This will be presented in bullet form, and hopefully I can keep things short and concise:
- Awesome trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
- Wolverine and Sabretooth are brothers. This is absolute horseshit. Even then...the way they go about this at the beginning of the movie is an even bigger load of horseshit.
- Silver Fox's role in things: completely overplayed and overdone.
- Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds was perfect for the role...and he's only in the movie for a total of 5-7 fucking minutes!!! It's a goddamn shame!!! Well, take that back - he happens to be Weapon XI, who is the big fight sequence at the end.
- Weapon XI: Deadpool should NOT be Weapon XI!!! NO!!! Since they cut out all of Wolverine's Japan origins (but see the Easter Egg endings bullet for a little tip), he never had a wife and son apparently. His son, Daken, is turned into Weapon XI. To top it off...there was no Muramasa blade mentioned (which is the only blade that can decapitate and "kill" Wolverine). Instead, they just lead you to believe that adamantium can go through adamantium.
- Wolverine has his memories erased by being shot twice in the head with adamantium bullets.
- Gambit: *ugh* While my friend was going ga-ga over him, I couldn't help but sit there and say "why does he sound like a retard trying to do a southern accent?". That's when I realized that it was a lame attempt at a Cajun accent. My friend then got thoroughly pissed by the end of the movie because he never said "au cher", his catch phrase. She threatened to burn the theatre to the ground because of it. This is on top of the fact that the movie makes it look like Wolverine and Gambit knew each other at least decently before he loses his memory.
- Weapon X Facility: First off, no...it wasn't at Alkali Lake. That really cheesed me off. Here's what makes it worse: this movie makes it out like Stryker had, at some point, captured most of the X-Men (Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Iceman, etc) when they were children to fuse all of their powers to Weapon XI. That's not all, because it gets worse than that: Professor X shows up after Emma Frost escorts them out of the base so he can take them all to the Academy. *ugh* What a headache...
- The Easter Egg endings: The one that I saw was Stryker walking down the road after Silver Fox told him to walk until his feet bled...and then keep walking. It was lame as shit. The other ones include: Weapon XI finding his decapitated head through the rubble and making a hushing sound at the audience, and Wolverine drinking in a bar in Japan. Now, the first one was just dumb. The second one...eh. The third one leads me to believe that they are trying to acknowledge Wolverine's time in Japan...but regardless, they already fucked up the order of things.
- Spectre: Will.I.Am was great in the role. Problem is, they didn't offer much development for him.
- The Blob: The dood that played him was hilarious and excellent for the part...but again, underdeveloped.
- I understand that this movie is called WOLVERINE...but don't underdevelop those two characters when they are shining.
- The CGI was HORRIBLE! There's one part where Wolverine is in a bathroom with his claws, and they looked TERRIBLE! They actually looked better in the FIRST movie!!!
- So many movie cliches, cheesy dialogue, and poor acting quality from most actors. Given that Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to comic movies, as well as a proclaimed hardcore Deadpool fan, he did a great job of keeping the sarcasm and humor dry as Hell. Great job, and it makes me hope they'll forego the bullshit with Weapon XI and just make a Deadpool movie. Nonetheless, outside of the guy that played The Blob and Will.I.Am, everything was swirling down the drain. I blame the script more than anything, because even Danny Huston...who is a SUPERB actor (see 30 Days of Night)...was just wretched in the role.
- The action sequences looked well-orchestrated and choreographed, but the editing was atrocious!!! Too much quick cutting leading into unnecessary expositions leading into quick cutting nonsense.
- The dramatic scenes stunk to high Heaven with overacting. I've seen better drama on General Hospital, and that's nothing BUT overacting!!! At one point, Wolverine pulls out a roar while holding Silver Fox in his arms that you saw Brando do better in Streetcar. It was horrific. Simply horrific.
- The story - outside of all inaccuracies - could've worked well for the flick. The problem is that things started off kind of smooth and moving along, but eventually, everything goes completely batshit nuts out the wazoo. This eventually leads into too many plot twists at once, and in the earlier stages, characters being completely forgettable (I shit you not, I JUST remembered Dominic Monaghan being in the movie while I was writing this bullet out!).
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