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alias_sqbr) wrote2009-05-04 03:30 pm
alias_sqbr) wrote2009-05-04 03:30 pm
What I think would have made Wolverine more awesome
So I think it doesn't count as a spoiler to say: Wolverine doesn't have his adamantium skeleton at the start of the movie, then partway through he gets it and becomes more baddass.
The thing is, we never actually see any really negative explicit downsides to his regular skeleton, apart from a generally being less unstoppable. His claws break once but it doesn't actually change the outcome of the fight, and none of his other bones are ever shown breaking. The opening credits show him being shot but cut away quickly.
Now I realise they were trying for a lower rating so couldn't show gore. But in my perfect version of this movie you see his arm break and hang wrongly and he's incapacitated for a few seconds(*) until it heals, or his head is half blown off when it gets shot and it's a major inconvenience. Then the way bullets just bounce off once he gets the adamnatium would actually mean something.
Also there's various plot holes and Feminist issues (not a wide variety or significance of roles or dialogue for women in this world..) but I went in expecting that. I decided to try to enjoy it purely as brainless action and thus those are the grounds I criticise it on :) Mostly I liked it well enough though, even if it doesn't hold up well against actually good comic book movies.
(*)Or whatever, the speed of his regeneration being "at the speed of plot" :) And thinking about it, why does his body regenerate the adamantium after being blown to dust in X3? Wait, I'm thinking about X3 *blanks it out again*
The thing is, we never actually see any really negative explicit downsides to his regular skeleton, apart from a generally being less unstoppable. His claws break once but it doesn't actually change the outcome of the fight, and none of his other bones are ever shown breaking. The opening credits show him being shot but cut away quickly.
Now I realise they were trying for a lower rating so couldn't show gore. But in my perfect version of this movie you see his arm break and hang wrongly and he's incapacitated for a few seconds(*) until it heals, or his head is half blown off when it gets shot and it's a major inconvenience. Then the way bullets just bounce off once he gets the adamnatium would actually mean something.
Also there's various plot holes and Feminist issues (not a wide variety or significance of roles or dialogue for women in this world..) but I went in expecting that. I decided to try to enjoy it purely as brainless action and thus those are the grounds I criticise it on :) Mostly I liked it well enough though, even if it doesn't hold up well against actually good comic book movies.
(*)Or whatever, the speed of his regeneration being "at the speed of plot" :) And thinking about it, why does his body regenerate the adamantium after being blown to dust in X3? Wait, I'm thinking about X3 *blanks it out again*
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