ita, I was kind of meh on it as well, but I feel like it deserves an I Was Tired pass, at the very least. It was incredibly slow, regardless.

I feel shallow asking for a conflict--you know painting myself as a hick movie watcher, but given that I watched the whole thing mainly as a) an exercise in discipline and b) verification it would end like I guessed, maybe I wasn't up to the sheer glory (or whatever) of the film.

you know painting myself as a hick movie watcher

"I like it when they blow stuff up!" - John Candy doing the Farm Report and Movie Review on SCTV

verification it would end like I guessed

That swimming pool scene was pretty awesome.

That swimming pool scene was pretty awesome.

I figured Eli would be in on the final comeuppance since s/he promised s/he'd help him out--I totally didn't call how gruesome.

I love the sound effects for Eli's feeding.

My biggest disappointment was the scene with Wolverine and the helicopter. I thought that was going to be some cool ass shit based on the snippet I saw in the trailers.

That scene was so laughable I half expected to see Rose McGowan's character from Planet Terror wave her prosthetic leg-gun at Wolverine as she went soaring past.

I just saw an interview snippet tonight about Hugh accidentally leaving a claw stuck in Taylor Kitsch's hand during their fight scene, so apparently they did actually use physical claw prosthetics at some point. They must have designed very fake-looking ones to match the CGI.

Wolverine.

Disclaimer: I've read Origins.

Okay, so I understand that they give two seconds to the childhood of Logan and have the rest be all fully-grown Logan so that they can maximize the use of Jackman. And with those atrocious child actors, I can't blame them.

Even though I didn't really dig Origins, there was a niftiness to mistakenly thinking that Dawg was Wolverine, and the sickly pampered boy James was a nothing character.

And I get that they shifted his love story to knowable times, because who wants to watch a story play out in the 1800's. I mean, sheesh, booooring.

But (disclaimer #2: I haven't yet finished watching, which should indicate just how I am watching it) the one thing that I loved loved loved was the idea that the memory loss was tied into his healing powers. As the body heals from bodily injury, so the mind healed itself from psychological and emotional trauma. That he lost his memory because the pain was too much to live with, so his mind/body healed itself of that/those wound/s.

Lemme know if any of that should be whitefonted.

This movie is making me larf and larf and larf.

Okay, it's not official, but there's a scene an hour and twenty minutes in where there's a highly unnecessary bluescreen and the character in the background is suddenly pulled out of the scene. Literally is moved diagonally down so that the foreground character is alone, and then moved quickly back into the scene as the foreground character turns to leave. I have slim hope that the final cut does not have this hysteria in it.

I went into "Wolverine" wanting a popcorn flick, and got exactly what I wanted.

Does that make me shallow?

No, I think that's a good expectation. I consider that I got my $5 worth, you know?