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movie review - The Wolverine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.10.16

In this mean-spirited and gruesomely violent outing, super-"hero" Wolverine spends some time in Japan, hitting the usual wall of culture and language the way the rest of us do, but managing also to get nuked. The clunky plot boils down to a brawl and let's be honest, that's a foregone conclusion.

Not recommended. Also, I think watching this with my seven-year-old son was unnecessary.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot