COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: X-MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE

Hmm yes what do I say about this? It is OK in part and not so in others...

SO things were just VERY wrong with the story and though I had just left the comic book world when Gambit appeared I did not like the sound of him in all honesty.

However in this film he looked quite an interesting character indeed! Wanted to see more of him.

But you did not and so it lets the side down for me mostly. A missed opportunity I am hoping they will make up for in the up and coming The Wolverine!

I was surprised to pick this up in a cash converter type store that shall not be named for the measly sum of £2.50 and to be honest I should have picked up that it will not be as good as I had been hearing?!

Me dumb arse! Still it was only £2.50 and had it been £18 I would have been squealing like a stuck ... thing! LOL!

COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: X-MEN 3

X-Men 3 utterly, utterly destroyed it for me and a classic case where a bunch of names think that they can change what is a classic thing to their way and it will be as good or better?!

I have it and a wince several times on the rare occasions I watch it. Well the pitfalls of being a big fan is you will own them despite them being...well shite really?! LOL.

No..no..NO..NO!!!

If you insist on being arrogant go and invent your own group of heroes and then make a movie!!

Where do I begin with this one. Angel is a very late member of the X-Men yet he was of the FIRST FIVE! Played by a bloody great actor and you hardly see him and took bloody ages before I realised it was same guy in The Punisher and my favourite character in that movie?!

Dark Phoenix, who looks crap, kills a man she eventually MARRIES?! CYCLOPS?! NO.. NO  oh you get the idea?!

She is killed on EARTH by WOLVERINE? No morons it was the moon and a GUN... did you even fllick THROUGH X-MEN number 137?! Well yes I owned this and a great deal more besides too.

Still not that much of Colossus either. THERE IS NO I IN TEAM OR INDEED X-MEN?!

Jesus let it be said that this how how you do not do it unless you head is up your backside?!

Did not stop Amazing Spider-Man though?! LMAO!

Right I have the Avengers, sorry Avengers ASSEMBLE that mechano set, and the first trilogy of X-Men out of the way.

COMIC BOOK FILMS SERIES: X-MEN 2

Despite being the best of the three by a hairs breadth this one was let down by the obvious...

...the only super villain was a mute and bound to a wheelchair?! The rest was just a specialist military outfit?!

I was really hoping the SENTINELS would appear or possibly the HELLFIRE CLUB or even ALPHA FLIGHT?! X-Men fans everywhere know that the list goes on?!

Also Wolverine is edging ever closer the the fore on the cover and the others are being edged out, someone want his own film by any chance?

Still I do like it but just could have been what eventually became The Avengers.

Do they know that X-Men was a more popular comic than The Avengers? Or at least it was when I was reading the comics that had these incarnations of them at any rate.

Still the Avengers is out and more of the same please!

9.2 out of 10 for me this one.

COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: X-MEN

Right now onto my FAVOURITE GROUP of super heroes of them all!

Classic X-Men but some was a let down, felt under budget and not helped by the now released Avengers?!

Super heroes and history was all over the place and so were the suits. But it mattered not it was good and just felt a little short for me. I still loved it despite all that.

9 out of 10 for me.

COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: AMAZING SPIDERMAN

This could have been so much better if he had kept his god damn mask on?!

What is it with actors that take blockbuster parts and then are reluctant to keep a mask on and instead find a way of removing it and showing their faces every chance they can?! STOP IT you only ebd up looking like an vain idiot?!

Did not think that the ripped up mask and losing it on the train by Tobey Maguire could be beaten but Andrew Garfield beat him hands down in his first movie on one fell swoop and he has TWO MORE to go yet?!

In fact as I said to a friend who then realised it and it has now spread like wildfire in the community there is no point in the mask now as his display of super human abilities several times at his school that the whole of New York now knows he is Spider-Man if not the whole world?!

Or maybe the teachings in American schools is simply not that... GREAT?!

Lets hope that another one of my favourite comic book heroes does not make me wince and then sob 'WWWWHHHHYYY?!' while watching the next movie?!

LMAO!

Complaints about the Lizard I think are unfair as other then the removing of the mask from every scene was the only thing letting it down.

Cannot believe I am going to give a Spider-Man movie 8 out of 10?! BUT I AM!

Saved by the swinging through the streets sections and down alley ways. Riveting!

COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: THE AVENGERS

The Avengers is a good place to start as I have a copy that is out of the ordinary and was only sold at a particular store.

Yet I bought it much later than I should and at a totally different store I now happen to be barred from for false allegations of swearing, abusive language and sarcasm based on somebody being a fat tub or lard arse?!?! LMAO!

This one with the segmented cover pictures was only available at Sainburys and it turned out to be special as it had TWO DISKS and lots of extras.

I would normally have bought this off Amazon but on the day of release there was a god almighty war going on that would put Loki's to shame?! Turned out that the film had 6 minutes of a fight scene cut, yes well of course you would do that in a comic book film you morons?! Added to this the lack of an extra disc was too much for fans to take...

...it went a little mental and when I saw droves and droves of one star out of five I thought what the feck is going on here? Then I discovered the above and saw people typing out comments like 'RIP-OFF' and 'TYPICAL OF DISNEY' and mentions of LUCAS ARTS too. This totally put me off especially when many were sending them back?!

Talked to a guy in HMV who had got a Steelbook version of this as I was looking at it and I mentioned this talk on Amazon and asked him what he knew of it? He told me he had bought one, grabbed the Steelbook Avengers i had in my hands and walked off to the counter. He did a check on his system and returned without the Avengers and said 'I don't believe it?! You are right! There is 6 minutes cut from the theatrical version?! I am bringing mine back!!' to which I burst out laughing...

...I spoke to him a week later and he decided to keep it!

By now the Sainburys one had sold out and they had no more of this type but I saw it in a Cash Converter type store and decided to buy it, four months after its release! I could not tell where the cut was in all honesty! Which was a surprise and I wonder if the European theatre release one was cut too?!

Oh you and to call it Avengers Assemble was STUPID!! Sounds like a Saturday morning kids show!

Loved the film and loved Mark Ruffalo as Banner but I did prefer the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk if I am honest.

Felt it was a hero light and I hated Hawkeye's costume.

Roll on the next one and I hope they have the Vision and the Scarlet Witch in it with decent outfits, lol.

Close to a perfect ten only in I wanted to see more of Thor as I loved his comics and probably to to do with the fact I have not seen HIS MOVIE YET?!

COMIC BOOK MOVIE SERIES: INTRODUCTION

Right I am doing a series on Wing Chun Kung Fu in the MOVIES on my Passion for Wing Chun blog and now starting one here on...

SUPER HEROES MOVIES of course!

Like the other series I will have covers of the films, in case some are more obscure or people can IDENTIFY with the particular versions I have got in case they want to find those exact ones.

To give you an idea I will start up in the ext post with the OBVIOUS CHOICE and a perfect example of what I am on about...