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more about #xmenoriginswolverine more comments → Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » Sproing: A great video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, about Eastwood movies, touches on a lot of these points. And since Eastwood's heroes are the proto-Wolverine... more » SJ_Edwards: All these have one thing in common. They're written by writers working in the movies. They're flat-out revenge fantasies. Kill the director, kill t... more » Canoehead: You conflate killing with murder. more » shoroko: I imagine you're probably right, though I haven't seen enough of these movies to comment on them in particular. I guess that regardless of the circums... more » MIster_C: Wolverine is the Classic Catholic He's a monster, he knows he's a Monster, and he hates he's a monster, Murder is Easy for him. but he uses the Guilt ... more » Bill-Lee: Could you imagine if this same article were posted on SciFi Wire? The rabid fanboys would eat Charlie Jane alive. more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Fun fact: "It was all part of my journey of self discovery" is not a valid defense in court. more » Hamslicer: I think part of it (beyond being desensitized) is laziness in writing. Take "First Blood", the first Rambo movie. The only people killed were in the... more » Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: Oh, how could I have forgotten - If you want the culmination of this trend, watch Ninja Assassin. Raizo reclaims his humanity through buckets of ninj... more » Cory Gross: I think your last paragraph pretty much nails it, and is a combination of the oldest mythic tropes going all the way back to Gilgamesh... The one is ... more » Rasselas: Excellent points all the way down the scroll bar, Charlie Jane. Perhaps oddly, the Internet-Tough-Guy-Fantasy-Comes-Alive-and-Makes-You-Dead trope ha... more » Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!: I think we can chalk this up to: Because watching 2 hours of someone reclaiming their 'self' in therapy would make for a really dull movie. more » AngriestGeek: One thing that always disturbed me about the need for a body count was when "falsely accused" good guy killed other good guys. When the The Musketeer... more » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#thisisadisaster
Choose Your Own Disaster!!
Hello friends. Over the past few months I've been telling you what was a disaster, now the time has come for you to pick your own. More » -
#hughjackman
Hugh Jackman Is Our RoboRocky
It may be time to have a science fiction intervention for Hugh Jackman. Fresh from the moderate success of this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he's considering taking on the lead role in the upcoming robotic boxing movie Real Steel. More » -
#morningspoilers
Will Hancock 2 Lose The Best Part Of The Original? Plus New Deadpool Movie Hints!
Hancock 2 may be missing a key castmember. Plus Deadpool's producers make big promises! There are spoilery Dollhouse clips, and telltale pics from Lost, 2012, The Box and Planet 51. Also: FlashForward, Warehouse 13, Smallville, Chuck and True Blood spoilers! More » -
#xmen
Should We Expect New X-Men By 2011?
Is X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Kid Cyclops twitter-teasing us, or are we closer to the prospect of the X-Men movie reboot than we'd previously thought? Click through for speculations and potential spoilers. More » -
#falldvdpreview
The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
Last week, we told you about the movies reaching theaters this fall, but it has to be said: Sometimes, even just going to the theater seems like too much hassle. Here's what you can watch at home, instead. More » -
#wolverine
Wolverine's Movie Future May Include His Death
Talking about the future of Fox's Wolverine movie franchise, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner revealed some thoughts about what could happen following the second movie's ninja-filled trip to Japan... including an adaptation of a comic fans wouldn't expect. More » -
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#movies
So What Happened To All Those Dark Knight Imitators?
It's been over a year since The Dark Knight made a billion dollars and revolutionized genre cinema. At the time, everyone said we'd be seeing a spate of Dark Knight-influenced "dark" superhero films. So are any of them still happening?
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#summermovies
Summer 2009: What Just Happened?
With District 9 a bona fide hit and GI Joe amazing all by not crashing and burning, the summer movie season of 2009 has ended just as it began: Surprising a lot of people. What lessons can we learn? More » -
#wolverine
Usual Suspects' Writer Takes On Wolverine's Japanese Sequel
Even if X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn't leave you breathlessly waiting for a sequel, there's one sign that the follow-up will be better than the original: Usual Suspects and X-Men screenwriter Chris McQuarrie has signed on to write it. More » -
#watchmen
Does Watchmen's Leak Matter?
With weeks to go before Watchmen: The Director's Cut hits DVD and Blu-Ray (as well as a few cinema screens), it's leaked onto torrent sites across the internet. But unlike the similar Wolverine leak earlier this year, does anyone care? More » -
#conceptart
Deadpool Could Have Looked So Much Cooler In Wolverine
Still feeling sad about how weak Deadpool was in the Wolverine movie? You'll feel sadder after perusing the original concept art, from artist Phillip Boutte. More » -
#wolverineleak
Is Rupert Murdoch Responsible For The Wolverine Leak?
Rumor has it that Fox may have tracked down the person responsible for breaking the production cone of silence and allowing X-Men Origins: Wolverine to leak online... and it's none other than 20th Century Fox owner Rupert Murdoch. Who'dathunk? More » -
#johncarter
Gambit And Silver Fox Are Going To Mars
Two supporting leads from Wolverine have signed up to star in John Carter Of Mars. Taylor Kitsch will play Carter, a civil war vet who travels to Mars. Lynn Collins will play Dejah Thoris, heir to Mars' helium kingdom. [THR] -
#britishboxoffice
Why Does The UK Love America's Flops?
Ignore Terminator Salvation's US box office and look to Britain, where it's just had the best opening weekend of 2009 so far... replacing the previous holder of that title, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Why is Britain more accepting of shoddy sci-fi? More »
