency, admittedly.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Fond as I am of Nextwave, I really wasn't fond of how she was portrayed. Mostly because she was a caricature of what people try to pass both her and Jubilee off as, and that they really aren't.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

In the movie, or in some comic?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Comic. When I get to my rant, it will Explain All. Or at least all I can remember.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Comics. Post-Age of Apocalypse, they decided to make Sabretooth and Boom Boom/Boomer have a relationship that was basically "Wolverine and Jubilee, but if he was evil and then lobotomized and she mindlessly thought it made him perfect and would hear no ill of him*, and then became an unrecognizable Look At How I'm So Edgy And Badass And Untrusting character."

*This, admittedly, is arguably true of early Jubilee and Wolverine, save that the context there was that she was 13-15, literally had no one else for a while, and he was the kinda-asocial guy who was taking care of her and saving her and teaching her things and not killing people when she asked and treated her with a mixture of daughter/partner without really talking down to her. Which is different from being 17-20 and having a long history of knowing the guy as a murderer who tried to kill your friends and random innocents and was a terrorist.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Wolverine! I also enjoyed Wolverine and Gambit. Cue slashy goodness now, please?

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

There was so much foe yay! in that film it wasn't even funny.

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

Oh god. there was this amazing t-shirt that had Gambit half-naked with trademark Wolverine-type scratches all over him and his shirt all cut up by them and it said 'Mutants are just like everyone else: best when slashed.'

I saw it years ago, but I still want it. O.O

[octopedingenue]

I never got the Wolverine/Gambit slash thing at all until this movie and now I do.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

'Mutants are just like everyone else: best when slashed.'

Sold!

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Do James and/or Heather Hudson make an appearance?

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not at all.

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Well, foo, but thank you for the info. :D

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

i would have enjoyed it much, much more, had I not been constantly knocked out of suspension of disbelief by the cut-rate, physics-engine-fail CGI.

(The acme of which was Worst Poorly Dubbed CGI Patrick Stewart Ever)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That didn't bother me too much, because I've most recently been watching rubber-monster-type films and anything is an improvement on that.

[octopedingenue]

Rant about Sabretooth to me, please!

If you don't mind if we pause at intervals so that I may LICK THE SWEAT FROM RYAN REYNOLDS' COLLARBONE.

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

Can I have his abs?

[octopedingenue]

Maybe if we divide him with proper precision we can regenerate our own personal Wade-copies! Like a very sexy apocryphal worm!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I shall do so when I get a chance.

However.

Tell me: if I wanted to read Deadpool/about Deadpool, where would be a good place to start? (Graphic novel format preferred, as I can get those from Amazon, unless there are things to be ahem'ed from elsewhere.)

[arinye.livejournal.com]

I gleefully admit I only want to see it because the bloke they cast for Gambit is SMOKIN' HAWT.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I refuse to go and see Wolverine, because it's Wolverine and I'm sick of him being in everything. They may as well change the title of the X-Men to "Wolverine and Friends" most of the time. Or maybe "Someone dies but they get better again!"

Of course I haven't read the comics consistently for ages, not since they wrote out Cecilia Reyes, the most kick-arse doctor/ reluctant super-hero ever! I did notice a year or two back that they seemed to be making the characters more like the movie ones though, which I thought was a shame for Mystique because she was already cool before she became all naked and bumpy.

Then again I can rant about how often they screw up things in the Marvel universe, then use it to generate more money by having Earth Rest 700, until the sun dies, but I won't :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I am ALL OK with Wolverine, because Wolverine is the entire reason I was reading the X-books to start with. :D

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

The movie was exactly what I expected, and I expected Wolverine's ass.
hahah! Yes!!!
As soon as the movie started I gently disengaged my brain and enjoyed it for what it was.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. Like when he met the old couple and their son's clothes fit him. Instead of griping about how well they fit this total stranger, I merely ... admired the fit. XD