OK.. I found the thread.. obviously..
Now, does anyone else think this movie was terrible?
Let's drop the respect for Wolverine's character, his vigilantism, his Act First - Question Later attitude, his singular perspective on non-situational ethics.. depending upon the situation.. and his own somewhat tortured personality and propensity for finding ways to torture himself every step of the way, no matter where he is... Oh, drop the whole fascination with his claws too...
So, all the presumptions about Wolverine and all the backstory a fan might bring to the theater with them aside: Did anyone else think the movie was terrible?
The acting wasn't bad. That wasn't the problem. (Except for Wraith and Gambit who weren't done very well, IMO.) Even the main characters weren't badly formed. I liked them, to a certain degree. But, the movie as a whole was terrible...
First of all, continuity was disgusting. Didn't someone edit this picture? I assume so.. it's not a one Act play, after all. But, the obvious problems there are.. obvious. The prime example is when Wolverine has a tussle with Gambit in a back alley and Sabretooth shows up. OK, forget that Sabretooth must be capable of traveling at light speed.. after all, they simply HAVE to set up a new fight scene, right? Anyway, Wolverine slaps Gambit aside at one point and turns to fight Sabretooth. After a few rounds, Gambit is shown running across the rooftops with a staff and then jumping down to engage in a thwackfest that breaks the fight up... UH, how the heck did he get up there when, last we saw him, he was slumped against a wall? And, why run across the rooftops? The whole fight stayed in the alley, as I recall. Did he run home to get that staff and then run back? Why is Sabretooth leaving? Why is Wolverine just standing there and not doing anything? WTF is going on?
That's just an example of a nitpicky point. BUT, for me, the whole movie was filled with nitpicky points. Half the action scenes didn't make any sense at all and detracted from the movie. "Quick, we have to move over here so we can get to the cooling tower and show Wolverine climbing up to the top so we can do something like... AWWW screw it! We need a suspense filled action scene with the added danger of falling!.... Nevermind the fact that falling won't hurt anyone!"
Why not just add a pit full of sharks with lazer beams on their heads that do nothing at all of any significance whatsoever except prove to be a distraction?
What's the whole point of the farmer and his wife? "We need to find some other reason to get Wolverine ticked off rather than murdering his wife! Quick, find a couple of sentimental old people he doesn't know from Adam's housecat to show him a smidgin of human kindness so we can show the audience how uncaring and ruthless these people REALLY are!" WTF? Why not just put on a pair of golf-cleats and stomp on a box full of puppies why dontcha?
"Oh, show the claws again!", "Yes, this scene needs more claws!", "More claws please!", "Damn, we need more claws!", "Why can't we make Wolverine's claws five feet long? IT'D BE AWESOME!", "Can we give everyone claws?"
"What you need in this scene is more claws..."
I like Wolverine though he's not my favorite. Part of the success of Wolverine is Jackman's performance and the early Wolverine-centric take on the X-Men. But, it seems the movie depended a whole lot more on people bringing something to it rather than taking something away from it. To me, that's always a bad thing. I was very disappointed in how the story was executed but, not necessarily in the story itself.