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Dude! I'm excited...this and Star Trek..come on! It's going to be a good summer.
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about this one.
I almost feel like they're milking here, rather than trying to put out their own great stand-alone.
The previews look meh, at best. I'm hoping they didn't give away the most badass line of the summer in the preview...
It was pretty good (i just watched the leak)... I'm still not sure how I feel about Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, but was refreshingly surprised by Will.I.Am and the guy who plays Maverick/Agent Zero (though, he looks Asian and the character is supposed to be German... oh well, he was hot shit anyway).
Just cuz I've seen the leak I definitely plan to see the movie (cuz I'm a nerd and have a big homosexual boner for multitude of neverending man candy in the film, and the Marvel Universe in general :P)... Even though this was the Wolverine story, I still would've liked to have seen a bit more of the other characters but what I've seen seems to work just fine!
I don't think I could justify watching versions that still show the zip lines :-/
Regardless, both have you have said that this is a good movie... more depth plox!
Without explaining the plot, tell me if they paid attention to the plot... Do they follow backstory pretty well? No obvious continuity gaps, etc?
Those are usually the things that end up derailing me from a movie like this in the long run.
A) it's really hard to do that without giving away plot
B) There is such a multitude of continuities and just altogether standalone X-Men series that you can't really claim a true "right" or "wrong" backstory.
But here we go (I'm going to assume that the points I'm bringing up are the ones you'd be concerned with) ... They kinda dodge the whole Canadian Intelligence thing, though there is a mentioning of him being Canadian and you see him fighting in multiple wars. NO THAT WAS NOT A SPOILER. ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN A TRAILER KNOWS THAT PART SO GET OFF MY BACK <3
There are some characters that have been introduced somewhat randomly that don't quite fit in in the timeline of Wolverine's written history but overall the way they are introduced still makes sense for the most part but leaves some open questions for more spinoffs. At the same time this isn't a broad X-Men movie — it's primarily just James/Logan's story.
It's that previous point though that you might have the biggest problem. If you look at the overall timeline of when certain characters have been introduced (major characters of the X-Men series) you're going to wonder, "hmmm... if this is when they're introducing Cyclops, Gambit, Emma Frost how does that fit in with the timing of some of the X-Men movies already out and how do some of these mutants fit in overall in the Marvel Universe if they've already been burned this "early" in the timeline.
I usually take the X-Men as illustrated by Jim Lee as my primary reference (though I'm a big fan of Ultimate X-Men and it seems as though the more recent X-Men movies seem to be taking a lot more inspiration from the Ultimate universe) for "right" and "wrong" (they're just the most socially relevant and IMO cohesive span of the X-Men comics). In this vein, if you glued all that lore together with what happens in the movie, Gambit would be an old man by the time he started getting jiggy with Rogue (she's a fucking teenager in the other movies!) and Emma Frost has about ZERO time to go from good girl to badass sexy kitten of the Hellfire Club (she's one of my favorites so I'll admit it peeved me that they would burn her off so "early" in the film lineage).
The Weapon X aspect of the story is followed pretty accurately, though if they had changed that the production staff, along with Jackman himself, would have been skinned alive if they got the procedure and motivations wrong.
Overall, I just look at all of the X-Men movies as a continuity all their own. They haven't really fit entirely into any single vein of source material but have blended the multiple continuities into something more digestible by audiences at large. Just watch it!
/hugs and kisses, Zeph
Zeph, I had no idea you were such an X-men buff.
+10 to man-crush on Zephy.
Yeah, Lons, they fucked up Deadpool and a lot of people are going to be pissed about that... (I was never a big fan but he's definitely got a following). I wasn't sure if I brought him up if I'd be spoiling anything but I suppose not.
Yay! Doma love!
Will you fuckers actually put up spoilers. JFC its not even out yet and your talking about specifics, not assumptions.
I heard about the leak but I didn't want it to be wrecked as some special effects weren't in place. I'm looking forward to it, or what I haven't read in this thread......
Ain
Dragonballz GT > X-Men or
Samurai X > X-Men or
Hentai > All Movies
The real question about the movie is, if Wolverine and Batman (Batman Batman, not Kirynos Batman) fought, who would win?
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