So I did get around to seeing “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend. I’m saving the bulk of my opinion on the assumption that we’ll be talking about it on “No Podcast for Old Men” in the next week or two, but I will say that I thought it was alright. Jackman nails the character of Wolverine like he did in the “X-men” movies, the rest of the cast also did a pretty good job with theirs (and my fears that Liev Schreiber was “too cerebral” an actor for Sabertooth were mostly unfounded), and things blew up nicely. The film’s biggest problem is that it fails to emotionally involve you in what’s going on. It has some decent ideas about how Wolverine became who he is, but the execution fell flat more often than not.
So for now, it seems that comics are still the place to go for the Wolverine stories that really matter (assuming you’re the kind of person that thinks a Wolverine story can “really matter”). On that note, the rumor came out today that writer Jason Aaron, best known for “Scalped” and assorted other Wolverine projects, will be taking over “Punisher MAX” with artist Steve Dillon with issue #75. After I lost my reason to care about the series after Garth Ennis left, naming Aaron as the new ongoing writer would actually get me to buy the series again. If you’re wondering why that’s a good thing, just click on the link below.
