Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Alex

I liked it in a mild way. Not a good standalone movie but viewing it more like an old movie serial and just a part of ongoing storytelling I was fine with it.

Though the CGI was surprisingly bad at times.

But I am not a fan of the comics (not that I don't like them, I just never read them) so I don't have much in the way expectations. I thought it was much improved on the truly horrible and much bigger budget X3.

re: CGI

Spoiler:

In the bathroom scene where he sees his claws in the mirror, his claws looked like they came straight out of Roger Rabbit. They reminded me of Eddie Valiant's gun that shot the cowboy sidekick bullets.
The scene where he chops up the fire escape, total Bugs Bunny action there.

other stuff:

Spoiler:

Gambit wasn't used enough, he was semi-sort of interesting.
The weapon XI finale fight reminded me of the Phantom Menace Darth Maul fight from the two versus one combat to the scene where the body falls and a body part separates. And the whole head still shooting thing... oy vey.
And what's the deal with Wolverine killing off people who are being controlled by someone else? Deathstrike (I think that was her name) in X-Men 2 she's being controlled by a mind altering serum and still Wolverine kills her. Deadpool is being controlled by Stryker and still he's killed by Wolverine. That doesn't make sense to me.