The movie, not the character. Or the animal. Though both of those are pretty cool too. Anyway, I saw the movie last night, and I thought it was really good! There were some things in there that kind of bothered me, but after thinking about it for a while, I realized that most of those things were because I was comparing the movie to things I already knew about the Wolverine story from comics. And that's really one of the biggest problems with super hero movies, I feel like, that they have SO many different kind of people and fans that they have to please.
Just real quick I want to talk about that a little bit, because I think it's kind of an interesting issue. Like, going into a movie about a character that you know really well, and has had so much backstory already, what mindset is the best to have? If you go in just trying to give the movie a blank slate, you might just be able to enjoy the movie for what it is, but I think that's a really hard thing to do. Then, if you go into it with expectations based on what you already know, you're probably going to be frustrated/disappointed in the changes and the decisions the movie makes. And there usually are going to be a lot of changes, since the mediums of comics and movies are so very different.
Anyway, now I'll talk a bit about some specific things in the movie, so if you haven't seen it yet, be warned that lots of spoilers will follow.
So first off, I really liked Viper. Not only cause she was really pretty, but I liked her like, mannerisms too. So sassy. The only thing that bothered me about her was, why was she even in this movie when there was not even a passing mention of Hydra? I mean, there wasn't any that I saw, maybe I just missed it. But I thought it would have been way cooler if Hydra had figured into the plot somehow, even in a small way. And if there really is no mention of Hydra at all, why not just use a different character? IIIIII dunno. Just seemed kind of weird to me.
I also found it weird that Wolverine was like getting on with Mariko (who was really pretty too, btw :D). When I was watching the movie, I thought that she was Wolverine's wife from the comics, but it turns out she wasn't. I mean I guess they just chose to stray from the original story, so that's fine. That was just one of the things that confused me about the movie though, since I was only vaguely familiar with Wolverine's time in Japan. Since I knew the woman Wolverine fell in love with died, and Mariko didn't.
Was kind of disappointed with Silver Samurai, too. I mean he looked awesome, but I was kind of hoping that he'd be like the major villain of the movie. I guess he kind of was, but he didn't have any presence until the last, what twenty minutes or so? And then there was the bit about heated adamantium being able to cut adamantium. Isn't heated metal supposed to be weaker? I guess it was a reference to Silver Samurai's tachyon field power, but if so, then why was Wolverine able to activate it? Ehhhhh....
So far I've mostly been complaining, but I really did enjoy the movie. The action scenes were great, and the squishy relationshipy scenes weren't bad. Certainly not as terrible as the ones in Pacific Rim. And I forget her name, but the girl with red hair was a great character too. And Jean spent the entire movie in a nightie, so...I mean it's hard to go wrong with that.
And then the extra scene at the end was cool, and pretty ominous. I felt like they were probably referencing Apocalypse, but maybe that's a bit too big. I mean, where do you go from there? Though, I guess they already did the Phoenix Force, so maybe nothing's out of the question. I think it would be cool to see Omega Red, since he was, in my opinion, always one of the cooler villains. But who knows?
This just reminds me that I need to get caught up with the other Marvel movies. I still haven't seen The Avengers, or Thor, or Iron Man 2 (even though I already saw 3...), or Captain America. Thing is...none of those were ever any of my favourite Marvel characters. I guess I should still see them though, since all the movies are tying together, and they were all probably pretty great. But I'm just soo lazyyy~.
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