I just got off to a fancy evening by watching X-Men Origins: Wolverine with my beautiful fiancé, after a romantic dinner (KFC instead of Yellow Cab)…

True enough and admittedly, I was excited at first to watch X-Men Origins and at the same time, skeptic to how GENUINE the film is and how it will give justice to the actual comic series which was also named Wolverine and Weapon X, both offering different variations and artwork behind Wolverine’s origin and the Weapon X project.

The film actually DOES NOT give justice to the actual story in the comics. I swear to God I will definitely hurt people when they say that they didn’t follow the comics for CINEMATIC PURPOSES.

At some points, some parts in the film actually stuck to Logan’s comic origin and skills like bone claws (at first I thought he didn’t have these), rapid regeneration and healing and heightened senses; and that much I give due credit to the writers for actually sticking to the comic storyline even to that tiny little detail.

Story-wise, if you’re a Marvel fan, then watching this movie will leave you disappointed and frustrated at the failed attempt of merging comics with the big screen. I admit, I did like the smooth 3D animated graphics, and special effects and explosions and all the yelling, who wouldn’t?

There was actually no character development in the movie, it kept on jumping from one event to another without showing the slightest hint of how these events are related except for pathetic millisecond flashbacks. I know, it’s pathetic, considering the theme of the movie revolved around the word ORIGIN and by definition “The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.” Somehow, I never really saw that in the movie.

I am clearly venting out my frustration with how big time movie producers take time to actually think about recreating one comic book series into a big movie and then flushing it down the toilet along with their morning breakfast by incorporating their own version of the story for the purpose of CINEMATOGRAPHY which is entirely one huge pile of crap.

It would’ve been better if they really did to the same set of characters, storyline and events which transpired and contributed during Wolverine’s actual origin.

Rottentomatoes.com gave it X-Men Origins: Wolverine a rating of 44%

While waiting for the agonizing zombie performance of Keanu Reeves in The Day the Earth Stood Still, this movie trailer managed to catch my attention.

Showing the Marvel Logo, I sighed and told myself “not again”. Here we go again with another failure in its attempt to transform every comic book they made into a silver screen feature. But then, I realized that I was watching something different. At first I thought I was watching the next X-Men movie but then the startling thought came to my mind “Could it possibly be the spin-off that everybody was talking about?”

It took me a minute to familiarize myself with the character and right then and there when it hit me, I jumped out of my seat to focus on the interesting trailer. X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The short almost 2 minute trailer featured Hugh Jackman reprising his role as Logan or Wolverine.

If you guys haven’t read the comics of his origin, then I guess you’re all better off since you’re going to be spared from feeling disappointed. Honestly, can’t directors stick to what really happened in the comic books and spare us the “cinematic” bullshit? Anyways, I don’t want to give judgment or criticize this movie since it’s still going to be released around May 2009 but as an avid comic book fan, I speak on behalf of all the comic geeks by saying we won’t be expecting much from this movie. Maybe if the directors and writers threw in Omega Red, things would’ve been interesting.

All I am saying is, Hugh Jackman does play a convincing role as Logan and I personally couldn’t have thought of a better actor to portray Logan than Hugh Jackman. If you thought I was going to be giving out the plot of the movie, think again. I’m just ranting about what’s going to be an expected failure of a comic book franchise yet again.