Looks good, but agreed that his voice isn't epic enough, 90's cartoon was more badass.
If he's so strong why doesn't he just kill everyone andseems a bit lame.(click to show/hide)
On the plus side, Archangel as you said as well as attractive women, but where is my boy Wolvy at?
Meh, we've had enough of the Hugh Jackman show. There are only a couple of instances where I want to see Wolvy back at this point:
A. If it's in a X flick then I want to see him in the iconic mask.
B. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe against the Hulk.
I'm tired of Wolverine and the mindless popularity that follows him around.
I think that is a bit harsh. I would seriously peak for yourself or others when you say 'mindless' - not that I know you personally so I'm not one to take offense - I've been a Wolverine fan since the early 90's when I was a kid collecting comics (nobody from this generation knew who Wolverine was then). So to call people like myself mindless or say we're following 'mindlessly' or however you spin it is not appreciative, as we have invested our personal interest, time and money into this character's franchises because of our love for this character as well as others.
Although I may speak for a minority of his fans, without our interest and investment(s) into this character he would not be what he is today.
(In actual fact Wolverine was always my favourite even though I was very familiar with all of the X-men and also really liked Rogue and Gambit and Cable - as lesser seen character in Xmen).
This has become evident in his role within the movies and I'm not having a crack at Jackman, I think he's done a good job but almost made Wolverine too "nice" (like what LOS Gabriel did to Dracula) and anyone who has followed the comics knows what I'm on about.
Given the comic books canon and the popularity of the 90's cartoon, I'll be surprised if this is set before Wolverine joins the Xmen as it appeared at the time that DOFP led into this film. However, given Xavier's appearance among other things it would appear he won't be joining them, which is a shame imo.
If you read my post, I actually point out that I like Hugh Jackman's portrayal very much, but I call the fandom "mindless" because much of the financial success of the films has very little to do with how good it is, and more to do with Wolverine's presence.
It's part of what made First Class so intriguing was that it did well with Wolverine only appearing for a single precision F-strike.
But Days of Future Past, for all the great Xavier and Erik moments, was essentially another episode of "The Wolverine Power Hour Or Two In This Case".
Wolverine's popularity unhealthily overshadows everything else in the franchise, and that needs to backpedal fast.
If you read my post, I actually point out that I like Hugh Jackman's portrayal very much, but I call the fandom "mindless" because much of the financial success of the films has very little to do with how good it is, and more to do with Wolverine's presence.
It's part of what made First Class so intriguing was that it did well with Wolverine only appearing for a single precision F-strike.
But Days of Future Past, for all the great Xavier and Erik moments, was essentially another episode of "The Wolverine Power Hour Or Two In This Case".
Wolverine's popularity unhealthily overshadows everything else in the franchise, and that needs to backpedal fast.
But why does it need to backpedal? That's like saying the Avengers movies should stop being The Hulk or Iron Man 'show', but in reality these characters steal the show because of two things; 1) their personality/ character that resonates with the audience and 2) how well they can act and outact other cast members, the 2 going hand-in-hand.
But Avengers is a crappy comparison, as Joss Whedon was very careful to direct the film in a way so that it doesn't expressly favor any single character in terms of on-screen time and dialog uttered.It's not a crappy comparison, it's a Movie starring several superheroes where certain Heroes and villains are allocated more airplay than others. Fantastic Four would be a shitty comparison because for eg in the movie arc which starred Jessica Alba: more often than not all 4 characters were on the screen at the same time. (It was really only "Thing" who went off for a bit on his own to face an internal dillemma).
The X Men films are MASSIVELY skewed in favor of, in order 1) Wolverine 2) Magneto 3) Everyone else.
One thing that I respect about the first two films was they had a very similar character balance to The Avengers, with no one character actually dominating the amount of screentime or dialog.I second this.
Wolverine, who is understandably the CLEAR audience favorite due to finally becoming a sympathetic character instead of a tiny hairy snarling badass,You seem mad here..
X-Men 2 put a little more dramatic weight on him, but no one could really argue he has too much presence in the film-- given the villain's personal connection with him, I'd even say his screentime is just about perfect.
X-Men 3 changed that, effectively making him the series' overall main character and viewpoint.
After that, we got X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which we can all agree was going to happen no matter what after Hugh Jackman was cast) which pointedly existed entirely to cater to the character's overwhelming popularity.
Leaving him out of First Class (except for the most brilliant cameo in a superhero film ever; sorry Stan Lee) was a wise decision that allowed for rebalancing the cast's overall weight in the narrative.
Then we got The Wolverine, which was a much better fanservice film than Origins, and it was pretty damn good, all told; but it remains a fanservice film catering to Wolverine's popularity.
But then, in Days of Future Past (or at least the version that was released to theaters), Wolverine is again the central viewpoint and arguable main character of the film, despite this supposedly being Xavier and Erik's show.
Now, Wolvie has long been the franchise's big breakout character, but eventually, his popularity reached levels that could be considered outright RIDICULOUS. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WolverinePublicity)
Again. I like Wolverine. I like Hugh Jackman (and am still hoping he gets cast as James Bond one day).
I just don't like the way the movies tend to lean on him.
X2 and the Rogue Cut of Days of Future Past are probably the two best films in the franchise though
X-2 was good for a wolverine origins story before he wandered the country in X-1. What I didn't like about it was how downplayed Lady Deathstrike was. She was virtually a robot throughout the whole film until that mutant-controlling serum wore off. Then she was killed off soon afterwards. I personally would liked to have seen more of her without the control serum just to see how more badass she really could have been.