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Been saying a LOT of unpopular X-Men opinions on the board today. Here's a good live-action one.
People HATED X-Men: Origins: Wolverine. I have heard people seriously opine it is the worst superhero movie of all time. And I won't lie. It IS a pretty shabby motion picture when taken as a whole.
But I loved the ending.
Oh yes. Fone Bone went there. The specific thing that fans hated the most is the thing I thought was pure genius.
He lost the memory because he was shot point blank in the eye-socket, the bullet is still lodged there, so his brain cannot heal! And because his skull is currently Adamantium they can't see it through an X-Ray! And even if they could, they could never remove it!
Fans flipped out. "What a lazy cheat cop-out to this complex mystery that the comics have spent decades teasing and revealing clues about!"
I actually think all that sounds overly complicated and convoluted.
And that's why this ending upset the fans. Complicated and convoluted is the entire X-Men brand.
While the fans are creating crime scene corks boards with photos of the Illuminati, President Luthor, Boy Bands, Starbucks, and anklets, connected by colored strings, the very unimaginative (yet audacious and brilliant) creators of that otherwise wretched film said, "Nah, the poor dude just got shot."
Do not misunderstand me. I don't simply love that because it made the fans mad. That's something I laugh about, but it's not something I care about. What I love is the solution is elegant, simple, and explains everything, which NONE of the theories involve mind-erasing Mutants or government brainwashing could ever do. And it take FIVE seconds to explain EVERYTHING we ever wanted to know about the character.
There is something about the fan response to this that annoys me. It's just the film version! It doesn't effect the comics and is not canon. Why does it piss you off so much? It's not like the films themselves were super wedding to the conspiracy, or delved into that mystery in any sort of detail. Why would this movie coming up with a brilliant / stupid answer like that upset you at all?
Sometimes there is no vast conspiracy about Secret Societies trying to control the world. Sometimes dudes just get shot. Sometimes the world is simply ugly and stupid. There is a real-world lesson here. I'm sure of it.
Been saying a LOT of unpopular X-Men opinions on the board today. Here's a good live-action one.
People HATED X-Men: Origins: Wolverine. I have heard people seriously opine it is the worst superhero movie of all time. And I won't lie. It IS a pretty shabby motion picture when taken as a whole.
But I loved the ending.
Oh yes. Fone Bone went there. The specific thing that fans hated the most is the thing I thought was pure genius.
He lost the memory because he was shot point blank in the eye-socket, the bullet is still lodged there, so his brain cannot heal! And because his skull is currently Adamantium they can't see it through an X-Ray! And even if they could, they could never remove it!
Fans flipped out. "What a lazy cheat cop-out to this complex mystery that the comics have spent decades teasing and revealing clues about!"
I actually think all that sounds overly complicated and convoluted.
And that's why this ending upset the fans. Complicated and convoluted is the entire X-Men brand.
While the fans are creating crime scene corks boards with photos of the Illuminati, President Luthor, Boy Bands, Starbucks, and anklets, connected by colored strings, the very unimaginative (yet audacious and brilliant) creators of that otherwise wretched film said, "Nah, the poor dude just got shot."
Do not misunderstand me. I don't simply love that because it made the fans mad. That's something I laugh about, but it's not something I care about. What I love is the solution is elegant, simple, and explains everything, which NONE of the theories involve mind-erasing Mutants or government brainwashing could ever do. And it take FIVE seconds to explain EVERYTHING we ever wanted to know about the character.
There is something about the fan response to this that annoys me. It's just the film version! It doesn't effect the comics and is not canon. Why does it piss you off so much? It's not like the films themselves were super wedding to the conspiracy, or delved into that mystery in any sort of detail. Why would this movie coming up with a brilliant / stupid answer like that upset you at all?
Sometimes there is no vast conspiracy about Secret Societies trying to control the world. Sometimes dudes just get shot. Sometimes the world is simply ugly and stupid. There is a real-world lesson here. I'm sure of it.
