Thoughts on Wolverine: Origins and other things.
So, I saw the movie on Mother's day. (It was Mom's idea! She took us to the Cinnebarre, where you can eat pizza and watch movies!) I actually enjoyed it for the most part. I guess because I was just expecting some entertaining fluff, plus I don't know much about X Men, so it's not like I could be offended over anything.
Well, except Deadpool. I know and love enough about him to be offended. But hey, they're making a spin off movie so...
I wonder how Wade is supposed to recover from getting his HEAD cut off. Oh well. All I know is Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is magnificent eye candy. As were all the explosions and fights.
I think it was around the Blob thing I thought "this is a little stupid," but then I shrugged and moved on. Stupid is fun! And I enjoyed seeing teenage Scott, for some reason.
It's interesting how they fridged Wolvie's gf, then subverted the fridging, then re- fridged her. At LEAST she got a cooler death the second time around. Seriously, when Sabretooth was like standing in the middle of the road I was like "Okay, now if I saw a guy standing in the middle of the road threateningly like that I would DRIVE AWAY. Or possibly through him." And then she waits for him to walk up to her car and I was like "wut" and then he freaking scrapes his claws against her car and I was like "She doesn't put her foot on the gas after THAT- she is officially too dumb to live."
Of course, it was all a fake out and the reason she didn't drive away she was because she was in on the plan, but is says a lot about the sad state of Hollywood and superhero fridgings I believed they'd actually make the fridging that pathetic. At least for her real death she at least got to have revenge on Stryker and whatnot. Still, it's a fridging. Because Wolvie's girlfriend just HAS to die for teh angst, right? *insert eyeroll here*
Stryker had the most ridiculously complicated plan ever, by the way. "Heya, I think I'll send a girl to seduce Logan over a number of YEARS, stage Logan's girlfriend's death at Victor's hand, convince him to go through painful surgery (hopefully before her kills me) and then brainwash him and make him a superweapon! And if he goes rogue, I'll shoot him. Deeeeespite the fact I know I just made him indestructable. Yeah. FOOLPROOF!"
Why didn't he use Victor, anyway? I bet he would have been down for the admantium upgrade. In fact, didn't he say as much?
Anyway, fun movie, not heavy intellectually or plotwise, but I didn't expect it to be.
Question though: Which one was Emma Frost? The diamond girl? I thought Frost was telepathic, not...sparkly.
ANYway. Today in Art we just fooled around, but Fuller and I talked comics (remember, Fuller is the fashionable and popular girl who just happens to like superheroes and is good at art. Yet I cannot really be her close friend or anything, because she has a million of them and I do not fit in). She got to do her Senior Exit on Superheroes. I am so jealous. Our teacher demanded we do ours on literature, and apparently comics don't count (I argued that the 80's comics were really wordy. She didn't buy it) I wanted to do it on Wonder Woman and her impact on society! But I had to do it on "The Yellow Wallpaper." Though I did do a comic version of the Yellow Wallpaper for my product! Huh, I should scan that sometime.
But, as I was saying, she had a teacher who was NOT AP so she got to do hers on our four colored friends. And she's dressing like Batgirl for the presentation (She dresses up like Batgirl a lot, actually, I ran into her at Halloween a couple years ago and she was in the costume. It was the same Halloween I dressed up as Steph!Robin. She yelled "Stephanie!" and I yelled "Babs!" and John was like "...huh.")
Actually, we were talking about just that. Here is out conversation:
Fuller: I also saw someone dressed up like Poison Ivy. I gave her a wave and pretended to go into kung fu mode. She gave me a weird look. I was like, seriously? You don't know who I am? How can you be Poison Ivy and not know who I am?
Me: Huh.
Fuller: I should go by the comic store today. The new one.
Me: It's right near my house, I went there yesterday. The guy's nice.
Okay, I actually can't remember how the conversation turned to this, we were discussing sexism in comics for some reason and she all:
Fuller: It was lame. Like the end of Birds of Prey when Huntress was all like "I'm off to teach"
Me: I don't think she...
Fuller: And Black Canary was all "I'm off to raise this kid and get married!" Bleh!
Me: Right, and then that thing with the kid, where Green Arrow made her go away and faked her death and she didn't even get mad at him for that!
Fuller: I know!
Me: Such an ass! Can't believe they made her marry him.
Fuller: And the lady...that lady in red...
Me: Manhunter?
Fuller: Right! She got scared because they planted a fear about her kid in her skull and then she...
Me: She's appearing as a backup in Streets of Gotham.
Fuller: Right, whatever.
Me: But what ticks me off is Babs being all mopey and leaving...they better not make her Batgirl again!
Fuller: Really? I think that would be good. I dunno, that way she could kick ass.
Me: But she's so much cooler as Oracle! And she's like, thirty, she's not a girl! And what about Cassandra, I like Cassandra!
Fuller: I don't like what they've done with Cassandra lately. You know, there was the evil thing...
Me: ...Yeah. *tries to pretend she hasn't been complaining about it on the Internet for the last two years*
Fuller: And then it was like, her Dad pumped her full of evil serum, that made no sense. I was like, what?
Kate (sitting near us): Wow. He's a sucky dad. Whoever you're talking about.
Me: Just a little. Anyway, I know. But, Babs! Cooler as Oracle! Not a girl!
Fuller: I dunno...it's like, she's stuck at the desk job she always hated. You know like in her origin [she means BG: Y1] how the FBI was like "You can't do this because you're short, and a girl, and you should do desk work?" and she was like "screw you, I can kick ass?" Now she's stuck being like behind a desk. Which she never wanted to be.
Me:... huh. *gets distracted by picture I'm drawing*
Fuller [to Kate]: And also, what ticks me off? This new writer who came on and made She Hulk switch jobs! She was this cool and funny lawyer before, and now she's like a bounty hunter, and it's BORING, with some kind of Skrull, who she has some sort of lesbian thing with, well, not really, but you know, actually really. It's really boring. And now it's CANCELLED.
Kate: I have no idea what you're talking about it.
Me: *thinks to myself* Congrats, PAD. You have earned Fuller's ire.
Anyway, that was my wacky comics related conversation with a girl who is not only one of the most popular in school, but likes comics! Take that, stereotypes!
(I don't agree with her about Babs though. At all.)
Well, except Deadpool. I know and love enough about him to be offended. But hey, they're making a spin off movie so...
I wonder how Wade is supposed to recover from getting his HEAD cut off. Oh well. All I know is Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is magnificent eye candy. As were all the explosions and fights.
I think it was around the Blob thing I thought "this is a little stupid," but then I shrugged and moved on. Stupid is fun! And I enjoyed seeing teenage Scott, for some reason.
It's interesting how they fridged Wolvie's gf, then subverted the fridging, then re- fridged her. At LEAST she got a cooler death the second time around. Seriously, when Sabretooth was like standing in the middle of the road I was like "Okay, now if I saw a guy standing in the middle of the road threateningly like that I would DRIVE AWAY. Or possibly through him." And then she waits for him to walk up to her car and I was like "wut" and then he freaking scrapes his claws against her car and I was like "She doesn't put her foot on the gas after THAT- she is officially too dumb to live."
Of course, it was all a fake out and the reason she didn't drive away she was because she was in on the plan, but is says a lot about the sad state of Hollywood and superhero fridgings I believed they'd actually make the fridging that pathetic. At least for her real death she at least got to have revenge on Stryker and whatnot. Still, it's a fridging. Because Wolvie's girlfriend just HAS to die for teh angst, right? *insert eyeroll here*
Stryker had the most ridiculously complicated plan ever, by the way. "Heya, I think I'll send a girl to seduce Logan over a number of YEARS, stage Logan's girlfriend's death at Victor's hand, convince him to go through painful surgery (hopefully before her kills me) and then brainwash him and make him a superweapon! And if he goes rogue, I'll shoot him. Deeeeespite the fact I know I just made him indestructable. Yeah. FOOLPROOF!"
Why didn't he use Victor, anyway? I bet he would have been down for the admantium upgrade. In fact, didn't he say as much?
Anyway, fun movie, not heavy intellectually or plotwise, but I didn't expect it to be.
Question though: Which one was Emma Frost? The diamond girl? I thought Frost was telepathic, not...sparkly.
ANYway. Today in Art we just fooled around, but Fuller and I talked comics (remember, Fuller is the fashionable and popular girl who just happens to like superheroes and is good at art. Yet I cannot really be her close friend or anything, because she has a million of them and I do not fit in). She got to do her Senior Exit on Superheroes. I am so jealous. Our teacher demanded we do ours on literature, and apparently comics don't count (I argued that the 80's comics were really wordy. She didn't buy it) I wanted to do it on Wonder Woman and her impact on society! But I had to do it on "The Yellow Wallpaper." Though I did do a comic version of the Yellow Wallpaper for my product! Huh, I should scan that sometime.
But, as I was saying, she had a teacher who was NOT AP so she got to do hers on our four colored friends. And she's dressing like Batgirl for the presentation (She dresses up like Batgirl a lot, actually, I ran into her at Halloween a couple years ago and she was in the costume. It was the same Halloween I dressed up as Steph!Robin. She yelled "Stephanie!" and I yelled "Babs!" and John was like "...huh.")
Actually, we were talking about just that. Here is out conversation:
Fuller: I also saw someone dressed up like Poison Ivy. I gave her a wave and pretended to go into kung fu mode. She gave me a weird look. I was like, seriously? You don't know who I am? How can you be Poison Ivy and not know who I am?
Me: Huh.
Fuller: I should go by the comic store today. The new one.
Me: It's right near my house, I went there yesterday. The guy's nice.
Okay, I actually can't remember how the conversation turned to this, we were discussing sexism in comics for some reason and she all:
Fuller: It was lame. Like the end of Birds of Prey when Huntress was all like "I'm off to teach"
Me: I don't think she...
Fuller: And Black Canary was all "I'm off to raise this kid and get married!" Bleh!
Me: Right, and then that thing with the kid, where Green Arrow made her go away and faked her death and she didn't even get mad at him for that!
Fuller: I know!
Me: Such an ass! Can't believe they made her marry him.
Fuller: And the lady...that lady in red...
Me: Manhunter?
Fuller: Right! She got scared because they planted a fear about her kid in her skull and then she...
Me: She's appearing as a backup in Streets of Gotham.
Fuller: Right, whatever.
Me: But what ticks me off is Babs being all mopey and leaving...they better not make her Batgirl again!
Fuller: Really? I think that would be good. I dunno, that way she could kick ass.
Me: But she's so much cooler as Oracle! And she's like, thirty, she's not a girl! And what about Cassandra, I like Cassandra!
Fuller: I don't like what they've done with Cassandra lately. You know, there was the evil thing...
Me: ...Yeah. *tries to pretend she hasn't been complaining about it on the Internet for the last two years*
Fuller: And then it was like, her Dad pumped her full of evil serum, that made no sense. I was like, what?
Kate (sitting near us): Wow. He's a sucky dad. Whoever you're talking about.
Me: Just a little. Anyway, I know. But, Babs! Cooler as Oracle! Not a girl!
Fuller: I dunno...it's like, she's stuck at the desk job she always hated. You know like in her origin [she means BG: Y1] how the FBI was like "You can't do this because you're short, and a girl, and you should do desk work?" and she was like "screw you, I can kick ass?" Now she's stuck being like behind a desk. Which she never wanted to be.
Me:... huh. *gets distracted by picture I'm drawing*
Fuller [to Kate]: And also, what ticks me off? This new writer who came on and made She Hulk switch jobs! She was this cool and funny lawyer before, and now she's like a bounty hunter, and it's BORING, with some kind of Skrull, who she has some sort of lesbian thing with, well, not really, but you know, actually really. It's really boring. And now it's CANCELLED.
Kate: I have no idea what you're talking about it.
Me: *thinks to myself* Congrats, PAD. You have earned Fuller's ire.
Anyway, that was my wacky comics related conversation with a girl who is not only one of the most popular in school, but likes comics! Take that, stereotypes!
(I don't agree with her about Babs though. At all.)