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I haven't seen and have no plans to (even though I used to collect the comics).
Obviously a blockbuster, in spite of what this reviewer had to say:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 002&sc=707
Here's the lead, which is great trash-a-movie writing:
<<There's an implicit threat in the title "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." It's the suggestion that there are lots of X-Men, and each one has an origin, and that this is just the first of a potentially endless series of X-Men movies - each one doing what this one does: boring audiences with go-nowhere action sequences, while dazzling the mind with zingy repartee, such as, "Well, well, well! Look what the cat dragged in!"
Think: An actor didn't just say that. First, a screenwriter had to write it. He had to delve inside and search for something clever, tearing up reams of paper in the process, just the way writers do in movies. Then, finally, the sun burst through the clouds .....>>
I also loved this line:
<<....Unable to go on, he leaves the military and does what any self-respecting mutant would do under the circumstances: He moves to Canada, because that's how Americans think of Canada, after all - as identical to the United States, but with no problems.....>>
Obviously a blockbuster, in spite of what this reviewer had to say:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 002&sc=707
Here's the lead, which is great trash-a-movie writing:
<<There's an implicit threat in the title "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." It's the suggestion that there are lots of X-Men, and each one has an origin, and that this is just the first of a potentially endless series of X-Men movies - each one doing what this one does: boring audiences with go-nowhere action sequences, while dazzling the mind with zingy repartee, such as, "Well, well, well! Look what the cat dragged in!"
Think: An actor didn't just say that. First, a screenwriter had to write it. He had to delve inside and search for something clever, tearing up reams of paper in the process, just the way writers do in movies. Then, finally, the sun burst through the clouds .....>>
I also loved this line:
<<....Unable to go on, he leaves the military and does what any self-respecting mutant would do under the circumstances: He moves to Canada, because that's how Americans think of Canada, after all - as identical to the United States, but with no problems.....>>
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