Vero and I finally got a day to ourselves last night. She had her interview for her position on Monday so no more studying for her, and I didn’t have class on Wednesday. What better time to head out to the Silver City and check out the new Wolverine film?
We first went over to Eastside Mario’s and I had this amazing new pasta dish…it was so Italian that I couldn’t even pronounce the name but I called it by its true calling…the Pasta Choice Winner. Check it out, it’s scrumptious! Mushrooms, chicken, red peppers…yummers!
Wolverine, of course, is the newest addition to the X-Men franchise. We all know that comic fans abound are disappointed with X-Men 3 so I had a little more hope for this flick. I had never really heard any bad reviews so I figured it was worthwhile checking out. Wolverine explores Logan’s origins (which were only just recently explained in comic book land after 25 years) and how he becomes the best at what he does.
Overall, it was better than X-Men 3 but I didn’t feel excited by the film. There were no moments which had me on the edge of my seat or gave me the ‘wow’ factor (ok, I take that back…Gambit was pretty cool.) so overall, it was a decent showing of Wolverine.
*spoilers, comments about the differences between book and film, things I found awesome*
- So here’s a few differences between the book and the film with my comments:
- Sabretooth and Wolverine are Brothers – Not so in the book! There have been hints throughout the years that Sabretooth is his father, but no mention of them being brothers! What the heck? I thought this was a little lame, but I could see how it works in the film. However, this begs the question about the first X-Men film…does Wolverine just forget who Sabretooth is? He knows him in the comic, he just doesn’t remember their past together.
- Silverfox as a double agent – Uhm…well, I guess I can’t comment on this anymore as I just read the Wiki entry on this and it turns out that this is somewhat the same story as the comic books. I haven’t caught up on all my Wolverine comics so I guess I missed that part. I inadvertently spoiled the surprise to myself!
- Inclusion of other X-Men: Hey, was that diamond skinned girl Emma Frost? Cool! Cyclops was great to see and I was super surprised to see Prof. X show up near the end.
- Wolverine’s Amnesia – What the heck? His amnesia kicks in after the adamantium bonding process, not a bullet to the head! But, as with everything, it’s for the film and I don’t think the story would have progressed too much if he was just an amnesiac. Unless it was like Memento.
All in all, a worthy addition to the X-Men film series but I think I would rather see more X-Men films than Origin series (although the proposed Magneto, Deadpool and whoever else sound pretty good as well).