Mar 05 2009
New Wolverine Trailer Shows Promise
I’ve said before that my faith in 20th Century Fox and Marvel to produce a good X-Men movie after the debacle that was X3 is fairly slim. X3 was horrible. They messed just about everything up that they could. I mean Juggernaut was one of my favorite characters in the Marvel universe growing up, and they completely and totally butchered him. The Phoenix story was wasted, Kelsey Grammer as Beast was horrible, and they used Angel for a good three seconds in the flick. I was severely disappointed.
Then came the announcement and trailer for the Wolverine movie. After seeing the bootleg Comic Con trailer on the internet I thought they had moved forward and it looked really good. Then I saw the real trailer and thought to myself….here we go again. Too many mutants, not enough story.
While this new Wolverine trailer does have too many mutants in my opinion, it still showed me some promise. I know that a comic book movie needs a lot of action, but The Dark Knight showed us that it can also have a deep story and it can also make us use our minds to get enthralled into the story. Wolverine still looks like it is going to be action packed, with lots of mutants…but this trailer shows more story. So maybe, just maybe it has hope to be an X2 and less of an X3. And dammit to hell Hugh Jackman is just huge. My girlfriend will be thinking of this trailer tonight……Ugh.
