Films

[williamjm]

I went to see the new Wolverine film at the cinema today. It has had some pretty bad reviews so I wasn't expecting much, I wouldn't say it was necessarily as bad as some of the reviews are saying, but it still wasn't particularly good. Hugh Jackman and Liev Schriber are good in the two lead roles, but I thought some of the supporting acting was a little bit weak - in particular, the actor playing Stryker couldn't really live up to Brian Cox's portrayal of the character in X2. The plot was OK for a run-of-the-mill superhero story, but the whole thing did feel slightly pointless since it didn't add much to what we already knew about Wolverine's past, from X-Men 2 we already knew about Wolverine's powers, how he got the adamantium skeleton and Stryker's involvement so the only new thing we learn is why he had amnesia. Overall, not a bad film, but a mediocre one, which at least makes it significantly better than the awful mess that was X-Men 3.

In last week's post about the cinema I was complaining about Let The Right One In not being on at any Cambridge cinema any more despite them still showing a trailer for it. It seems that it will be on for a single showing tomorrow at about 2, so I might go and see that, since it has had significantly better reviews than Wolverine.

I went to the cinema as a passenger in my friend's new Smart Car that he's just bought. It is quite an unusual experience at first compare to a normal car, you do seem to notice the quality of the road surface much more (particularly the number of potholes) and driving over speed-bumps at anything over about 15 mph in it can be a slightly alarming experience, which is annoying considering there are five of them just to get to the end of Chesterton High Street (the road I live next to).

Comments

[catrionamacnair.livejournal.com]

I wasn't particularly impressed by the Wolverine film. I was particularly particularly unimpressed by what they did with the surgery - I have heard much better ideas of how they did it. (Also, how on earth do you get the metal between the flesh and the bone by simple needle injection? And how do you acchieve a complete effect? I am reminded of Achilles' Heel and Siegfried's leaf-on-the-shoulder). /medical rant.
Gambit was pretty cool though, and Deadpool scary. *shrugs* Mediocre is a well-chosen word, I believe.

[williamjm.livejournal.com]

Yes, the surgery didn't really seem to make any sense, not that that is a surprise in a superhero story. From X-Men 2 I had the impression that the surgery had been a much more complicated procedure rather than the seemingly simple injections they used in Wolverine. I'm also confused why he had to be in a tank full of water during the surgery, I can't see what purpose that had.