Wolverine!

[harmonyangel]

I saw the Wolverine movie last night. The short version: it was Not Good. As a movie, or as an X-Men adaptation. And I have thoughts, which I will discuss below the spoiler cut.

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[jedinewsie]

I would like to take this post to point out that I just recently found out that Hugh Jackman is married to Deborra-Lee Furness, the woman who plays Esther. To which I screamed "AHAHAHAHA, WOLVERINE IS DAVID'S FATHER!!!!"

Ahem. Anyway, I'm sad the movie sucked, but I'm equally sadly not surprised.

[harmonyangel]

Hahaha, I've been thinking about that for YEARS. One day, David's mom comes home and introduces David to his future stepfather... who is already in the Jacobs' kitchen, drinking orange juice out of the bottle and smirking.

It weirded me out a bit when Christian Bale did that movie with Hugh Jackman, too. "Why are you having sexual tension with your boyfriend's mother's husband?"

[lonelywalker]

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I think I'm going to be sticking my fingers in my ears and singing "lalalalala!" regarding this movie if I write any more X-fic.

Although it does have many very attractive people in it.

[harmonyangel]

Hahaha, yeah, that's probably for the best.

But I can't say anything bad about the cast. SO PRETTY.

[20thcenturyvole]

I saw it last night, and was torn between it being full of pretty, and it being randomly sprinkled with fail. Since my biggest motivation was in fact seeing Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, the ending was EPIC FAIL and made me quite infuriated. I like to fantasize that they're really going to do a Deadpool movie that starts with him somehow losing the optic blasts, forearm-katanas, teleportation and remote-control, and getting his mouth back in a timely and fourth-wall breaking fashion. I went for Deadpool! I got five minutes of him. D:

My friends and I did enjoy butt-naked Hugh Jackman, though.

[harmonyangel]

Yeaaaaah. I would love to see more of REAL Deadpool on screen. But at least what was there, before... whatever that ending was, was good. Reynolds really did nail the part in his brief scenes.

And naked Hugh Jackman WAS a plus!

[gracefulrage]

I agree -- how the f*ck are they going to resolve all of the stuff brought up in this movie with the eventual Deadpool spinoff?

[second_batgirl]

It was pretty damn bad.

And I only got one of the post-credit sequences. Not even the good one. :( Sad!

I would like the universe to write lots of Wolverine/Gambit now.

[harmonyangel]

Awww. Which one did you get? I didn't stay; I'll have to find out which I get when I go again with my parents.

Omg, Logan/Gambit, seriously. That was a crapload of eyefucking, right there.

[second_batgirl]

Logan is drinking in a bar in Japan to remember.

Seriously, Jen, I want fic so badly. Because OMG.

[gracefulrage]

That's the one I got. Heard some other people rumbling that this one was "the good one," so it seems that neither one has satisfied the viewers.

Also eagerly awaiting fic. :) And writing some, too, but most of what my drunken muse has put forth has been... really, really bad. Somewhere out there though is someone who can tell a decent story, I'm sure of it.

[harmonyangel]

Even if Jean's already at Xavier's, Scott still met Emma first, which bugs me (completely irrationally, yes, but I can't deny it).

It wasn't so much that Emma and Kayla didn't look alike (though it bothered me because it implied that Silver Fox was even whiter than she appeared, which she shouldn't have been to begin with). It just bothered me that Emma was the character they chose for that at all. There didn't seem to be a POINT. She didn't act like Emma, she wasn't a telepath -- it was like they developed a character for Silver Fox's sister and just assigned her the name Emma Frost because they wanted to CGI some sparkles.

I like your fanwank of Deadpool's blasts, though!