Well here i am again drunk and opinionated so I thoughts I'd do another comic book movie review, this time its wolf...erine starring Jack Nicholson as wolverine, James Spader as Sabretooth, Brian Markinson as Deadpool and Michelle Pfeiffer as Jean Grey/Catwoman.
Logan has lost his memory and thinks he's a publicist, hes driving through the snow and hits an animal which bites him causing his memories of who he formally was to slowly come back. Unbeknownst to him he had secretly working been with Sabretooth (who has also lost his memory) who seems to have his age reversed by 20 years, and is after Logan's job and is fucking Logan's pretend wife.Logan catches them at it like horny beavers causing him to burst into a rage biting Creed which by chance restarts his memory.
Sabretooth tries seducing Jean Grey/Catwoman the crafty old dog
With his memories flooding back he goes to jean grey for a cry but Sabretooth is tracking him and while Logan is at Dr Strange's to try and stop his memories coming back he breaks into jean grey house, luckily wolverine gets back in time to stop Creed having his way with Jean and the two rip each other to shit in a brutal fight, but what a fight its like theyve taken it straight from that issue where wolverine slices off Sabretooths nuts because Sabretooth was killing him.It ends with Creed dying and wolverine having to run away from society yet again to try and deal with animalistic nature. Oh and jean becomes the phoenix and still didn't have a fuck who she was.
ouch
Normally I'd rap it up at this point but I like the film and I still had booze left so much I watched the DVD extras, apparently there was a bit of controversy during the making of the film as to what it was actually about, for example did you know it was originally supposed to be a horror about a man turning into a wolf? came as a complete shock to me it. Nicholson has done a great job as Logan, he never once calls anyone bub or shows the metal claws but he carries himself great as a killing machine with a soul, same with Spader as Sabretooth it was all in the eyes with him, you knew the second you seen him he was going to kill something, don't get me wrong he didn't exactly have the body builder monster look that creed has in the comics but at least he doesnt have hands like a bag lady. Michelle Pfeiffer seemed be playing a different character and I don't rate her performance as Jean grey at all, I'd still give her one but there wasn't even a hint she was jean grey its like the directors would just assume you've read the comic and have to figure it out yourself, she isn't even called jean in this they named her Laura, what the fuck is that about? and don't get me started on the Deadpool cameo, he's a bald police officer in this who barely gets a line, no yellow boxes, not even a nod that he's in a movie.
After the success of Batman Nicholson thought he'd give a comic book movie another go and went for the character who he himself inspired as he can only ever really play himself "I really wanted to test my acting ability with this part, you have this guy who's a walking ball of anger and I felt it was the right time to tell his story" so dedicated to the part Nicholson spend a month in the Rockies in Canada naked, hunting deer. "It was intense, most guys at my age should be taking it easy but I'm a method actor so I needed to live as this guy lived, hunting, living in the wild as animal, killing criminals with 6 steak knifes attached to my hands, OK so I never killed anyone but those boys scouts got a hell of a fright when I raided their camp when I ran out of alcohol"
Didn't know who she was
Michelle Pfeiffer admits to some confusion "The director told me I'd be doing a sequel to batman, the character still had that one life at the end of returns and I thought I could make it work but I told him one condition, no S&M gear my skin still hasn't recover 2 years later and do you realise how much fan boy spunk I received in the mail?" when asked what she thought of Nicholson approach to the role "he didn't smile much which I thought was weird, he didn't even tell one joke"
James Spader is just confused "I had to segregate myself from jack and Pfeiffer every chance they got they talked about some fucking comic, I was under the impression that they thought it was a different movie not a straight horror piece" when asked about how he approached Sabretooth "Stop asking stupid question, people like you are scum"
The director "it was a fucking nightmare do you have any idea how much stress I was under dealing with those arseholes, Jack felt he was telling an origin story of a serial killer with a heart of gold and Michelle was desperate to continue as Catwoman, thank god for James if it wasn't for him I would have been royally fucked and I was able to Bowfinger the whole thing together" when asked why he wasn't just honest with his two leads "I needed the money for crack, those 2 are dumb as shit, you feed the ego and I could make them dance to any tune I fucking fancied, its all smoke and mirrors you know, the editing process is where the film was really made, I cut so much of that fucking film that there was over 200 hours of unused footage just so I could get whats was actually in the script"
What a revelation.
My final verdict on this is... its a very confusing movie, it doesn't play like your stereotypical superhero movie and it changes all the names of the character but you can tell its a wolverine movie, either that and it is a horror movie about a man becoming a wolf and Ive just drank too much which to be honest would make a shit load more sense now that I actually think about it. Because of this I give it the 4 bottles of blue WKD out of 5. what can I say its a good movie.
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