Escape to the Movies: The Wolverine

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The Wolverine

MovieBob takes us to Japan with his look at the latest film to feature Wolverine.

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Well, as you say, that's good enough, I guess. Hope that means it will get better then.

Also, a gorilla that plays baseball? :) Cool. Yeah, lets get us some of that.
 

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This year? Good enough is a compliment! Sorry, thought Pacific Rim not that original and not that good, though I loved looking at the Robots. I liked Star Trek better than you likely did. But after the disappointing Superman and seeing Ironman's girlfriend actually win the day, I need a good enough Wolverine.
 

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while I would like to see it, I just can't get past how bad origins was. Also it kind of irks me that they imply in the trailers that wolverine is immortal. He can heal at an enormous rate, yes, but that does not equal immortality.

regarding Creed: seriously? just let it stop already. Sly got lucky that Balboa was decent but since his non-expendable movies aren't making any bank he's going back to the rocky well?
 

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I guessed the plot twist with the silver samurai
when Yukio said she didn't foresee Yashida's deafh, I figured the lack of vision meant that it didn't happen
so I was watching g the fight wondering whether or not I'd be right.
I liked the movie, it was a fun action movie but I agree with Bob when he says it would have been nice if the movie didn't try to create drama but just not telling the audience anything about the various motivations involved.
 

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I've haven't heard of Mr Go until now, the trailer look so ridiculous. it could be enjoyable to watch!
 

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Seems like something I'd rent on DVD. Wolverine is cool and all but... There are much more interesting characters in the X-Men universe. How about a movie about what happened to Magneto between the concentration camp and the beginning of the main part of First Class? That would be pretty interesting, I bet.

Also, I appreciate that the Escapist needs revenue, but my enjoyment of this episode was marred by an ad for Blue Moon that WOULD NOT GO AWAY and blocked a third of the video window.
 

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SomebodyNowhere said:
while I would like to see it, I just can't get past how bad origins was. Also it kind of irks me that they imply in the trailers that wolverine is immortal. He can heal at an enormous rate, yes, but that does not equal immortality.
Well in the comics, and somewhat scientifically, his healing factor does make him immortal. A person ages due to the slow damage and death of cells and organs in their body. Logan's cells and organs repair and regrow that damage, meaning he won't age and since he can repair any other injury he sustains due to drinking, fighting, or accidents; so long as some part of his DNA still exists he is effectively immortal outside of total disintegration.
 

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BabySinclair said:
Well in the comics, and somewhat scientifically, his healing factor does make him immortal. A person ages due to the slow damage and death of cells and organs in their body. Logan's cells and organs repair and regrow that damage, meaning he won't age and since he can repair any other injury he sustains due to drinking, fighting, or accidents; so long as some part of his DNA still exists he is effectively immortal outside of total disintegration.
Longest... telomeres... ever.

--Morology!
 

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I saw this movie and concur. It's OK. Nothing special. Nothing especially memorable. However that final twist Bob mentions everyone who watched the trailer has already figured out what it is. It's very predictable.
 

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Awww, Silver Samurais a robot?

Origins was piss poor and yes I am gonna hold it against this movie. Days of Future Past gets the go, this is a DVD-on-a-sale jobby.
No the Silver Samurai is still a dude in armor, it's just more mech then traditional armor.
 

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Ace Morologist said:
BabySinclair said:
Well in the comics, and somewhat scientifically, his healing factor does make him immortal. A person ages due to the slow damage and death of cells and organs in their body. Logan's cells and organs repair and regrow that damage, meaning he won't age and since he can repair any other injury he sustains due to drinking, fighting, or accidents; so long as some part of his DNA still exists he is effectively immortal outside of total disintegration.
Longest... telomeres... ever.

--Morology!
As a microbiologist, I appreciate this comment.
 

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I will go see a Wolverine movie when they get around to making X-23 a part of it. Sure, they could ruin her and the story around her by making it all about what is essentially "bad ass assassin girl #451890." Or they could actually focus on Wolverine's reaction to finding out he was cloned and that they tortured that clone all her life, and she's not even certain she is a real person.

That's probably never going to happen though. And if it does it will probably be terrible. Pessimism, ho.
 

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I can never take Jackman seriously as Wolverine. I seriously don't see it. I am agreed about the X-Men films, though.

SomebodyNowhere said:
while I would like to see it, I just can't get past how bad origins was. Also it kind of irks me that they imply in the trailers that wolverine is immortal. He can heal at an enormous rate, yes, but that does not equal immortality.
He's also been alive since at least the Civil War in some continuities, and more than once has regenerated from virtually nothing. His healing factor does, for all intents and purposes, make him immortal.

....Except when it doesn't, because we've seen him go gray in the future and be unable to restore a hand when complete regeneration is possible, because they're making it up as they go along ponies.

Anyway, my point is that his portrayal of being "immortal" is not a new idea, and may be accurate within the continuity of the X-Men films. It's probably a bad idea to add into the film universe, as we're dealing with a dude who looks markedly older in WW2 than he did in the first X-Men movie, but hey. It's not like they're still going to be wheeling Jackman out in a chair in 50 years to play Wolverine, right?

....Right?
 

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I've noticed that in these movies you just can't seem to have plot and (good) actions scenes. I loved Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy to death, but the fight choreography is almost universally panned by everyone. Doesn't matter to me because I go to hear the dialogue that I've come to love from Nolan movies, and I suspect lots of people don't care about the plot of this movie and just want to see Wolverine slice up ninja's and apparently robotic samurai. Whatever.

Thing I like most about Bob's reviews are his tidbits of info that I would have never known anywhere else. First time I saw saw the trailer for this I figured they were just desperately searching for content so they figured, ninjas, samurai, Japan, lets do this! But no, its actual part of the comics. I got a good laugh at that.
 

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Eicha said:
Also, I appreciate that the Escapist needs revenue, but my enjoyment of this episode was marred by an ad for Blue Moon that WOULD NOT GO AWAY and blocked a third of the video window.
And yet, the advertising is still preferable to Blip's.