It's funny, because the other evening I was about to make an "X-men Origins: Wolverine Suck-O-Meter" poll to see what people were expecting of the film, but I got bogged down doing something else and never finished the post.
I am fully prepared to not like this film to such an extent that I will, in that weird way I am, probably enjoy it for all it's schmaltzy stupidity when I actually see the thing.
Pros:
-Well, it has Wolverine, who is way overhyped and has been for about the last 25 years, but he is a modern day comic book classic. So that's a pro and a con.
-It has some cast members who can actually act.
-Jackman hasn't come out of the closet yet, so the movie will not fail due to a homophobic public shying away from the film.
Cons:
-This movie has Gambit in it!(!!11one!!one111!!!) And as everyone knows, Gambit is the type of character that is purposefully designed by a secret cabal of international bankers and Free Masons with the express goal of being so over the top appealing to spotty 12 year olds, that you just have to hate him. It's like people decided to create a Wolverine/Rogue hybrid for sexually frustrated tween comic book readers. I loathe this character, because he's one big mass of hackneyed cliches, seemingly designed in a patronizingly obvious manner to be badazz.
-Deadpool: Deadpool, to me, is a bit similar to Gambit in that he suffers from being a carbon-copy anti-hero that turns into a protagonist. Never mind the whole horribly scared schtick. He is only saved by his wisecracking and later his oddball pairing with another piece of deadwood, Cable (and barely saved, at that).
-Liev Schrieber: Really, as opposed to so many people who can't stand this guy, I actually like him. But as Sabretooth? Whatever. At least he's not the hulking (literally hulk-sized) brute of his later artistic incarnations.
-Having to deliver too much on a muddled basis: Wolverine, as only an over-hyped and way too popular franchise-character who is constantly trotted out to reveal this or that about his background or who must undergo a new earth-shaking event to shock his fans, has subsequently become a character with a ridiculous history and convoluted, contradictory back story. Will this all blend together seamlessly or gell into a fetid mass of 'utter gash'? Or will they just pick and choose from the smorgasbord of comic book pastiches that make up this character's origin? Either way, it's shaky ground they're walking on.
 Originally Posted by bassman
The first two are pretty great films, imo. And I was never into Xmen as a kid. The third film was okay as a mindless action film, but Bryan Singer's first two Xmen films were great entertainment.
Yeah, I felt the first one was surprisingly good for what seemed like a half-hearted attempt at making a franchise film, especially one that had to deal with so many characters. The second was pretty good too, but some characters really suffered from a lack of attention. The third film was...pretty damn bad...pretty damn bad, indeed.
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