| Superhero movies have come a long way. The latest | | | | should have looked/sounded/acted like. So that's two |
| is Wolverine Origins and in a way it's the culmination of | | | | out of three. Next we had Iron Man. Very good |
| technical ability of filmmakers, correct casting and | | | | effects. And Robert Downey Jr. was initially a surprise |
| character popularity in one single strike. This is really a | | | | but his life story clicked so well with the character that |
| very rare trifecta. | | | | people really got behind it. But again, nobody had been |
| If you think back to those Christopher Reeve | | | | sitting around saying "man I really wish they'd make an |
| Superman movies it's really a great case of correct | | | | Iron Man movie." It was dumb luck that because the |
| casting. They went and found a guy that actually | | | | effects were so good that fans went for it. Two out |
| looked like Superman. It was pretty cool. But | | | | of three again. The Hulk movies are just sad. No |
| Superman even though he was well known he wasn't | | | | comment on those. |
| really the kind of character that people were waiting | | | | Now the X-Men have been comic book fan favorites |
| for years to see a movie about. It was more a novelty | | | | for a long time. And the movies had good effects, but |
| thing than a fan driven movement that the movie | | | | SO many actors chosen are just wrong that those |
| studios got behind. Not to mention the special effect. | | | | movies are just a mismatch of like/dislike. So it actually |
| Listen FOR THE TIME the effects were ok, but they | | | | made a tremendous amount of sense to take one of |
| were BARELY better than those 1940's TV shows. | | | | the characters they got right and spin him off into his |
| So that's one of three. | | | | own movie. Wolverine Origins. Three out of three. The |
| And even in the case Spider-Man, even though the | | | | only other franchise to hit this kind of home run is |
| effects were right, and the fans were behind it. The | | | | Batman. But they had to re-do those movies for |
| studio used an actor we REALLY had to learn to love. | | | | TWENTY years to get that formula right, and so to |
| He was not any fans ideal of what Peter Parker | | | | me Wolverine is the first one done correctly. |