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C |
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D- |
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B |
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Why would Marvel sign off on this terrible script?
by __A_YAHOO_USER__ (movies profile)
May 2, 2009
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88 people found this review helpful
A textbook case of great actors and a capable director making the most out of a shamefully bad script. As long-time (female) comic book fan, I have always been a lover of the x-men universe and its auxiliary characters. My favorites have always been Wolverine, Gambit, Deadpool and Emma Frost. So I went to a showing feeling that this movie had been made for me. I left feeling gipped. Oh, not because I did not get my wonderfully gratuitous scenes of a bare and beautiful Hugh Jackman, but because the completely ridiculous and unnecessary alteration of key characters in a script that was illogical, incongruous, and cared more about presenting special effects scenes than weaving a quality story. Let me preface the rest of my review with this The actors did an incredible job with this AWFUL script, where characters did things that were total idiotic, for illogical reasons, doing things that the characters would never had done, if the writers had bothered to actually base the writing on the characters. Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, and Taylor Kitsch, made this movie - correction - WERE this movie, as it had no substance. Beyond that, all I can say is this: Since the trailers already let the cat of of the bag, I feel no guilt in complaining that Gambit only has red eyes in one scene, when he's charging a playing card. I might even be able to begrudgingly forgive that change if he actually had his creole accent, and spoke like the character would. Gambit has a particular cadence to his dialogue, and always says certain phrases - but you wouldn't know that from this script. And please don't get me started on what they did to the character of Deadpool. OMG WTF! Fans and purists alike will be angry, sad, outraged, etc. I'm in my 30's now, and have been reading Deadpool for <ahem> years - seriously Marvel! Why did you approve that travesty? I can tell you that everyone accompanying me to this movie, and the Marvel fans in the seat around me all were baffled by, and bemoaning, this train wreck retelling of the Deadpool story. Don't get me wrong - Ryan Reynolds stole every scene he was in, but not because of the character - because it's friggen Ryan Reynolds, and he cannot help being awesome. It could have been brilliant pairing and a chance to start a new franchise if they had written the character as he is in the Marvel universe. And fellow Emma Frost fans, you would never believe the throw away appearance of the character in this movie could ever be the White Queen. There is no way for me to point out all the idiotic, illogical, what-were-they-thinking script moments (I cannot use the term plot device here - it would be giving it too much credit), without ruining it for others who intend to go and see the movie no matter what I say here. But trust me fellow fans, you have been warned, and when you leave the theater feeling a little empty and cheated over the whole experience, be glad that I won't be reminding you that I told you so. |
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