X-Men Origins: Wolverine= FAIL

As a former comic book collector, I am very angry and disappointed with the film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The movie is horrible in many aspects. What is so bothersome is that despite the talented cast and cameos of other X-Men characters, 20th Century Fox was able to rape facts from the real X-Men Universe and change things to whatever they like. None of the X-Men films have convinced me, because the Hollywood neanderthals CHANGE almost everything. I am sorry, but I refuse to see another X-Men movie under the direction of 20th Century Fox.

You remember the first X-Men movie? Well, it broke box office records at the time, but its was utterly retarded. At least, for someone that knows the characters from the mainstream comics. All the X-Men movies have had Wolverine as the protagonist…please, all Wolvie is, is a weapon for the X-Men. He is no leader in the comics, but since he is so popular, media companies try to make it as if he is a brilliant thinker and strategist. I like Wolverine, but he is no leader of the X-Men, just someone who will help the battle be won. They even have cartoons now, Wolverine and the X-Men. In these cartoons, it seems the roles of Cyclops and Wolvie are reversed, Wolverine is the squad leader and Cyclops has attitude problems..ridiculous. Back to the movies. Magneto…Ian McKellen? He was great as Gandalf, but as Magneto? In the comic books, Magneto looks as if he is in his forties and has a perfectly chiseled body, six pack and everything. He is depicted as an old and fragile senior citizen in the movies. Rogue? She has the powers of Ms. Marvel and is superstrong and invulnerable in the comics but in the movie she is a fragile teenager. Ugh.

In this new film, they have Sabretooth (a.k.a. Victor Creed) and Wolverine (Logan) as brothers! Not at all like the comics. I do remember there was comicdom speculation that Sabretooth was Wolverine’s father, but it was discarded many years ago. The Weapon X program was what trained Wolverine to be a killing machine and the source of his unbreakable adamantium skeleton; here, he doesn’t even get trained, they just give him the metal. The plot revolves around Colonel Stryker experimenting on mutants and using Sabretooth to kill former Weapon X members and capturing young mutants for other experiments. According to this ridiculous movie, Wolverine cannot beat Sabretooth if he doesn’t have adamantium skeleton and claws. Whatever. Wolverine can easily defeat Sabretooth without the metal any day of the week, I have the comics. X-Men Origins: Wolverine also seemed promising as the trailers showed the awesome merc-with-a-mouth, Deadpool (a.k.a. Wade Wilson), played by Ryan Reynolds and the character Remy Lebeau, or Gambit. More disappointment. Wade only appears briefly and then Stryker experiments on him and imbues him with not only a healing factor (as it is in the comics), but the abilities of many captured young mutants, like the teen Cyclops (a.k.a Scott Summers). Deadpool is the villain of the movie! Whoever wrote this movie has no love or knowledge of these characters, they were just interested in making money. Gambit didnt even have a cajun accent, and his powers? He charges cards with explosive kinetic energy and throws them at enemies but in this movie he appears to levitate the cards! Moreover, his steel fighting rod? Well, he taps the ground with it and the ground explodes. Those are not Gambit’s powers! Who are they trying to fool? This film’s Deadpool is an insult to the real Deadpool. In fact, I wish Deadpool was real and that he paid a visit to the people that made this film.

I give this movie an F-. 

There are some that are unfamiliar of how characters truly are in the comics and may, thus, like this movie. Mind you,  that is the only way you will like this movie, if you know nothing about the X-Men universe and never read comic books. I have hundreds of comic books and thousands of comic cards, I KNOW my superheroes. If you were or are a comic book aficionado, evade this movie like the plague H1N1.

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