X-men Origins

Saw it yesterday, and It was pretty good especially compared to the previous movies. If your a fan of the comics you will obviously hate it for what they do to some of your beloved characters especially backstory. Nothing in this movie is meant to follow the comic books, so take that into account when you see it. Overall though as a pure comic book movie I would rate it amongst the better ones such as Ironman.

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except what they did deadpool at the end. omg retarded!

so far the cameos include:

scott summers
emma frost
gambit
wade wilson
blob
agent zero
silverfox
john wraith( dont remember him)
bolt ( dont remember him)

as I said, these characters do not have the same background as they do in the comics, nor do they have the same ( at at least all of their powers) that they are supposed to.

Oh and opening credits were pretty freakin sweet.

It was definitely a action extravaganza and didn't lack in that. I enjoyed it.

Thought Deadpool was weird though, he was different than the comics.

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I dont remember him having laser eyes and swords that came out of his arms, lol.
at the end of the credits he is still alive btw if you missed that, his body grabs his head and he goes "shh"

Originally Posted by Kanaric

It was definitely a action extravaganza and didn't lack in that. I enjoyed it.

Thought Deadpool was weird though, he was different than the comics.

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I dont remember him having laser eyes and swords that came out of his arms, lol.
at the end of the credits he is still alive btw if you missed that, his body grabs his head and he goes "shh"

I knew I should have sat there the whole time, damnit!

Originally Posted by mightyfenrir

I knew I should have sat there the whole time, damnit!

The fan rumored ending would have been much better and excused what they did to DP:

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That guy dressed in red appears picks up the head and asks it what its suppose to be and then carries on a conversation with it, implying that the DP that fought Wolverine was a clone cause the original went apecrazy like DP is suppose to be. THAT would have been good

Originally Posted by danzig

The fan rumored ending would have been much better and excused what they did to DP:

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That guy dressed in red appears picks up the head and asks it what its suppose to be and then carries on a conversation with it, implying that the DP that fought Wolverine was a clone cause the original went apecrazy like DP is suppose to be. THAT would have been good

Very true. Hopefully when they make the Deadpool one, which they are, it will be good and not cheesy as hell. On another note, more Gambit would be great... The other three movies I was sad that he never showed at all and the way they have the timeline set up he'll be like what, 50 when they finally have him even meet Rogue. The timeline they set up is screwed up and weird.

Originally Posted by mightyfenrir

Very true. Hopefully when they make the Deadpool one, which they are, it will be good and not cheesy as hell. On another note, more Gambit would be great... The other three movies I was sad that he never showed at all and the way they have the timeline set up he'll be like what, 50 when they finally have him even meet Rogue. The timeline they set up is screwed up and weird.

Always bugged me too that Rogue in the movies was more of a cross of Kitty and Jubliee then actual Rogue...and no "sugah" or accent so kinda of lame.

I saw it opening night, and scheuch is right, if you're a comic fan you'll be pissed at the backstories.

Wolverines story is fine, if a bit ..unrefined, but it seems like they just put all the other characters there for fillers sake and didnt give a damn about anything.

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I mean . Gambit isnt the grandmaster of the Thieves Guild, hes basically just a con artist whos really good at cards (which is like what they did to Bullseye in Daredevil), Deadpool is cool in the beginning but then he dissapears till the end of the movie and they turn him into Strikers new lobotomized toy (if you saw the ending after the credits it shows his hand touch his still dismembered head in the rubble, his mouth is ripped open I guess and he just says "Shh..." so we'll see where that goes Edit: guess Kanaric got that part), Maverick has absolutely nothing to do with Maverick other than he likes guns and people call him Agent Zero.

Sabretooth and Wolfie were good, so thats fine especially since it's Wolverines movie; but I hope they dont let this ruin any other characters in the future.

yea, it would be nice to see a deadpool movie where Ryan renolds could develop the character a little better, but they would have to ignore this movie. and give him back his regeneration powers from the weapon X program.

well, at least Gambit was a complete hard ass. That's all I asked.

I thought it was great. I really thought the opening was awesome.

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Major comic book fans aside, since I'm not a HUGE one, but what they did with DeadPool was incredibly retarded. I didn't think that was a very cool bad guy and it certainly was not good to do that to Dead Pool. Reynolds has wanted to make a movie of the character for a while, so I don't know how they warped him in this movie will effect that.

Deadpool aside I really liked it.

I didn't mind it, and tried not to concentrate on the story or the "emotion" (as I hadn't read or seen any other X-men apart from vague memories from the cartoon ages ago) and found the action sequences suitably exciting. My friend and I however cracked up at the appearence of Adventures of the Island: Deadpool, the text only adventure game.

The action was pretty good, I remember being confused at some parts though. When it was Wolverine vs. Sabretooth vs. Gambit, after wolfie elbows gambit in the face and then him and sabretooth start duking it out, gambit randomly appears on a rooftop before jumping right back down into the fray. I know it's just nitpicking, but it seemed kind of outta place.

Actually, all the one-liners made me cringe, now that the pure awesomeness that are the action sequences have warn off.

Could care less about the comic book back stories...the movie was ok.

Edit: Also Reynolds had prior commitments, and thus his role as Deadpool was only a cameo appearance. A proper Deadpool movie is supposedly in the works.

I too saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine on opening day, and although the movie is by no means a cinematic masterpiece, I enjoyed quite a bit of it. Most of the hate I see coming towards this movie comes from those heavily committed to comic continuity, which apparently this movie destroys in almost every way possible. I'm not an expert myself so I wasn't carrying any baggage with me, my only real knowledge of the X-Men prior to the original film in 2000 was the cartoon series from the 90s. I think it definitely helps to enjoy these movies if your not constantly cursing the film makers for not being absolutely faithful to the source material. I rather thought Liev Schreiber brought an effective level of quiet menace to Sabretooth, though of course he looks nothing like Tyler Mayne. Sadly, few of the other characters got any chance to be developed adequately, and I think an over abundance of mutant cameos made matters worse. I realize its Wolverine's movie, but still. I too am a fan of the opening sequence though, that was pretty awesome.

Whatever happens in terms of revenues for this first X-Men Origins flick, I expect we'll be seeing more X-men flicks. They've been considering an Origins movie for Magneto since just after X-3, and there's other ideas floating around that I've heard about apparently including Deadpool and an X-Men First Class kind of thing. At any rate, I still can't wrap my head around the terrible reviews and major vitriol this movie has endured since prior to the day of release. It just isn't that bad, and I'm left to wonder if this horrible word of mouth criticism (much of which I believe is unfair) will have a major impact upon the films total revenues. Only time will tell.

Well the movie has limited character development. It focuses on a main character for most of the movie. I think it could have done more to develop Sabretooth and Wolverine together, rather then just using the opening segment.

As I said, it was ok. A decent matinee movie to kill some time.

It was a somewhat enjoyable movie, I guess about as good as X3 (AKA the worst of the 3) but it wasn't great

Deadpool was a travesty. It's not deadpool if he can't wisecrack during his fights.

WAY too many action movie cliches:

• Hero holds his dead loved one in his arms and looks up screaming, arial camera looking down (happens TWICE in this movie)
• Hero sets off a huge explosion while walking away slowly as if nothing is happening
• Hero and villain fight by running at each other full speed then jumping (happens like 40 times)
• Someone showing up unexpected at just the right moment and saying "Miss me?"
• Having one person reach his hand down to help up a former enemy and then the enemy pausing for emphasis then taking his hand

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The movie was an abomination simply because of what they did for Deadpool...may the ghost of Stan Lee (yeah yeah he isnt dead) and Jack Kirby forever torment everyone involved in this movie. Seriously it was horrible. They seemed to have tossed things in the movie simply for the sake of doing it, hell what did someone do go down a list of mutants in Marvel universe and randomly pick them? Silver Fox is Emma's sister why? Quicksilver is captured by Styrker how exactly considering his father would and could bring the entire complex down in a blink of an eye at the thought of a mutant, his own son no less (even if he has issues with him) captured for an experiment. Given Wolverine's senses...how exactly doesnt he know Silver Fox isnt dead? She has mutant powers why and again WHY is Emma her sister. Emma is a major character in Marvel, hell of alot more then Fox is why would you screw up the usage of the character in such a meaingless manner? Hell make frigging Jubliee her sister or someone else useless.

I dont mind changes to make a movie, its expected and often it can work really good for the medium (see Iron Man, Spiderman, Batman) but this seemed to change things just for the sake of doing. What was the point in making Deadpool WeaponX...and why on th earth would you give him powers and abilities that make him almost godlike but still have him lose?! Deadpool in comics is more then capable of matching Wolverine...this movie gives Deadpool godmode and its not even that interesting a fight. For what reason? If you are a non comic fan you dont even see Wade Wilson enough to care about his transformation to Deadpool (oh btw GREAT way to describe his name, because he is made up of the dna of dead mutants ) so why change it? Deadpool as he is in the comics would have made fine enough villian for Wolverine...and would have made a hell of a more interesting fight watching him mock and insult Logan.

I'm gonna link one of my favorite mock review sites here cause I found his abridged script of Wolverine both funny and accurate:
http://www.the-editing-room.com/wolverine.html

Like Mango said, the movie really is an assortment of cliches and lacks in any originality. And after reading that abridged script it also made me think it's a terribly pointless movie as well. Since really, what exactly was there we still needed to know about Wolverine that 3 X-Men movies didn't cover?