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

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Even great, wonderful movies have Fridge Logic: as he was dying all alone, completely abandoned in his giant house, how the heck did anyone know that Charles Foster Kane's last word was "Rosebud"?

Why the heck would the Nazis even CARE about "letters of transit", anyway? I mean, there's no such thing as a magical "Get Out Of Nazi Clutches Free" card. If Rick hadn't shot Major Strasser, what would have prevented Strasser from just getting his goons to shoot Victor, Rick, and Ilsa, even WITH the letters of transit? And since he DID shoot Major Strasser, why did they need the letters, in the first place?