But aside from that, I liked it. Great special effects. Cool fight scenes. It was a fun 2 hours. 3 Stars out of 5. At least there was more Mutant v. Mutant and less Mutant v. Human as in X2. Seeing a mutant kick human ass isn't fun. It's like watching a Jedi knock over a bunch of robots by waving at them. It's not clever, it just sucks.
About spin-offs: If you're going to do a Wolverine spin-off, oh wait, don't do it. You're already pretty close to ruining Hugh Jackman, who, despite all that's going against him, is one of our few decent action stars. By all measure he should rightly suck. What kind of name is Hugh Jackman? How about Grant Cockbig? Steve Toughguy? Even with all the ridiculous movies he's done outside of
X-Men, Hugh Jackman still seems like a person I don't want to hate. He does theater. Musical theater. That doesn't make him cool, but it does help to differentiate him from The Rock. And don't pretend that the Wolverine movie is going to be about developing his story. We know his story. It ended in X2. In fact, we all had it figured out in X-Men 1, but we put up with you showing him figuring it all out. How he got his name is not backstory. It's just obvious. (Why do they call Storm, Storm?) And Magneto? We got him figured out in the prologue for the first movie. It took about 4 minutes.
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Date: 2006-06-19 06:23 pm (UTC)About spin-offs:
If you're going to do a Wolverine spin-off, oh wait, don't do it. You're already pretty close to ruining Hugh Jackman, who, despite all that's going against him, is one of our few decent action stars. By all measure he should rightly suck. What kind of name is Hugh Jackman? How about Grant Cockbig? Steve Toughguy? Even with all the ridiculous movies he's done outside of
X-Men, Hugh Jackman still seems like a person I don't want to hate. He does theater. Musical theater. That doesn't make him cool, but it does help to differentiate him from The Rock.
And don't pretend that the Wolverine movie is going to be about developing his story. We know his story. It ended in X2. In fact, we all had it figured out in X-Men 1, but we put up with you showing him figuring it all out. How he got his name is not backstory. It's just obvious. (Why do they call Storm, Storm?)
And Magneto? We got him figured out in the prologue for the first movie. It took about 4 minutes.