May Movie Wrap Up
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trinityvixenThanks for coming out, one and all! The most fun I ever have is the hanging out with folk before and after, and truly that was excellent.
As for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I can say that it pretty faithfully was exactly what I was expecting. So I enjoyed it, but it very rarely surprised or surpassed expectations. I think this is mainly because they were so determined to have it match up nearly perfectly with the X-Men movies that have come before. I don't see why they needed to do that. I mean, it doesn't have to match EXACTLY (and it didn't), but hewing so close took a lot of suspense out of the thing.
The movie was also defeated a bit by the anticipation for awesome things that have little to do with Wolverine. Like, say, Gambit. You know he's in the movie, and you're sorta just chugging along waiting for when they're going to get to him. What's happening isn't bad or boring or anything, but you're still waiting on something else. Even after the movie, I was waiting for Deadpool to come back. Okay, okay, so he can't really just regrow his head (nor his head grow a new body), but still. A Deadpool movie seems a natural springing off point given how God put Ryan Reynolds on this earth to play that character in a movie (for long than the ten seconds he was able to in this movie). Of course, love me some Ryan Reynolds, but Deadpool can go hang if it means we get a GAMBIT movie. I think of all the effects in the movie, Gambit's powers were my favorite. The very subtle way they showed how he charged up the cards--plus the fun way he threw them about? YESSSSS.
Also, all the ladies agreed with me that you can't write off Taylor Kitsch as Gambit forever until he's Gambit with his shirt off. Ahem.
So, on a scale from Van Helsing to Iron Man, as far as May Movies go, I'd put this as above a The Mummy Returns, about on par with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but not as good as X-Men 2.
As for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I can say that it pretty faithfully was exactly what I was expecting. So I enjoyed it, but it very rarely surprised or surpassed expectations. I think this is mainly because they were so determined to have it match up nearly perfectly with the X-Men movies that have come before. I don't see why they needed to do that. I mean, it doesn't have to match EXACTLY (and it didn't), but hewing so close took a lot of suspense out of the thing.
The movie was also defeated a bit by the anticipation for awesome things that have little to do with Wolverine. Like, say, Gambit. You know he's in the movie, and you're sorta just chugging along waiting for when they're going to get to him. What's happening isn't bad or boring or anything, but you're still waiting on something else. Even after the movie, I was waiting for Deadpool to come back. Okay, okay, so he can't really just regrow his head (nor his head grow a new body), but still. A Deadpool movie seems a natural springing off point given how God put Ryan Reynolds on this earth to play that character in a movie (for long than the ten seconds he was able to in this movie). Of course, love me some Ryan Reynolds, but Deadpool can go hang if it means we get a GAMBIT movie. I think of all the effects in the movie, Gambit's powers were my favorite. The very subtle way they showed how he charged up the cards--plus the fun way he threw them about? YESSSSS.
Also, all the ladies agreed with me that you can't write off Taylor Kitsch as Gambit forever until he's Gambit with his shirt off. Ahem.
So, on a scale from Van Helsing to Iron Man, as far as May Movies go, I'd put this as above a The Mummy Returns, about on par with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but not as good as X-Men 2.
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