Outstanding. Watched Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid yesterday, loved it better.
Speculation the author was copying HPLovecraft. (source)
I found the novelization of the film at Amazon. No ebook available, don't think I'll spend $14 to read it though. I did find the original short story Who Goes There? written in the 1930s. Speculation the author was copying HPLovecraft. (source)
I managed to get an eBook of it some time ago, but recently found the online version too. Yeah, I've seen that outpost31.com site.
I read several compilations of his (HPL) work in college. So much potential, great atmosphere, but most of them did not really seem to get off the ground.
Agreed, incredibly good story telling.
I was pissed at the way they handled The Phoenix. In the comic she was at war with herself, but was never the unstable psycho as depicted in XMen 3. And they easily could have made a 2 movie arc out of it. I loved that they devoted the first 2 XMen to Logan and his past. This is also why I, unlike so many others love the Wolverine Origins movie. It fills in a big gap of his story, even if it is divergent from the comics.
I hated First Class and have not seen the latest XMen installment... yet.
I liked the "normal kid" and "victim villains" aspect of the first Spiderman series movies 1&2. But it got old with the 3rd installment and Sandman, and they handled Venom terribly.
. Even the Japanese wolverine movie was better than wolverine origins. For me:
You are a Logan junkie which is why you liked origins; don't even try to defend it
X2>FC>X1>FC2>the wolverine>X3>wolverine origins.
IMO I don't see understand how you hated FC, but loved origins. It makes no sense.
Spidy we are on the same page though.
Btw that 2 movies split came years after x3. People didn't think of splitting the last part of a trilogy at that time. It was considered a probable loss.
My best defense is that Brian Singer and the writers set a high bar for the first two movies including an atmosphere that was highly appealing to me. Xmen3 lost that, but it was acceptable. I thought Wolverine Origins revived that vibe and it focused mostly on one character instead of the ensemble. This is always preferable for myself, revealed by the fact that I love Thor 1, and like Ironman 1&2, but am not a big fan of The Avengers.
There is accounting for personal taste.
In the first 3 movies The Professor and Magneto were advisories but they had some level of respect for each other, as far as I know, in the comic, they were never friends, but I have not read every XMen ever published. Magneto was painted as a bad egg from the start with his belief that "Homo-Superior" (versus Homo-Sapien) is the next step in the evolutionary ladder and deserved to rule the world.
First Class was a weak ensemble story and I objected to the Professor and Magneto being buddies.
For The Wolverine, I remember the XMen (not just Wolverine) did venture to Japan to fight these IronMan type mechs, but don't remember anything about a WWII Japanese guy wanting Wolverines regeneration abilities. Maybe I have forgotten. I disliked most of the characters in this film and the Wolverine is starting to look old.
They met in Israel in a hospital if I remember correctly. At some point he did become the headmaster of the academy when he almost killed kitty. Does it matter though? Is not like the other movies were exactly like the comics. The continuity and history if the movies should not be based on the comics, but they serve as an inspiration for the movie arc. Origins was a mess of a movie; only Logan junkies liked it, and that is okay because that is your taste and what you like because in the end that is what matters when watching movies
