JIMPRAISE: 10 GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE WOLVERINE MOVIE

"JimPRAISE!"
Due to excessive amounts of hate mail wrongfully accusing that I am always negative, I proposed to you Readers a week of "JimPRAISE". I asked for suggestions of topics for me to post only POSITIVE things about, and you answered (you Jackals!). I have chosen the top 5 requested topics and will post 1 per day this week. Just remember, you asked for these.

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10 GOOD THINGS ABOUT
"X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE"
(in no particular order)

MOTORCYCLE SCENE: LOGAN IS NOW HEAVY!

Sometimes it's the little things that make fanboys glee in their seats. In one scene, post-adamantium operation, Logan sits on a motorcycle and gives the shocks a run for the money. Even comic book writers sometimes seem to forget that the adamantium lacing Wolverine's bones makes him heavy.

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I LIKED THE BLOB ACTOR

Boxing Matach aside, I thought Kevin Durand did a nice job as a likeable Fred Dukes, aka The Blob.

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SABRETOOTH'S EXTENDABLE CLAWS

In this movie, Sabretooth's claws are extendable. Personally, I thought that was great and works for the character. It's minor, yet profound.

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WAR FLASHBACK MONTAGE

This was nicely done... an almost "Highlander" flashback montage showing that a)Logan & Creed are really old, b)They ave fought in many wars, c)Establish both have healing factors, d)Shows they have grown somewhat indifferent to the idea of pain & death over the years, and e)They are drawn to conflict.

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DEATH OF MA & PA KENT

It was so awesome to see Ma and Pa Kent again! And truly shocking when they both get killed. Seriously, I did not foresee it coming at the moment it did.

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RYAN REYNOLDS IS A GREAT WADE WILSON

Ryan Reynolds was born to play 2 comic book characters: Wally West Flash, and DEADPOOL. In this Origins movie, Reynolds does a great job playing the part of pre-Deadpool WADE WILSON and gives us a taste of how perfect he would be as the funny "The Merc With A Mouth". Oh, and when Wade enters the badguy room and kills everyone with his swords and slices that bullet in half in mid flight/air...... Sweet.

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SABRETOOTH: BIGGER & STRONGER & SCARY

They did get a few aspects of Sabretooth right in this movie: He's bigger, stronger & more ferocius than Wolverine. The only real way that allows the 2 to fight on a somewhat "even playing field" is that Logan has the indescructible skeleton and adamantium claws. Schrieber's Creed was scary, as it should be.

Oh, and Creed breaking Logan's bone claws was a nice touch... a little nod/borrow from Wolverine #79 where Cyber did the same thing.

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ESCAPE FROM WEAPON X FACILITY

This was one of the best scenes in the movie.... starting at the moment where Wolverine comes up out of the tank in an almost-berserker rage. Logan takes a bullet to the forehead like it was nothing, then leaps out and kills everyone in his path.

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THEM CLAWS BE SHARP!

The final cool moment of the Facility Escape scene is when he slices through the facility's metal walls like they were butter - a nice reminder that his adamantium claws are fucking sharp!

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