Comments on: Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/ A pop culture blog by Mormons but not about Mormonism Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Supergenius http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13750 Tue, 05 May 2009 16:43:46 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13750 LOL, Clark.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13749 Tue, 05 May 2009 16:16:09 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13749 Sorry, I was thinking Bruce Hornsby.
My bad.

]]> By: Brian J http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13748 Tue, 05 May 2009 14:47:03 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13748 Clark: I don’t know anything about Nick Honsby. The song I’m talking about is by Moby.

]]> By: danithew http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13747 Tue, 05 May 2009 11:32:01 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13747 We are in an age where every story we have ever enjoyed is being adapted to the movie screen. The technology can basically now makes anything we’ve imagined realistic on-screen.

But I wonder, in the rush to adapt anything that already has a built-in fan-base, if our culture/civilization is forgetting how to create original new stories.

At least we have Pixar.

In regards to Wolverine and the X-Men movies (or even superhero movies in general) they are taking bits and pieces of all these comic-book stories and throwing them at us in new versions and combinations.

There was a limited-series Wolverine comic in the 80s that could have been turned into a noirish movie and it might have been something really great.

I’m not completely unhappy with what has happened but I’m not really contented either. I do think that Marvel is cashing in on all these stories and the results have been somewhat interesting but never spectactular.

Shyamalan did something right with Unbreakable.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13746 Sun, 03 May 2009 19:02:11 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13746 Nick Honsby? The guy who had that song they played way back in Family Ties with Michael J. Fox?

]]> By: BrianJ http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13745 Sun, 03 May 2009 08:00:29 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13745 I thought Miami Vice was just meant to be an elaborate music video for “One of These Mornings,” which I like.

]]> By: Supergenius http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13744 Sun, 03 May 2009 05:12:39 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13744 Colin Farrell was the weak link in Miami Vice (see my initial review, here. It was otherwise fairly well executed. I have a good deal of confidence in Michael Mann. He gets guys like few others do, sort of a macho man equivalent to Nick Hornsby.

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13743 Sun, 03 May 2009 04:09:04 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13743 I don’t think Jamie Foxx was the problem with Miami Vice. Rather it was that (1) it added nothing to the 80′s show being more or less a film version of the pilot and (2) the movie was weaker than the TV show. In particular I thought Colin Farrell’s white trash look was just plain bad.

]]> By: Rose Tyler http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13742 Sun, 03 May 2009 01:10:43 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13742 By most accounts Miami Vice’s problems are mostly Jamie Foxx’s fault. His refusal to travel to many locations caused last minute rewrites. The movie that came out was not the movie intented. Anyhow I saw some of PE as it was shot in and around where my in-laws live and if it translates to screen well then I think it will be very good. Though I’m more excited about Depp in Alice and Wonderland

]]> By: Clark http://kulturblog.com/2009/04/30/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine/#comment-13741 Sun, 03 May 2009 00:04:14 +0000 http://www.kulturblog.com/?p=1962#comment-13741 The problem with Public Enemies at least in the trailers is that it looks so HD cameraish. Distractingly so. It doesn’t look bad at all on a small screen. But on the big screen… I had a friend who was complaining about this but I hadn’t seen the preview on the big screen until last night and didn’t realize just how right he is. Let’s hope this is something fixed in postproduction.

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