I loved Scrubs. I even gave its terrible, forced, afterMash-like spin-off a chance despite the original series’ fielding one of the greatest and most satisfying series finales ever. The series was great because for a lot of reasons – but one of the funniest gags on show (and there were so many funny gags on Scrubs) was how characters began anticipating the delivery of other character’s stock personality quirks. The repetition of a joke over and over again can be hilarious but it is smart to anticipate joke fatigue and make a new joke about how tired it is. The instance that occurs to me was how every time John McGinley’s character Dr. Cox would begin ranting about things he hated he would list Hugh Jackman eventually. Magic:
I don’t share Dr. Cox’s sentiments but I think they’re hilariously specific. I believe Jackman is probably a better actor than almost all of his roles. And I’ll give him credit for carrying three X-Men movies on his back as the only actor cast who had any kind of charisma. I just re-watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I have such mixed feelings about it. People spent so much money on it. The sets are incredible. The action is good. Liev Schreiber is a revelation as Sabretooth. When Tyler Mane saw the movie did his heart make a bo-woop sound as his dreams of ever putting on his “I’m Sabretooth” hat again shattered? Ryan Reynolds is in it. He’s not bad at all as Deadpool and evidently they’ll start shooting that spin-off later next year.
Here’s the problem: its the story, stupid. Why couldn’t they have put some money or energy into making the pieces of these movies fit together? Why can Patrick Stewart’s Professor X walk in this movie but James McAvoy’s Professor X can’t in First Class? I’m excited about The Wolverine. I think its going to be entertaining at least, but isn’t it crazy to think that its the 6th X-Men movie ? Weird.
