A touch overly violent for my taste, but I knew it was a Wolverine movie going in[1] [1] This is why I haven't seen Watchmen. I don't care how amazing it is, I could only just handle it on the page. I really don't need to see SFX guys bring it to life...
Trust me, that's a very good decision if you thought Wolverine was too much. I looked away a lot when I saw Watchmen, eurgh.
I'm not sure it was really necessary to do the first two issues of Origin, which despite the title is almost totally irrelevent to Wolvie's history (one reviewer said it was as much an origin as Peter Parker: The Kindergarten Years would have been), but it established the Victor/Logan dynamic nicely[2].
Two first issues...well, one scene anyway. And that one fcked up... See, I really really like Origin[1], and especially the relationship between James and Rose. What relationship you ask, well, the one that was not in the film even one tiny bit.[2] Also, in the comic, Logan is the last name of the groundskeeper - Thomas Logan - which is where Wolverine gets it, so the half brother's name would be something Logan, not Victor (or anything) Creed. James last name was Howlett. So either all they kept from the comic was the place, year and bastardhood, or Sabretooth assumed that name later. In the movie it seemed very strongly like Logan was Wolverines last name, though which father's name that would have been was never revealed. Either way, in the comic, Wolverine does not grow up with anyone who could remotely be sabretooth past age 10 or so, when he and Rose flees - so the movie and the comic cannot both be accurate.
Not sure about Emma Frost being Silver Fox's sister, but it's not a major deal.
It annoyed me a ridiculous amount...it was so unneccesary!! And made absolutely no sense. Kayla was native american, with the last name Silverfox, Emma is white, blonde, and upper class, with the last name Frost. Half sisters is the closest it gets to believeable, and even then, why do it at all? Why not just let Kayla be dead - the plot would have worked just as well, but been slightly less unnecessarily twisty and crowded. Or, if she had to have a sister - make one up. I enjoyed the "spot the shout-out" stuff in the first two X-Men movies, because it was subtle and didn't interfere with the story - but this obsession with cramming in as many unneeded characters as possible really riles me.
[1] I should clarify, I am very far from any kind of X-Men geek. I like X-Men, but I've seen the movies, read Origin and a few selected storylines from old issues, and that's it - so I am not a person who knows much about canon, and tradition, and whatnot.
[2] I have a rant about the removal of significant women in stories translated to the big screen, but I'll do it some other time.
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Date: 2009-05-06 06:46 pm (UTC)[1] This is why I haven't seen Watchmen. I don't care how amazing it is, I could only just handle it on the page. I really don't need to see SFX guys bring it to life...
Trust me, that's a very good decision if you thought Wolverine was too much. I looked away a lot when I saw Watchmen, eurgh.
I'm not sure it was really necessary to do the first two issues of Origin, which despite the title is almost totally irrelevent to Wolvie's history (one reviewer said it was as much an origin as Peter Parker: The Kindergarten Years would have been), but it established the Victor/Logan dynamic nicely[2].
Two first issues...well, one scene anyway. And that one fcked up... See, I really really like Origin[1], and especially the relationship between James and Rose. What relationship you ask, well, the one that was not in the film even one tiny bit.[2] Also, in the comic, Logan is the last name of the groundskeeper - Thomas Logan - which is where Wolverine gets it, so the half brother's name would be something Logan, not Victor (or anything) Creed. James last name was Howlett. So either all they kept from the comic was the place, year and bastardhood, or Sabretooth assumed that name later. In the movie it seemed very strongly like Logan was Wolverines last name, though which father's name that would have been was never revealed. Either way, in the comic, Wolverine does not grow up with anyone who could remotely be sabretooth past age 10 or so, when he and Rose flees - so the movie and the comic cannot both be accurate.
Not sure about Emma Frost being Silver Fox's sister, but it's not a major deal.
It annoyed me a ridiculous amount...it was so unneccesary!! And made absolutely no sense. Kayla was native american, with the last name Silverfox, Emma is white, blonde, and upper class, with the last name Frost. Half sisters is the closest it gets to believeable, and even then, why do it at all? Why not just let Kayla be dead - the plot would have worked just as well, but been slightly less unnecessarily twisty and crowded. Or, if she had to have a sister - make one up. I enjoyed the "spot the shout-out" stuff in the first two X-Men movies, because it was subtle and didn't interfere with the story - but this obsession with cramming in as many unneeded characters as possible really riles me.
[1] I should clarify, I am very far from any kind of X-Men geek. I like X-Men, but I've seen the movies, read Origin and a few selected storylines from old issues, and that's it - so I am not a person who knows much about canon, and tradition, and whatnot.
[2] I have a rant about the removal of significant women in stories translated to the big screen, but I'll do it some other time.