Quick Review of 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'

Wow! Seriously, what is with critics nowadays!!?? First G.I. Joe: Retaliation, then The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and now this! I thought Transformers: Age of Extinction is like the BEST TRANSFORMERS MOVIE that I have ever seen! Finally a Michael Bay-directed TF movie sequel WORTH-WATCHING AGAIN AND AGAIN!! :D Much better than all 3 TF films combined! All right, so what if it's a REALLY LONG movie? I've seen plenty of more than 2½-3 hr long blockbuster movies (The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, King Kong, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Rises, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, etc)! And who cares if this movie will have some unintended human scenes? I knew this was gonna happen, only this time it isn't forced or over-the-top like in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon! What matters to me is the mindless action scenes that will really grab our attention! And boy, was it really action-packed!
Mark Wahlberg, I think, is better than the overrated Shia LaBeouf! At least he doesn't constantly scream and whine about his life except doing what was necessary to protect his daughter from a bad situation the same way he lost his wife! He's like the most mature human ally next to Josh Duhamel's Lennox and Tyrese Gibson's Epps. I love his chemistry with Optimus Prime, the Autobot leader that he found as a busted-up cab truck (a nod to the G1 cartoon!)! His scene with Optimus on Lockdown's ship is just emotionally well-handled.
For the Autobots, I have to say how awful it is for those who made it out of Dark of the Moon. Now wanted fugitives. Left without a home planet, a huge major cost in saving Earth from enslavement. I can see why only Optimus and Bumblebee are confirmed to star in this latest chapter of the TF movie series. So they get brutally killed by humans just like that when they have like SAVED EARTH many times in all 3 films!? Poor Ratchet. :'( He may be my least favorite Autobot nor is he important in 2 and 3, but he's the only available medic who knows how to repair the injured/wounded Autobots since back on Cybertron. Other than Wrecker leader Leadfoot (the red Nascar one), I have to assume that Sideswipe, Dino/Mirage, Roadbuster, Topspin, and Wheelie were all KILLED sometime between DOTM and AOE since I doubt the movie crew will bother bringing them back in TF 5 and 6. Everyone should know why Optimus Prime, my favorite Autobot and Transformers character of all time, is acting all angry (ever since he killed Megatron and his own mentor Sentinel Prime in Chicago) and wanted to "kill the humans" after experiencing such a terrible moment with his beloved Autobot friends before Mark Wahlberg tried to comfort him about retaining his faith in humanity. I love that Optimus gets all of the development he deserves and that his actions were completely justified by other reasons when in dire need! Everybody should know better when to criticize how Optimus fights with his enemies in the live-action movies when they were not supposed to be viewed as kid-only TV shows. Again, that's like hating Superman for killing Zod in last summer's Man of Steel when there is like no other choice to be made if Zod refuses to stand down. The humans hunting down Autobots may be the most intriguing storyline in the TF franchise, but I still don't like how the Autobots are being treated in the movies when they were supposed to be considered by all humans of Earth as HEROES like in G1 and Animated! My video project and my Optimus Prime painting (with words "Freedom" and "Respect") proves that! I still believe in the Autobots, no matter what kind of action they take when it comes to WAR!
But for the newcomers: Drift (a blue Samurai Autobot-turned Decepticon), Crosshairs (a green parachutin grouchy bot), and Hound (a trigger-happy Ironhide/Bulkhead-esque military bot), oh I absolutely love every scene they're in! I am so happy that they, besides Optimus and Bumblebee, all have some wonderful extended scenes, with or without the humans, rather than be just background characters like they were "never around"! They absolutely STOLE THE SHOW! Just like the Minions did in Despicable Me 2! Much better than the way the robots appeared in the last 3! Their robot-only scenes were just BREATHTAKING and VISUALLY STUNNING (especially in 3-D/IMAX 3D)! Guess Michael Bay finally listened to us fans of how to make it a TRANSFORMERS movie!
I think bounty hunter Lockdown is a much better TF movie villain than Sentinel Prime! A robot villain who is not a rogue Autobot that made all Decepticons like Megatron all "obsolete" when they aren't supposed to be! Neutral or not, Lockdown sure looked like he could've been a Decepticon as the merchandising media have frequently promoted him as! This isn't the first time this happened (see Cartoon Network's TF Animated)! Loved how once he made his entrance in the highway, his face turns into a gun to fire at Optimus in the Galvatron fight as a sneak attack!
Now for the guys that sent Lockdown to fulfill his bounty, the "creators," who are they? It's as though the "Creators" are like the Engineers who "created" the humans in Prometheus yet tried to do a goal that involves ironically wiping out all life. So it wasn't just the AllSpark cube that "created" the Transformers as the first movie indicated? Were the ancient Primes, including The Fallen (the originator of the Decepticon faction), created NOT by the AllSpark as they were led to believe? Do the Creators and the AllSpark have any connection with each other? I hope that's true! If not, then this'll make it extremely confusing and contradicting since the very start of the live-action TF movies! To recap how everything led to Age of Extinction, the dinosaurs' extinction is actually the result of the Creators' deployment of the "Seeds" that will cyberformat all organic life but at the same time kill them in the process. And I learn that the ship Lockdown had "stolen" was once piloted by the "legendary knights" before they were captured and held prisoner for many years. I would love for IDW to make a TF AOE prequel comic book to properly explain the origins of the Dinobots (set years prior to the 1st 4 films), and how Lockdown came into contact with the corruptive Cemetery Wind organization before their alliance was formed (set 5 years between DOTM and AOE). I'm kinda ok with the Dinobots not having more screentime except in the final scenes, as that would be the reason why there is no other scene in commercials besides the Hong Kong part. But I hope that once Michael Bay and the production crew hear our popular demand for more Dinobots in the next films, oh the Dinobots had better return once again and have some stronger development! :) As G1 Grimlock would say, "Me Grimlock love challenge!"
So my last post about the Movie Megatron/Galvatron identity crisis is proven true... I knew that Galvatron here IS the Megatron from the past 3 films even after his anticlimactic death in DOTM! When I hear Frank Welker's voice from the reincarnated Decepticon leader, I get the chills! So exactly like his TF Prime/TF The Ride counterpart! A definitive suitable replacement voice actor than Hugo Weaving, who stated that he didn't actually "enjoy" his time voicing Megatron! And best of all, he is actually more dangerous and more powerful than his time as Megatron! He is no longer always a pushover in 2 and 3 and proved to be a more dangerous threat since Movie 1, despite being built by humans! At long last, a full redemption for the once mighty Decepticon leader! This ought to shut you guys up for dissing on the movie incarnation of Megatron! There's an old saying, "You can't keep a bad guy down!" (same goes for Shredder in the 2003 TMNT series!) Just as long as he gets to do some damage in the next 2 films, whether as the main villain or not! Don't mind him being turned into a lackey of Unicron, though!
I love how the Hong Kong battle in the climax was handled! This is what the Chicago battle in DOTM should have been like 3 years ago! You get to see the robots in action more, like Optimus riding on Grimlock and Bumblebee riding on Strafe, as opposed to the human soldiers stealing their spotlight in the 1st 3 like they can do it without them! You can feel all of the emotion coursing through your veins in moments like Hound taking on the Decepticon-turned human-made drones to the bitter end (he's still alive, though) and Optimus taking on Lockdown in a final combat with a mix of the Imagine Dragons' Battle Cry and the Steve Jablonsky epic music soundtrack playing! And wow! What a hardcore, yet brutal, way to kill Lockdown in ONE SLICE by Optimus and his "Sword of Judgment"! This is why he is Optimus PRIME! :D Optimus departing Earth solo to search for the "Creators" and sending them his message is a very emotional way to end this movie. Not as abrupt as the Egypt and Chicago battle aftermaths! It really sets up for TF5! And yes, Optimus. To the "Creators," "leave Earth alone, because I am coming… for you!" And, cue the LOUD AUDIENCE APPLAUSE! Take that, critics!
For once, Michael Bay did something right even if he's not really the "best director" in a good way. Guess his big break from the Transformers movies to work on Pain & Gain really paid off. Whether he's the director for Transformers 5 or not, I'm still in for more TF adventures. Because the director(s) that I believe will handle better than Bay with the same style as his are either Peter Berg (if he recovers from his other Hasbro blockbuster movie Battleship, a big financial flop), Justin Lin (nailed it in Fast & Furious 5 & 6!), and Doug Liman (has done The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow, both critically-acclaimed action films!). Let's just pray that they'll know how to make TF 5 & 6 more awesome than 4 without repeating the mistakes they've done in TF2! I can't tell how proud I am for this film to live up to my expectations and finally relieve me of the pain I had to endure with Revenge of the Fallen and/or Dark of the Moon. Once again, the Transformers movies are what got me into this franchise before viewing the other animated shows to better understand the concept and know which is better no matter how they were written in this gigantic TF multiverse. I hope that this movie will perform better at the box office and gross more, if not better, than Dark of the Moon's $1.1 billion worldwide record! Just as a reminder to the critics why they should NOT diss this awesome fourquel so much that it shouldn't be considered the "worst Transformers movie" next to Revenge of the Fallen (already the Razzie winner for Worst Picture of 2009) when it was starting to offer something EVEN BETTER than the predecessors! In the words of Optimus Prime, Autobots ROLL OUT!

Winner at the Richmond Swimming Olympics of 2014!

This just in. As of Saturday, June 7th, I, Gabe Mayuga of the Oakton Swim Club, won 2 gold medals and 1 fifth place ribbon at the Swimming State Olympics in Richmond! Never thought this day would come! Whoo-hoo!

My Top 10 HORRIBLY-MISCAST Movie Characters

1. Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom in Spider-Man 3 (2007)

2. Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in Green Lantern (2011)

3. Aasif Mandvi as Zhao in The Last Airbender (2010)

4. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

5. Megan Fox as April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

6. Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider in Ghost Rider 1-2 (2007-2012)

7. Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/Human Torch in The Fantastic Four (2015)

8. Julian McMahon as Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four 1-2 (2005-2007)

9. The Entire Cast of Dragonball Evolution (2009)

10. Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Quick Review of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'

Last weekend, I thought it was the BEST X-MEN MOVIE I've ever seen! Really blew the previous 6 films away! An excellent redemption in the X-Men movie franchise! Officially the second best Marvel movie after The Avengers! I am so happy that it erased X-Men: The Last Stand and/or X-Men Origins: Wolverine from the original timeline besides stopping the creation of the Sentinels! At least the Days of Future Past storyline in this latest blockbuster movie isn't all messed up like the Dark Phoenix Saga in The Last Stand! The performances in Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (*whistles*), and Hugh Jackman were outstanding! So proud that X-Men 1-2's Bryan Singer is back at the helm after departing the X-Men series to direct the overrated financially-disappointing Superman Returns. This movie really went back to the roots of the 1st two X-Men films thanks to the amazing dark tone and better writing compared to the lackluster direction of Brett Ratner in X3!
The time-traveling is one of the interesting, yet dangerous or convoluted, concepts in movie history. Having experienced time-traveling in Back to the Future and Men in Black 3, never knew what it would be like in X-Men: Days of Future Past. So Ellen Page's Kitty Pryde was able to send the future Logan/Wolverine's consciousness straight back to the year 1973 where Logan would wake up in his younger body to meet up with the young Charles Xavier in the time period set a decade after X-Men: First Class, and that their main goal is to stop Mystique from killing Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask which could only cause full retaliation from the U.S. government and immediately fast-track the development of the giant mutant-hunting robots that could cause total extinction to every last mutant on Earth.
Yes, the Quicksilver scene is certainly one of the biggest highlights in X-Men: Days of Future Past! The song "Time in the Bottle" made it so darn hilarious! Love that he's casually altering everything in slow-motion! Sure wish that he IS the "son of Magneto" if Fox would at least take the entire concept of X-Men a bit more seriously! Let's see if Kick-Ass and Godzilla's Aaron Taylor-Johnson can handle the other Quicksilver in next summer's Avengers: Age of Ultron!
Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique is awesome the way she fights! Like she has the same fighting skills as Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow! I think she handled it as good as Rebecca Romijn's before Rebecca made her anti-climatic exit as our favorite blue shape-shifting, cunning mutant in X3! She is just so hot and beautiful! I am glad that I recognized her completely since X-Men: First Class and The Hunger Games!
The ending sure had me on the edge! Sentinels killing Storm, Colossus, Iceman, Bishop, Blink, Warpath, and Sunspot in cold blood was brutal and sad! Love how the young Magneto would lift up an entire football stadium to surround the White House with the reprogrammed Sentinels at his command! Wow! Amazingly awesome! Guess that's where they got the $200 million budget! By the time the movie comes to a close end, Logan would wake up in the future where there never was a war with the Sentinels. Every mutant that were killed by the Sentinels are all alive again. However, the events that occur after The Last Stand were changed as well, since they, along with The Wolverine, all count as events that lead to the dystopian future war. So that means that… Jean Grey is back from the dead! So the young Xavier did become aware of what would happen when he recruits Jean into the X-Men. That means we'll finally reimagine the Dark Phoenix event anytime we want, an event that should have been exactly like in the comic book unlike how it was handled on the big screen! But when Logan finally sees the resurrected Jean Grey (who appeared as a ghost to him in last summer's The Wolverine), a hand came to stop Logan from touching her face. And there it was! drumroll… Scott Summers, A.K.A. Cyclops, is alive! YES! Just what I have been expecting for 8 years after his upsetting abrupt death in X-Men: The Last Stand! It's never X-Men without the REAL LEADER at the top of chain of command! So this oughta be a lesson to James Marsden that he will NEVER agree to sign up for Superman Returns, making his underrated X-Men character's appearance in the threequel short-lived! It was the happiest moment that I have ever seen! With everything after 1973 in X-Men Origins: Wolverine supposedly altered, I hope this means that we'll finally have the proper Wolverine origin story told exactly the way it should be for us fans, this time remaining faithful to the dark and violent tone in the X2 Weapon X flashbacks! Even so, no more of that Weapon XI fiasco and say hello to the REAL Deadpool! I hope Ryan Reynolds would be happy, if his own Deadpool movie is already happening! Wonder what's gonna happen to the past Logan if Stryker, actually Mystique in disguise, will "take it from here"? Is this gonna lead to the Weapon X procedure already, when it shouldn't have happened until like the early to mid-1980s? Is that what the 3rd Wolverine movie (out until March 3rd, 2017) is going to be about? Or something else, rather?
I'd say that X-Men: Days of Future Past is the REAL X-Men 3 after leaving us hanging on with the way X3 ended by releasing 3 standalone prequels/spin-offs! It's good to see that Fox is getting the 14-year-old X-Men movie franchise back on track and made a movie that will truly relieve us of our bad tastes to X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine! Can't say the same for the Fantastic Four reboot films, as I only wish that Fox did gave their rights back to Marvel already like it did with Daredevil. I am so pumped up for X-Men: Apocalypse, coming May 27th, 2016! Let's see what the Age of Apocalypse looks like in a movie after we never get to see it in the abruptly-cancelled Wolverine and the X-Men (which only ran for one season and 26 episodes on the NickToons channel) except in a comic book. But nothing will absolutely top the original X-Men animated TV series, as well as Kids' WB's X-Men: Evolution, in terms of very faithful treatments to our favorite mutants and better storytelling compared to the movies!

Transformers: Age of Extinction Official Trailer Analysis

This… is the best Transformers movie sequel trailer I've ever seen! I am loving how this is going now that Shia LaBeouf is gone, and that there doesn't seem to be that many non-action stars, other than T.J. Miller (as Cade's friend Lucas), that are better off in a comedy movie! "After all we have done, humans are hunting us." Gotta hand it to ya, I agree with Prime. I thought the people of Earth would finally accept the Autobots as HEROES once the Decepticon threat appears to have finally ended in the last film. I mean, as Optimus stated before, "Your leaders will now understand. Decepticons will NEVER leave your planet alone." So is that really PROOF enough that the Autobots are NOT the reason the 'cons still attacked Earth after the AllSpark's destruction? This is precisely why I made a final video project of my own DOTM epilogue for Ms. Sowa's computer class last fall. Especially the canvas painting that I made at Prof. Madden's Painting I class. A painting of the face of AOE Optimus Prime with the words "Freedom" and "Respect," like it was a propaganda poster to remind all human oppressors that the Autobots deserve to be thanked for saving Chicago instead of getting put down.

Did I just see Galvatron lying there, only incomplete? How was he built by the humans? Does he have anything to do with the fallen Decepticon leader Megatron, according to his Hasbro bio? I hope it's true! 'Cause then it would be an excellent redemption for the movie version of Megatron if his remains are being used to create a supposedly tougher Galvatron who initially lacks a free will! I can't wait to see him develop a sentient life of his own the moment the human-made Transformers, including the red Bumblebee-knockoff Stinger, start turning against their own creators and attacked the city of Hong Kong! But what is this "rare, molecularly unstable metal" that Stanley Tucci's Joshua is talking about? Something that these non-Cybertronian robots are made of? How did they find such a precious, unknown element? Only one way to find out if this rare metal has anything to do with something back on Cybertron, long after the original Primes and the Dinobots (existed way before there were sentient Cybertronian beings?).

Seriously, what are these ships? Decepticons? Or are they ancient Cybertronians after the reign of the ancient Primes came to an end when they gave their lives to protect the Matrix of Leadership? Are these ships connected to the primitive-like Dinobots? I so hope that the movie will explain the Dinobots' presence before Optimus and his crew meet up with Grimlock and the Dinobots for the first time. If not, then an AOE prequel comic book about the Dinos would be nice.

Optimus Prime vs. Lockdown!

And Lockdown, oh wow! He sure looked like a bad boy! Decepticon or not, this is not the first time Lockdown has ever been aligned with neither one faction since he is a bounty hunter. Lance Henriksen would have been perfect to voice Lockdown again after Cartoon Network's Transformers Animated. Have to see how Mark Ryan (voices of Bumblebee (TF1 only) and ROTF Jetfire) will pull it off. Love that hook he is wielding! Certainly a nod-in to his Animated counterpart! He also has such an impressive transformation and a sick Lamborghini vehicle form! Am really looking forward to see an amazing robot-only scene where Lockdown begins to interrogate the imprisoned Optimus Prime inside his "Nightship." Now, for Optimus Prime vs. Lockdown. Wow-ee! Just exactly the final fight I need to see in a TF movie sequel! A Decepticon or whatever enemy fighting against the leader of the Autobots! Instead of a rogue traitorous Autobot, like Sentinel Prime, who unfortunately STOLE Megatron's spotlight like he makes the Decepticons obsolete (not to me they aren't!) he's really so "great"! "Who sent you here?" 'Bout to ask the same thing. Why was Lockdown here on Earth? Did Unicron sent him? What was his bounty? Can't stand the suspense!

Do I sense a perfect chemistry going on here!? Optimus and Mark Wahlberg's Cade look like they're going to have the best human-robot interaction ever! Them sharing what they have in common, like their beliefs in whatever race they sought to protect and what it means to do what is right and necessary (ergo, a reminder why Optimus HAS to kill Megatron and Sentinel Prime)! Optimus would make an excellent Autobot guardian to Cade, like how Bumblebee is to Sam and Soundwave is to Dylan! Everyone should know that this is where Cade's going to convince Optimus to have faith in the humans again! It's not Prime's fault that he has to shoot at Savoy's men back in Texas (shooting at the ground, if you look carefully) when they were about to hurt Cade and his daughter! Perhaps the humans hunting and maybe killing many of his surviving Autobots except Bumblebee is what led Prime to immediately lose faith in humanity despite what he did to save Earth in Dark of the Moon! Age of Extinction had better prove the haters wrong about Optimus' "aggressive" killing when he is in a WAR that involves a lot of killing and usually take no prisoners of war! So glad that this movie's starting to treat the robots like REAL CHARACTERS when they're anything BUT CGI props, regardless of "budget issues"! As long as they have better pacing without any abrupt transitions!

The biggest highlight, however, is Optimus Prime riding on Grimlock charging towards the city to attack the Decepticon-turned human-made Transformers! Gonna be a WHOLE LOT BETTER than what we saw in TF3! Hopefully now, the Autobots get to have their moment to shine if the NEST soldiers are no longer at their aid! I wonder how this fourquel is going to end? Casualties for both Autobots or Decepticons? Is Bumblebee really going to talk since TF1, even without Ratchet (assumed to be dead) repairing him? What will become of Optimus Prime when the Battle of Hong Kong is all over? I will find soon enough in 6 weeks! The Bayformers are back… better than ever! Autobots, transform and ROLL OUT! Do not disappoint us like 2 and 3 did!

NOVA Spring Semester of 2014 is Finished!

"For the first time in forever" (from Disney's Frozen)… IT IS OVER!!! My entire year at NOVA is complete since 2011! In this semester, I got all A's in Drawing II (Knapp), Animation I (Treadway), Intro to Graphic Skills (Natrella), and Painting I (Madden) and one B in History II (Porter)! I am ready to graduate the Northern Virginia Community College next Sunday!

Quick Review of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'

In preparation for this year's X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2 weeks, I saw this 1st Wolverine prequel spin-off on my iPad last month. Now I understand why everybody disliked this film as much as X-Men: The Last Stand, even if I initially enjoyed it 5 years ago. Despite exploring more of Logan's past, it unfortunately failed to live up to the concept and completely lacked the violent nature that made Wolverine the most popular X-Men character in Marvel history. The only good part in X-Men Origins is the beginning with Logan first discovering his claws as a Canadian child in 1845 before he ran off with half-brother Victor Creed (soon to be his archenemy Sabretooth) to participate in the coming battles from the Civil War to the Vietnam War. Another only good scene is the part with Team X led by William Stryker, the main enemy of the "greatest X-Men movie of all time," X2: X-Men United. The end of the Weapon X procedure was like my least favorite scene ever. While it felt awesome the way Logan awakens after being injected with a seemingly-powerful metal called adamantium, he just didn't kill enough of Stryker's guards to make him as violent as he was in the flashbacks seen in X2. I mean, seriously, "the production team not satisfied with the Weapon X facility design"? I thought that was perfect as it is in one of Logan's memories in the 2nd X-Men movie! Why change it!? What Wolverine did upon receiving these metal claws is EXACTLY how he should be! Especially how the facility is designed compared to this! Very dark and gritty! Precisely why I see X-Men Origins: Wolverine first and THEN X2: X-Men United just to make me FORGET the poorly-handled Weapon X procedure! That part should NOT be "officially canon" in the X-Men movie universe! Treat this movie as a STANDALONE spin-off prequel (not "directly linked" to the other predecessors) like how Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is treated as a standalone sequel with NO DIRECT CONNECTION to the 2007 one. To make Wolverine fans happy, the X2 flashbacks of Weapon X should be OFFICIALLY REAL, NOT as "distorted memories." I can see why the action and the overall tone in the video game version of X-Men Origins is way more intense than the movie.

Now as for the "Merc with the Mouth," I wasn't completely upset with how Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds, was handled in the end for I am unaware with this character. But once I realized that "Weapon XI" and Wade Wilson/Deapool are the same person, I actually like him better when he was still Wade in the Team X Mission to Lagos sequence. The only part that made Ryan Reynolds THE Deadpool is his non-stop chattering with his fellow teammates and the way he fights with his man-made swords to kill the guys guarding the precious metal (revealed to be adamantium) that Team X were actually after. But at least that the post-credits scene (now mostly paired with the movie in DVDs/Blu-rays) shows that he is still alive despite having his head cut off by Wolverine. And the way he shushes at the audience thus "breaking the 4th wall," this is a perfect opportunity to see more of him (IN COSTUME, THIS TIME) in his very own Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds once again! That is if Fox has the guts to get it into immediate production due to the graphic violent content. But for now, the only non-comic book media that features Deadpool we will have to stick with is the 37-minute long animated film Hulk vs. Wolverine, his underrated titular video game, and the infamous Ultimate Spider-Man TV episode starring his namesake.
So overall, it feels like we've already learned how Logan got these adamantium claws in the 1st two X-Men films. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is basically a movie with VERY FEW plot points that live up to the title and has too many superfluous characters (like Fred Dukes/The Blob, Gambit, and young Scott Summers) and subplots (mutant prisoners and combining powers to create Weapon XI) with no importance to the story. And because of the Three Mile Island Accident scene, it makes it very hard to decide whether this film IS set "15 years" before Logan ever met the X-Men in the "not too distant future" (specifically the 2000s). It's almost as if this Wolverine movie may have to be completely ignored by fans, no matter how "canon" it is. However, the only X-Men Origins: Wolverine details that I can respectfully honor to join the X-Men movie continuity is Logan's first mutation as a kid, his participation in the wars and Team X, the source of adamantium, and his relationship with Sabretooth (before their last encounter in the 1st X-Men) and Kayla. But at least we have the X-Men 1990s Animated Series episodes "The Repo Men" and "Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape" that will tell the origin story of Wolverine a whole lot better than this so-called Wolverine movie! Glad that last summer's The Wolverine, set after X-Men 3 while taking Logan straight to Japan, made up for that mistake and truly shows how Hugh Jackman is awesome as the claw-slashing mutant who knows that "he is the best at what he does, and what he does isn't very nice"!