The Wolverine

Sure it is.

If you live in the States.

Huh, every commercial I've seen and the local theater listings up through this afternoon have just said "Not yet rated." Guess they just didn't update the info then.

It's rated M here in Aus which would mean PG 13 in America.

Anyways I saw the film...and was pleasantly surprised.

The story felt more personal, cooler and puts some faith in me for Days of Future Past The Stinger was awesome

If anything this movie is like Iron Man 3 a more personal look at a popular character with a ballsy move that might split fans

Saw it. The film is trillion times better than Wolverine Origins. Wolverine's dialogue feels stale as a motherfucker at times. The action scenes are well done and Wolvie and Mariko are scripted pretty well.

The film rivals the Marvel anime: Wolverine for me.

It's nice to see Mariko and Yukio actually get some love. Mariko in the comics got stuffed into the fridge, and it was just sad that it happened. Yukio in the comics is still alive, although she did end up wheelchair-bound. It's pretty sad, but at least she can still fight.

It's nice to see that Mariko has been changed into quite the fighter in this film. I was a little surprised that they changed Yukio's hair to this bright red colour. I mean, I actually thought that was Psylocke given a different hair colour! <Tee hee>

It actually felt like a Wolverine story. It adapted some of the very best Wolverine material and came out like a good Wolverine story arc. Probably the best X-Men film so far.

This was a good movie! Nice acting, nice story, nice little twist. The female characters kicked ass, equal-opportunity fanservice, yadda yadda yadda. Viper was a bit of a weak point, but not so much of a weak point.

Unfortunately, The Wolverine didn't meet box-office expectations. I would expect Days of Future Past to do better.

It's better than Wolverine: Origins that's for sure.

BEST goddamn movie I've seen this year, wipes the floor with Iron Man 3 and punches it square in the jaw. Excellent writing, directing and acting. Left a review in the trope page, in fact.

My X-men movie rating, if we are to count Origins and The Wolverine as X-Men movies, is now like this: The Wolverine = X2 >>> First Class >>> X1 >>> Origins >>> X3.

Just saw it today. Really enjoyed it myself. The feel of it pulled me in a lot more than the original X-Men films.

Maybe it's just the fact I get to see so many of my Asian kin, I don't know. Still, since I missed out on First Class, this'd be my favourite film in the franchise so far!

Totally saw the old dude Yashida being in the mecha-samurai coming.

Question- Why is Viper in this movie? I don't mean plotwise, but legal rights wise. I always had the impression she was a Captain America and SHIELD villainess who just happened to guest star in several Wolverine stories, so why is she in the X-Men movie rights package?

The X-Men have a whole lot of random characters tied up in their rights.

Because she made Wolverine swear loyalty to her through their mutual master. Kinda hard to not include a character when they're integral to that character's overall story.

edited 28th Jul '13 1:04:41 PM by nomuru2d

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I didn't hate this.

I have not been a fan of Logan in a while, and this didn't really fix that, but it's better than Origins or X3.

Good action sequences, and while I know little of the Logan in Japan arc in the comics, it wasn't bad as a personal story.

They continue to shit on Cyclop, having his girlfriend appear in Logan's dream sequences. And my brother was wondering something

If the only way to mold Adamantium is to heat it, then how is it possible for the Hot Adamantium sword to break the cool adamantium claws? I surmised that there was a weight factor, and maybe leverage, but it seems that was a reality breaker for him, so I want to hear what you guys think.

The stinger rocked...although I want to know how chuck got his body back... and send Rogue my condolences.

Oh, no, her "power" came back too? That sucks majorly for her.

@Napoleon Viper and Wolverine got married about the time the first X-Men movie was made. There's no easy way to splice up the Marvel Universe; as shown by the recent Quicksilver debacle.

As for the claw melting. My explanation us an adamantium alloy with slightly different properties was used for the sword.

I didn't like the stinger. It felt too clumsy and awkward, it should have been quicker.

You should give up on Cyclops getting respect from this film series. He's probably my favourite X-Man but I don't care too much about how he's been treated anymore.

On the plus side this film felt like a proper Wolverine solo story. The previous films, save FC, felt like WOLVERINE and the x-men, even his first solo film. I've always felt Wolverine works better alone or as a supporting character; making him front and centre of the X-Men is bad for both him and the other X-Men.

Wolvie's claws breaking would make more sense if they were torn out than if they actually broke. Though I haven't seen the movie so I don't know what it looked like when they broke.

I don't know much about the backstory (I haven't actually seen the other films or read the comics), but in this movie it seemed like they made some sort of machine (out of adamantium) that had no purpose but to cut adamantium. I didn't get the impression that it was "merely" heated: it was designed first and foremost as an adamantium-cutter and that happens to involve heating because glowing blades look cool.

Just saw it, enjoyed it quite a bit. Didn't realize that it used some of the same source material as the Wolverine anime when I saw it, so that was pleasant surprise.

Much like Man of Steel did for Supes, I feel like this movie actually made be care about Wolverine. His healing factor getting nerfed was probably part of it, but it may have been that he was written better than in past films. Action scenes were well done (I especially liked the train bit). I also appreciated the fact that even though it takes place in Japan and elements of the setting are important, there wasn't too much... "Japanese-ness" shoehorned into the story... if that makes any sense.

Viper seemed like she could've easily have been replaced by... anyone else. Yukio was cool; kept thinking she was gonna turn out to be Psylocke, though. Mariko is gorgeous.

Now I'm excited for Days of Future Past

The previous movies mentioned (Stryker in the second one, to be precise) that the only way to work adamantium was through extreme temperatures (making it go into liquid form), one assumes the armor's sword heated to achieve a similar effect, while using the strength, velocity and angular strike to do the rest.

Oh, obviously the heat is melting the claws, but the question is why the sword itself doesn't melt. My answer is Vibramium.

I just assumed the sword was thicker adamantium, and as such, resistant to higher temperatures.

On the subject of adamantium- Is the concept of adamantium also licensed exclusively with the X-Men franchise, movie-wise? Because the next Avengers movie stars Ultron, and most incarnations of him have adamantium in their bodies.

Nope Fox owns the rights to using Adamantium in their films of the X-Men. So The Avengers: Age of Ultron won't have Ultron with an adamantium body.

edited 28th Jul '13 6:59:22 PM by JRPictures

He could have a Vibranium body.