Tuesday, August 25, 2009

JIMPRAISE: 10 GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE WOLVERINE MOVIE

"JimPRAISE!"
Due to excessive amounts of hate mail wrongfully accusing that I am always negative, I proposed to you Readers a week of "JimPRAISE". I asked for suggestions of topics for me to post only POSITIVE things about, and you answered (you Jackals!). I have chosen the top 5 requested topics and will post 1 per day this week. Just remember, you asked for these.
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10 GOOD THINGS ABOUT
"X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE"

(in no particular order)


MOTORCYCLE SCENE: LOGAN IS NOW HEAVY!
Sometimes it's the little things that make fanboys glee in their seats. In one scene, post-adamantium operation, Logan sits on a motorcycle and gives the shocks a run for the money. Even comic book writers sometimes seem to forget that the adamantium lacing Wolverine's bones makes him heavy.
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I LIKED THE BLOB ACTOR
Boxing Matach aside, I thought Kevin Durand did a nice job as a likeable Fred Dukes, aka The Blob.
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SABRETOOTH'S EXTENDABLE CLAWS
In this movie, Sabretooth's claws are extendable. Personally, I thought that was great and works for the character. It's minor, yet profound.
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WAR FLASHBACK MONTAGE
This was nicely done... an almost "Highlander" flashback montage showing that a)Logan & Creed are really old, b)They ave fought in many wars, c)Establish both have healing factors, d)Shows they have grown somewhat indifferent to the idea of pain & death over the years, and e)They are drawn to conflict.
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DEATH OF MA & PA KENT
It was so awesome to see Ma and Pa Kent again! And truly shocking when they both get killed. Seriously, I did not foresee it coming at the moment it did.
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RYAN REYNOLDS IS A GREAT WADE WILSON
Ryan Reynolds was born to play 2 comic book characters: Wally West Flash, and DEADPOOL. In this Origins movie, Reynolds does a great job playing the part of pre-Deadpool WADE WILSON and gives us a taste of how perfect he would be as the funny "The Merc With A Mouth". Oh, and when Wade enters the badguy room and kills everyone with his swords and slices that bullet in half in mid flight/air...... Sweet.
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SABRETOOTH: BIGGER & STRONGER & SCARY
They did get a few aspects of Sabretooth right in this movie: He's bigger, stronger & more ferocius than Wolverine. The only real way that allows the 2 to fight on a somewhat "even playing field" is that Logan has the indescructible skeleton and adamantium claws. Schrieber's Creed was scary, as it should be.
Oh, and Creed breaking Logan's bone claws was a nice touch... a little nod/borrow from Wolverine #79 where Cyber did the same thing.
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ESCAPE FROM WEAPON X FACILITY
This was one of the best scenes in the movie.... starting at the moment where Wolverine comes up out of the tank in an almost-berserker rage. Logan takes a bullet to the forehead like it was nothing, then leaps out and kills everyone in his path.
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THEM CLAWS BE SHARP!
The final cool moment of the Facility Escape scene is when he slices through the facility's metal walls like they were butter - a nice reminder that his adamantium claws are fucking sharp!

*jimPRAISE: Batman & Robin Movie

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

( pushing glasses up the bridge of my nose)

- Yes, thank you very much mr. Smash, Wolverine does indeed weigh 300 lbs due to the metal laced to his bones...

Anonymous said...

HEY JIM.. AT THE END OF JIM-PRAISE THIS WEEK, STARTING NEXT WEEk ,U SHOULD REDO WHAT U HAVE JUST DONE HERE BUT BUT ISTEAD OF PRAISING! U GIVE THE SMASHING OF LIFETIME!!! (on these same things that u have posted) MAN THAT WOULD BEEE SOOO SWEEET!!! and HILARIOUS!

Jim said...

Ha!

Anonymous said...

i mean after all it is "JIMSMASH" ;) so will ya?... or its a maybe , i'll think about it, meh, probaly a surpirise sort of thing lol

Unkiedev said...

Jim, I'm not even kidding you. THESE are really good articles, you should flesh them out and possibly submit them to some other sites, or even start up a new site (or Jimsmash feature) called Good things about Bad Culture.

Jim said...

Wow, thanks Unkiedev!!

I'm having alot of fun with them... I may continue doing them.

Submit suggestions!
:)

Jim said...

........so wait, are you saying my other articles suck? *sniffle sob* :P

Anonymous said...

HELLA NO! :) WE LOVE ALL UR POSTS!!! JIM!!! man .... we wish it was ur day job that way evryday when we check theres always something there waiting for us :)

Jim said...

Oh, You!!! *blush*