- Wolverine is Canadian! Win. Stryker should have known that “Do it for your country!” is not an appeal that would work on a Canadian, patriotic though we can be.
- I’m happy that this movie had the guts to display its utter stupidity, camp, and general ridiculousness in the first five minutes of the movie because at least you knew it was all going to go downhill from there, increasing at a rate of 100 LOLZ/minute.
- I’m left wondering why a Canadian boy and his brother would be serving in every single American war during their life time, but I suspect it’s because audiences aren’t terribly interested in seeing the Boer War depicted on screen. Shame.
- Also, I was unaware that Hugh Jackman had also starred alongside Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan. The more you know! Ol’ Steve really pulled the wool over our eyes on that one.
- Please pick a consistent characterization for Wolverine across the movies, thanks.
- You know, when they said that girl’s skin was as hard as diamonds, I didn’t think they meant that LITERALLY. I can just picture her at St. Xavier’s Secure Centre for Incurably Mutant Children in a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” game where she reveals that her mutation is… bling. I’m sorry, this is not a mutation, this is a one-way ticket towards a successful hip hop career.
- I would totally do lumberjack!Jackman. Also, the scene of him jumping down the waterfall naked basically made me want to die.
- The credits tell us that this movie was filmed mostly in Australia and New Zealand. Am I to infer, then, that those are not the Rockies but the path to Mordor?
- It’s not often enough that you can legitimately use the headline “CIRCUS FREAK KILLED” in a newspaper.
- Did not like the portrayal of Stryker in this movie as compared to other ones. His costuming choice seems pretty apt because he’s pretty much just a suit and there’s not really any sense of fear or danger surrounding him. He’s a douchebag, not a military man.
- DECAPITATE. OMG. When Stryker said that Weapon 11 was engineered to respond to his every command, it did not occur to me in the slightest that he would literally be two-finger typing those commands into a computer connected to Weapon 11′s brain. This was the point at which I stopped trying to stave off my laughter and just broke out into hysterics.
- Second worst line of the movie: “I love you… I’m so cold!” What.
- I thought the idea of mutation was handled pretty clumsily in this one. Something that has been nice about the previous movies was how mutation could always be taken as a metaphor for any kind of prejudice towards The Other we encounter in society. In this one, it was basically used as a “How much cool shit can we do?” approach, which is not a terribly layered or meaningful way of doing things.
- Speaking of which, I’m pretty sure that this movie might have been written by twelve-year old boys. Not that there’s anything wrong with that when it brings the LOLZ as this flick did, but you kind of have to wonder how bad a writer you are as a professional screenwriter to come up with something like that.
- Why is Professor Captain Picard necessary in this? At least the backwards-ageing digitization was not nearly as creepy as it was in X-Men: The Last Stand.
- I’m about 98% sure you can’t just shoot someone in the memories. For one, I think at this point in scientific research, most people agree that the majority of your long-term memories are stored in the hippocampus area, which is not located in the part of the brain Wolverine was shot in. For another, what the everloving fuck? If Hugh Jackman is lucky, the adamantium bullets will have erased any memory of his participation in the cinematic atrocity that was Australia.
- Most unnecessary scene and line: the final clip after the credits roll. “I’m drinking to remember.” LKASJD:LAKJSD:LKASJDLKAJSD RIGHT.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Another spectacular failure involving Hugh Jackman. He needs to get his act together or else take off his shirt more. I’m not fussy.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.
OMG you are so right on this one. The only reason I went to go see this is because I have a longstanding love for Dominic Monaghan, and when they killed him I almost left the theater, I was so upset. I’d been looking forward to this movie to see him, and it was such a disappointment. And I never saw Australia, it was that bad?
Oh yes, Australia was absolutely appalling.