May 4, 2009 at 9:41 pm by Curt Holman
Read between the lines!
X-Men Origins: Wolverine earned $85 million over the weekend, down a bit from the opening weekend of the previous film in the franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand. Here I’ll pose a few of Wolverine’s nagging questions. Several give away the ending, and some of them may have actual, logical answers.
1. First, one that involves no spoilers: Why are the special effects so bad? Several of my friends pointed out that they’re noticeably worse than the first X-Men film, which came out almost 10 years ago. I like the theory advanced by Alexandra DuPont, the best writer at Ain’t It Cool News:
The special effects are shiny and unconvincing. They are a very specific kind of shiny and unconvincing — where it looks like the studio realized the movie wasn’t going to be as successful as they’d hoped, so they told every effects house working on the show to skip the last couple of rendering passes to save money.
But that doesn’t account for the lousy ‘fat guy’ make-up on The Blob. Any other ideas?
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May 1, 2009 at 2:04 pm by Curt Holman
SHARP SHOOTER: Hugh Jackman as Wolverine
GENRE: Vengeful action flick with mutant powers
THE PITCH: This X-Men prequel fills in the backstory of Wolverine/Logan/James Howlett (Hugh Jackman), revealing a glimpse of his 19th-century Canadian childhood, his similarly powered psychotic brother Victor, aka Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), and the 1970s-era government conspiracy that gives him both a metal skeleton and a bloody-minded vendetta. Snikt!
MONEY SHOTS: The opening credits show Logan and Victor fighting in the Civil War, World Wars I and II and Vietnam. Logan and a team of Nam-era mutant commandos wreak havoc on an African diamond-smuggling compound. Wolverine takes on a helicopter in an appropriately big, dumb action scene. Louisianan mutant Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) channels his cool explosive powers through a walking stick and playing cards. The outlandish final fight takes place along the rim of a nuclear reactor coolant tower.
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