Got the chance last night to go and screen the latest movie in the X-Men Franchise Wolverine at the Graumanns Chinese Theater. But I wasn’t the only one because I believe half of Hollywood was there. They filled up the Chinese Theater that usually accommodates about 1000 people to capacity and added another showing in their upstairs theater. In the second screening people had to wait for the print to be built up. That’s what they get for showing up late. I at least got the good one. Security was really tight. Nobody with a cell phone camera was allowed to bring it in. It all had to be checked in. I guess after that whole leaked incident, they don’t want it to happen again.
Once the screening was under way I knew I was in for something good. The way it started I was pretty impressed. Gave you a lot of background detail. I guess to better help you understand the story. They introduce you to James and his brother Victor. Who as children find out that they are mutants. They would eventually grow up to be Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Sabertooth (Lie Schreiber). In the comics you would get one story, but when comics are made into movies their stories always change. This one was no exception. In this new adaptation Wolverine must find Sabertooth for the soul reason of killing him because he killed his girlfriend. While trying to find him, the leader of their old group offers to help but with the promise that he must volunteer for a risky new experiment to create Weapon X. He a course agrees, thus making him pretty much indestructible, because that’s when he is introduced to adamantium the strongest metal. I like the fact that they introduced some X-Men universe Characters like Deadpool and Gambit. Fans of the comics and the previous X-Men’s will really like this.
Some people have probably seen the leaked version on the web, I for one boycotted that. Because I wanted to see the finished one, I don’t really know if there were significant changes between the two but people should really go and see the big screen version. Last count that I got was that over 1 million people had seen the leak version
This was directed by Gavin Hood who recently directed Rendtion and Tsotsi. Looks like lately studios are going in new directions by going after new up and coming directors instead of using known directors like they did with X-Men 3 (Brett Ratner) who in my opinion almost killed the X-Men Franchise. Other is this film were, Danny Huston (William Stryker), Will I AM (John Wraith), Kevin Durand (The Blob), Taylor Kitsch (Gambit), and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool).
If you have time this weekend, even if you’re not a fan. This movie will probably make you a fan. Just go and check it out and judge for yourself. You will enjoy it.