Friday, May 01, 2009

X-Men -1

Also known as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was way better than X-Men 3 though that's not exactly hard to do. Not quite as good as X2 but possibly on par with 1. It didn't even fall into the trap of too many plot lines running at once like Fox's recent Marvel films have done and they seem to have learned lessons from Marvel's Iron Man and Hulk.

Apparently the movie has different Easter Egg endings depending on the cinema, I got one in Japan. Now I'm all for the next Wolverine movie happening in Japan, its a genius idea, but this ending was shit. Apparently the other one is with Deadpool and I feel ripped off.

Speaking of which Ryan Reynolds wasn't in the movie enough. I was loving his Deadpool from his very first scene, if even one thing gets commisioned after this it better be Deadpool.

The random character apperances in this are brilliant, they're very careful to not let Cyclops ever see Wolverine and the little cameo at the end was brilliant and incredibly well kept. Although the CGI for it was rubbish.

Watched X2 straight after it and they did a really good job of making Wolverine a really good prequel to this movie, but then I got annoyed at how how much they fucked up X3 and ruined all the potential that was set up.

3 comments:

Kelvinbridge said...

The film was enjoyable enough, but the trailers certainly gave me an expectation that was quite a bit different from the result...

I'd have liked to have seen a teeny bit more about his conscience developing in the Wars montage so that the change in attitude doesn't seem quite so sudden.

The Japan ending, in my opinion, was not worth sitting through the credits being given evils by the cinema staff for.

And yes, the CGI on that cameo at the end was abysmal. Badly done, and glaringly obviously badly done. Almost made you think they'd come up with the idea for it 2 weeks before the film was released and quickly spliced it in.

Also, how bloody long did it take for Gambit to land that plane? Must've been hours!

As for X-Men 3... Where would you rank it for potential-destroying awfulness against such travesties of continuity as Phantom Menace or the Matrix sequels?

Unknown said...

X3 vs Phantom Menace vs Matrix Sequels... wow that's almost a post in itself. Quick answer, They're worse, X3 had good ideas badly implemented, the others had bad ideas badly implemented

Andrew J Smith said...

I agree with the comments made here, plus I wanna say I liked Wolverine nearly as much as I liked the new (and old Ang Lee version) Hulk movie. I rate Wolverine as better than X1... recently saw it and it has aged quite a bit - stupid leather suits are almost as bad as spandex...