Hugh Jackman Retrospective ( as Wolverine)

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Poor Logan

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The appeal of Wolverine will never fade

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Fans don't want to forget Wolverine, as this Deadpool fanatic dreams of --

screenrant.com/deadpool-2-logan-crossover-poster/

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So much longing in this simple sentence -- they want him back!

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The student paper from CORNELL UNIVERSITY chooses its TOP TEN Best Superhero Movies Of All Time!

cornellsun.com/2018/04/24/the-suns-top-10-superhero-movies-of-all-time/

5. Logan

Maybe it’s because I’m not all that smart, but before Logan I’d given up hope that I’d ever be able to keep track of the all the X-Men timelines. Thankfully, the franchise’s newest addition didn’t make me worry about that nonsense. Logan’s a tightly focused, well-directed story that avoids many of the tropes that have made X-Men films before it fall flat. The film is as perfect a swansong for Hugh Jackman’s run as the Wolverine as we could’ve asked for. It’s shockingly gritty and delightfully brutal, taking a hard look at a bleak dystopian future while still giving the audience a couple breathtaking action scenes.

What really brings Logan together is a surprisingly affecting performance from Jackman in conjunction with an incredibly entertaining showing from 13-year-old Dafne Keen, playing Jackman’s pseudo-daughter character Laura. The gradually softening relationship between the two captures the hearts of the audience and elevates the film as a whole from good to great.
— Nick Smith

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Hugh likes the post --

http://instagram.com/p/Bh9BjC1j0fb

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FROM NOW ON - with a twist!





Excellent fan video!

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"Hail to thee my alma mater, hail all hail Cornell" 

Apr 24, 2018 4:55:30 GMT -5 jo said:

The student paper from CORNELL UNIVERSITY chooses its TOP TEN Best Superhero Movies Of All Time!

cornellsun.com/2018/04/24/the-suns-top-10-superhero-movies-of-all-time/

5. Logan

Maybe it’s because I’m not all that smart, but before Logan I’d given up hope that I’d ever be able to keep track of the all the X-Men timelines. Thankfully, the franchise’s newest addition didn’t make me worry about that nonsense. Logan’s a tightly focused, well-directed story that avoids many of the tropes that have made X-Men films before it fall flat. The film is as perfect a swansong for Hugh Jackman’s run as the Wolverine as we could’ve asked for. It’s shockingly gritty and delightfully brutal, taking a hard look at a bleak dystopian future while still giving the audience a couple breathtaking action scenes.

What really brings Logan together is a surprisingly affecting performance from Jackman in conjunction with an incredibly entertaining showing from 13-year-old Dafne Keen, playing Jackman’s pseudo-daughter character Laura. The gradually softening relationship between the two captures the hearts of the audience and elevates the film as a whole from good to great.
— Nick Smith

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Originally uploaded at the time of the release of LOGAN --

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"I never want to say Goodbye"

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Film personas completely melded in this fanboy's mind

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This plaintive and haunting song --

dedicated to Wolverine!

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Simon Kinberg ( who wrote out Wolverine's part in APOCALYPSE in favor of JLawrence's Mystique) puts in his 2 cents worth re the Ryan Reynolds continuing plea (aka harassment) with Hugh Jackman for a Wolverine-Deadpool movie --

sciencefiction.com/2018/05/15/simon-kinberg-warns-fans-not-get-hopes-deadpool-meeting-wolverine/

Ha - Kinberg was the missing producer on set for LOGAN! He only showed up at the Berlinale premiere.

As for the continuous harassment of Hugh by Ryan R -- hope the "longed-for" movie happens so long as the ending replicates the decapitation of Deadpool, exactly as it happened in the much-maligned XMEN Origins :Wolverine!

Vindictive Jo

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There are several post-credits scenes in DEADPOOL 2 --


www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-05-16/deadpool-2s-weird-and-wonderful-post-credits-scenes-explained/


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one of them references XMEN ORIGINS : WOLVERINE!

I don't understand why FOX allows such inanity/insanity. Not everyone disliked the movie -- I liked it as it is a good background story on the origins of Wolverine as a folklore badass hero! Hugh did put in a lot of effort helping cast that movie. And the movie did have a strong cast, including the part which made it possible for Ryan Reynolds to become Deadpool!


To each his own, I guess


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A very thoughtful sentiment --

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On the other hand -- LOL!

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Fanboys always hoping, for any tiny sign

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The largest TV network here is now showing THE WOLVERINE, but locally-dubbed!

I am not sure if I want to hear someone else speaking his lines ( maybe I will bring down the sound to close-to-zero), but at least they found someone with a deep voice to dub Hugh's voice.




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ROLLING STONE Magazine ranks the top 50 greatest movie superheroes --

and WOLVERINE comes out as # 1 ( ahead of Superman)!

www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/50-greatest-movie-superheroes-696382/

50 Greatest Movie Superheroes
We rank the best caped crusaders, MCU all-stars and friendly-neighborhood crimefighters to ever grace the big screen
By David Fear & Noel Murray & Sean T. Collins & Scott Tobias & Jenna Scherer & Tim Grierson & Keith Phipps

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a film genre that’s taken over mainstream Hollywood and multiplex culture faster than a single bullet! Superhero movies have gone through a massive evolution over the last few decades, from special-event blockbusters (“You’ll believe a man can fly”) to expanded-universe franchises that mimic serialized comic-story arcs with impressive fidelity. Not every cinematic superhero is created equal, however, even if many of their origins stories seems the same – so we’ve ranked the 50 greatest caped crusaders and friendly-neighborhood crimefighters, Justice Leaguers and Avengers, off-brand men-in-tights and MCU-and-beyond all-stars to grace the big-screen.

A note about the picks: We’ve relegated superheroes who’ve had numerous actors behind a singular character’s mask to one performer and asked writers to choose which of the performances they preferred regarding the list; we’ve done this avoid, say, six different Batman entries. We’ve identified the particular version we’re singling out and tried to mention as many of the other portrayals as we could. Also, supervillains were not eligible (see title), but a supervillain who eventually transformed into a superhero was eligible – what we call the Mystique Syndrome. Read on.

#1 WOLVERINE

Blessed with indestructible adamantium fused to his skeleton, some intimidating razor-sharp claws, the power to heal almost instantly and Hugh Jackman’s impervious charisma, this all-star mutant has been the MVP of the Fox’s X-Men universe for 20 years now, starting off as the lone-wolf antihero in the original X-Men movie and going out in a blaze of glory in the somber 2017 swansong Logan. The character eventually learns to play nice with others (somewhat), but he also remains consistent in sticking to a very particular code of honor; it’s a testament to Jackman’s commitment to this mutant’s tortured journey to rid himself of his demons that we never doubt the character’s soulfulness or ferocity. And it’s through Wolverine’s last appearance, in which Jackman guides his iteration of the character toward a violent endgame, that we also see what superhero movies are capable of becoming: moral parables capable of being both thrilling and thought-provoking, blockbusters that reflect the world beyond the comic-book shop and the multiplex. Someday, eventually, another actor may don the claws of this iconic character – when that happens, they’ll have to walk in Jackman’s long, formidable shadow. We don’t envy them. TG

Well-argued and very well-put!

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Apropos to the above recognition from ROLLING STONES, it was disturbing that Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg opted to give Mystique ( aka JLawrence) the leadership role with the young mutants in XMEN:Apocalypse, at the expense of Wolverine! That would not be canon! Maybe that cost them the blockbuster status that they wanted for the film...and lamely delivered instead with fans, critics, and the box office.


Jo