Hello, Siberys!
So it's just the two of us? Hm
I've never taken another person's word for it and always seen it myself, but that doesn't apply in this situation. I started off automatically hating it with MY opinion. I guess the real reason I watched it was because I was bored enough and considering my brother works at the theaters, I haven't had to pay for a movie in forever.
Ah, lucky you! Hm. As for hatred, there's "Knocked Up". I hate "druggies", and seeing one getting the girl was just to close to reality.
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econdly, how does "This movie was bad because Hugh Jackman ruined Wolverine in the first few movies" not make sense? Seemed pretty cut and dry to me...
Presuming and/or assuming that others feel as you do, is bad for starters. Stating opinions as if they were facts is another. I enjoyed the movies, and Hugh Jackman as "Wolverine", was not a detractor for me. Never has been, never will be. And since you are the first person to say that you didn't like it, that I know of, versus how many people I've talked to that like them and enjoy them, your statement seemed..... "out of place"? "Unfamiliar"? Ah, unexpected! That might be the better term. Ergo, I didn't get it, as you didn't explain it. But now you have. It's like thinking of Seth Rogen being cast in the role of "The Green Hornet". I didn't enjoy him in "Knocked Up", and he almost ruined Katheryn Heigl for me. But I'll see "The Green Hornet" just to give him a chance to improve his status with me. Mary's unable to explain why she dislikes Nicolas Cage movies and Paul dislikes Keanu Reeves. In both cases, I don't see why they should dislike them, but I've adapted I guess. So for you, it is Hugh Jackman.
He rubs you the wrong way as they say.
You may not like that term but it is a colloquialism and you know what it means.
Yes, I've tried using it, but it still doesn't make sense, so no, your assumption is in error.
No, they aren't. The movies are based off the comics and Stan Lee worked with all four of the movies. Apparently even he couldn't stop the unnecessary Hollywood fluff.
Uh, they are inspired by them. I wouldn't have wrote what I said If I was wrong. The "Watchmen" movie is supposedly the closest to an exact story duplication because the director or someone used the graphic novel as a storyboard. Even then, the movie is a seperate universe from the actual graphic novel that inspired it. It's DC approved, but not Alan Moore approved, supposedly, after his experience with how they adapted "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". I liked the movies anyway. Like the TV-series "Operation: Petticoat" would be considered seperate from the movie that inspired it. However, with movies like "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" being part of the same continuity as the series that preceded it, something like that can inspire hope in people that their favorite novels and comics can be become straight adaptions or at least share continuity in the episode sense, ala "Heroes". But with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the season after 7 takes place in the comics only, and Joss Whedon likes to think of it as shared continuity. But the studios could always cause interference there. So it is like a "mixed bag".
I'm referring to his wife in Japan who he had a son with shortly before WWII.
Ah, if things go right, Hugh supposedly said that he'd like to do the stories based on Wolverine's time in Japan, and have them set prior to the first X-Men movie. So that would be another variation from the comics timeline, unless they made it an in-between events seen in the current movie, like with the whole "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" thing and like "The Star Wars Holiday Special" takes place in between Episodes 4 & 5. So anyway, if they do, do the Japan storyline, it will be interesting to see how they treat it, at least for me it will be.
His name has always been and always will be James Howlett, with the Alias Logan. That is how it was in the comics, and how it is in the movie.
Well, you've got me there! I only knew about "Logan" and "Wolverine", I think. My friend Ron is the Wolverine fiend. He probably knew that while I forgot it if I knew it. If I looked at my card sets and "Marvel Universe" set, they might remind me of what I've forgotten. Anyway, I just liked hearing my name in movies.
Especially in association with good guys, although he smokes.
That was a rhetorical question on how it is the complete opposite of what happened in the comics, and considering that's a MAJOR event to happen I really did not want to see that.
Oh, well, the comice are one thing, the movies are another. I've adapted.
Okay, two things. Weapon XI does not exist. Deadpool was wrong, Ryan Alexander is NOT a decent actor for that (and the only reason they thought that is because he was pretty awesome as Hannibal in Blade Trinity). Deadpool and Weapon XI are a joke.
Oh, thanks for the reminder! So that's where I saw him before! Hm. Two Marvel roles for him! For me it's all about Jessica Biel as "Abigail Whistler". But at least I didn't forget Wesley plays the title role and Kris Kristofferson is "Abraham Whistler". But anyway, in the movies he does now. If they make a tie-in with special adaptations, then he will in comics too, but not in the same continuity as the mainstream titles. I think I see where you're going with this! For example, the artwork for the "Gold Key Comics" of "Star Trek" annoyed me. You're feeling the reverse! The comics over the live-action are your personal preference! I'm just glad that "Paramount" doesn't consider the print media to be "Star Trek" canon! OH! So is that what you meant about the multiverse concept?! That the movies aren't considered canon like the comics are, in Marvel terms? Compared to DC terms, where the comics and the various movies etc., are part of a canon multiverse? If so, my apologies!
A big "DUH!" to myself!
Secondly, please don't get your information from Wikipedia. There are continuity errors between comics that people don't point out there, and it is an inaccurate source of information because of such (They do point out a lot of differences between comic series', but not all of them).
It's just one source I refer too, but it is the most convenient, as my comics are packed away. So I rely on memory, with occasional look-ups, before I write it down.
I'm sorry, but...even the simple fact alone that Hugh Jackman is British/Aussie/New Zealand is reason enough for me to think "What an awful person to play a low-IQ redneck with an anger problem from Canada."
Well, the Brits would feel the same way presumably, if a non-Brit was cast to play "Doctor Who" or "Harry Potter". (Too late for "James Bond" though.) Some people got upset about a Black "Pete Ross" in "Smallville", a female "Starbuck" in the new "Battlestar Galatica", how they went from a white "Harvey Dent" to a Black one with Billy Deel Williams, only to go back to White again with Tommy Lee Jones. Some people were annoyed when Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner kept dropping their accents, in their epics. Also how they couldn't decide if Queen Cleopatra was Black or White in the Hercules/Xena-verse.
I disagree with your assessment of Hugh, but then again, you may love Seth and think he'll be smashing as "The Green Hornet". :laugh:
Oh as an afterthough, seeing how the various female talk-show hostesses react when they see Hugh as "Wolverine" or in any other part, I can see why they'd cast him as the part, not even including how he looks in the make-up.
Going along with fan-boy needs for strict adherence, you'd think they might have picked a Small Person who wrestles a lot, or some one like the actor that played "Ernest T. Bass" in Andy's old show, rather than a leading man type. But if they did, they'd probably get little interest from the potential female audience.
I write that, knowing how I feel about preferring sexy females to be cast in the leads if I'm going to see a movie. There's been rare occasions when the real life person looks better than the actress cast to portray her in those biographies and the like.
Well, that's all for now. Thanks for keeping my interest by making this fun and challenging and not boring. I hope I understood you better this time around.
