That’s an interesting point. How much kudos did the film win by having the marketing slogan ‘from the director of Tsotsi’.

They fail to mention ‘Rendition’ though.

Gavin Hood. Hired for his name….and the ability to point a camera at generic action shit.

We had shots in X2 with Wolverine screaming in pain and looking at his bloody claws after escaping from Weapon X. Where did that go?

Was this in Alkali lake? I didn’t hear them mention that.

So Sabretooth kidnaps Toad and brings him to Stryker, but he’s totally cool working with Sabretooth a few years later?

Xavier never bothered to mention to anyone that Wolverine and Cyclops have something in common? I mean, I guess I could forgive it until toward the end of X2 – it’s not like he’s psychic or anything. But after that, why wouldn’t you say, “btw, Scott, this is where I picked you up when you were a kid.”

How you gonna seal up Deadpool’s mouth? C’mon, how you gonna play him like that? Seriously – you know what his tagline is? THE MERC WITH A MOUTH. All of the rest of his body is negotiable, but he has a mouth. It specifically states in his contract, “Has a mouth.”

All that said, I got what I expected. Some good action, mostly “feh.” Would’ve liked to see a dude carrying a shield just hidden somewhere in the background in the WW2 shots.

Oh, the army didn’t realize there was something wrong with Sabretooth when they saw he had flippin’ claws? We still didn’t know about mutants yet, right?

Why wouldn’t Quicksilver just run out of the place as soon as he was out of the cage? Hell, he’s strong enough to carry people, too.

They should have made Gambit’s eyes black and red. That would be easy.

Wolverine is interesting because every inch of his body is made for violence, and he is the result of that, despite wanting just the opposite. What’s crazy is, this director gets that. He’s talked about it in interviews. So why isn’t the movie about that?

Wolverine, really, is more lazy than poor, and never really had all THAT much potential to live up to in the first place.

THANK YOU. Most people don’t seem to have a problem with that. And to make it even more explicit, they kill the woman who was with him with their powers, just before taking him away to be thrown.

Speaking of X3, how bad is Wolverine compared?

Does it have scenes like “I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch”? Or a scene starting in day time only to switch to nighttime when the fighting starts? Or have the bad guys, who have been killing people with their powers throughout the film, just throw a guy off the side of a building so his son can conveniently fly in and save him?