This is great news about a sequel. Jackman has said in previous interviews that he fell in love with the Japanese storyline but it couldn't be done first. I know it'll be some time off, but I'm already looking forward to it!

I hope they use the scene where Ogun is fighting Wolverine with a wooden katana in front of Mariko.No one else but Wolverine and Ogun knows that all the srikes are killing blows and if he didn't have his adamantium he'd be dead.All so Ogun could show Mariko she was above this gaijin.Total bad ass scene.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!! No more Hollywood white-washed sequels!! Did anyone actually SEE this film?? Anyone that loved the character originally anyway?

malohombre:

I am with you on the original mini series. The Wolverine-Ogun fight was a fantastic scene set in a fantastic storyline.

Only problem is that it wouldn't fly for the movie version.

Think about it. After all the crap Wolverine did in the first lousy movie, would you really be able to suspend your disbelief that he couldn't easily destroy Ogun in a fight?

The reason that the Claremont-Miller mini series works so well is because it's BEFORE Marvel turned the character into a piece of crap cash cow. Back when he had weaknesses, vulnerabilitles and flaws that made him an interesting character to read about.

I am not a hater of Wolverine. I am a hater of what Marvel has turned him into since those glorious days of the Claremont-Byrne run up through the Claremont-Smith run. Wolverine started going south when Romita Jr. took over the pencilling (although the fault is not Romita Jr's-it's clear that Byrne, Cockrum and Smith held Claremont's Wolvie-boner in check by co-plotting.)

That was Wolverine was at his best. A runt who was a good fighter with authority issues, an animal rage inside of him, keen hunting senses, a healing factor that defined him as a 'mutant' and unbreakable claws and bones. Other than that, he was 'normal', in the realm of Batman, Captain America and other masked vigilantes/normal guys with abilities above the regular human being. He had advantages, but he also had vulnerabilities.

Marvel has utterly ruined the character in the years since his marriage to Mariko failed. The ONLY good thing that's been done with him since those days is the Whedon-Cassidy run on Astonishing X-men because it returned the X-men back to the team concept it was always supposed to be, not 'Wolverine and friends.'

Can you believe there's actually a new cartoon called 'Wolverine and the X-men'? Are you for real, Marvel?

I know I'm dropping massive geek vitriol here, but I can watch a superhero movie and accept changes as long as they're good ones. Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk (Norton, not Bana), and The Dark Knight were all excellent superhero movies that weren't 100% faithful to the source material, or even to the material that best exemplifies those characters, but were still well told stories worth experiencing.

The Wolverine movie was pure garbage. He deflected the power of Weapon 11's optic blasts with nothing but his claws crossed in front of him and intestinal fortitude while standing at the top of a nuclear tower. And the energy didn't pass through the spaces between the claws to totally rip the normal human flesh and mussle from those unbreakable bones? Really? The power of those optic blasts didn't throw his arms off to the sides and obliterate him by flaying the squishy parts from the Adamantium ones? Seriously? The same optic blasts that earlier cut a swath through an entire school and at the end of the movie ripped a corkscrew pattern through a wall reinforced to contain a nuclear meltdown? At the very least, Wolverine should have been blown 3 miles away from 3 Mile Island by the force of the blast alone if nothing else. Adamantium, last time I checked, didn't absorb the impact of any blow.

But because he's the crappy version of Wolverine Marvel peddles to the kiddies to get them to buy the toys, rather than the complex and respectable character he used to be, he can do ANYTHING! Watch as he cures cancer by snarling and grabbing his junk in the next movie!

This movie was devoid entirely of any kind of storytellinig logic. It's not even that they dissed long time comic fans like me with its' stupidity. It's that it insulted the fabric and core logic of superheroes and how they're supposed to work, what makes them tick and what makes them worth reading about.

This movie, and how it's built up Wolverine, is exactly why a fight scene with Ogun would never work. You couldn't believe Wolverine would ever lose to any normal human being, no matter how skilled he might be. Ogun can't teleport, isn't super strong and doesn't have a healing factor or optic blasts. He'd be a cakewalk for the movie version of Wolvie.

Do you realize that both Deadpool and Wolverine stabbed people multiple times in this movie and there wasn't even any blood on their blades?

But I guess when you're trying to sell children on a character who has razor sharp claws, the world they inhabit has people that don't bleed. They just get stabbed and feel a little bit of pain. Or they just die, bloodlessy and cleanly, just as plastic and fake as the toys this movie was produced to sell.

I hate that kids are sold dumb entertainment today to exploit them, and then the justification is 'oh, it's just for kids' or 'oh, it's just a cartoon/action movie.' We've been given GOOD superhero movies over the past few years to totally debunk this philosophy. And we've been given great animated series in the past to equally debunk it. And really, there's no reason to short sheet the writing other than laziness or because the producers don't care about the property and SOLELY want to make money. If they cared about the property, they'd have brought on some decent writers who would have thought about this story, and a good director that woudl have done it justice and not a low priced hack to oversee the production.

Wolverine's strength as a character is that he is a killer fighting against his own animal nature and his antisocial tendencies. How much can you change the character before he's no longer what makes him compelling to begin with?

This movie was crap. I like Hugh Jackman a lot and don't put any of the blame for this movie's suckitude on his acting. He believed in the character and he played it well. It's just too bad the writers didn't believe in the character as well.

Worst movie I've seen in ten years. Worse than Van Helsing.

Taiso, the problem with wolverine is the fact that Fox makes it. All the superhero Fox movies mostly horrible. Both FFs, X-3, Elektra are bad, X-men and X-2 were decent, as was Daredevil (except they butchered Bullseye). We will not get another good movie in the X-men universe until Fox loses the rights back to Marvel.

Marvel Studios showed it can make great movies like Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. They call all the shots, and get the story done right.

All Fox does is make bad movie after bad movie, period. Example? Aliens vs Predator, enough said.

None of Wolverine is realistic and it's not supposed to be. I liked the movie. The;y made it to appeal to everyone, not just comic book people. And you say this is the worst movie you've seen in ten years?? Seriously? You must not watch too many movies. I couldn't stop naming movies that were worse than Wolverine.

Taiso:

Quite the spiel you had there. Unlike you, I actually liked the movie. I even liked Van Helsing.

That being said, I agree with everything you said. Blocking the optic blast with his claws was particulalry stupid and kicked me out of the movie for a bit.

The movie would have been ten times better if they had respected the much better version of Wolverine you wrote about. And I quite agree that a battle with Ogun and the new Wolverine would not have near the kick as it did in the series, which is still one of my all-time favorite storylines.

But I still liked the movie anyway:)

and Captcha still sucks

This is the worst movie you've seen in the last 10 years? Seriously? I couldn't stop naming movies worse than Wolverine.

I think the only thing I didn't like in the movie was when he was looking at his claws in the bathroom before he cut the sink. What was up with that? They looked sooooo fake. The looked more fake in this film than in the previous three! What the fudge!

Taiso! Standing ovation to you my friend! I posted the same exact feelings you did on this movie on my blog site (willsramblings.com) but nowhere near as articulate as you! Would love to follow you on twitter!