Comments on: Review: ‘Wolverine’ is Lazy Moviemaking

By: rono3849

rono3849 — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:39:04 +0000

Wolverine was an entertaining movie, nothing more and nothing less. The first three X-Men movies were just about the same. To compare these films to The Dark Knight is silly. They are two different kinds of films, although they are both based on comic book characters. The Dark Knight is an all-time classic movie that hit it big on many levels. Wolverine is a Summer popcorn flick, just sitback and enjoy the ride.

By: John

John — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:27:24 +0000

My 13-year-old son and I enjoyed the movie. We wanted to be entertained and we were, thoroughly. I'm not going to overanalyze fantasy. These flaws that many of you listed never occurred to us and I'm kinda glad I don't have your background. For the uninitiated, it's a great summer flick!

By: Alericc

Alericc — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:05:28 +0000

This is in response to John asking how a Mutant can hit another Mutant and send him flying with one punch, it has to do with enhanced strenght or other powers in play. Basically if Wolverine hits you with greater than normal strength, an adamantine skeleton and 350 lbs behind the punch you are going to go thru a wall.

There were a lot of flaws in Wolverines history as compared to the comic book versions, pick which one and go from there, but all in all it was much better and more faithful to the comics than the X-Men movies. As to why can't they all have happy lives and live in peace and harmony, what would motivate them for revenge, the feeling of being outcast and the need to be on the move all the time.

Still a better movie in my opinion than most of the other disappointments like Spider Man, the first Hulk, Ghost Rider, Spawn, and all but the first two Superman movies.

By: Hoss Fuentes

Hoss Fuentes — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:55:12 +0000

1.) I have to agree with John Nolte and say that when you watch this one like Charles Bronson revenge flick, it's kind of awesome. As a comic book movie, though, it was rather "Meh."

2.) If it weren't for the stinger at the end (or at least the one I saw), I'd probably declare nerd jihad over the treatment of Deadpool.

3.) How come nobody's commented on the fact that Gavin Hood is the director behind "Rendition," one of that raft of crappy anti-Bush/GWOT/Iraq flicks back in 2007?

By: Skip Press

Skip Press — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:48:29 +0000

So you're saying there's nothing in this movie as good as the Magnum look in Zoolander.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:59:17 +0000

There are some valid criticism that most people are making concerning this film. To be honest I think there could have been more character development on the part of the special ops team Wolverine was a part of, a better connection with the whole mutant multi-verse as well as a more substantial storyline. Still, since I am not a writer, a director or even a producer I will cut the people who put this movie together a little bit of slack. This movie was not horrible or even close to being bad. Like I said, there are some thing I too think could have been more developed or done better but the finish product was very well done and the movie was very enjoyable. I think if you go in expecting a good kick off to the summer movie season than Wolverine will not disappoint. It's was well worth my 10 bucks. (20 counting my wife and yes I will be buying the Blu-Ray when it comes out)

By: jhshub

jhshub — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:03:12 +0000

I am in my mid-50's (where have the years gone!) and comics were a big part of my life as a kid. I fondly remember the "original" X-Men when they were fighting great villains like the Eel, the Porcupine, the Cobra, the Juggernaut and the early Magneto. As I recall they were good-natured kids brought together by Professor Xavier for an eminently sensible reason – To teach them how to use their "great powers" responsibly. Then the early 70's hit and almost every comic book character became either "a moody loner" or an outright psychopath. The new X-Men with Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Rogue et al were part of this. Don't get me wrong, these were great comics. This was the heyday of Jim Starlin and Neal Adams and other terriffic artists and writers. The problem was that the characters were just do damn unpleasant and self-centered that all the fun went out of them. Oh well, to quote 1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child…..But when I became a man I put away childish things."

By: Kendama

Kendama — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:24:46 +0000

Truth be told, I agree. Perhaps these filmmakers don't want to be seen as espousing a "black-and-white morality," so they make everyone into Joker-lite.

By: Pong

Pong — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:35:21 +0000

Hate to geek out here but the reason his claws could break when stepped on is they were still bone at that point. That's before the whole adamantium treatment. Just thought I'd keep the valid criticism separate from the slight lapse in plot observation.

By: Krebstar

Krebstar — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:59:45 +0000

Hey Crank! Although I kind of rant about my complaints with the tone of the movie, I agree with you about Liev Schreiber. Awesome. Victor Creed has always possessed a malignant intelligence and a perverse streak of humor, none of which made it to the first X-Men. Schreiber played it perfectly.