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Waxy Wolverine: How to make a mediocre movie seem more interesting
Whoa, X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out this summer? It's May release date feels like ages ago considering all of the Star Trekking, Transforming and District 9ing that's gone on since. So now that the season's on the wind-down, let's not forget about the crap that we most certainly forgot. Hell, we even put the sucker on our cover chilling with M. Nuts, the Phanatic and Santigold and I still thought this movie came out last year.
Waxy Wolverine: How to make a mediocre movie seem more interesting
Whoa, X-Men Origins: Wolverine came out this summer? It's May release date feels like ages ago considering all of the Star Trekking, Transforming and District 9ing that's gone on since. So now that the season's on the wind-down, let's not forget about the crap that we most certainly forgot. Hell, we even put the sucker on our cover chilling with M. Nuts, the Phanatic and Santigold and I still thought this movie came out last year.
Madam Tussaud's Hollywood decided to cast the Clawed One in wax (in order to preserve it's inherent mediocrity?) and are taking it out for a spin on a five-city tour. You can catch a glimpse of the Jackman-a-la-wax this Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. at FYE, 100 S. Broad St.
It's all in the name of promoting the DVD. Drew Lazor was lukewarm on the whole affair:
If you've got your priorities straight, your reasons for sucking down a big-budget Marvel flick should be identical to your reasons for sucking down a big fat burger — while both are questionably beneficial to your well-being, frivolous transgression is fun, whether you feel guilty about it or not. As expected, Gavin Hood's spin on The Clawed One's back story doesn't build empathy for Wolverine as much as it provides a platform for Hugh Jackman to go "RAAHHHH!" and be shirtless a lot. And that's fine. The director starts by establishing Wolfy (aka Logan) and bloodthirsty Sabretooth (a hulking Liev Schreiber) as siblings who never got along — things come to a head when they're part of the black-op Team X that provides the latter brother with plenty of chances to cut up the innocent. Skip to later, with Wolfy splitting logs in Canada with his girl (Lynn Collins); Sabretooth starts knocking members of the old squad off, luring Logan and his anger issues back into the mix. Special effects are suspect at points, and characters are shot out all sloppy and rapid-fire like spuds out of a potato gun (it's the first in what will be many single-hero X-Flicks, so you gotta get those fenceposts in the ground). But if you've got your priorities straight, you'll take will.i.am's goofy role as teleportin' cowpoke John Wraith as a sign not to think too hard about this.
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