Comments on: The Best & Worst Of ‘The Wolverine’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/ Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Rosie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48646 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48646 [" But like a lot of things about "The Wolverine," it almost undoes itself as it goes along. The scene where Wolverine shields the young soldier from the blast is affecting, but Wolverine starts to regenerate seconds later. The nuclear burns that he suffers, turning him into a largely hairless cinder, is undone almost immediately. It would have been nice to see something of that magnitude at least slow him down. It would have added an element of danger and upped the stakes considerably. Instead, he\’s back up and running mere moments later."]

This strikes me as nitpicking at its worst. But I guess you\’re entitled to your opinion.

]]> By: Rosie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48647 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48647 ["Besides a slight webbing of wrinkles around his eyes, Jackman doesn\’t look a day older than when he first put on the claws 13 years ago (which is perfect for the character) and unlike someone like Johnny Depp, who seems to be bleeding his "Pirates of the Caribbean" character dry, it’s really sort of admirable to see Jackman sticking by the role that made him famous out of what seems to be a genuine love for the character."]

I disagree. I think it\’s time for Jackman to hang up the claws. He is looking older than he did in 2000. And he cannot rely upon steroids to keep his body buff. It\’s making his body look weird.

]]> By: Frank https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48648 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48648 I agree with JD. The cyborg samurai was pretty unnecessary, but falls in sync with the marvel movie trend of giant robot finales, so I wasn't too surprised. If anything, it introduced mega-machines as a threat to x-men universe in a way that will be hopefully better realized in Days of Future Past.

My only other gripes were that there should have been a longer ninja fight in front of the castle and that Muriko could've apparently spared wolverine from that whole ordeal by showing him the back door.

]]> By: Frank https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48649 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48649 I agree with JD. The cyborg samurai was pretty unnecessary, but falls in sync with the marvel movie trend of giant robot finales, so I wasn't too surprised. If anything, it introduced mega-machines as a threat to x-men universe in a way that will be hopefully better realized in Days of Future Past.

My only other gripes were that there should have been a longer ninja fight in front of the castle and that Muriko could've apparently spared wolverine from that whole ordeal by showing him the back door.

]]> By: Frank https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48650 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48650 I agree with JD. The cyborg samurai was pretty unnecessary, but falls in sync with the marvel movie trend of giant robot finales, so I wasn't too surprised. If anything, it introduced mega-machines as a threat to x-men universe in a way that will be hopefully better realized in Days of Future Past.

My only other gripes were that there should have been a longer ninja fight in front of the castle and that Muriko could've apparently spared wolverine from that whole ordeal by showing him the back door.

]]> By: JD https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48651 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48651 I would probably disagree with most of the above. I wasnt expecting much when I went to see this movie but I was very pleasantly surprised. I thought the train sequence was very well done. I found the romance between Wolverine & Mariko believable. I liked how the middle part of the film, once they got off the train, slowed down & was more character based. The romance was allowed to develop between them. The only thing that I didnt like & I would agree with the above assessment was the last part of the film. That robot thing wasnt interesting. It was very much like the fight between Superman & General Zod – too much special effects. I'm surprised that ye didnt bring up the scenes in which Japenesse characters sometimes spoke Japenesse to each other, then english other times. They had subtitles when they spoke in Japenesse. Would have been more believable if they continued to speak Japenesse to each other. Apart from those two issues & maybe that it took Yukio far too long to come to Wolverine's rescue at the end (why didnt she come up with him when he rode the bike up), I really liked this film.

]]> By: Rick https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48652 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48652 I figured his "want to die" is not the same as "sure, take my power." Although one would facilitate the other, Wolvie who is depressed and guilt-ridden most of the movie would rather live in his own purgatory than grant his power to someone who may not be able to handle it. Sort of like Joss Whedon's Angel, a vampire cursed with a soul and would lose that soul if he ever found true happiness. Since he has the soul though and all the guilt that comes with it, he avoids true happiness so as to not become an evil creature again.

]]> By: CJJ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48653 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48653 This was a great film, one of the best superhero films I've seen, maybe my favourite X-Men film and practically all of these criticisms are bull, and I will explain why. Wolverine stuck around for the funeral and because he lost his healing ability. It's understandable for him to want to stay and find out what the hell happened to him. I don't remember the 'wanting to die' theme continuing, just him trying to find out what to live for. He was pretty vulnerable without his healing and against an adamantium enemy, he was greatly at risk. Remember how the Silver Samurai cut off his claws? This is set after The Last Stand so of course he's pretty hung up about losing the love of his life, someone whom he actually killed. I liked the romance, it was pretty well done imo. Only perhaps Viper was extraneous, other than her, there weren't too many characters, there were like six, don't know how you thought that there were too many. We didn't need to see blood gushing all over the place, I hate this complaint. Blood wasn't really necessary to see. It would've been cool but it wouldn't affect the quality of the film and would only alienate a lot of people with the upped rating. The post credits scene wasn't cheesy at all and it didn't undo anything that preceeded it. The last act was the weakest part of the film but still pretty entertaining. Wah wah about Aronofsky, that guy who made one liked film so he definitely would've made an incredible Wolverine film, that's speculative rubbish. He left long ago and Mangold did a great job. I liked the script, why would we want to see Wolverine wanting to know how he got an adamantium skeleton, we've already gone through that in the last film, it would've been boring. The existential immortality theme made the film so interesting, why would you want that taken away? Yukio was awesome, I'd love to see her in either the next Wolverine film or Days of Future Past but she did have plenty to do in this film. She was hardly sidelined for Mariko.

]]> By: JD https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48654 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48654 Correction: it's an adamantium ENDO-skeleton. Tony Stark's Iron Man suit is an exo-skeleton.

]]> By: Josh https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48655 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48655 The Viper/Madame HYDRA thing bothered me since day one, and as expected it was a total disaster. Just another way for FOX to mess the characters up, i.e. Weapon X program not being Canadian, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue doing nothing but whine a lot, Mystique being Charles' half sister, etc…

]]> By: T. https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48656 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48656 It's hara-kiri, not "hari kari." It is the spoken term. Seppuku is the written term.

]]> By: Marcus Silvera https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48657 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48657 Just wanted to say, in regards to the train sequence and the city not looking real. I worked on a few of those shots. And the city was real, it wasn't CG. So who are you to judge if you don't know the difference?

]]> By: Jamie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48658 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48658 We took all three generations of the family to see the film and in reading your analysis, I kept agreeing totally and then saying, "BUT!!". The biggest but of all being that there was something for everyone. That they tried to shoehorn it all in to one film was probably a mistake, but that a whole family could watch and enjoy most if not all and even different sections of that film while talking about it afterwards is a very good thing. Certainly something not achieved by virtually every other movie available. My personal quibble was that the romances either with Jean or Mariko just felt lame and out of context. The best was Jackman's acting talents and the believability of Logan's turmoil and his new sidekick that I hope may turn up in all her red-headed spunkiness in some future X-Men film with or without the clawed one. Now on to Days of Future Past which with any luck will finally deliver Hugh from Wolverine and into more substantial Oscar worthy roles.

]]> By: Mike R. https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-20130729/#comment-48659 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:23:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/the-best-worst-of-the-wolverine-95408/#comment-48659 True, The Wolverine didn't touch X-Men Origins: Wolverine's opening, BUT take a look at the X-Men openings/total grosses:

X-Men – Opening – $54.5 Mil. / Total Worldwide Gross: $157.3 Mil.
X2: X-Men United – Opening: $85.6 Mil. / TWG: $215 Mil.
X-Men: The Last Stand – Opening: $103 Mil. / TWG: $234.4 Mil.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Opening: $85.1 Mil. / TWG: $179.9 Mil.
X-Men: First Class – Opening: $55.1 Mil. / TWG: $146.4
The Wolverine – Opening: $54.5 Mil.

So the openings and grosses peaked with X:Men – The Last Stand, simply because X2 was one of the best regarded comic sequels at the time. It was the Spider-Man 2/Dark Knight of the X-Men series. Unfortunately, X-Men: The Last Stand was a turd in the punch bowl, thus beginning the damage to the franchise that would show with X-Men Origins: Wolverine's comparably lackluster opening. That only furthered the divide, and caused First Class to revert back to X-Men '00 opening status.

So with a lackluster X-Men sequel and a failed Spin Off on its back, The Wolverine is maintaining the status quo that First Class has re-established. With buzz starting to warm up for Days of Future Past, as well as The Wolverine already close to outgrossing X-Men Origins in the first weekend alone (thanks to a KILLER International showing), I wouldn't go lamenting the film's fate just yet. (And besides, this is a hit for Fox, considering the only other film that hit for them this Summer is The Heat.)

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