Why so much hate?
Interesting setup, well-motivated action, smartly handled characters, and a satisfying plot. What more do you need? It's not a masterpeice, but it's a fun time.
shareNot hate, just MASSIVE disappointment. The following is what I wrote in a separate thread:
I've been a Wolverine fan for 30 years. I've read the limited series that this movie is "based" on several times. I am very familiar with all the characters including Viper, Silver Samurai, Wolverine (of course), Mariko, Lord Shingen, and Yukio. Almost all of these characters were changed in the film version for the worse. Yukio in the comics, and Aronofsky's screenplay, was a seasoned assassin with short cropped black hair, not a fake red head little mall rat who could swing a sword from time to time--and she is certainly NOT A MUTANT who can foresee someone's death. Viper has green hair not blonde hair, and she certainly is not a venom spitting mutant. Grandpa Yashida was just added to the film, and had no business in it. Silver Samurai got the worst treatment. He isn't an old man in a mechanized suit. Silver Samurai is a bada$$ mutant who can focus his mutant energy through his sword and cut through almost anything EXCEPT Admantium.share
Which brings me to the whole Admantium cutting through Admantium thing that happens on screen. That was bull crap. Admantium cannot cut through Admantium. If anything, the superheated sword that the giant Silver Samurai robot was using would've been weaker than Wolverine's claws because when metal is heated it becomes more malleable.
The scene with the bear made me cringe too. In the comic, Logan has to fight the bear in order to put it out of its misery. And what's the deal with the Girzzle Adam's look for Wolverine? That is silly. Mangold screwed up what could've been a very good movie. That's my honest opinion.
A great post which highlights almost everything wrong with a film that should've been epic but was instead, mediocre.
I would only add that this film completely wasted it's location. Japan is a unique experience - if you've been there you'd know what I mean - but this film failed to capture that and do any of it justice, which is quite an achievement considering all the events occurred there.
Instead we were served up a series of clichéd fights with the usual expendable gangsters, followed by a single encounter with a village of ninjas (which was the best part of the film for me!) before a boringly predictable anti-climatic showdown with a dishonourable samurai.
There is more to Japan than WW2, Yakuza, Ninja and Samurai...
Yes, it would be much bether if they mad it a bit mor like it the comics....
I never read them, but I notised that much was out of place here