@427max Ah yes, the good old days. And running to the drop box moments before the video store closes. Or trying to get a peak into the adult section as a teen. The memories. I actually genuinely miss video stores
I mean... That echoes the sentiments of every X-Men / Marvel / Comicbook / whatever Film Fan at the time of THE Wolverine, and then by the time Logan came around it was like "OK we need a really good send off for the character, and one that's only quasi-connected to the ridiculous X-Men Film Franchise. I don't mind The Wolverine, but I hated Origins- LOGAN is a fuckin work of _ART._
I think the best part of this entire review was that Magneto impression, because I can picture Magneto just not thinking of anything clever to say, and stumbling for words.
"OOhhHhh... LoOHgan.... I see... you're.... ... at the AIRPORT" *[Jay & I make the same noise, in sync]* 🤣😂 100% the hardest I've laughed during a Half in the Bag "rerun" this week.
Razzy1312 very true, the opening montage at the beginning of Origins should have been stretched out into a feature length film, it would have been great.
Danny Devito should be next Wolverine. Just let him go at it one time, couldn't really hurt anything. I just want to see him in the yellow/blue suit with his side hair gelled up. It sounds like something someone would say for a joke, but I've genuinely wanted this for years... Years. Just once would I like to see him waddle up to a bar stool, take 4 minutes crawling up to the top and call the bartender "Bub".
I look forward to these shows way too much. I absolutely love that they have put plinkett on the back burner, and now focus entirely on this show. Because this is just awesome. I couldn't be happier with these reviews. Great show
The problem with Wolverine is the plot made perfect sense and for some reason instead of just having the old man take some of Wolverine's cells to heal himself and use his katana skills to fight Wolverine, they needed a giant robot.
That would make sense and stay straightforward but someone was convinced that a movie with Wolverine in Japan automatically necessitates putting Silver Samurai in it even though it's not Silver Samurai anyway.
My wife and I have been trying to put a finger on exactly what it is. Is it the hair? The beard? Did he lose some weight in his face? Did he do something to his teeth? Whatever it is it worked for him.
Somebody else probably already hit on this, but the reason wolverine fights up on that rim of what appears to be a cooling tower, is precisely because that version of Deadpool is teleporting around. On the ground in an open area, wolverine would have to worry about being attacked from all 360 degrees around him in a circle. Since Deadpool only seems to be able to teleport above solid ground, by moving the fight to the rim wolverine's lowered the amount of area he has to worry about. He's basically turned a 3D fight like Battle Arena Toshinden into a 2D fight like Street Fighter II.
Yeah, it really doesn't work because it just gives Wolverine less places to go and more chances to fall a great height while giving laser eyes a better chance to shoot him with laser eyes.
I disagree on X Men kicking off the "new wave" super hero genre. People forget about Blade(which IS a Marvel property). In my opinion, that was the first well put together live action Marvel property.
My favorite scene in Xmen origins wolverine is when Logan is running through the corridor with all the cells and is slashing open the locks in a slow motion run, not because it looks cool it looks awful in fact. But I like to imagine that I'm one of the people in the cells and this guy just runs through screaming at the top of his lungs through the hall in front of my cell slashing up the locks.....that to me is hilarious
I know this was YEARS ago but the old man can't put adamantium on his bones because that would kill him. It only worked on Wolverine because of his healing. It constantly fucks him up and he constantly gets over it. The reason he uses adamantium is because it's the strongest thing to make a suit out of and therefore clearly the best choice.
OK good someone talking about this do I don't have to make a new 2021 comment (showing what a loser I am for watching 10 year old RLMs on a Saturday night, and I'm not even an incel). Anyway, I also wanted to address Mike not understanding what the Adamantium "Suit that looks like a Samurai" was about; idk what comic this is apparently (??) inspired by (I'd love to know), but there is an X-Men character in the comics and extended media called SILVER SAMURAI, and he's existed for a long damn time. This was clearly not how he was portrayed in the comics, and they shoehorned him into this film for the reasons you just said. Additionally, I remember 2013 as a relatively chill period as far as angry Twitter mobs ripping movies apart; or TH-cam channels getting as much attention as they do now). Studios could get away with "MEMBER BERRIES" in comicbook movies, and no one really gave a shit. Like Jay has said, the Force Awakens and other subsequent formulaic reboots (Ghostbusters Afterlife / 2016, X-Men Dark Phoenix) really started the whole "APPALLED MAN CHILDREN SENDING DEATH THREATS" bullshit. At least I don't remember it happening until closer to 2016. That'd be a fun documentary; "Major Blockbuster Reboots & How They Were Received," because shit like Total Recall got basically no response from anyone except "MEH" when it came out. If they tried that NOW, people would be freaking the hell out online, I guarantee it. Same with ROBOCOP!!
Glad you are still here 🤗 Now the X-men is going MCU. Probably not linked to old X-Men universe. Hopefully we get to see some good serious action movies for next couple of decades.
@@narcspectorhey man, I just made a 2023 comment about how he doesn't have "claw holes" to drill into, just constantly cutting open between his knuckles when they extend and healing when they retract.
Joel Farrelly Yeah! Milwaukee is just the Red Letter Media version of Gotham, not a real place. What I really like is how they invented the accent, good world building!
That was so early in my pre-teen pirating days I thought that was normal and was confused when I couldn't find the next Harry Potter (I think half blood prince one) before it was released.
The Wolverine character is a protective and 'nice guy' he just comes off as a loner douche bag cause he avoids other people so he won't have to worry about losing them.
'Fuck this I'm going home" is not even close to what Wolverine would have done in that situation. Wolverine, as a character, never walks away from a young, cute girl in need. In the first movie he felt protective over runaway Rogue despite owing her absolutely nothing and knowing her for less than a minute. In the comics he's fiercely protective of Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Hisako and pretty much any teenaged through young adult woman who crosses his path. It's almost a running joke in comics that Wolverine is a major sucker for a girl with a problem.
Rosscifer He kills 20 Yakusa that are trying to kill the daughter of an old friend, whose dad only died like 2 days ago. It's really not that hard to follow his motivations (up to that point at least.)
Logan is a film that happens to have a character who is also Wolverine.. but I’d personally say it’s a stretch calling it a Wolverine movie. I grew up watching 5 of those movies and even continued watching them after the overall disappointing x3 and origins. Logan’s a great film and you could have called him Joe and given him knife hands instead, and it would still be great.. I don’t think one could say the same thing about the others. You may or may not enjoy them, and it’s all opinion.. it’s just hard to imagine someone who appreciates cinema would look at the first 5 Wolverine films and say “these are great as films and you could take X-men and Wolverine out and replace the characters with legally distinct versions and they are just as great.” I just don’t buy that concept.
@@nubworthycigars6682 making the main Wolverine adds a lot of depth to the character. It wouldn’t be the same if was some guy named Joe. Wolverine probably has one of the best back stories in comic book history.
2023 and I just learned that the wolverine movie even existed lol. This whole time whenever anyone mentioned "the wolverine movie", I thought they were referring to origins
I thought the later part of the movie was where it started to loose me. I remember thinking "Please go back to where you were a caveman fighting bear killers in bars." I found that much more entertaining.
I don't mind the X-Men movies tending to be about Wolverine because Hugh Jackman was more entertaining to watch than pretty much all the other actors except Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen. Most of the recurring actors weren't really that great, especially Halle Berry.
It was merely okay. The bar was very low after X-Men 3 and the first Wolverine flick. Like someone commented above, Magneto and Xavier were the saving graces.
Professor Xavier being alive was actually explained in the post-credits scene of one of the X-Men movies (3 I think?). Anyway, the film briefly shows him talking about the ethics of treating a brain-dead man somewhere in the middle. After the credits it shows that he's transferred his mind into that man's body, which makes some sense, given his powers. I'm amazed by how many people seem to have no idea that this scene exists.
First Class is my favorite X-Men movie by far because it acts as an origin story for Magneto and depicts him as an absolute badass! And the music (especially Magneto's theme) in it is quite sublime!
Totally agree with Mike. The Wolverine was utterly lacking in any motivation for the character and so completely boring after the first act. The only plot points were the long awaited reveals of information about who was doing what and why, which is an incredibly undramatic way to sustain the bulk of a film. You just spend your time wondering why you should care about anything that anyone is doing. Origins, as crappy as it was, at least attempted to create a character arc you could empathise with.
greyztone The Wolverine is way better than Origins. Logan is haunted by his actions and he kinda wants to die. He finds his purpose by helping people who need his help
@@El_oh7199 and yet it makes me feel nothing and turns into garbage at the end. I'd rather watch a movie that knows what it is rather than a pretentious one that doesn't know what to do with their characters.
I'm wondering if the voice from that glowing A+ review they intermittently splice in is from the same guy who HATED the fact that Parasite won best picture and best foreign picture in the same year? His voice has a certain affect that makes me lean towards yes.
***** Of course they stole the show, but Fox is still pushing Wolverine hard. They could have made Kitty go back. Actually, I think I would have enjoyed seeing that.
casey trelka Go back to what. Kitty Pride wasn't alive during the past segments of Days of Future Past! It had to be Logan also because his mind could heal and going back so far would destroy a normal mind. At least those are the excuses the movie tells us!
Should have sent back Xavier. Have him act as a sort of spooky ghost character inside the mind of young Xavier. I mean Mystique must be around the same age as Xavier and Magneto too, that's what i don't get really.
Days of Future Past was a terrible movie from a plot standpoint, so many plotholes. I feel the First Class trilogy should have just been a complete reboot, ignoring anything and everything from the movies before it.
I feel like Mike liking a movie or not depends on what mood he is in when he is watching it. The same reason he hates one movie, is the same exact reason he loves another one.
Absolutely noone will care, but: In Origins he decides to fight on top of that circular chimney exactly because of the teleportarion ability. On that narrow edge, they can be attacked form only one side. Fighting in the open would be really stupid
Worst CGI of the X-men origins Wolverine was the parts where everything was grey and 3D models flying around without animation nor textures. Yeah, many people watched that pirated version. Idk, leak maybe? Intentional assholeness against pirates? Who knows. Edit: ahahha they mention Boba Fett movie!
It was a work print that someone leaked to the Internet and Fox actually got the FBI on the case which ended with someone's arrest. For whatever reason, Fox was convinced that the leaked WP was why the movie bombed at the box office and not the fact that it was embarrassingly bad.
I saw this movie, and I literally remember nothing about it. I mean I didn't like either movie all too much, but I guess I prefer the silver samurai one? Even though I didn't like it?
In the Fatal Attractions storyline (about 20 years ago) Magneto definitely had power over adamantium, especially since he ripped all of it out of Wolverine's body at the conclusion. However, the "rules" may have changed since that time.
Mike, to answer your question why he's in a suit instead of having adamantium forged onto his body are a couple of reasons why. 1) there's a limited supply of adamantium 2) Only Wolverine's healing ability gave him that ability to survive the process of the bonding process shown in X2 and the Origins movie. This is why the father didn't have adamantium fused on his bones. He wouldn't survive the process. Plus, the only thing that can cut admanantium is adamantium.
Of course they do. I never said they didn't. Maybe you misunderstood, the word "sort" in my post was mean quantitatively as opposed to qualitative. Hence what I was saying was that actresses find it harder to get work as they age than actors do, not to say that it is particularly easy for either.
Man.. I wish The Wolverine could be redone with how James Mangold would truly want it. After seeing Logan, he's got a great interpretation of the character, and it did show in The Wolverine, but I'm sure he was chained down by the studio to have to do specific things that made it not quite as great as what it could've been. I really like it, it's just not quite perfect. Like what Logan damn near is
Mr.VIPGuest Which doesn't really matter, because this wasn't a movie about Deadpool, he's only in it for a few minutes and he gets his mouth back at the end.
Thanks guys for another good video. At 18:36 Mike advocates for exactly what they ended up doing 9 years later in The Batman... a small movie plot driven movie without a cookie-cut villain fight at the end. Review it!
I'm from Ann Arbor. Thanks for visiting our library! Please return the DVD so I can check it out.
Think of the fees
Ann Arbor? More like…
STANK FARTER. YOU’RE LIBRARY SUCKS AND I HOPE ALL YOUR DVDS GET SCRATCHED UP.
Just be happy you don’t get charged for the re wind charge for vhs
@427max Ah yes, the good old days. And running to the drop box moments before the video store closes. Or trying to get a peak into the adult section as a teen. The memories. I actually genuinely miss video stores
Ann Arbor here.
Jay: I don't need to see anymore Wolverine movies...certainly
**sees Logan
Jay: I loved this movie
Well it subverted expectations by being good.
I mean... That echoes the sentiments of every X-Men / Marvel / Comicbook / whatever Film Fan at the time of THE Wolverine, and then by the time Logan came around it was like "OK we need a really good send off for the character, and one that's only quasi-connected to the ridiculous X-Men Film Franchise. I don't mind The Wolverine, but I hated Origins- LOGAN is a fuckin work of _ART._
For those of you on a rlm binge, yes. This is the episode where Jay wakes up and decided to become a microchad
I was literally trying to narrow down where exactly Jay transforms into a tiny handsome man and hoping someone else noted it in the comments
Read my mind.
He somehow went from looking like a Futurama character to being kinda hot. This is the turning point.
Micro?
nah he's a gigachad
"Oh... Logan. I see you're..... at the airport...."
Magneto's classic catchphrase
I don’t think he’s going to make it past that metal detector…
Wolverine is played by Gene Hackman. I don't know how anyone can forget that.
Hack Geneman and Jack Hughman.
Hene Gackman
@@tylerdordon99 This gave me a stroke reading it XD
I think the best part of this entire review was that Magneto impression, because I can picture Magneto just not thinking of anything clever to say, and stumbling for words.
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,
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"OOhhHhh... LoOHgan.... I see... you're....
... at the AIRPORT" *[Jay & I make the same noise, in sync]* 🤣😂
100% the hardest I've laughed during a Half in the Bag "rerun" this week.
Mike's forgetting Hugh Jackman's name is a top-10 RLM moment. Always cracks me up.
Maximiliano Ríos Vera Memory loss caused by alcoholism-induced brain damage is always funny.
Max, you're bringing me down. The only reason I'm an RLM fan is to f*** the pain away.
Does it rank above or below Rich Evans explaining Double Down and breaking his soul in the process?
😂
Anyone got a time stamp?
The opening sequence to X-men Origins would have made a better film than both.
I said the same thing. You watch the first 5 minutes of that movie, and you're like this movie is gonna be awesome, then the movie starts.
Charley Newman then you saw the film..... oh
I've mulled over this comment for the last 4 years. Daily. Sometimes twice a day. I still can't bring myself to agree with you.
There's a lot to like in those movies despite origins being overall poor and wolverine having serious pacing issues
Razzy1312 very true, the opening montage at the beginning of Origins should have been stretched out into a feature length film, it would have been great.
Danny Devito should be next Wolverine. Just let him go at it one time, couldn't really hurt anything.
I just want to see him in the yellow/blue suit with his side hair gelled up. It sounds like something someone would say for a joke, but I've genuinely wanted this for years... Years.
Just once would I like to see him waddle up to a bar stool, take 4 minutes crawling up to the top and call the bartender "Bub".
Barba Dook Danny DeVito and Nicolas Cage should just be in every movie
i read that whole comment in his voice
"Back off bitch!!"
That will probably the What If? movie.
Fuck yes
I look forward to these shows way too much. I absolutely love that they have put plinkett on the back burner, and now focus entirely on this show. Because this is just awesome.
I couldn't be happier with these reviews.
Great show
3:00 I don't know if anyone else has pointed out that the University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor and their mascot is the Wolverines :)
The problem with Wolverine is the plot made perfect sense and for some reason instead of just having the old man take some of Wolverine's cells to heal himself and use his katana skills to fight Wolverine, they needed a giant robot.
That would make sense and stay straightforward but someone was convinced that a movie with Wolverine in Japan automatically necessitates putting Silver Samurai in it even though it's not Silver Samurai anyway.
The episode when Jay became hot.
It's like night and day
Our gorgeous tiny prince
My wife and I have been trying to put a finger on exactly what it is. Is it the hair? The beard? Did he lose some weight in his face? Did he do something to his teeth? Whatever it is it worked for him.
@@zachschrad4713 all of the above I do believe!
@@serenacelestine same!!!!
I genuinely had to google Meg Ryan to find out if she had died.
+Josh Jacques I did the same, mostly I was hopeful
+casey trelka Get out more
Who would you rather bone, Meg Ryan or Jack Nicholson?
WatrDragn
Meg Ryan would be a dead fish but Nicholson would be emotionally distant.
casey trelka But haven't you always wanted to "dance with the devil in the pale moonlight"?
Somebody else probably already hit on this, but the reason wolverine fights up on that rim of what appears to be a cooling tower, is precisely because that version of Deadpool is teleporting around. On the ground in an open area, wolverine would have to worry about being attacked from all 360 degrees around him in a circle. Since Deadpool only seems to be able to teleport above solid ground, by moving the fight to the rim wolverine's lowered the amount of area he has to worry about. He's basically turned a 3D fight like Battle Arena Toshinden into a 2D fight like Street Fighter II.
Yeah, it really doesn't work because it just gives Wolverine less places to go and more chances to fall a great height while giving laser eyes a better chance to shoot him with laser eyes.
This is the first time I have ever seen anyone reference Battle Arena Toshinden for anything. Ever.
@@EvilMAiq It gets no respect at all for being the first true 3D fighter.
Listen here, nerd. you make a good point.
Except deadpool just teleported around them both anyways? It was a fight there because it's a dumb movie 😂
Irate Gamer has lost his goddamn mind. He actually believes that he can communicate with ghosts in his bathroom.
Yeah, didn't he also try to make some retarded Ghost Hunters TV-show at one point?
Max ProPayne 3 is Irategamer the reviewer thats showed in this video that talked about how good x-men movie was?
Max ProPayne 3 Wow really, all that huh?
Did he ever have one?
Max ProPayne 3 Is it still cool to make fun of Irate Gamer?
I disagree on X Men kicking off the "new wave" super hero genre. People forget about Blade(which IS a Marvel property). In my opinion, that was the first well put together live action Marvel property.
My favorite scene in Xmen origins wolverine is when Logan is running through the corridor with all the cells and is slashing open the locks in a slow motion run, not because it looks cool it looks awful in fact. But I like to imagine that I'm one of the people in the cells and this guy just runs through screaming at the top of his lungs through the hall in front of my cell slashing up the locks.....that to me is hilarious
this is easily one of the best HITB episodes.
My god, I watched the x-men origins wolverine when I was in middle school and I remember loving it. I never knew how goofy it actually is
I know this was YEARS ago but the old man can't put adamantium on his bones because that would kill him. It only worked on Wolverine because of his healing. It constantly fucks him up and he constantly gets over it.
The reason he uses adamantium is because it's the strongest thing to make a suit out of and therefore clearly the best choice.
OK good someone talking about this do I don't have to make a new 2021 comment (showing what a loser I am for watching 10 year old RLMs on a Saturday night, and I'm not even an incel). Anyway, I also wanted to address Mike not understanding what the Adamantium "Suit that looks like a Samurai" was about; idk what comic this is apparently (??) inspired by (I'd love to know), but there is an X-Men character in the comics and extended media called SILVER SAMURAI, and he's existed for a long damn time. This was clearly not how he was portrayed in the comics, and they shoehorned him into this film for the reasons you just said. Additionally, I remember 2013 as a relatively chill period as far as angry Twitter mobs ripping movies apart; or TH-cam channels getting as much attention as they do now). Studios could get away with "MEMBER BERRIES" in comicbook movies, and no one really gave a shit. Like Jay has said, the Force Awakens and other subsequent formulaic reboots (Ghostbusters Afterlife / 2016, X-Men Dark Phoenix) really started the whole "APPALLED MAN CHILDREN SENDING DEATH THREATS" bullshit. At least I don't remember it happening until closer to 2016. That'd be a fun documentary; "Major Blockbuster Reboots & How They Were Received," because shit like Total Recall got basically no response from anyone except "MEH" when it came out. If they tried that NOW, people would be freaking the hell out online, I guarantee it. Same with ROBOCOP!!
@@narcspector hey man. I'm here, you matter, and I read this 6 years let lol.
Glad you are still here 🤗 Now the X-men is going MCU. Probably not linked to old X-Men universe. Hopefully we get to see some good serious action movies for next couple of decades.
@@HonouraryMember I will never leave and I will never watch the mcu lmao
@@narcspectorhey man, I just made a 2023 comment about how he doesn't have "claw holes" to drill into, just constantly cutting open between his knuckles when they extend and healing when they retract.
There's Jay reading the VCR repair manual I sent in. I forgot about that. I should get a credit as the goddamn prop master for HITB.
TheBlarggle Exactly. Finally, someone who gets my point!
Do I know you?
Yeah, no one believes you know how to mail things to Milwaukee! Stop spreading such obvious lies!
Joel Farrelly Yeah! Milwaukee is just the Red Letter Media version of Gotham, not a real place. What I really like is how they invented the accent, good world building!
@@Nygaard2 They went a little overboard setting up the back story for their Slender Man review though.
I remember seeing the leaked origins that had incomplete fx, so funny
That was so early in my pre-teen pirating days I thought that was normal and was confused when I couldn't find the next Harry Potter (I think half blood prince one) before it was released.
YES! Omg I forgot that somehow someone got that bootleg version DVD on a school field trip and we watched it on the bus. It was so bad hahaha
Two minutes later I'm still laughing about the old lady huffing Mr. Clean.
I lost my shit when he said "Will.i.act.". LMFAO!!
The Wolverine character is a protective and 'nice guy' he just comes off as a loner douche bag cause he avoids other people so he won't have to worry about losing them.
'Fuck this I'm going home" is not even close to what Wolverine would have done in that situation.
Wolverine, as a character, never walks away from a young, cute girl in need. In the first movie he felt protective over runaway Rogue despite owing her absolutely nothing and knowing her for less than a minute. In the comics he's fiercely protective of Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Hisako and pretty much any teenaged through young adult woman who crosses his path. It's almost a running joke in comics that Wolverine is a major sucker for a girl with a problem.
Rosscifer He kills 20 Yakusa that are trying to kill the daughter of an old friend, whose dad only died like 2 days ago. It's really not that hard to follow his motivations (up to that point at least.)
He’s also pretty rapey to Jean grey in some of the comics I can source it later
“I don’t need to see anymore Wolverine movies, certainly”
- Jay -
Let’s go see what he thought of Logan
Logan is a film that happens to have a character who is also Wolverine.. but I’d personally say it’s a stretch calling it a Wolverine movie. I grew up watching 5 of those movies and even continued watching them after the overall disappointing x3 and origins. Logan’s a great film and you could have called him Joe and given him knife hands instead, and it would still be great.. I don’t think one could say the same thing about the others. You may or may not enjoy them, and it’s all opinion.. it’s just hard to imagine someone who appreciates cinema would look at the first 5 Wolverine films and say “these are great as films and you could take X-men and Wolverine out and replace the characters with legally distinct versions and they are just as great.” I just don’t buy that concept.
@@nubworthycigars6682 making the main Wolverine adds a lot of depth to the character. It wouldn’t be the same if was some guy named Joe. Wolverine probably has one of the best back stories in comic book history.
Will.I.Act LMAO
+The Wu-Cepticon That burn was priceless.
Turns out... no.
No.he.wont
"The Great Gatsben" cracked me up so hard!!
3:19 - As a librarian, I can tell you we get plenty of drunks. 😅😅😅
The bullet train scene was just plain awesome and hilarious at the same time.
I actually thought Liev Schreiber was a good choice for Sabretooth and I hope he appears in the upcoming final Wolverine film
Young M The only reference to Sabertooth in ‘Logan’ was in a deleted scene.
liev schreiber was fine, but the movie is unwatchable
"if you haven't seen the movie... Its been out for a few weeks it's your problems"
6 years later and I haven't watched the full trailer
😅
2023 and I just learned that the wolverine movie even existed lol. This whole time whenever anyone mentioned "the wolverine movie", I thought they were referring to origins
I thought the later part of the movie was where it started to loose me. I remember thinking "Please go back to where you were a caveman fighting bear killers in bars." I found that much more entertaining.
RattKanVids yeah me too
I don't mind the X-Men movies tending to be about Wolverine because Hugh Jackman was more entertaining to watch than pretty much all the other actors except Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen. Most of the recurring actors weren't really that great, especially Halle Berry.
Oh, but "First Class" was such a good movie! The effects were bad, but the plot and characters were great!
only Xavier and Magneto were great, and they were. The rest is pretty bad
It was merely okay. The bar was very low after X-Men 3 and the first Wolverine flick. Like someone commented above, Magneto and Xavier were the saving graces.
I'm not a fan of your analogy. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is about a million times better than X-Men 3: The Last Stand.
+Gaming Greats Jedi was most definitely not a pointless film lol. Although I do agree with the teddy bear & merchandise shit.
The woks did take its toll on my heart over the years tho
Professor Xavier being alive was actually explained in the post-credits scene of one of the X-Men movies (3 I think?). Anyway, the film briefly shows him talking about the ethics of treating a brain-dead man somewhere in the middle. After the credits it shows that he's transferred his mind into that man's body, which makes some sense, given his powers.
I'm amazed by how many people seem to have no idea that this scene exists.
Mike pitches The Batman (around minute 19) then refuses to watch it.
What they did to deadpool is unforgivable and I'm not a fan of the comics
I dont know, i kind of like a movie with ryan reynolds where ryan reynolds doesnt talk
wild watching this in 2024
"X2" is the best X-Men movie, with the possible exception of "Days of Future Past."
First Class is my favorite X-Men movie by far because it acts as an origin story for Magneto and depicts him as an absolute badass! And the music (especially Magneto's theme) in it is quite sublime!
MrOnomatopoiea
Yes, I love First Class as well. Really, I love all the movies in which they do a good job with Magneto!
Logan is the best, not by alot, but it still is, my reasoning? Watch the movie
You know that you are responding to a comment made years before Logan, right?
@@MrOnomatopoiea First Class is only good when it's about Magneto and Xavier, all the rest is pretty bad, but when it's good, it's great
Totally agree with Mike. The Wolverine was utterly lacking in any motivation for the character and so completely boring after the first act. The only plot points were the long awaited reveals of information about who was doing what and why, which is an incredibly undramatic way to sustain the bulk of a film. You just spend your time wondering why you should care about anything that anyone is doing. Origins, as crappy as it was, at least attempted to create a character arc you could empathise with.
greyztone The Wolverine is way better than Origins. Logan is haunted by his actions and he kinda wants to die. He finds his purpose by helping people who need his help
@@El_oh7199 and yet it makes me feel nothing and turns into garbage at the end. I'd rather watch a movie that knows what it is rather than a pretentious one that doesn't know what to do with their characters.
So young, so full of life...
Lol fr though it’s so different
I give this Half in the Bag an A+!
I'm wondering if the voice from that glowing A+ review they intermittently splice in is from the same guy who HATED the fact that Parasite won best picture and best foreign picture in the same year? His voice has a certain affect that makes me lean towards yes.
It sounds like The Irate Gamer
It is most certainly good ol' Chris Bores, aka The Irate Gamer. Whether he was upset about Parasite winning best picture though I have no idea
They called the Days of Futures Past being about Wolverine
+casey trelka it had been announced previously i think
*****
Of course they stole the show, but Fox is still pushing Wolverine hard. They could have made Kitty go back.
Actually, I think I would have enjoyed seeing that.
casey trelka
Go back to what. Kitty Pride wasn't alive during the past segments of Days of Future Past! It had to be Logan also because his mind could heal and going back so far would destroy a normal mind. At least those are the excuses the movie tells us!
Should have sent back Xavier. Have him act as a sort of spooky ghost character inside the mind of young Xavier. I mean Mystique must be around the same age as Xavier and Magneto too, that's what i don't get really.
Days of Future Past was a terrible movie from a plot standpoint, so many plotholes. I feel the First Class trilogy should have just been a complete reboot, ignoring anything and everything from the movies before it.
It will never cease to amaze and baffle me as to How Chris Bores ever managed to amass any following.
These reviews are insightful, and hilarious! Keep up the great work guys
I feel like Mike liking a movie or not depends on what mood he is in when he is watching it. The same reason he hates one movie, is the same exact reason he loves another one.
Well yeah, it is a subjective experience, no one is perfect, there are no parameters and trials and science involved.
I love you guys so much. Keep on making these.
Good ol' Brett Ratner! I'm amazed he didn't find a way to get Chris Tucker in X-Men 3.
Man i remember watching this when it was uploaded, right around when I enlisted. Here i am 10 years later watching it again in the barracks.
Lol what's with the irategamer quote?
*****
Yes, these guys are hilarious and awesome.
P.S. really big fan of your reviews. Much like with Half in the Bag, after discovering you I spent a night binging all your reviews.
i knew it was his voice too.
everywhere i go i see gggman
Father? It's me, your sonny jim.
Hilarious opener! Awesome show, great job!
I actually spent a good chunk of my childhood at the Ann Arbor district library!!
GO GREEN!!! lol
Yes! X-Men 2 was the best! It's the only one I can stand watching. Glad to hear them agree.
Absolutely noone will care, but: In Origins he decides to fight on top of that circular chimney exactly because of the teleportarion ability. On that narrow edge, they can be attacked form only one side. Fighting in the open would be really stupid
You just fixed the movie for me. Thank you, stranger
10 years ago holy shit
Theodore Miller, oh my god.....
wolverines speech about how he made a vow never to kill another man is straight from a key and peele parody
Worst CGI of the X-men origins Wolverine was the parts where everything was grey and 3D models flying around without animation nor textures.
Yeah, many people watched that pirated version. Idk, leak maybe? Intentional assholeness against pirates? Who knows.
Edit: ahahha they mention Boba Fett movie!
Lmao I had the bootleg cd 😂😂
It was a work print that someone leaked to the Internet and Fox actually got the FBI on the case which ended with someone's arrest. For whatever reason, Fox was convinced that the leaked WP was why the movie bombed at the box office and not the fact that it was embarrassingly bad.
Jay trying to not crack up at the opening is great 😂
The suit used as opposed to having adiantum grafted onto his bones because the old Japanese man can not heal so he would not recover from the surgery.
but didn't he want Wolverine's power? He could heal after he got his power
I saw this movie, and I literally remember nothing about it. I mean I didn't like either movie all too much, but I guess I prefer the silver samurai one? Even though I didn't like it?
That critic who liked Xmen Origins is Chris Bores "The Cutrate Gamer". I recognize the voice.
and now they're making an actual Boba fett movie
Hopefully it'll be a Mr. Magoo/Inspector Gadget-esque comedy.
its cancelled because it was a bad idea to begin with. As is any character focused spin off
We’re in a different world now.
.... aaaaaand it’s a show now.
Colin from Canada did the special effects for X-men origins wolverine....
In the Fatal Attractions storyline (about 20 years ago) Magneto definitely had power over adamantium, especially since he ripped all of it out of Wolverine's body at the conclusion.
However, the "rules" may have changed since that time.
I already watched it once but I guess I'll watch it again on TH-cam.
It’s weird to think the only thing that changed over the years is Mike got old. *OLD*
Lmao Mike pretty much describing wanting to see The Batman at the end - flash forward 10 years refuses to review it. 😅
14:40 what a perfect way of putting that, lmao
The hard R rating would have improved The Wolverine immensely
Thank you rlm for comforting me at my lowest
It’s so funny Mike said the plot to the Batman years ago and what he wanted to see, and now refuses to watch it
15:30 makes me laugh uncontrollably every time
Check out Deadpool 3, no Wolverine at all. Promise
The first and second X-Men movies were written by David Hayter.
Holy shit mike predicted the Star Wars bit in Apocalypse. Jesus christ
this video came out ten years ago and they're talking about marvel and DC... When will it end
got this in my recommendation and was kinda surprised that theyre reviewing the new movie, turns out its from 10 years ago lol
same for me... what the fuck? get to work you hackfrauds and make some fun reviews!
Why is it surprising? They did a half in the bag on it
My name is Anne Harbour, stay away from my library!
Hell yea forget about Adamantium......its all bout Adamantium-vibranium alloy bub!!!
From this point on, Jay has been a gigachad heartthrob for faaaaaar longer than anyone his gremlin/Amish phase.
They made an Irate Gamer reference. How have I not seen this before?
Mike, to answer your question why he's in a suit instead of having adamantium forged onto his body are a couple of reasons why. 1) there's a limited supply of adamantium 2) Only Wolverine's healing ability gave him that ability to survive the process of the bonding process shown in X2 and the Origins movie. This is why the father didn't have adamantium fused on his bones. He wouldn't survive the process. Plus, the only thing that can cut admanantium is adamantium.
@19:28 just watch The Batman you old bastards, you'll like it.
i love mike and jay
Anyone know the video they mention at 2:26 ?
Irate Gamer some bullshit
I know it sounds like Irate Gamer, Chris Bores. But I can't find the original video.
So funny seeing this after Logan, there was no reason to be so optimistic about that movie, but it was amazing.
"Its like a Boba Fett movie"
oh boy, we will soon see that!
or not
It’s a show, baby!
5x the Boba!!!
Of course they do. I never said they didn't. Maybe you misunderstood, the word "sort" in my post was mean quantitatively as opposed to qualitative. Hence what I was saying was that actresses find it harder to get work as they age than actors do, not to say that it is particularly easy for either.
Man.. I wish The Wolverine could be redone with how James Mangold would truly want it. After seeing Logan, he's got a great interpretation of the character, and it did show in The Wolverine, but I'm sure he was chained down by the studio to have to do specific things that made it not quite as great as what it could've been. I really like it, it's just not quite perfect. Like what Logan damn near is
I gave up on the Xmen movies after Origins....that "Deadpool incident" was just unforgivable.
They fucked up the Deadpool character :(
I know right I hoped these guys would at least mention it
Gaming with Mikey! How? He was mind controlled.
Dagenspear They fucked him up by turning Deadpool into a Merc without a mouth.
Mr.VIPGuest Which doesn't really matter, because this wasn't a movie about Deadpool, he's only in it for a few minutes and he gets his mouth back at the end.
Dagenspear What? Even if it doesn't about him, it doesn't change the fact that they fucked up his character.
Was just going back through videos and found this gem! You guys have aged very well over the last 10 years(not being sarcastic) keep it up!
Is this replacing best of the worst???
Thanks guys for another good video. At 18:36 Mike advocates for exactly what they ended up doing 9 years later in The Batman... a small movie plot driven movie without a cookie-cut villain fight at the end. Review it!