Comments on: ‘Wolverine’ Begins

By: It's Trent, Bitch!

It's Trent, Bitch! — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:11:04 +0000

@C — totally agree, Liev was really very good in this role … the movie itself was just too lacking :(

By: C

Mon, 04 May 2009 19:59:44 +0000

Like you say, Wolverine has a lot of great stories in the comics, but unless you have the backstory, it’s hard to translate them into film. Particularly a film that had one of the worst scripts I’ve ever heard. I honestly was really taken aback by how poor the writing was. I wanted SO BADLY to love the film and I was very disappointed. Hugh Jackman was believable, and suprisingly, so was Liev Schreiber. Too bad they were surrounded by an awful film.

I almost walked out when they started explaining that the only thing that could kill Wolverine was an adamantium bullet. I thought the whole reason Marvel comics started their own movie company was to keep in the details they wanted???

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:50:56 +0000

All I know is that I went to see the movie expecting “Kick-assery” and it delivered more than previous marvel based films! If you need more that’s where the comics come in baby ;P

By: Meream

Meream — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:29:17 +0000

Oooh, can’t wait to see it.

By: Ana S.

Ana S. — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:52:01 +0000

I have to agree as well. I had such high expectations. Gambit and Wolverine in a movie together with Ryan Reynolds, how could that go wrong. But sadly it did. There wasn’t nearly enough Gambit or Deadpool. The story wasn’t all that interesting and the CGI wasn’t that great. It was just an Okay movie nothing spectacular. I wish I would’ve stayed till the end credits I didn’t know they were going to show any extra clips :(

By: katie

katie — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:37:54 +0000

i agree the whole film felt like information overload, yet nothing was addressed enough, I thought the best part was the opening credits where they show logan and victor through time, and any time ryan reynolds was onscreen :)

By: Sigmund Noid

Sigmund Noid — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:30:45 +0000

I am glad to read someone else fell asleep. I passed out during the whole kill-him-with-regular-bullets-even-though-he-hasn’t-died-from-that-in-100-years crap. And why introduce the old couple and then shoot them? Who was there son? I didn’t care about most of this movie.

By: FK

FK — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:11:14 +0000

(logic holes I mean! not “wholes”… ay-ay-ay)

By: FK

FK — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:09:32 +0000

Hugh Jackman is great, but I thought this movie was pretty awful. There wasn’t enough story or character development, and the logic wholes were ridiculous. I was disappointed. When it ended, I felt like nothing had even happened because there just hadn’t been enough real story. But, I know there were definitely people in the theatre who enjoyed it. So….

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:27:19 +0000

oy vey at the reviews. i don’t intend on seeing it because as a reader of the original comics, i just HATE when they get the details wrong (don’t even get me started on spiderman and the previous x-men movies). i know i’m not the target audience, but it still is irritating when they get things wrong (wolverine and sabretooth brothers?!?!?). oh well, i’m glad others are enjoying…

By: la princesa

la princesa — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:00:27 +0000

I liked the film, and I’ve never read the comic books. Soooooo…what the hell happens with the brother? At the end, I was left with a “WTF?!” feeling. Is he SabreTooth? Like from the first XMen film who’s with Magneto? I don’t know. That bothered me. I wanted more Gambit, more of the romance…more! I think it was more that I reeeeeally waited for this film to be released, and an hour & 47 minutes just wasn’t enough! I took the day off to see it, man! :) I loved that Hugh was in pretty much every scene; he was MAGNIFICENT! I’m hoping the dvd will have a “director’s cut” or a billion extra scenes or something…I loved it, though.
Direct me to a website that has the X-Men saga in a timeline or something, man! :)
Also, what I had heard–correct me if I’m wrong, though, please–is that there were multiple (3?) after-the-credits endings. I don’t know though…

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:39:36 +0000

I agree alejandro, very blah to me. I had high hopes too, but too many holes in the plots. Very disappointed. Moving on: Star Trek!!

By: alejandro

alejandro — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:31:27 +0000

i was left with a meh feeling. it was an okay movie. not nearly great. not nearly a great superhero movie either. i find it unfortunate that for a character such as wolverine, we were given this. so many useless characters!! useless plots!! and CG effects were soooo bad a times i cringed. i was hoping for more. but i guess it was my fault for having such high hopes…

By: alexggb

alexggb — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:28:56 +0000

@ Sarah.. Thanx for the info! I love Gambit!!! “Mon Cherie” haha sooo cute. He should’ve had more french accent though.
@Melanie Nooo I didn’t stay!! Dammit. I did download the workprint yesteday to compare the two movies (I cannot believe some people watched the movie like that, it was crap, a lot of grey drawings for the CGI and there’s at least one scene missing) and at the end there’s a scene that shows wolverine in a Japanese bar apparently (I think the bartender girl is speaking japanese) and she goes “american?”, “No, Canadian… I think” “R u drinking to forget”, “No… to remember”. But no dead pool, I thought it was weird that they killed dead pool.

By: Libby

Libby — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:26:22 +0000

I went to see it last night, too, and thought it was amazing! I’m an action movie junkie, and absolutely adored it. I thought the fight scenes were pretty wicked…plus Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in all their gleamy, sweaty, muscular glory was absolute perfection. Yum.

By: Fashionista

Fashionista — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:01:58 +0000

This movie was really good. I enjoyed it so much and I’m a big fan of the X-men comics and wow…it was amazing. I want MORE!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:50:40 +0000

Did anyone else stay to the VERY end of the credits to see the last scene? Deadpool’s hand crawls out of the rubble and finds his decapitated head and says, “sssshhhhhh.” My friends and I were talking in the theater and surprised to see the last hidden clip. Interesting… it was okay, but not spectacular. My friend hated it, but he’s a true fan on the original comic books. Hugh is a hottie though, so I didn’t mind!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:26:15 +0000

@alex, I do. They’ve been talking about the Magneto one for ages but I doubt it ever happens, now the latest talk is that since everyone wanted more Gambit (and have since the get-go, a lot of people were upset when he wasn’t in the original 3) that they’ll do Gambit’s story now. (The possibility was even mentioned in Entertainment Weekly a couple weeks back.) So I think that’s the route they’ll go, although they kind of set up for both movies in this one (with the scene with Xavier in Wolverine as well as the Gambit stuff just made you feel like they were giving you just enough info on him to have you geared up for another movie.) so who knows? There’s def. going to be another one though.

By: nisha

nisha — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:08:23 +0000

i thought the movie was really good i went to see it today.hugh was great and i really enjoyed just watching him.for some reason i cried in the middle.i did feel like i wanted to no more and i think it should have been longer as some parts were skipped but i loved it and think its well worth my money.i am really glad i went to see it in the cinema.they did a good job thought like you said for a pg-13 movie.i love hugh all beastly as wolverine he was brilaint

By: alexggb

alexggb — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:40:31 +0000

I saw it Thursday and I agree, I was left wanting for more.
I think what really happens with Wolverine is that they try to make wolverine look like that moody but cool guy from all the X-men movies when he has actually always been a beast (lovable beast but beast nonetheless). I love Hugh as Wolverine, he makes a perfect Wolverine; but Wolverine is far more rude and beastly than these movies portray. And also, before being an X-men he had been a loner for ages; but u can’t make a movie like that (unless it is castaway hahaha) and not end up with a completely boring movie.
I read a couple of Origins (including Wolverine and Gambit) when I was like 16 and I loved them; but it is really complex to take that to the big screen.
I liked the movie despite all these, it was entertaining and Hugh is such a hottie!! I loved Gambit too though I would’ve loved to see more of him and dead pool. It was good anyway, Do u think we are going to see an X-men 4?