Wanted

So, What did you think?

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moonmaster said:
I'm not saying the movie needs to be a massive rapefest, what I'm complaining about is that Hollywood is apparently too scared to make a movie where the protagonist is villain who never redeems himself and never "sees the light".

It has to be that they're killing people "2 serv fate or sumthing!"
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I think that's because Hollywood is smart.

Mark Millar seems like a highly pleasant person who's written some truly wonderful things, and will hopefully continue to do so - but WANTED is not one of them. WANTED is at best, an adolescent, gratuitous extrapolation of the 'anti-hero' exploring the concepts of morality, and at worst, a masturbatory fan-wank. The protagonist is completely unlikeable and unempathic - you don't FEEL for him; you just think "Wow, this guy is an *******" and you have some curiosity as to how the comic will end. But there's no emotional involvement in it besides disgust for everything in it. If that repulsion exceeds your curiosity you're not going to finish it. But that repulsion isn't something you're meant to feel - WANTED is supposed to be a cool exploration of villainy. It's meant to be exciting and morally ambiguous. But it isn't. It's repulsive. The idea that the movie not only gets rid of the childish attempt to get you to enjoy seeing superheroes pissing themselves in a wheelchair and naming supervillains after mental disabilities and fecal matter, but also tries to give the main character an empathic heart, sounds good to me.

I know that WANTED is MEANT to be the harsh, unpleasant world (much like I get that Rodriguez films are meant to have no substance), the truth is - I don't think WANTED is something people enjoy. I think WANTED taps into that male adolescent desire to be a "badass". You know, the whole, punch-a-kid-in-the-face-because-you-can-and-not-apologize thing you see a lot. A lot of fanboys enjoy domineering over those who know less trivia or something, and don't apologize for their mistakes. The alpha-male without any compassion or responsibility. You've seen them - they're jerks. I think WANTED taps into that male aggression. People want to talk about how cool it is and how much they like it to seem hardcore, even though the truth is they'd rather cuddle up in bed and watch THE INCREDIBLES for the sixteenth time.

I have so little respect for WANTED, that I don't care how much they change in the film. Not only that, but the film still looks like a train-wreck of outrageous special effects with no progression or consistency. Which I'm sure is "the point". It's MEANT to be stupid and poorly put together or some other bollocks.

My best to those involved, but I can't see the value of the movie, nor in the discussion of the comparison of quality between the comic and the movie.
 
Bass said:
I think that's because Hollywood is smart.

Mark Millar seems like a highly pleasant person who's written some truly wonderful things, and will hopefully continue to do so - but WANTED is not one of them. WANTED is at best, an adolescent, gratuitous extrapolation of the 'anti-hero' exploring the concepts of morality, and at worst, a masturbatory fan-wank. The protagonist is completely unlikeable and unempathic - you don't FEEL for him; you just think "Wow, this guy is an *******" and you have some curiosity as to how the comic will end. But there's no emotional involvement in it besides disgust for everything in it. If that repulsion exceeds your curiosity you're not going to finish it. But that repulsion isn't something you're meant to feel - WANTED is supposed to be a cool exploration of villainy. It's meant to be exciting and morally ambiguous. But it isn't. It's repulsive. The idea that the movie not only gets rid of the childish attempt to get you to enjoy seeing superheroes pissing themselves in a wheelchair and naming supervillains after mental disabilities and fecal matter, but also tries to give the main character an empathic heart, sounds good to me.

I know that WANTED is MEANT to be the harsh, unpleasant world (much like I get that Rodriguez films are meant to have no substance), the truth is - I don't think WANTED is something people enjoy. I think WANTED taps into that male adolescent desire to be a "badass". You know, the whole, punch-a-kid-in-the-face-because-you-can-and-not-apologize thing you see a lot. A lot of fanboys enjoy domineering over those who know less trivia or something, and don't apologize for their mistakes. The alpha-male without any compassion or responsibility. You've seen them - they're jerks. I think WANTED taps into that male aggression. People want to talk about how cool it is and how much they like it to seem hardcore, even though the truth is they'd rather cuddle up in bed and watch THE INCREDIBLES for the sixteenth time.

I have so little respect for WANTED, that I don't care how much they change in the film. Not only that, but the film still looks like a train-wreck of outrageous special effects with no progression or consistency. Which I'm sure is "the point". It's MEANT to be stupid and poorly put together or some other bollocks.

My best to those involved, but I can't see the value of the movie, nor in the discussion of the comparison of quality between the comic and the movie.
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So, to sum it up in one word, Rubbish?
 
Bass said:
I think WANTED taps into that male adolescent desire to be a "badass". You know, the whole, punch-a-kid-in-the-face-because-you-can-and-not-apologize thing you see a lot.
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I miss Wade Wilson and his stories
 
Bass said:
I think that's because Hollywood is smart.

I know that WANTED is MEANT to be the harsh, unpleasant world (much like I get that Rodriguez films are meant to have no substance), the truth is - I don't think WANTED is something people enjoy. I think WANTED taps into that male adolescent desire to be a "badass". You know, the whole, punch-a-kid-in-the-face-because-you-can-and-not-apologize thing you see a lot. A lot of fanboys enjoy domineering over those who know less trivia or something, and don't apologize for their mistakes. The alpha-male without any compassion or responsibility. You've seen them - they're jerks. I think WANTED taps into that male aggression. People want to talk about how cool it is and how much they like it to seem hardcore, even though the truth is they'd rather cuddle up in bed and watch THE INCREDIBLES for the sixteenth time.
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I agree with everything, but that doesn't change the fact that I like it. In fact, it's precisely the reason why I think it's great.

The thing of it is that I think Wanted is all those things, but I don't celebrate it because I 'relate' to the character, or that it's 'cool' that he's unapologetic over being such a jerk, or that I 'wish I was as gutsy' as he is.

I don't think liking something has to have anything to do with identification, in fact, the fact that the character is so downright repulsive and obnoxious - whether he's an absolutely whiney prat or a meathead dickwad - is where I think the value of the book lies.

I 'feel' for the character just as I do for say, Patrick Bateman: pathetic individuals who go from being spineless worms to contemptible jerks.
 
I just saw this and must say that I enjoyed it. Of course I haven't read the book so I have nothing to compare it to but I thought it was the best big summer shooter movie I've seen since the Matrix. I think that the scene at the end where Wesley fights the entire Fraternity was amazing. Angelina Jolie was smokin, the fight scenes were awesome and Morgan Freeman said ****. Components for a movie I will enjoy.
 
bluebeast said:
I just saw this and must say that I enjoyed it. Of course I haven't read the book so I have nothing to compare it to but I thought it was the best big summer shooter movie I've seen since the Matrix. I think that the scene at the end where Wesley fights the entire Fraternity was amazing. Angelina Jolie was smokin, the fight scenes were awesome and Morgan Freeman said ****. Components for a movie I will enjoy.
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See i loved how everyone in the theater laughed at Morgan Freeman saying'' Shoot this mother****er''

It just seems unnatural comming from him. It's like God saying Mother****er.
 
Venom Melendez said:
See i loved how everyone in the theater laughed at Morgan Freeman saying'' Shoot this mother****er''

It just seems unnatural comming from him. It's like God saying Mother****er.
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It's now one of my favorite quotes on Facebook. It was the best thing of the entire movie.
 
There was this moment in the theater after the first guy got killed on the X on the rooftops, and the movie was silent for a moment and some guy in the back row of the theater yelled, "Yo, this some serious **** right here!" Me and my friend cracked up laughing.
 
I saw it, it was fun to watch

but afterwards the more I thought about this movie, the more stupid it became, to the point where it started insulting my intelligence

but it was still very fun to watch
 
So I'm watching this online at the moment and I just saw the scene where Wesley smacks his friend in the face with the keyboard and the letters fly off... why are there two u's on the keyboard? :D
 
I'd give it a 3.5/5, but I'll round it up to 4. It wasn't brilliant but it wasn't terrible either. I really liked specific scenes - the ones with the bullets at the beginning and the end and the keyboard bit. They were really neat.

The loom thing was interesting, but felt out of place in the movie. It needed more work, I think.

In a way, I'm glad that the movie is completely different. It's like we've got two different takes on the one story, and I enjoyed them both.
 
I hated it.


Yeah there were a few cool parts like the end when he's running down the hall shooting and stealing weapons on the fly....but overall the whole thing was stupid and not Wanted.



I also think I might've actually started throwing **** at the screen if I saw that ****ing "curve the bullet" trick or "shooting bullets outta the air with another bullet" trick.





And the entire film, I couldn't get over how massive Jolie's head was. It was enormous. How in the hell can she balance that thing?

I hope I never have to see this movie again.
 
Victor Von Doom said:
I hated it.


Yeah there were a few cool parts like the end when he's running down the hall shooting and stealing weapons on the fly....but overall the whole thing was stupid and not Wanted.



I also think I might've actually started throwing **** at the screen if I saw that ****ing "curve the bullet" trick or "shooting bullets outta the air with another bullet" trick.





And the entire film, I couldn't get over how massive Jolie's head was. It was enormous. How in the hell can she balance that thing?

I hope I never have to see this movie again.
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You noticed her miniscule head but you didn't see her massive lips?
 
There are going to be two sequels to this, and McAvoy and Stamp are attached. Jolie is also supposedly in, appearing in flashbacks as her past is explored and we see one of her former masters. There's also going to be international Fraternities all gunning for Wesley (Mr. Rictus?!).

I'm not that excited, but hopefully they'll be able to bring in more stuff from the comic and make these movies really innovative and unique as opposed to every other movie about guns.
 
Wanted: The TV Series?

This mentioned by Millar in a thread at MW talking about how Wanted passed $300 mill in total sales:


Mark Millar said:
Not bad for a little R rated movie.

Work already deeply underway on the sequel of course, but just keeping you up to date. Box Office Mojo as a few weeks behind on overseas opening (they still have us at 292 mill), but now we've opened in Japan, etc, and done unbelievably well. They estimate we'll do at least another 200 million on DVD too and expecting totals of over half a billion once the TV rights and so on get sold too.

Very cool for a 100 million investment.

More as it happens, but back to work for now.

MM
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Re: Wanted: The TV Series (News discussion)

I don't think this means what you think it means. By TV rights, I think he means selling the rights to networks to show the movie in it's edited for TV version. I don't see this becoming a series.
 
Willverine said:
I don't think this means what you think it means. By TV rights, I think he means selling the rights to networks to show the movie in it's edited for TV version. I don't see this becoming a series.
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Good point. I did not think of that.
 
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