I liked the opening credits because in each battle of all the different wars you could see Victor turning more and more animalistic. By the invasion of Normandy Victor was starting to enjoy his killing
It was ok, not the worst comic book movie, but far from the best. I didn’t care to much for the opening: there’s a gun shot, one guy is dead, one guy is Logan’s real father. Can’t really feel emotion for anyone, 2 minutes into the film and why should I care who is who’s father? I did like the credits though. Was it me or was there 3 or 4 “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” scenes in the movie. I would have like to have seen more of Logan fighting his animal instincts. And Ryan Reynolds was awsemome.
What I saw at the end of the credits was a 30 second shot of Deadpool still alive. Actually, it was pretty frakkin’ stoopid.
This movie was a steaming piece of shit. I can’t people here, intelligent people, actually liked it.
The first twenty minutes or so of the movie rocked. Was absolutely fitting and did great story progression. But the rest of it was plain retarded.
For instance
Why would an Adamantium covered encapsulated brain be affected by an Adamantium bullet?
How on earth does cutting a hum-v along the side cause it to fly through the air and do a barrel roll? Even if he is strong and his claws are indestructible, it wouldn’t cause a vehicle to barrel roll into the air.
The part where Logan is looking at his claws in the mirror is plain horrible for special affects. In the previous movies, his blades looked realistic. In this, they looked like pieces of crap. Every scene with them looked horrible; just obnoxious gleaming pieces of trash
Why would the helicopter blow up a SECOND time? And even if you believe the fuel flowed to there, it was plain unnecessary to have him blow it up AGAIN. They just wanted an explosion
And don’t get me started on the “old people helping out Logan” plot. Jesus I’m glad they ate it. If he sat down and game him a heart to heart about life and choices you make, I’m pretty sure I would have walked out.
They just threw in characters for no reason at all. I’m sure glad they had Gambit, The Blob, Prof. X, Cyclops, etc. They really helped develop the story line. Jesus, there was no point to have them in there, at all. Seriously, you didn’t need em.
When Wolverine was fighting Victor in the alley way in New Orleans, before they fight Wolverine knocks out Gambit. Then W and V meet half way in the alley in a death hold. Then we see Gambit running along roof tops to jump in the middle of the right. FROM WHERE? Why on earth was he on the roof? He’s approximately 30 feet behind the two mutants standing in the alley. Why is he running across multiple roof tops? It’s like they had different versions of this movie and sliced them together.
Horrible CGI, retarded plot devices, huge inconsistencies in plain LOGIC.My list could go on. I’m not even a series buff or snob. I watched the cartoon when I was a kid but barely read the comics. So, my opinion isn’t one of a die hard fan who wouldn’t be pleased anyway. I just have a casual relationship with the series and I was quite disappointed with this piece of trash.
I thought is wasn’t bad. I was expectin a crap-fest based on what people were saying about the leaked movie (I didn’t see it), and when the movie ended I thought ‘eh, it was time worth spending.’
Then I heard the guys behind me, who had evidently known more of the backstory. And I quote “That was fuckin lame, why didn’t they just stick with the fucking story?”
So I gues it somes down to whether or not you know any of his history.
Yeah, there was one or two CGI shots that were awful, but there was stuff that looked GREAT too.
Makes me want to see if there are any other pictures of Three Mile Island and a) count the stacks, and b) see if they’re open at the bottom
It was certainly better than Spider Man III.
I didn’t care for the movie at all, was very underwhelmed. I just didn’t care and saw it as more of the long blowjob comics have been giving the character for a while. Movie Batman I like, comic Batman not so much. I hate both versions of Wolverine. Incidentally, how does Logan swim? He’s got a body full of metal! Because everyone is using spoilers, I will too:
[spoiler] I took the whole “adamantium bullets will erase his memory” bit as saying that they’re the only things that will pierce his skull, not that the metal itself is special. Badly explained in the movie, I agree.
There’s no reason for Cyclops to remember a guy he maybe heard talk once about 6 years ago and never saw. I agree that having him in the movie was goofy and unneeded.
I like and PA and I agree, the 3 Mile Island thing was crap on a stick. It would have required a huge and impossible conspiracy to keep that place going.
If you follow the comics, the Professor was in the chair before he started gathering mutants, so that was right out (and the de-aging effects looked horrible) [/spoiler]
The black teleporting guy was, I believe, made up for the movie.
I thought Liev Schreiber did a bang-up job-he’s good at playing creepy guys.
Deadpool was quite good, and I agree that Kayla was a little wooden.
At the end, I hoped that
she would be revealed to have been Mystique, but no such luck.
Nope, that’s John Wraith a.k.a. Kestrel.
We are far enough into this thread to skip spoiler boxes I think.
I just want to agree that the de-aging effects used on the Prof were HORRENDOUS. I think it was a CGI Prof X with PS face pasted on because when he said “You’re safe now” I swear it was dialog from another movie and it even sounded spliced in.
Also, the claws looked terrible as well. Not sure how they regressed on the CGI for the claws from the Xmen movies but they did. In the bathroom they didn’t look finished. They looked like they were made in the Tron era.
What is the difference between this character and NIghtcrawler? It seems to me that Nightcrawler is just an inferior version of Wraith.
OK, just so I’m clear:
Weapon XI was Deadpool and a whole bunch of other mutant’s DNA? Or was he a new creature made from all of their DNA? And they sewed his mouth shut just because he was a smartass? Do mutants not have to eat?
I saw it again (my sister wanted to see it, so I took her), and I got to see the Deadpool ending this time in a different theater.
I think you can tell which ending you’re going to get based on which trailers in the beginning are shown- the Wolverine ending had the Transformers 2 Trailer in it, while the Deadpool version didn’t have the transformers 2 trailer, but had the Night at the Museum 2 trailer as the final trailer before it went into the Movie itself.
And it appears that Deadpool is Wade with the other mutant’s powers spliced into him.
Also, watching this movie and then watching X2 is REALLY trippy, as I totally forgot that Col. William Striker was the villian of X2 as well. Kinda nifty though.
-And the first hummer exploded/propelled upwards from the tire popping not the claws just digging into it- I know, doesn’t help much, but that’s what you get I suppose.
Do you mean in terms of abilities or personalities or people? Because there’s lots of mutants that have similar powers (see Regeneration and like 3-4 people over the course of the Xmen movie franchise alone), Telepaths- Jean Grey, Professor X, Jason Stryker (From X2) and others.
If you mean personalities- Wraith is a black dude from America who was part of the Weapon X program, while Nightcrawler was Kurt Wagner, a Devout Catholic German Blue guy who was blue since birth, (and in some versions, related to Mystique).
He knows he’s a comic book character. So he sees the “little yellow boxes” on top of the pannel, comments on the shape or size of his and other people’s speech bubbles, comments on why he or other people are doing what they do from the writer/artist’s perspective etc…
He also often mentions probable reader reactions to the action going on to other protagonists, who don’t get what the hell he’s talking about.
Deadpool comics don’t have a fourth wall, more of a fourth chicken mesh held with duct tape 
Nope. I’ve seen it twice: first time I had Transformers 2, second time Night at the Museum 2. Both times I saw the ‘Weapon XI is still alive’ ending. However, both were in the same theater. I suspect it varies from one theater to the next.
My Wolverine ending was at AMC, my Deadpool one was at Regal Cinemas if that helps then.
Okay, since everyone else is probably already on story/plot/characterization issues, and probably doing a better job than I could, I’m going to try my hand at…technical nitpicking.
I guess I’ll spoiler it.
[spoiler]Alright, so the movie’s finale takes place at Three Mile Island, so presumably the big fight was a cover/cause of the 1979 accident, right? So that’s supposed to be when the movie takes place?
I mean, that works, with it being only a few years since Logan left Team X (or whatever the movie-name for it was) right after getting bailed out from Vietnam, right?
So…Striker’s got a Humvee or two—which wouldn’t be produced for a couple of more years, and not even in PROTOTYPE form for a year or two—his Huey looked like it had a “glass” artificial horizon; and the Alkali Lake lab looked like it had LCD displays (I might be wrong at this part—though the graphics looked a little top notch).
Maybe it’s just me. I think I heard someone say, once, “audiences will accept the impossible, but not the implausible.” Maybe that’s true—I can buy a supervillain creating an indestructible mutated cyber-brainwashed killing machine in the disco years, but not the villain having a modern-looking user interface on the computer that controls the monster!
Oh, and a lot of the character accents was all wrong, and the non-immortal characters who appear would be a little too danged old by the time of the X-Men movies if those’uns were supposed to take place when they were filmed, or in the near future. Nyah.
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Did some of y’all not notice that young Scott Summers was blindfolded when Logan was setting everybody loose? He never saw him.
I wondered about the date the movie took place too, but I don’t think it was supposed to be '79. From the way Gambit was speaking, it seemed that the TMI was long abandoned by the time of the film.
Quite true. Scott being there was still somewhat vexsome, as it requires Gambit to be a good 10 years older than he. Still, of all the (movie) original X-men to be there, he was clearly the best choice, as it’s not hard to contrive a scenario in which he’d be unable to see Jimmy/Logan during the rescue, and no reason for Logan to realize years later that he’d met Cyke before.
As for the complaint about the difference between Emma Frost and her sister–isn’t the answer as simple as their being HALF-sisters, or perhaps step-sister? I’m not close to my own half sister, but my full sisters are, and they wouldn’t bother appending a prefix when referring to her.
[spoiler]Heh. TMI actually wasn’t abandoned…it’s actually still operating today!
Praise be to proper containment buildings…of course, even Chernobyl was kept operational until 2000 (“Hey, not all of the reactors blew up! Why let it go to waste?”).[/spoiler]
Spoilers.
Also, the minigun that they fired at Logan wasn’t operational then. Plus, it did not sound like that. They made it sound like a .50 cal.