Welcome to No, Wait, Shut Up. Just Listen.

This blog is for my CA500 class but it is also something I've been wanting to write for a while now. What my blog is all about is me stating a point and then arguing why I'm correct. Some of you might agree, some of you might not and that's fine. Feel free to leave comments either way but make sure that if you don't like my arguments that you criticize in a smart fashion instead of just calling me names. If you make a good enough counter argument, I might even write a post about it. That's about it for this little intro blurb so ENJOY!

Tuesday, February 10, 2015


(Warning: Spoilers!)
~What X-Men Movie is My Least Favorite~
 
I love the X-Men. I love the concept of mutations. I love the conflict between Charles and Erik’s political views. Yet I do not love all the X-Men movies. One of them left me feeling disappointed and underwhelmed when I left the theater. It filled me with sadness and a longing for the good old days. That is why I say that The Wolverine is the worst X-Men movie ever made.

No, wait, shut up. Just listen.
 
The Wolverine, for those who do not remember and are therefore happier in life, is the follow up to what happens to Logan after X-Men: Last Stand. It takes place in Japan and leaves a hollow feeling where your love for Wolverine once was.


The plot hinges on the idea that a mechanical bug attached to Logan’s heart could suppress his healing ability. I find that laughable. I looked into the how the bug could have been suppressing his abilities. The only one I found that sounded slightly plausible was the idea that the bug was constantly doing damage to his heart so his healing ability had to focus on that instead of healing his other injuries. While this theory is the least terrible, I still do not think it would work. Take for example Wade Wilson or Deadpool. Wade can heal from various gore-intensive injuries within minutes all while his healing factor is dealing with his advanced cancer. If Wade, who has a knock-off version of Logan’s healing ability, can still heal while dealing with cancer, I have no doubt Logan could deal with the little bug. On a more personal note, my favorite part of Wolverine’s fight scenes are when he gets hit with something that should have killed him and he just walks it off. This movie took that away from me and I will not forgive it.



Logan losing his adamantium claws was also frustrating. I only accepted the bone claws in X-Men: Origins because it helped tell Logan’s history accurately. Taking them away in this movie made no sense especially with X-Men: Days of Future Past (DoFP) coming out after it. In DoFP we see that future Logan has adamantium claws again, which makes no sense due to a) they wouldn’t of had time to fix him before the Sentinels became a threat and b) adamantium is very rare and would be impossible to find in a war zone. 



The final nail on the coffin was the bonus scene after the credits. In this scene we see Charles Xavier alive and working with Erik Lensherr (Magneto). At first I was very excited when I watched this scene because not only has Charles come back from his supposed death at the Phoenix’s (Jean Grey) hand, he is also friends with Erik again fixing the most tragic case of frenemies known to the world. The thing is though that Charles’s miraculous return to the living world is not explained in that scene or EVER TALKED ABOUT AGAIN. If they explained it in DoFP, I could have given The Wolverine a pass for this scene, but they did not so I will not.



Overall, The Wolverine did not deliver what it promised and took away everything I hold near and dear about Wolverine.






Coming up Next: Which is better: The Hobbit the movie or The Hobbit the book?

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Hello World Wide Web!

This is my first blog post on my first blog for my first Communication Arts class. So lots of firsts. Lots. Yes. I'll hopefully be posting my first "No, Wait, Shut Up. Just Listen," post and you can all read why my ideas are best and hopefully agree.