How critics kill a movie (Wolverine X-Men Origins)
The Anatomy and Evolution of a Drive-By MEDIA Assassination
I’m a comic book fan. However, I never really dug the X-Men as much as other comic book titles, although I did like a few mutants that appeared in other Marvel comics, like Professor X, Ice-Man, Beast, and Wolverine. I absolutely loved the first “X-Men” movie. In fact, it ignited the super-hero movie genre, which has been VERY successful financially and the quality of comic book adaptations has been generally good.
Yet my expectations have been VERY low on comic book movies when it comes to sequels. So comic books fans will excuse me for not getting that excited about the Wolverine movie, even though I was hoping for it years ago, because I think Hugh Jackman is awesome and Wolverine is extremely marketable. I thought the X-Men franchise kinda went in the wrong direction with its 3 movies, and I feel a Wolverine movie is a bit too late, especially since its a straight action movie on the heels of last year’s “Dark Knight” and this year’s genre-busting “Watchmen“. But that’s neither here nor there- Wolverine should be a fun movie.
Suffice to say, there has been a lot of positive buzz and free marketing for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Many entertainment magazines, newspapers, TV shows, industry trade publications, and websites have been running Wolverine movies previews ALL the time to cash in on Marvel’s second most popular character (Spider-Man being the first).
So after riding Wolverine on for MONTHS, this is how they repay Hugh Jackman and company:
The Daily Variety- featured in the HBO series Entourage as being personally motivated in making or breaking actors- kinda gave it a mixed and flat review, while saying the action and acting was fine.
The New York Daily News- TABLOID TRASH- gave it one star, and went on to rip it to shreds although the details were dubious at best. Here’s what the critic’s readers said about his review:
“I find it ironic that you call the film a fiasco when this review is pretty much a fiasco too.“I just saw that you gave the execrable ‘Pink Panther 2″ three stars. I think that nicely sums up the level of professionalism on display here…”“This guy can’t be serious…I saw the DVD download movie and it connects just like in the comics for the most part for one.”
“…hack writer…”
“Mr. Movie Critic, sir. Please tell us why on earth should we listen to your opinion? Is it because you have spent years studying the finer points of film and are the closest thing to an expert there is? Why don’t you share some of your top movie picks so that the rest of us can trash them? Why do movie critics even exist. In these stressful economic times, that is one thing we could definitely live without.”
“I’ve already seen the advance film via downloads…it is great. this reviewer doesn’t have a clue.”
Have Reuters report selected negative comments from the aforementioned reviews and squak away like a parrot. Reuters is like AP- they are a worldwide newswire service that have their “reports” picked up on the wire all the major newspapers and websites:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Movie critics took sharp claws to “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” on Wednesday, carving it up in several poor reviews, but box office watchers said it still should bring blockbuster ticket sales at this weekend’s debut.
Reuters then used the worst quotes from the two reviews, and left out that Variety said the action was perfect. I checked Rotten Tomatoes. Although it has a low percentage of positive reviews, many reviewers liked the action movie. It seems as if the reviews are mixed. But the Reuters article makes it sound like a “Speed Racer” BOMB.
And now for the final step in how to kill a movie. Enter the DrudgeReport. Mr. “024,235,238 IN PAST 24 HOURS" Matt Drudge went ahead and linked the Reuters “report” with a bad headline.
Game, set, and match.
Done.
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I think we owe it to Wolverine to hit the theaters this weekend, and show our support. G. and I can’t wait.
Some of my cherished comic book childhood memories revolve around Wolvie — X-Men 207 cover and subsequent storyline, Spidey vs. Wolvie one-shot, just to name two.
Kinda enjoyed the film. Although not at all up to the mark as I had expected.
I love his 80’s brown and dark yellow costume, V.
In the ultimate irony, Wolverine, whose mutant power gives him the ability to recover from injuries and illness instantly, will get killed this weekend by swine flu.
I wonder if Hugh (Huge) Jackman will be able to be anything but Wolverine now that so much of his career has been consumed by this role