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I love watching action-adventure films on the big screen. There’s nothing like seeing the effects, whether live action stunts or CG, being blown up and maxed out. So I was very disappointed when “X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE” came out in theaters May 1 and I couldn’t make time out of my overcrowded schedule. And I was more surprised when early reviews rated the Hugh Jackman starrer as “disappointing”. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a measly 33%! Was it really that bad?
But it was an X-MEN so of course waited for the DVD, which came out on September 15. And I don’t understand what the negative feel is about! I certainly thought the film was a splendid prequel to the X-Men series, particularly Wolverine’s origins and history. I didn’t religiously follow X-Men in the early days so I was only familiar with Wolverine’s background, but the movie put the missing pieces together for me – who he was, why Victor Creed/Sabretooth loves to hate him, how he lost his memory, and of course what the Weapons X program was all about. Now I don’t know if there were any discrepancies between the comics and this film, but X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE tied in well with the earlier X-Men film franchises. I wish they would make prequels of all the major characters on X-Men!
The only fault I see is that even at 107 minutes long, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE was not enough to cover Wolverine’s past life in more detail. But that’s really a fault of cramming a legend into film. If Wolverine’s life was played out in the comics, it might have been drawn out longer.
I got the single-disc DVD with an extra “Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins” featurette which was basically about Hugh Jackman’s role as producer and the title role. Belatedly, I should have gotten the Ultimate 2-Disc DVD instead, for 5$ more, since it had more features and extras.
So here is a listing of what you can find inside the 2-disc special edition and the blu-ray disc. If you’re into features, the extra discs would be worth it. I think the DVD is worth owning too, if you follow the X-Men saga.
The X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)
- Commentaries by Director Gavin Hood and the producers
- A conversation with X-Men creators Stan Lee and Len Wein
- Deleted scenes
- Alternate sequences and scenes
- The “X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]
” include everything in the special edition plus
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