# Why is the Wolverine movie so unliked?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 7, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-wolverine-movie-so-unliked/612135 "2012-02-07T23:25:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-wolverine-movie-so-unliked/612135/21 "2012-02-09T01:09:32Z")

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> [@Morbo](#):
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> Was that the riverboat gambler guy? I didn’t even understand what his power was. Shooting some sort of electric pulse to a deck of cards and turning them into throwing stars? Shooting the same pulse into a cane so he could spin it around a little and helicopter around? And then somehow be able to kick Wolverine’s immortal-200-year-military-fighting-experienced ass with some electric karate?

You can’t really blame the movie for that, Gambit’s card throwing power is straight from the comics.

As for the movie, I don’t get all the hate either, I just think people like to hate stuff these days. I mean, it was nothing special, I haven’t had an urge to see it since it was in the theater, but I also didn’t walk away thinking “wow, that was a waste of two hours of my life” either.

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