{"id":137,"date":"2013-08-01T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanmaddalena.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:35:37","slug":"another-wolverine-movie-another-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dylanmaddalena.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Another Wolverine Movie. (NOT) Another Disappointment??"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Out of ALL the X-men movies so far, only X2<\/strong> <\/em>has been any good. And it hasn’t aged well. I’m mildly excited to see Capt. Picard & Magneto (Both of them) back in action next summer. And a blue, naked Jennifer What’s-Her-Name isn’t a bad selling point either. But isn’t X-Men vs Avengers<\/strong><\/em> the movie I’m REALLY waiting for? Is that EVER going to happen?<\/p>\n

All I keep thinking since seeing The Wolverine<\/strong><\/em> is “PLEASE Fox, GIVE THE X-MEN BACK TO MARVEL!!!” Give someone else a shot – someone who has managed to string together a series of really good (not great, but REALLY GOOD) comic book movies together – to make a GREAT
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Casting Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor X was a stroke of Genius. And Hugh Jackman is awesome as Wolverine every time. It’s just… the freaking movies are all crappy! I can’t think of a better word. They’re all just… kind of crappy. Plot holes, bad special effects, undeveloped characters plague every single one of the Fox hero movies. I wont even get into Daredevil<\/em><\/strong>, The Punisher<\/strong><\/em>, or Fantastic Four<\/em><\/strong>. It’s not worth my keystrokes. But at some point, on SOME LEVEL, can’t these PROFESSIONAL MOVIE MAKERS with hundreds of millions of $$dollars$$ available to them… Can’t they put just ONE SINGLE GOOD MOVIE TOGETHER?!!??<\/p>\n

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I have some of the early Wolverine comic books, including the 1st issue of the limited 5-issue series the recent movie was based on. And for the love of GOD, they’e GOOD STORIES!! What the hell? The thing about The Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> isn’t so much that it’s bad. It was about as good as last summer’s Spiderman reboot. I’d say Man of Steel<\/em><\/strong> was even a notch above the level of those 2 movies, though it was very similar to The Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> in that it was a nice little movie until the last act where cartoonish CGI took over. And we all want a good movie. For God’s sake, we’ll all go shell out $15 to see the damn thing every time. I think we at least<\/em> can start asking ourselves, “At what point do we wash out hands of Fox’s X-Men product?” I’m sick of getting excited and then being disappointed. It was a fine movie. The 1st 2\/3 of it was decent (just like Man of Steel). But where was the “Berserker Rage”? Why didn’t he take down all those ninja? Why do they NEED to include peripheral, out-of-context mutants like Viper? And C’MON<\/strong> with the Iron Man<\/em><\/strong> rip-off of an ending. This is my point: These are the top-of-class in professional film making, with unlimited money to spend. And its the same playbook over and over and over ad nauseum.<\/p>\n

Go see Pacific Rim<\/em><\/strong> again for some (not even really) original storytelling, great F\/X, and INCREDIBLE action and wait for The Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> dvd.<\/p>\n

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