The Wolverine

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Pretty sure that Becky never met the colonel in the comics and he was and older gruffer man not at all like josh hartnett

 

[CelticPredator]

They added stuff, but everything in the comics is in the film exactly. Especially if you see the extended cut.

 

[GasparZizou]

I like my comic book movies to be a little different from the comics at least, otherwise what's the point? I can just read comics.

 

[CelticPredator]

I agree with you.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Me too. Kick *** is a perfect example, if they went the way of the comic it'd have been far to bleak.

In the comic

Spoiler

katie and Kick *** donmt get together she runs off with a guy and messages him a vid of her felating another guy and Hit Girls mother was never killed or in any way related to the bad guy, the dad just made that up and trained her and got into costumes because he was a nutty comic fan

 

[CelticPredator]

I read some of that comic. I don't know. It looked like violence and ****ed up-ness for the sake of it.

 

[Frank]

That's just part and parcel of the grand comic book-to-movie translation. These things are bound to happen, you just hope they get more right than they get wrong and what they get wrong doesn't stick out too badly.

 

[CelticPredator]

Except it's not about right and wrong, it's about what serves the story.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Even if it serves the story, reception varies.

Weapon XI served the story right in Wolverine Origins. It made total sense for the story but it's a big departure from the comics so was hated.

Mandarin served the story right too but in addition to being a big departure from the comics it was mislead in advertising so was hated.

Galactus in FF2 served the story just right but because he didn't resemble the character he was hated.

Silver Samurai was a departure from the comics but since it worked in the story and the design was adequate (Silver and a Samurai) it's not hated nor loved.

It varies.

Generally i think if you get the look accurate to the comic costume people would be satisfied whether it be character-accurate or serving the story adequately

 

[hoodonit00]

Except it's not about right and wrong, it's about what serves the story.

Seems to me you're totally defeating your own argument then. The way the Silver Samurai is presented in The Wolverine totally serves the story as it is presented.

 

[CelticPredator]

Not really. It did come out of nowhere. Aside from that shot of the suit blue prints before Wolverine headed off, we never got a hint that the finale would be about a giant robot suit.

We got the hint of the Silver Samurai. But we didn't need a robot suit to tell the story. The suit it's self would've sufficed.

 

[hoodonit00]

Not really. It did come out of nowhere. Aside from that shot of the suit blue prints before Wolverine headed off, we never got a hint that the finale would be about a giant robot suit.

We got the hint of the Silver Samurai. But we didn't need a robot suit to tell the story. The suit it's self would've sufficed.

You didn't know that the Silver Samurai was going to be a robot from the previews? I'll be honest. I didn't like the idea from watching the previews. I still didn't like it when watching the movie. Once the little surprise was unwrapped at the end I was kind of like ahhh, that makes sense now.

 

[CelticPredator]

I knew it was at the end. I'm not talking about the thing as a whole, including trailers and images. I'm just talking about from the stories perspective. If I judged the story as a whole from beginning to end, then it didn't make much sense in the context of the story they were telling. Which was a fairly grounded tale of a man, haunted by guilt and pain....and then a giant robot shows up.

Felt incredibly out of place. The twist is fine. I just don't like the giant robot. I wish it was more of a smaller exo suit.

 

[hoodonit00]

I knew it was at the end. I'm not talking about the thing as a whole, including trailers and images. I'm just talking about from the stories perspective. If I judged the story as a whole from beginning to end, then it didn't make much sense in the context of the story they were telling. Which was a fairly grounded tale of a man, haunted by guilt and pain....and then a giant robot shows up.

Felt incredibly out of place. The twist is fine. I just don't like the giant robot. I wish it was more of a smaller exo suit.

Didn't make sense? The whole story lead up to why the suit was built! The directors did a good job of building up a story line over a roughly 70 year period to show why the suit was needed. Like I said, if it would have been JUST a robot it wouldn't have had nearly the same impact as it did.

The suit kept him alive. It would need heating and cooling units. Way to eliminate waste. Administer food and medicine. Hydraulic units for movement. From a purely engineering standpoint it would have to be big.

 

[CelticPredator]

I must've missed the scene where that company he made was into robotics.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Well he did say his company could do anything.

I knew it was at the end. I'm not talking about the thing as a whole, including trailers and images. I'm just talking about from the stories perspective. If I judged the story as a whole from beginning to end, then it didn't make much sense in the context of the story they were telling. Which was a fairly grounded tale of a man, haunted by guilt and pain....and then a giant robot shows up.

Felt incredibly out of place. The twist is fine. I just don't like the giant robot. I wish it was more of a smaller exo suit.

I can see that. Yashida wanting to take Logans healing factor to live again worked fine for the story. The giant mech wasn't given too much reason in the story but there are explainations such as it keeping him alive and the capability of harvesting Logans bone marrow.

I saw it as not only a device to keep him alive but give him strength enough to match Logans adamantium claws & defeat him to harvest his healing factor.

If he was successful i'd imagine his plan was to use it to destroy his enemies

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

I must've missed the scene where that company he made was into robotics.

Yashida is supposed to be the most powerful business in Japan. Robots makes sense to me.

 

[CelticPredator]

I would've accepted him using Logan's blood to create a medical version of his healing factor, and then dressing up in the samurai suit to fight him.

 

[hoodonit00]

I must've missed the scene where that company he made was into robotics.

Many big corporations branch out into other goods. Don't really see where that has anything to do with anything anyway.

 

[CelticPredator]

Yashida is supposed to be the most powerful business in Japan. Robots makes sense to me.

But they never said. Just because Japan and Robots go together like vending machines and underaged girls panties doesn't mean they should neglect the fact that a random robot comes out of nowhere during the last act of the film.

It didn't ruin the film for me. But it made the film a bit less interesting and disappointing when that's what the finale was.