X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Nick and I watched this last night, in lieu of anything else that caught our attention.
I thought that, all in all, it was a reasonably good movie. Not brilliant, by any means, but certainly not some horrible monstrosity either. Nick, on the other hand, took the opportunity to pick holes in every aspect of the plot that he could, because he's just so OCD about plots and characterisation being the same in both the comics and the movies. Sometimes he can be a real pain to watch stuff with...
But anyway, like I said it wasn't that bad a movie, although both of us agreed that Deadpool/Wade Wilson wasn't in the movie enough and didn't speak enough when he was (although having his mouth sealed shut admittedly was a factor there). You know, if you're going to have a guy known as "the merc with a mouth" in a movie, you really should have him talking non-stop in every scene he's in. But there were whole minutes where he didn't say anything! Gambit was also an interesting character, although Nick complained that his accent wasn't strong enough (although I pointed out that if it was full-on Cajun then the audience wouldn't understand a word he was saying).
The biggest thing in the movie for me though was the inclusion of the young Scott Summers and Emma Frost in the movie, and even though they were only together in the movie for about ten-fifteen minutes in total, the Scott/Emma shipper in me could definitely see a lot of promise there. I could even go for an alternate movie universe where Emma joins the X-Men and she and Scott become a couple instead of Scott and Jean...
I thought that, all in all, it was a reasonably good movie. Not brilliant, by any means, but certainly not some horrible monstrosity either. Nick, on the other hand, took the opportunity to pick holes in every aspect of the plot that he could, because he's just so OCD about plots and characterisation being the same in both the comics and the movies. Sometimes he can be a real pain to watch stuff with...
But anyway, like I said it wasn't that bad a movie, although both of us agreed that Deadpool/Wade Wilson wasn't in the movie enough and didn't speak enough when he was (although having his mouth sealed shut admittedly was a factor there). You know, if you're going to have a guy known as "the merc with a mouth" in a movie, you really should have him talking non-stop in every scene he's in. But there were whole minutes where he didn't say anything! Gambit was also an interesting character, although Nick complained that his accent wasn't strong enough (although I pointed out that if it was full-on Cajun then the audience wouldn't understand a word he was saying).
The biggest thing in the movie for me though was the inclusion of the young Scott Summers and Emma Frost in the movie, and even though they were only together in the movie for about ten-fifteen minutes in total, the Scott/Emma shipper in me could definitely see a lot of promise there. I could even go for an alternate movie universe where Emma joins the X-Men and she and Scott become a couple instead of Scott and Jean...