Tag: Hugh Jackman
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Why Wolverine: Weapon X Makes More Sense Than Old Man Logan
For a long time, the rumors were persistent that Hugh Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine would be inspired by the Old Man Logan comics by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. Â It never made a ton of sense to me, unless the only bit of inspiration taken from it was the name (similar to Age of…
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Movie Review – X-Men: Days of Future Past
The X-Men movie franchise has had it’s ups and downs. Â The first two movies were very good despite the myriad changes and tweaks to the characters, while X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were on the rough side. Â First Class was good, but went a long way towards making the continuity issues worse (How much…
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Movie Review – The Wolverine
Adaptation movies are such balancing acts, especially with comic book movies. Alienate the fans, and the negative backlash on the geek sites will wash you away. But the superfans alone do not bring in the box office numbers (just look at Joss and Serenity) so you can’t hew too close to the source if it…
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Movie Review – Real Steel
I took my son with me to see Real Steel last night. Much like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this was a movie that hit my radar late. I mean, I knew about it, and probably made the jokes everyone else made about Rock’em Sock’em Robots. It wasn’t until reviews started to come…