Wolverine
I believe that Ebert bloke said that there was little point in having a hero who is indestructable. Well clearly he's wrong as Wolverine is ridiculously popular in the comics and films and cartoons etc. Surely the point is that it would be totally cool to be like Wolverine so we watch/read to imagine ourselves in his position. However, don't you just hate it when American films and TV shows introduce a cliched British rock star (always with a bad london accent). Wolverine doesn't do that (unlike Chuck) but it does something almost as bad. It doesn't make full use of the source material. Actually I'm not sure that's quite so bad. Anyway.
It was interesting seeing the origins of the character. Never realised he was supposed to be that old. I haven't read the comics you see. Even though practically every Marvel comic features Wolverine or Spiderman or both. But the whole story just lacked something and the film was slightly poor in execution with many of the sfx looking rather shoddy.
The end.
I was almost tempted to leave it there but you know me, why stop at 500 words if you can do 5000? Not that I've necessarily done 500 already but still you get the idea. I thi(GET ON WITH IT!! - Everyone)
Gambit should have had more of an accent, cyclops seemed thrown in there for no good reason and the script was utterly lifeless. When it wasn't jumping from horribly cliched dialogue (including a customary NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! scene) it was being just plain function. There was just no flair to it. Still I supposed you could describe it as 'comic book like'. Perhaps a 1950s comic or something. But modern ones (particularly X-men) need you to have some kind of degree in order for you to follow them. So it's not like modern comics.
But it didn't really matter. It was still quite a lot of fun and there were plenty of cool scenes of Wolverine having a good old scrap. The final fight (Copyright Capcom) was jolly good and thoroughly spectaclear (sic). So that made up for things just a enough to make it entertaining.
It was interesting seeing the origins of the character. Never realised he was supposed to be that old. I haven't read the comics you see. Even though practically every Marvel comic features Wolverine or Spiderman or both. But the whole story just lacked something and the film was slightly poor in execution with many of the sfx looking rather shoddy.
The end.
I was almost tempted to leave it there but you know me, why stop at 500 words if you can do 5000? Not that I've necessarily done 500 already but still you get the idea. I thi(GET ON WITH IT!! - Everyone)
Gambit should have had more of an accent, cyclops seemed thrown in there for no good reason and the script was utterly lifeless. When it wasn't jumping from horribly cliched dialogue (including a customary NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! scene) it was being just plain function. There was just no flair to it. Still I supposed you could describe it as 'comic book like'. Perhaps a 1950s comic or something. But modern ones (particularly X-men) need you to have some kind of degree in order for you to follow them. So it's not like modern comics.
But it didn't really matter. It was still quite a lot of fun and there were plenty of cool scenes of Wolverine having a good old scrap. The final fight (Copyright Capcom) was jolly good and thoroughly spectaclear (sic). So that made up for things just a enough to make it entertaining.