Wolverine movie

[firecat]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine vs. my expectations:

Hugh Jackman drool expectations: Exceeded

Pointy object fu and things blowing up expectations: Met

Plot making enough sense while the movie lasted expectations: Exceeded (but my expectations were pretty low)

Plot elements not making sense five minutes after the movie was over expectations: Met

Racism & sexism expectations: Pretty much as expected

Totally gratuitous use of a fat suit: Unexpected. Ewwwwwww.

The OH has read the Wolverine origin stories and said they changed a bunch of things in ways he didn't like. I haven't read all the Wolverine origin stories and there was only one thing I knew they had changed.

Credits and post-credits easter egg expectations: Exceeded

ETA: Spoilers in comments

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed and extremely upset at the fat suit scene. Like way more upset than I thought I'd be when I thought about it later.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

Um. Spoilers, please? (I'm thinking about having a brain-dead double-feature this Sunday in lieu of church, but if the fat suit scene is that gratuitous I may just make it a single-feature despite my love for Wolverine, Hugh Jackman, and Liev Schriber.)

[firecat]

There is a character in the X-Men called The Blob. The OH says that in the comic books his size is part of his mutation. I didn't know this before I went to the movie.

In the movie he is initially presented as regular sized but is later in a massive fat suit and is explained as having developed an eating disorder because of some trauma he suffered.

The fat hatred appears in one or two scenes lasting a total of about five minutes? You might want to see the movie anyway and go out for a bathroom break when that scene comes on.