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@moff: NO DICE MOFF
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i will pass on this film if it is made and will watch the old twilight zone episode instead of watching this bloated film.
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Glad to hear it! Here's hoping the same thing happens with THE BOX and REAL STEEL.
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he has starred in a pretty good franchise of films (X-Men) worked with Australian auteur Baz Luhrman on one of is epics (Australia), can sing, dance and participate in Broadway plays and musicals, and is eye candy for the ladies. Let's just hope his career doesn't fizzle the way McGregor's has following Star Wars.
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YES. If I could wash reading those books out of my mind, I would.
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What?
This is the X-Men. Where everyone on the team has died at least once and been resurrected.
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I also like that quote b/c the number of characters in comics whose deaths meant The End is dwarfed by the number of characters in comics whose deaths meant maybe a month or two out of circulation.
And sure, nobody's been able to do it in the normal continuity, but killing Wolverine in some potential future or alternate past is practically a cliche. Actually, not practically. But then, I haven't been reading Marvel lately so maybe it's not as common as it was during the nineties.
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Sometimes I think there is some backlash because Wolvie's so popular, which is why maybe Claremont wanted to kill him.
I'll just be happy if the movies get better. I haven't seen the first, and I'm on the fence whether I ever should, from what I've heard.
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If that doesn't cause spams of Nerd Rage, then maybe you can sit through Wolverine:Origins. I know I couldn't.
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Perplexing and oddly satisfying, so I say Nerd Rage=Satiated.
08/11/09
I actually had a friend who spend a half hour telling me why the first Spiderman movie sucked not because of any flaws in the movie, but because it didn't follow the original comics exactly.
A 2 hour movie operates on different principles than a book or graphic novel and since it costs more to make one superhero movie than it does to print a decade worth of comic titles, it needs to appeal to more than just the fan geek contingency which usually requires changes (what fan geeks refer to as "dumbing down").
Am I defending Wolverine: the movie? No, but only because I haven't seen it yet (movies in Sweden are ridiculously overpriced) but I have seen far too many average/good movies be trashed because they didn't follow the source material - a criticism that should have nothing to do with how good a movie is given that 95% of the filmgoers haven't read the source.
If you want to critique a film, do that, but leave the bitching about how it didn't follow the original panel for panel out of it.
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and to your point about the expectations and comics; the studio should know there are expectations when they're working on a film like this. The reason they're making these films is because it has a built in audience, is it so far fetched to have the fans be critical when it's their money the studio is after?
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I'm a fan of the X-Men but don't really mind if they take liberties with the storyline (hell I hope they do since X-Men stories are pretty convoluted). The only thing I do expect, at the very least, is that they capture the essence of the property and tell a compelling story on film (as I expect of any movie that I walk into).
I think this sentiment is shared by others. as most comic fans regard the first 2 X-Men films favorably, despite the fact they took HUGE liberties with established canon. That's because they were well acted, directed, and written films in their own right and respected the characters and themes of the franchise.
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You know you've f'ed up big time when the video game adaptation of your movie is truer to the character and features better writing and action.
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