BT18 said:
what? He didn't adapt jack $hit from Uncanny X-Men. I really have a suspicion he couldn't be bothered to read more than a few issues of what he had since the only clear non-original story he chose to use was itself an ultimately meaningless/inconsequential/never-referenced again standalone novel with God Loves/Man Kills. No plot was shared with anything a person could read from the golden age of the comic franchise. He used some little homages here and there and based some things off of summaries you could read on a comic card but it's an extremely unfaithful adaptation. Wolverine was never the focus of the classic comics, especially when he joined the team. He was a richly well placed, well used, ENSEMBLE character, who had his little releationships with most of his teammates we really never get to see any of in his oversaturated reimagination via singer. As he's become the tall, dark, and handsome puppy who's truely mysterious distancing and boderline meanness lasted all of a milisecond in the movie.
Yeah . . . In the comics, Rogue was never a runaway who left home after placing the first boy she kissed in a coma--nor was Cyclops ever one of Xavier's first students and neither was Jean . . . nor were the two ever in love, and Jean was never one of the weakest members of the team who steadily becomes increasingly and dangerously powerful--and she certainly never sacrificed herself by isolating her fellow team members in an aircraft cabin while attempting to save their lives only to later come forth from the water as the Phoenix . . . nor did Xavier ever establish a school for gifted youngsters in Westchester, New York or create a team known as the X-Men . . . and Magneto was never his former friend turned enemy who grew vengeful forming his own following known as the Brotherhood . . . and Magneto certainly wasn't a victim of the Nazi's hatred . . . there was never a Senator named Kelly that disliked mutants nor was Mystique a shapeshifting mutant willing to kill him . . . Wolverine was never in Canada and was certainly never experimented on nor was his body ever laced with adamantium--and he certainly never questioned his origins . . . I could go on and on about the adherences and departures . . .
There never has been, and never will be, a 100% faithful comic book adaptation of any comic book established in the 50s, 60s, or 70s (Batman Begins isn't, Spider-Man isn't, and Superman isn't) . . . and there was never a Golden Age of X-Men comics as the X-Men weren't developed until the Silver Age--and thank God no movie was ever directly translated from the first issues of the X-Men comics. Those stories weren't even developed well enough to keep comic book readers interested, which contributed to the X-Men's being relegated to reprints for years. I don't want to have to wait film after film to get a glimpse of the likes of Colossus, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Mystique, Nightcrawler, Pyro, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, Wolverine, etc. And I certainly don't want a film randomly following the likes of Count Nefaria, Ka-Zar, The Living Monolith, Zaladane, the living island Krakoa, or some lame character like the Vanisher.
Wolverine isn't initially the focus of the classic comics, but he certainly earns his share of dedicated issues thereafter (perhaps you should blame all Marvel fans since the 1970s) . . . like every character eventually does (kind of like Jean looks like she is initially going to do post
X2)--it's a rotational basis, just like in the comics, and why not start with Wolverine in the films, especially since they were never meant to be nipped in the bud as a trilogy in the first place.
. . . also, in those initial comics, Wolverine isn't as mean as you would like to make him out to be (that happens much later). He is actually relatively tame, and remains that way for a rather long time. Wolverine in the films is at least, if not more, mean than Wolverine is in some of the classic issues. Take his first meeting with Xavier for instance:
He's isnt' quite the ferocious character people initially believe he was.
Personally, I don't particularly care if they go with the older or younger X-Men in the next installment, if there is one. It will be interesting to see either way to say the least, especially given the circumstances in which a fair number of the main characters find themselves at the end of
The Last Stand (talk about a departure).
