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This Is A Brilliant Film!

posted 11 years ago by Coneydogg
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There is not one wasted line, visual, camera angle or wasted development in this entire movie. Everything serves to either advance the plot or flesh out and develop a character. It was smart, tight and lean and superbly done. I truly think that this is the best movie of the summer. How could you not like it? It doesn't payoff prior installments or set up future ones, it’s a great film all by itself. It seems to exist almost out of time, for the simple purpose of pitting its iconic mutant anti-hero against the perfect threats. Who doesn’t like samurais, ninjas, and vicious yakuza thugs? You can still see the attempt to tie this film to events from the trilogy but it all works neatly and tightly and you really need not have seen those other films.

The Wolverine is certainly a movie that I want to see again. It's one heck of an entertaining and smart movie.

[–] icannothit 11 years ago

Mangold may be required viewing years from now in film school. I'm completely serious. The guy knows how to craft a film.

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[–] icannothit 11 years ago

They said the same thing about Iron Man. "Once Avengers hits no one will care..."

I guarantee that this time next year people will still be posting here about how good this film was and how it set the bar high for the character.

[–] Allswell007 11 years ago

They said the same thing about Iron Man. "Once Avengers hits no one will care..."

I guarantee that this time next year people will still be posting here about how good this film was and how it set the bar high for the character.

Not just the credit scene but the entire movie is a good pivot toward Days of Future Past. This is a fine film but it lets you take an X-Men breather. It grounds the entire franchise so that seeing them all together means more. It's just like the solo films do for Avengers. That's why The Wolverine will always be remembered.

[–] TwoMushrooms 11 years ago

"Mangold may be required viewing years from now in film school. I'm completely serious."

- Hehe, you're funny.

I'm having trouble with a patient of mine; he's a teenage drug addict who's being molested. By me.

[–] icannothit 11 years ago

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by dumb people's opinion.

[–] SpanishRicky 11 years ago

Check out and just enjoy the movie.

[–] DUKEJBM 11 years ago

I loved that it knew what it wanted to be and delivered. It didn't try to be more than the some of its parts. It hit real world tones but injected Logan's abilities in a very smart way.

[–] raven1066 11 years ago

'The Wolverine' is a great show. No doubt.

"The world is coming to an end. So where would you rather die, here or in a Jaeger?"

[–] thewriteuk 11 years ago

Should have been smarter.

[–] StarkTech 11 years ago

I loved that it knew what it wanted to be and delivered. It didn't try to be more than the some of its parts. It hit real world tones but injected Logan's abilities in a very smart way.

That is exactly why it worked so well.

[–] joechar4444 11 years ago

There's nothing wrong with going with smarts over CGI explosions. We get enough of that crap in every other film nowadays.

[–] ba_bam_bam 11 years ago

How can anyone not love this film? It has to be on your top ten list of the year if you're any type of action movie fan at all.

[–] joechar4444 11 years ago

It's awesome in it's simplicity.

[–] IronBallsM 11 years ago

Poppa agrees! I really hope Hugh Jackman comes back after DOFP at least for AOA X-Men.

[–] StarkTech 11 years ago

The rating system here can be hacked I would guess.

[–] pieginodino 10 years ago

Again, now I really wonder why they didn't use the alternate ending on the plane? If they had the script for DOFP and knew they were wiping out everything anyway, why couldn't we see the comic book costume???

[–] SpanishRicky 10 years ago

I blame no one.

[–] ScottBang 10 years ago

It's not overstating it to call this film an instant classic.

[–] McGrit 10 years ago

This is nothing but dead, white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you that keep the rest of us from landing a husband.

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."

[–] SloberDon 10 years ago

Sell it because when Hugh Jackman steps down I'll be sad.

[–] sacflyzone 9 years ago

I loved it.

[–] hafabee 9 years ago

Yeah it really is, beautiful cinematography and gorgeous, exotic locales. The shots they got for this movie are such a huge measure ahead of most comic book films, it's so far ahead it almost doesn't belong in the genre. Great film making, and story telling too, I love the "stranger in a strange land" angle, and Japan is a great location for that.

[–] gracesanimalfarm 9 years ago

Quoting original poster / doetreve:

Who doesn’t like samurais, ninjas, and vicious yakuza thugs? You can still see the attempt to tie this film to events from the trilogy but it all works neatly and tightly and you really need not have seen those other films.

Normally, I would agree with you - except the samurais, ninjas, and various yakuza thugswere more like party-city rent-a-cops than dangerous nemesis. The villains were laughable. They didn't really give a vibe of something to be feared.

I will say the train scene was kind of cool, but mostly because Hugh can act really well. He made it very believable. The gangsters were wanna be dangerous. That's bad when you are trying to build suspense.

What they need is more lethal looking villains. Conceptually it makes sense that these ninjas would be scary but why were they always on the roof all the time? Why did you need like 80000 of them to take down 1 guy? Why were they all so skinny and obvious on the screen? I thought they were supposed to be stealthy? Aren't they supposed to hide amongst the shadows and darkness and be something more of a ghost?

Not scary at all.

[–] Logan8888 9 years ago

Hugh has three classic Wolverine films on the resume. X2, DOFP and The Wolverine. Those are all instant classics.

[–] blackdoug 9 years ago

Great movies like these will always be remembered.

[–] Logan8888 9 years ago

It deserved Deadpool type money but thems the breaks.

[–] T-eschberger 9 years ago

So well said. Aside from the obvious clunkers, The X-Franchise is the cream of the crop of superhero franchises (No, Nolan does not earn the title imo with his pretentious Batman Begins sequels. Batman Begins is about as flawless a superhero film can be imo...but TDK and Rises no so much). I love most of the MCU-Incredible Hulk, Thor 2 and Ant-Man being the only "meh" films. I even find Iron Man 2 to be severely underrated. As fun overall as the MCU films are, there are only THREE films in their canon currently I find to be great on all fronts: Iron Man, Winter Soldier and Guardians. The film-making in most of the MCU is pretty basic as well. The X-Franchise and the DC films have richer and more interesting directing and cinematography. Sh!t on it all you like, but BvS is a GORGEOUS looking film with a lot of visual symbolism.

X1, X2, First Class, The Wolverine, DOFP and Deadpool are all excellent imo.