¶ Otaku Fest Weekend Recap
Welcome to episode 82 of Project Geekology , and this week we are going to be talking about Deadpool , and by Deadpool I mean his first appearance . That is X-Men Origins Wolverine the best movie ever . I lie , I am one half of your host , anthony , and joining me , as always , is the biggest ever fan of X-Men Origins , wolverine Dakota .
I also lie , but you know there's probably someone else out there who loves this movie and there are things to love about it . We won't give credit where credit is due . It is not received favorably in the public consciousness , at least not the way that these movies are remembered . It's typically rated among the lower ones . But you know what ?
We're going to give it its fair chance . We're going to talk about what worked , what didn't and what really didn't . And , yeah , we're going to dig into this one . But before any of that , I know , anthony , you have had a crazy weekend , so please tell the world . This is your stage .
Tell the world what you've been up to dude , I have had such a busy weekend man . I was just up all day and all night just playing persona I didn't see that one coming you hit me . you know I had . You know I had to hit . You see that one coming . You hit me . You know I had to hit you with that one . No , no , no .
So last episode I did talk about the fact weekends ago , or a weekend ago at this point , by the time that this episode comes out . But yes , I went to Otaku Fest this past weekend as of recording , which is May 23rd , and man , I had a really good time .
I haven't gone to a convention since August of last year , so it's kind of like a long time due for me . I haven't really taken much time off , except for maybe a couple of sick days here and there , so I was really just prepared to enjoy a nice long weekend of being a nerd . Yes , I did cosplay this weekend .
Okay , we got to hear it hold on , but was this ? Uh , was itaku , it was a taku fest otaku fest , yeah was it three or four days ? It was three days . It was a three-day convention , okay I'm gonna be honest with you .
Not many conventions are four days anymore , like supercon used to be . So supercon is another convention that I'm going to this in in july and that used to be four days .
Now it's down to three days really , I , I think , I think the comic cons , like the two big ones , are still four-day conventions , if I remember correctly . Actually , you know , san diego might be a five-day convention at this point , but I think they're wondering maybe , maybe megacon in orlando might be four days , I think that's a bigger one .
I went yeah , that's a bigger one yeah , the last time I went , which was in 2022 , I think it was , yeah , I think that was four days .
I went in on a thursday and you know , I , I just I love those earlier days of conventions because you really get especially like , uh , if you can get it , if it's a four day , that Thursday is like perfect , because you know people are working yeah , and not everybody , but a lot of like people in the surrounding area that do go , that those they're usually
working . So that that's what I did on Friday . Friday was really just getting the lay of the land . They moved the convention to a new convention , or they moved the convention to a new venue , not a venue that I haven't been to before . It's the same venue that Supercon is at . But still , every convention they got their own way of going about things .
It was interesting to check them out in their new venue . It's been growing year after year . They really outgrew their last venue and , yeah , dude , like last year I went , and that that saturday and I mean you've been to conventions you know saturdays are like that's the , that's the day that everybody shows out that they , they come in their their .
You know sunday best .
you know , as far as cosplay and I actually feel like nowadays , like the past couple conventions that I've been to , sunday has actually been worse and I think well , especially with new york comic-con , I don't think they cap the the number of tickets on sunday .
I I think because for whatever reason , they probably expect low attendance or I .
I think they expect people to go in and out . You know , I don't think people to , I don't think they expect people to . You know , stay in the building for long periods of time but they it gets swamped to the point where I'm just like how is this even like a feasible you know number of people in a building like there's definitely some fire codes .
Oh my god , it's , it's actually insane and I think , I think that's actually what they're doing because , like , what's weird is that thursday through saturday sell out immediately oh , yeah , but sunday never sells out I don't know how that's how that's possible but sunday they leave that one open for the stragglers .
that didn't make it the first three days In the four months that those tickets are available .
somehow that day never sells out , anyway keep going .
It's just as packed , or worse .
I think it's worse , dude . I honestly truly think it's worse . Go ahead .
So for me and I know that a lot of con goers do the same thing but you know , for me , like friday , at least on a three-day , at a three-day con , I am going in that first day kind of getting the lay of the land , kind of seeing where everybody's at .
Obviously you're not going to see everything that first day but still , you know you , you get the gist of how things are . So on Saturday , so I kind of start to . So on that Friday , I also kind of eyeball some of the stuff that I like that I may want to buy .
Saturday , I , you know , if I'm coming in cosplay I'm definitely , you know , going to be out there . You know there's always somebody that wants to take , you know , pictures of . You know I cosplayed as obi-wan , so there were , there were a handful of jedi out there that definitely , you know they wanted to to take pictures and stuff .
And sunday is really like that's like the biggest . Like you know , I would say not the biggest , but I know that a lot of people hold off their buying until Sunday . Sometimes you can get a good deal from some of the stores , some of the vendors . They come from out of state and if they didn't sell enough stock .
It's a little cumbersome to break , you know , break things down , you know just throw up a sale and you know call it a day . But they'd rather get rid of the merch .
Right , right , right , right , and you're more , you're more likely to get a deal on that day than like the other two days , because you know people are actively buying Friday and Saturday , especially if that's the only days that you're going .
But for a lot of other people that are going on on , you know , friday , saturday , sunday , you know some may wait until sunday to buy something that they want .
I mean , I bought stuff throughout the weekend but I did make some of like the larger purchases , like you know , maybe on sunday , except for that , except for that canvas that I showed you , the one piece one yeah , that looked , but they had knocked down the price on that one , I was like , okay , yeah , I'll take it .
You guys might hear my cat Umbra in the background in this video . He's making a comeback , making a comeback to the podcast . Yeah .
But yeah , man , I had a really good time . I got to go to a couple of panels .
I really enjoyed the my hero academia one . You know they got like do you ever go to ? Why then ? Yeah , what's going on with the my hero , my hero academia .
Oh , they had . So there was a bunch of the the voice actors from my hero and they they got together on a panel . You know people ask questions and stuff and you know it was fun and you some , there's some other like side panels . I went with a few friends . I actually saw my brother there too , so that was pretty cool awesome .
So did you ? Were you not like planning to go with your brother ? Or he just happened to be going to the same convention that you were ?
he happened to be going to the same convention like he , let me know , kind of like last minute oh , that's cool , all right , cool , cool , cool . He's doing good yeah , yeah , good , good he is . But yeah man , yeah it was , it was action-packed and it was . It was good weekend , man , I it was .
It was long overdue for me to take some time off and enjoy some geekery you said you met , or you had the opportunity to meet some voice actors yes or a voice actor no , so so I was able to to meet a few voice actors , actually actually the .
So I got to meet the voice actor for guy from naruto oh cool rock lee from naruto robin from one piece all english voice actors yes , yes , yes , yeah and uh , I got to to meet freerun also , wow , and a couple of voice actors that were were there that I had met before . Like I didn't like really go to meet them , but they were there also .
Uh , was it rico for hardo , who does a million , and my hero , and then Zeno I don't know I don't remember his last name , but his name is Zeno and he does the voice of Hawks in my hero , and so , dang man , it was . Yeah , it was a good time man , it was . It was really cool . I love you .
You know I love to get out to them conventions man get out to them conventions , man . so yeah , you're . You're a fiend for it , and do you have any ?
I am a fiend question . That is my disney world question . This is this is a layup . Do you have any conventions coming up ?
hmm , I don't think so . No , I'm just kidding of course man , I've got super con in july . Man where is super con ? It's at the same convention center that otaku fest was at okay , so they're gonna be .
They're gonna be taking over the bigger space though , like oh , like you know how convention centers can kind of like section themselves off , yeah , so otaku fest took a little bit of a smaller space , but it was still like bigger than the old venue so supercon will be taking like a much more like big , you know like larger space .
So okay , cool and um .
I I hear you've gotten some press badges for supercon yes that's awesome got press pass for for supercon , and I couldn't have done it without y'all . Yes , then you and you too , dakota , because other than that I'd be talking into empty air . I'm sure someone I mean I've done it before , but still it's different it is different .
Yeah , no , it's good to have someone to bounce ideas off of and just to have a conversation , conversations are generally so much more interesting . I feel you know , like you can watch a youtube video , which we'll talk about actually today . You can watch it .
You can watch a video for four hours , um , and unless you have , like a really good personality , you need someone else to bounce ideas off of you know . So , anyway , that that's cool that you got uh press badges for supercon .
¶ Excitement Over Critical Role and Conventions
I'm excited to hear uh all the shenanigans that uh go into that . Hopefully , like you can get some interviews potentially or , um , you know , insight into certain panels , whatever , I think that'd be cool that would be awesome .
What was it ? Uh , david tenet's gonna be there mr ten all of critical role is gonna be there too .
I don't know if you know critical role .
I know critical role , yes , okay yeah , so they're all gonna be there . So that that's gonna be .
I'm pretty stoked about that are they going to play a session ? I would assume I don't know it's a good question I feel like they do .
I'm 100% going to go there .
I don't care if I have to sit through three panels before that yeah , yeah , I think I think that's what they do when they're all together at a con . They'll usually have they'll , they'll usually be together for maybe an hour or two long session of dnd . That just continues their game .
The issue I have with critical role is like the the amount of work you need to like actually catch up to their story because they have dude .
It's hundreds of hours of content so that they actually got on to to that . So they actually just launched a new service called beacon . They have their own like app and like their own service and their new .
I don't know if they're gonna do it for the past , I don't know if they're gonna do it for the past campaigns , but I know for this , this intro campaign , they actually they're doing an abridged version of all their episodes , so it's going from like a four hour episode to like about an hour hour and a half maybe . So that's a lot more manageable .
You're really getting the gist of the story . Uh , it really what it cuts out is , you know , like some of the intro stuff . Like you know , like they're they , they have like this whole little intro session with their ad , their advertisement , their advertisements that they'll talk about , and there's some you know .
You know how , like I mean , dude , we're part of a podcast . Sometimes you go on tangents and so it'll cut off some of those parts and it just gives you like the straight and narrow some .
You know , you still get like really good parts to it , but it , dude , like I mean , I've been , I've been watching through some of the abridged stuff and I'm like , yeah , like it's , it's pretty good you know , some of these x-men movies are rather short , but I kind of wish they were a little bit more abridged , so that would be really nice , um but yeah ,
man . So yeah , just I'm on a con frenzy right now and then , yeah , I've been watching .
Like I said , you know , the critical , critical role abridged and they actually like uh , I don't know if they have their entire campaign animated , but they have a show I believe it's on amazon prime of their first .
Yes yes , so , so it's called the legends of vox machina , right , and actually believe it or not . When they started critical role back , and I think it was like 2015 , they're actually in the middle of a campaign . So when they actually started to live stream it , they were they were already in the middle of it .
So like there's no , I don't think that there's any footage from like the beginning of the set of that campaign it's kind of cool yeah yeah . So I would say that that animated show really like fills it in , and I think that they got green lit for their their second campaign . I think that they've got an animated series coming out for that too .
The mighty nine that's right .
I think I've heard that . Yeah , yeah so .
So I'm actually pretty stoked about that too . I haven't so I've I do believe it or not . I've been following critical role for like the longest time , I think , like from , I think since like the beginning , or like sometime in 2015 , 2016 , but like the but for a , I just never got down to really watch it . I never was able to sit down and watch it .
It's long . You like the idea of Critical Role . You wanted to support it in any which way you could , but you didn't actually have the time to devote to it To devote yeah .
But I do like to sit down and watch some of their stuff . I love their intro stuff , especially when they should be on tonight , actually after we were done recording . But yeah , dude , like I , you know , like I said , I've been watching the abridged stuff . It's a lot more manageable , it's easier to to swallow .
So , yeah , man , it's you , you should look into it . They , they have them on youtube , I mean , if you're interested . I mean I don't know if you care to watch D&D , other people watch , other people play D&D , but I mean it's interesting , you know , like you know joke and all that stuff . It's funny .
But yeah , man , I mean , enough about me , dude , I've been rambling off like just crazy . What have you been up to , man ?
No , it's okay , that's part of you know . The first half of our podcast is us rambling about what we've been up to , rambling like old people I don't have too much um , this week it's just kind of been like a a hectic week , just you know , with life and work and getting everything situated making plans for the future , stuff like that .
But I feel that man yeah you , I bet you feel it because you know we're 30 plus now and we got to have plans , which sucks . But anyway , I just want to wing it , man . I just want to wing it , why , why . Biggest thing that's happened to me this week was watching the Jenny Nicholson video on the .
It's called the spectacular failure of the star wars hotel oh , that's interesting dude .
Oh my gosh I don't know .
I don't know if you've seen any of her video yet no , I haven't , but like that sounds so interesting .
But I honestly to tell you the truth , like I knew they were doomed from the start yeah , as soon as they , as soon as they that price point was too high it was .
It was ridiculous , yeah , so it was too high like dude I am I actually leaving earth ? What's crazy is that , like she breaks it down , you know , even like the initial price tag that they gave us wasn't legit .
Send it to me . Send it to me , like at some point okay , I will send it to you .
I'll send it to you during the the recording at some point . But it's let me . I just going to preface it , yeah do it . It's four hours long , it's a four-hour breakdown of everything that went wrong in that hotel , and it's amazing , that won't be one sitting . No , no , no , it's taken me all week . After work , I'll get my dinner . I just finished it today .
It came out during the weekend and it's blowing up on on uh on YouTube Like and it's it's the current number one trending thing on Twitter .
Like this whole week . I love videos like that so much .
And .
I love uh like like movie , uh videos , like that defunct land , all that .
It's kind of like that defunct land , all that . It's kind of like that . And what's what's great about her video is that she actually went . You know , she spent the money to go and she , oh , so she's got the insight she's got the insight , she has all her own footage .
She got permission to use footage from other channels to like fill in gaps that she didn't necessarily experience and basically , like this was collaborative effort I think it was a little bit yeah , it was mostly her , you know , collecting all the information from other people's vlogs , basically with with her own footage and everything , and it's she goes in , man , it's
it's a brutal takedown and like by the end , you're just like , yeah , disney's totally lost their way and this is like the culmination of all their hubris .
You know like this deserved to fail , because of x , y and z and I'm excited to see that it's so good and , um , it actually like I was trying to put into words why I was never really excited about the star wars hotel , based on like concepts and even like vlogs that were saying it's the best thing that disney's ever done , and I think what it comes down
to . I don't know if you've ever have you been to the park since galaxy's edge came out ? Yes okay , so you've been to galaxy's edge . You've probably ridden these . Uh , millennium falcon smugglers run I've done that .
I've done rise of the resistance . Yeah , I've got a couple times actually it fun , it's good time .
Rise of the Resistance is like leagues better than Smuggler's Run . But , like my biggest issue with Smuggler's Run is that it's less of a ride and more of like an interactive video game and I kind of want to sit back . I don't care about pressing a random button to maximize . You know , maximize whatever potential story I get on screen , which is what you do .
You know , like a button will like flash and like engineer , you have to click green and okay , fine , I have to click green .
You know it's something it sucks like when you're the back seats .
It really sucks yeah , but at least you're just like . At least I have to press the least amount of buttons . You know like . That's true . Know like . I just want to watch the screen and have fun in the shaking automobile , whatever you're in , but that kind of like . That's my cat . He keeps wanting to go in and out of the bedroom .
So my wife keeps letting him into the bedroom and then he's just like no , I want to go out of the bedroom but we can't keep the door open because she's watching tv and she has a fan going on in there and you know he's a cat and he doesn't . He doesn't , uh , believe in closed doors .
So you know , that's just a personal belief of his just get one of those like high , those like doors , with like a large gap at the bottom so you can just like crawl under it we should get him like a cat , like a cat flap .
There you go although you definitely hear that in the podcast . Um , yeah , anyway it's so with with that ride , uh , smugglers run , I like it but I don't love it . And the reason I don't love it is because I want to just observe and experience a story . I don't want to be necessarily part of a story .
I don't want to feel like an actor bringing something to life . I guess , and everything in that hotel is you playing a game on your mobile phone and experiencing this story .
That kind of unfolds , if it even works in the first place , which you know that's a big part of her video is like nothing , nothing on , like the mobile game app was working for her right and you know , you know the .
The insane thing about like that whole experience is that you're spending all that money just to stay like in a building for like what ?
two days it's a two-day experience , yeah , with a , with a eight-hour shore leave .
Shortly I'm putting it in quotations shore leave to uh galaxy's edge theme park , basically oh okay , yeah , that's short , uh , shortly yeah , yeah , basically stopping off and basically it allows the actors who you know are there to entertain you on the thing to take a break for eight hours but anyway yeah it's it's , it's a real , it's a nightmare , but her
personality is so great in in expressing like why things didn't work and , yeah , anyone who's interested in that , we'll . We'll probably leave a link in the show notes , just because it's something that we're talking about and do it , do it .
Yeah , let's do that super good and it's it's like trending right now , so you've probably already heard it by the time that you know this is coming out , but it's it's by far like the most viewed video on the galactic star cruiser period since it's been up . You know , like it , it's , it's amazing , it's , it's a , it's a true , uh , youtube masterpiece
¶ X-Men Origins Wolverine Film Discussion
. But anyway , guys , nice , is there anything else ? I don't think there's anything else . Have I watched anything ? Oh , I don't think I mentioned it , but X-Men 97 finished last week . It is the best thing Marvel Studios has ever done .
Hands down .
I think so . It is the highest reviewed thing . It is like 75-something reviews on Rotten Tomatoes 100% wow , yeah it's .
It's a lot of , a lot of care and work was put into that . Dude I , I want to hop onto that , onto that train . I have seen some glimpses of it and it looks good man yeah , it's .
What's great about is I don't think you need to necessarily have , you know , caught up with the original series , like the original five seasons of the show . They , they do a good job within the first episode , catching you up to speed about like who , every , who , everyone is , what the current state of mutant kind is , you know where professor x is , etc .
Etc . So nice anyway . Um , yeah , shall we you know ? While we've transitioned into our x-men discussion , shall we talk about the origin of one of the x-men ? one of the most popular one of the most popular , you know , marvel characters in general in general yeah , so Wolverine the Wolverine is old guys .
Did you know that Wolverine is like over 130 something years old , probably 140 years old at this point , who knows ? Who knows how old that kid was that man fought so many wars . I'll tell you what . When I was , you know , the first 30 ish minutes of this movie , I was just just like you know it's a little bit clunky , but I kind of liked the story .
You know , I was thinking like when am I going to dislike this movie ? And then , like I realized I don't remember exactly where it was , but like something happened and I was just like man , I've lost all interest in this , I don't know what's going on , but yeah , so the beginning is actually kind of a fun intro .
You know , I I think it's a really cool way to introduce both wolverine and saber-tooth right and they made some changes . Yes , some pretty notable changes .
Uh , with right saber-tooth , specifically right by making them , by making wolverine and saber tooth brothers yeah , so early on in the film , it's like the 1870s or 80s , something like that , a long time ago , wolverine , uh , is , you know , sick in a bed somewhere , and you know , like there's some family struggle .
That was a little confusing to understand , you know , because there was , there was like seven or eight people , and you know , one of them was his father , one of them was maybe his mother , but then someone was definitely his father , the person that he killed . You know , this is all within the first minute and it's a really , it's a really .
I like the way that they introduced it , you know , and they expressed oh , this character has been around forever . But I was a little confused about why I needed to care if that makes sense , I don't know because , like we couldn't , we couldn't tell who was the abuser in this situation .
We couldn't tell who was lying or truthful until it was too late , you know .
So it was just like what's going's going on , yeah , and you kind of get it .
You're just like context clues , you're just kind of forced to .
Okay , so I'm supposed to believe he killed his father because his father , I don't know wasn't around or was suddenly very abusive , or just suddenly really wanted wolverine to know that he was his father , randomly , um well , I guess , like he was thinking that he was coming in to cause harm to his family , so he like kind of fought him and killed him .
But I I think that that was just like you know , because Wolverine has like that animalistic nature , so it was more of an instinct than like a thought that he did that . I do like that we get like a pre-adamantium wolverine , really cool with the bones .
Yeah , the bone claws were really cool . I think they did that really well . Um , and even the part where uh later in the film , saber tooth like steps on the bone claws and snaps them . You feel it like it's .
Yeah right , like like it , like it's . You know it's painful , like big . You know I I've never broken a bone , but I've heard that it's super . Like you know it's . It's dude , it's painful I've broken .
I've broken my wrist twice . Uh and yeah it is uh , it's not something I you know , recommend trying and so you probably just fractured it . No , I've broken it . Well , okay , so there's fractions . Am I saying that right ? Fractures , there's fractures .
There's half .
There's half and then there's whole . I was like , wait , fractions is the wrong word uh , yeah , no , I've I've fractured . I've fractured bones before , but I've actually broken bones you know where , like it comes apart with the nail okay , okay , yeah , yeah .
But like you know , when he steps on , it's a clean break oh yeah , it's a break off , but still like dude , like I mean you know that it's gonna heal , but still yeah , it's not a pleasant thing , but um I mean he does say it hurts whenever his claws come out , like every time he did say that in the first one .
Yeah , yeah , which was a . That's a really good scene in the first movie . But so , going back to the beginning , they , you know , like wolverine kills his father , they run away . They're being chased by , I don't even remember , but saber tooth , his brother , is just like yo , we're brothers , we gotta do this together forever .
And then they do it forever , but not really forever , they do it for like a hundred years . You know , like they just , you know , go on a rampage .
Um , you know , starting with the american civil war , I mean , at some point they left canada because that's where the film opened , and they decided to become american for a little bit and they fought with america for the american civil war .
They did it for world war one , world war two , vietnam , and it was like during this I think it was during world war ii um wolverine started to see that saber tooth was getting too much joy from killing and hurting others oh , I think that .
Wait , was it world war ii or was it in vietnam ?
so it was . It started in World War II where he stormed one of those Nazi bunkers and he's just going at it with a rifle and just gunning people down in there and you could see Wolverine kind of looking at his brother like this , doesn't feel right , but they're Nazis , so might as well . But then in Vietnam he has gone too far .
At that point you know he's taking young girls uh , to , you know potentially do terrible things to them , um , and then you know , when one of the soldiers stops him , he starts , you know , actively attacking his own men just because he likes violence , right , and that's when wolverine has uh , basically you know enough of him .
And then they're hired by william striker randomly right because , like they , faced a firing squad and lived to tell the tale , they yes , they , I .
I like that , though I it's . It's cheesy enough at this point in the movie where I'm still on board with the story , just like , okay , I can kind of see how . This is how Wolverine and Stryker kind of first got into contact with one another .
Alright , and this is the Stryker in X-Men 2 that was using his own son to manipulate the professor and also was the one who put the adamantium claws , and you know this skeleton within wolverine himself . So you're just like , huh , okay , maybe he's not such a bad guy .
I'm , I'm , I'm seeing the other side of the story , uh , but nope , no , he's a bad guy .
Oh yeah , absolutely , and we get some . You know they join this squad and we get some interesting characters . You know we get William .
William with , like a typical William hat . I'm just like what ?
Yes , dude , I was like this is like . This is like peak will . I am right here I I like it was during that time . You know , like the , the black eyed peas were still , like you know yeah , they were bumping and and yeah , it was , it was so .
It was so fun to see him in this movie and , yeah , this is where we get a first taste of of your boy , ryan reynolds , as deadpool , and hold on , hold on .
I don't . I don't think we were finished with the will . I am discussion at this point because we're not okay .
Why why ?
could they not pry that hat off of his head ? Like what , what happens in ? Like the contract ? Like no , no , I gotta , I gotta wear this hat . I gotta wear this hat , hey hey , gotta wear this hat .
Hey , you know , dude . Well , I am man , you know , he's got style and he's like I'm not gonna , I'm not going to , you know , stop my style , even for a movie that okay , yeah , you know what Checks out .
Checks out . You brought up Ryan Reynolds , wade Wilson .
They introduced the character of that would eventually become Deadpool , through this version of the character , which did have some similarities in personality to the character that we know in the Deadpool movies Not as crass , but if this were a rated R movie , I could see him being a little , not as crass , but , you know , if this were a rated r movie , I could
see him , you know right , being a little bit more crass . Um , also , he was very quippy and witty and everyone was complaining about how he doesn't shut his mouth , which is a very deadpool thing .
You know , at some point in the movie I don't even know how we got to this point Like there's so much that happens , like there's some good ideas in here , there's some good ideas , but then there's like stuff that happens in this and I'm just like where did they come up with this ?
Like how could they come up with this ? It doesn't make any sense . Wait , wait . Are we still on wait ? Or I mean we also have Maybe I don't know Like pre-Blob .
Keep going . Yeah , we got pre-Blob and post-Blob . Yeah , before the Blobination he was one of Stryker's crew and there's a couple of guys in the crew that I just don't even know .
¶ X-Men Movie Characters and Plot
There's so many obscure X-Men and mutant characters that you just can't keep track of them all . I don't remember if William is an actual teleporting character or they just made it up for this role . I don't know if Zero , the bullseye kind of guy , had any Marvel character . This is all very easily Google googleable , but I was just like I don't even care .
I was watching this and I was losing interest on this spot reading this episode right now I'm not . I'm not because I don't think I would watch this movie again if it weren't for this lead up to deadpool and Wolverine .
that's coming out in a little over a month but , by the way , I have tickets to that , so I'm excited for that yet , but I definitely want to go see it and I'm going to definitely go see it in IMAX , like that's , like that's non-negotiable for me .
So I I would say , like I agree with you , like I probably wouldn't have sat down to watch this movie if it weren't for this . But at the end of the day , like , while this movie might not be the best movie , it was still fun to watch in some points .
Sure , yeah , absolutely . There's definitely like some you know , over-the-top action . That's pretty fun . Like I said , like the introduction , like seeing them throughout all the wars , was kind of cool . You know , like I don't think like most movies don't don't have actually like ever attempt anything like that , so I thought that that was kind of cool .
Like what , what do ? What do immortal people do ?
um , you know , when they're savage beings like wolverine and saber-tooth , they , they find themselves in wars and then , like you know , you also , and it also makes me kind of think , like you know , even some of the mcus like , even like some of their like really bad movies are like not fun to watch , you know , and like this is not that good of a film , but
it was secret , secret , uh , secret invasion was that ?
for me it's the , the the marvel show . It was just like it wasn't very good and it wasn't very intelligent either , like it was . You know how like spy stuff is usually kind of like worth it right , it pays off in the end . There's some surprise or something like that there was nothing no , no , you could you know from the first two episodes .
Yeah , you , from the first two episodes , you can guess the entirety of the rest of the show Like there was no surprises . But anyway , let's not get off on tangents again .
Come on , anthony . You know I am there for the ride of the tangent .
Okay , so let's stick with Wade Wilson at this point .
The pre-Deadpool .
And how his character develops . Oof , I kind of have to like know most of you have not seen this movie in a long time or at all , if you've seen it at all if you've seen it at all , because everyone knows this is bottom of the bottom of the barrel .
When it comes to x-men movies , some people just which is a pretty which is a pretty deep barrel .
Let's be honest um , as far as like fox , like marvel , yeah , yeah so let me try to explain what happens in like a really 30 seconds to one minute pitch , because I need to kind of encompass all this together . All right , wolverine leaves strikers crew .
Seven years later I think it was six or seven years later he's living out in the canada , rocky's doing his own thing with a girl and lumberjack lumberjack , in a way has no cares in the world . Striker comes just like hey , saber tooth is , uh , potentially killing all these .
He doesn't even say that it was saber tooth , but he's just like hey , these guys have been disappearing and I wonder if it's saber tooth or something like that . And then the very next day his , his girl quote unquote dies , bringing him back into this whole mix of you know finding saber tooth , figuring out what's going on .
And it turns out that striker was , you know , behind the scenes . The whole time he's been killing random mutants all over the world trying to siphon up their dna so that he can put it in the pool . And when he said the pool , I forgot , like I forgot that that was a line in this movie and I was just like oh , that's why this is so bad .
And it turns out the pool was actually Deadpool and you know , they brought back the supposedly dead Ryan Reynolds character , wade Wilson , as not a merc with a mouth , not anything resembling his costume , but they , they like , sewed his mouth shut , which was some sort of joke , I think .
Because they , they made a joke , like , seems I guess they finally got your mouth to shut , or something like that .
Oh yeah , I think wolverine said that . Actually , I think so yeah ,
¶ Unfinished Movie Leaks - Deadpool Technopathy
and it .
It turns out basically like he all , he has the powers of all of these random people all of a sudden , right oh yeah , um , so uh , was it .
We got your boy mary in here too . He's got like some I don't know , like this ability to control electricity or like electrical circuits or whatever , like lights and stuff Like lights . But then he can control , like he could fly ships too with it .
His , his , uh , the upper limits of , like his . I guess it's called technopathy .
I guess that would probably be what it is . Yeah , I think that's what it is , yeah .
Uh , isn't really explored , but anyway he can . He can turn a lot of light bulbs on um and maneuver a lot of energy , because at some point he was , uh , basically like lighting up a whole carnival , I think . I think that was what he did , or maybe , you know , like the impact of his death caused like a little short EMP .
I don't know , I have no idea how his powers work , but , yeah , I think that's what his powers are , his technopathy . The Deadpool man . What an interesting . Oh , there is a little hint at his costume .
Right before he uses Scott Summers' concussive blast power with his eyes , the outlines of his eyes kind of get that diamond shape that is notable in his costume . It kind of gets burned into his skin for some reason . It's not explained , obviously , but it's some hints at a potential . My dog is going ham in the water bowl right now .
Luna , I can hear that .
Yeah , you know what I promise you . It's not like it's not me lapping water , it's my dog . Enough , girl , I'm going to throw up . Anyway , between my cat and my dog , this place is becoming a zoo .
Oh my gosh . Oh , I don't know if you remember that I said I had like a funny story about this movie .
You might have mentioned it .
So this movie , like back when it when was it 2008 , 2009 that it came out ? I think it was 2009 . 2009 . Okay , so , in the year of 2009, . This movie actually got leaked , Like the whole movie got leaked . And Wait , when did it ? How did it get leaked ? I don't know how it was , but this movie got leaked Like the whole movie got leaked .
Was it during that whole thing with the North Korea . So there was a couple movies that got leaked when right around the time uh , the james franco movie .
I think oh no , no , no , no , that movie came out in 2014 okay , yeah , okay , sorry , I'm mixing stuff up so so , yeah , no , this movie got leaked and like the whole movie got leaked but unfinished . And so I like , oh , that is right , I forgot about that . And I watched like a huge chunk of it like this , and it was hilarious , dude .
It was so funny . Like there are scenes where you could see wires there were unfinished .
There were like moments where where , yeah , like it was like was gray scale polygons going on , and when you got to the last part with Deadpool when he dies or something like that , and the beam takes down the building , that part was unfinished and it looks so funny , dude .
Yeah , man , I got to see like a this , this , this movie , like unfinished , and it's interesting because you , it kind of gives you a little bit of insight into the process , right , and so I mean I got to experience that with with into the spider verse , the first one when I went to go see , when I went to new york Con with you .
So like this was kind of like that .
Yeah , you got to see like 30 minutes of that , right .
Yeah .
I think there was some stuff that wasn't animated .
Right , right , there's some stuff that was unfinished , but yeah , like there were things that weren't , some things that were animated , some things that like there was like moments that his claws are supposed to come out . There's nothing there .
There his like claws are supposed to come out and there was nothing there . There there were moments in that , in like this film , that felt unfinished , um , like when he's in the bathroom and he's looking at his claws and it's the worst cgi claws of all time I was .
I was thinking about that . I was like I was like dude , those like claws aren't ?
they don't look good and then , like that , he like lightly touches them and there's sparks on , just like and it's the worst CGI I've seen in a long time and it looked better in the previous X-Men movies .
And I was thinking that same thing . I was like dude , how is it that his claws in the first one look way better than in here ? It was bizarre .
And .
I've always wanted to know how , because , like you saw , like how his bone claws were yeah like . How did the adamantium situate perfectly into knives ? the world might never know the world is the rest of his skeleton knives like like I just I was like I never understood , I was like dude , I said those are too perfect , like they're like .
I mean like there's more um imperfections than like a regular knife in the drawer , than like his like claws , you know but also like let's , let's just talk about , like striker's plan for a second , let's make this character indestructible .
He says that several times , I'll give you the power to take down saber tooth by making you indestructible
¶ X-Men Origins Wolverine Movie Critique
. And then you know , something goes wrong with his plan , because you know he decided that the , the man he decided to make indestructible , also needed to lose his memory , which wolverine didn't like . He got pissed , he left the thing . And then he tells one of his uh , you know , henchmen , take his head off .
How do you take the head off of an indestructible man ? right like what was , what was his goal ? How do you expect any of this to happen ? And then also my favorite part , my favorite part , and I was just like how , how does he know that ? How , how , how did that ? How could he know ? So , after his plan fails , or no , no , no .
In like , when they realize like he's going to be hard to kill , they pull out adamantium bullets . They pull out adamantium bullets and they're like this is the only thing that can take him down .
And then later in the movie they pull out the same bullets and and you know , striker's just like , you know that's not gonna kill him , but like why did , why did you say that would kill him 30 , 30 minutes ago ? Like , why did you pull it out ? And then he's just like . He's like it's not gonna kill him , but it's gonna remove his memories .
And I'm like how the heck do you know that it's gonna remove his memories ? What do these , what , what property do these bullets have that's gonna erase his memories ?
and it worked powers into it it worked .
How I was flabbergasted , dude I , you know there's . There's not a lot of . You don't see that a lot in movies these days . It's just like nonsense , you know , usually usually there's some redeem . You know there's some work around .
You know , like some some techno babble that kind of explains like oh you know it just is in this movie it just everything , everything just is , oh my gosh oh , um , we also didn't even talk about that .
We got gambit in this movie and you know what , it was kind of cool , you know , like he was one of the cooler moments in this movie yeah , I did , I did like the gambit .
I . I think that they I think that they got him down pretty good , portrayal wise , like what the the scene that I was like , uh , they really nailed it is .
He's not just a card wielding guy , you know , like he is capable of touching something and exploding the object right right , right , right , right yeah so when that um , you know that nuclear silo was falling , uh , on wolverine , he used his staff to touch it and it basically crumbled before it hit the grounds , which saved everyone's lives maybe not the indestructible
man , but you know , anyway , I I do think that the way that they used his powers and staff and kind of gave him a slightly cajun accent , I think that that was really cool what I didn't like about gambit . There was some really stupid things too . They started getting out of fight .
You know like he wolverine's asking about the island that striker uh has , and you know how he wants to take down saber tooth and striker and I guess gambit doesn't really believe him or whatever . So he starts fighting wolverine .
They send he sends wolverine into the alleyway and wolverine confronts saber tooth , who's just there like he happens to just be there he just happens to be there and and , and you know they're . They're like in in each other's faces , they're fighting . And then gambit , oh hey , he was like wolverine must have been telling the truth .
He really is trying to kill saber tooth . No , he doesn't think , he doesn't do anything like that , he just he gets in between the fight and starts fighting wolverine anyway , even though wolverine is fighting the guy that he hates . I'm so , I was so confused by this dude and then , like after after the fight , he was just like you know what ?
You're right , we should go to the island . I'm gonna escort you . It's , it's a it's it's a bad movie . It's . There's some fun parts , um , I , I do like the quiet life of wolverine and you know seeing him happy , briefly I guess , and kind of getting more of the backstory of like why he has adamantium in him . But there's so many .
It adds so many more questions and it introduces saber tooth as a brother character , which doesn't really jive with the original trilogy of films , where he's only in the first one , um , right , and he attacks wolverine , but like there's no real right , yeah there's a connection between the two right , I mean no , yeah , I don't think so .
I think he just really , they really he was going for Rogue .
in the first movie he was trying to capture Rogue . So in the first movie they thought he was after Wolverine .
And .
Charles was just like what do they want from you ? My friend , blah , blah blah . But then it turned out they were trying to capture rogue because her specific abilities would allow her to blow .
You know , I don't know right , yeah , yeah , yeah , we covered that so saber tooth had no saber tooth , you know , presumably has not had his memory erased , I think , if I remember correctly , um , unless he got some adamantium bullets to the head as well , which I didn't see .
Uh right , I mean like that probably would have killed him though yeah , he wouldn't have survived what ? What did you think ? Uh , about lee shriver as saber tooth , because I mean , you know , they swapped up the the actor from like the first one to this one .
I think he did a great job . I think he did too , yeah . He has that vibe . I like that role with him , yeah .
He has that Sabretooth vibe and that animalistic kind of violent behavior . He did really well , just violent behavior like he . He really like took . He did really well .
I kind of I kind of wish that that we had him in like the the regular trilogy , but like not as a brother , you know I I kind of wish we had more of him in general and , if I remember correctly , I don't think they ever bring him back no , they don't bring him back . They don't bring back Toad , which we actually didn't even mention .
That was Ray Park .
We didn't mention that . I feel like we did .
If we did . We're mentioning it now , several episodes later .
Darth Maul , himself Mr Maul , and he actually in that first movie he does like a little lightsaber twirl with he does with like a little staff . Yeah , I I have a feeling that that's a like a easter egg for you know fans in the know , because that was like a huge role for him prior to x-men .
But anyway , x-men , origins , wolverine , uh , so far is the worst of the four movies that we've reviewed in you know the lead up to there might be worse ones . You know , I , I , like I mentioned in the last video , I , or as we , as I mentioned in the last podcast , I still have yet to see x-men apocalypse , which I don't think is this bad .
I have not seen x-men dark phoenix , which I've heard is pretty bottom tier , and I have yet to see New Mutants which I've seen them .
I've seen them all .
Yeah , at a certain point I kind of checked out . Although X-Men Days of Future Past was solid , like that is , I'm excited when we finally get to that one , I'm really excited .
So yeah , this movie was a jumbled mess , all right , so I mean we're we're pretty much like towards the end of the podcast . What are your final thoughts ?
um , don't trust thoughts basically , especially not canadian thoughts , who have the ability to , uh , you know , manipulate emotions even though they claim they're not . Don't trust thoughts , especially not thoughts who's who's like sister has , you know , diamond skin . We don't need any of those thoughts in our lives .
Um , no , I'm kidding , uh , I , I , I kind of did like the love story a little bit , you know , I wanted it to work out but ultimately , like I knew it wasn't going to and I knew , like I forgot , that she like was secretly siding with Stryker the whole time .
Sorry , I just brought up a whole other character in my you know my final thoughts , but my final thoughts are don't trust thoughts .
Don't trust thoughts , don't trust anyone in these movies . Uh , yeah , no , no , I I agree that this movie was definitely I . I kind of felt the same way at the beginning , like , oh you know this , I don't , I don't know why , I remember hating , you know well , not hating , but just not liking this so much .
And then , yeah , you just hit that certain point where you're like , okay , almost like man of steel , like it starts off strong and then it loses you along the way . But at the end of the day it was still fun to watch in some part , and some parts , like even no matter how zany it got , it was still entertaining .
And this was still connected to the original timeline of the original trilogy . There are some retcons like with Sabretooth , but this is still part of that universe , of that first trilogy of films . Yeah , the next film that we're going to be covering , I'm assuming next week , we're going to continue with our X-Men coverage , right , yuff , all right .
Next film , we actually do enter a new timeline , parallel timeline , alternate timeline of the X-Men films . With X-Men First Class it's generally considered among the better films in the trilogy or not trilogy but series , generally considered among the better films in the trilogy or not trilogy but series .
And I'm really excited to dive back into , you know , the that era of x-men films , because I feel like they get better .
I feel like I haven't . I haven't seen those ones as much as I saw that initial trilogy at least the first two of the initial trilogy .
I've seen like a lot more than I've seen , because we grew up with them . I think yeah . So I'm excited to dive into first class next week .
Guys , first class already first your class if you're not first , you're last . Um all right , bobby shake and bake guys .
Talk to you next time oh , wait , wait wait , we haven't even done our outro guys if you , if you are at all interested in checking out our socials . You can find everything in the show notes down below . We have socials for our podcast . We have show um . We have socials for our individual um . You know twitter and instagram and youtube accounts .
So thank you all for giving us a listen for our 82nd episode . I didn't even bother trying to like piece together , like you know . Oh , it's 82 . What that we're covering today has anything to do with 82 , because I didn't care . This movie was not the best and it wasn't worth the energy there's .
You know , there's one guy out there who's just like it is the best x-men movie hands down I'm trying to .
I'm trying to be the voice of that person guys , thank you so much for listening to us .
Uh , we will be back next week and we're coming
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