*Like Callisto in X3, and the evident total lack of upper-class bitchiness on Emma Frost’s part in this film. There are several others in the last couple of movies like this.

Oh, I almost forgot: as a longtime Gambit hater I just have to mention that you can’t ruin something that already sucks.

As far as the “magic” adamantium bullet? I guess it works this way: A regular bullet will just flatten or disintegrate against an adamantium skull (which is what happened in X2). The bullet dissipates it’s velocity not against the skull, but against itself, which is why it pancaked. But remember that scene in X2… Wolverine was knocked out for a minute or so as the healing factor kicked in. A regular bullet rattled his brain enough to knock him out. Adamantium bullets likewise cannot penetrate adamantium skulls, but its velocity has no where to go. The force of the bullet cannot be dissipated against anything except the skull and itself equally, which means Wolverine’s brain didn’t just get rattled. Wolverine’s brain had a seismic event. Wolverine’s brain got hit by “the big one.” As the brain healed it created new gray matter to replace the damage. Hence the memory loss. They’re in there somewhere (and Professor X helped pull them out in X2), but it’s damaged or buried.

Actually, to the contrary, its quite the opposite of vital.

i guess you left during the end credits …?

As for the memory part, well, I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine that the bullet would cause severe brain damage. He managed to survive by his healing factor, of course, but that doesn’t mean his memories would come back, too. It wasn’t specific memories that seemed to vanish, but rather everything, the same way somebody who received brain damage might develop amnesia.

As for Wolverine’s ending… If an “adamantinum bullet” (oh, whatever) through the brain, conveniently taking Logan’s specific memories makes any sense to anyone, well then please explain that bit of logic to me. Sorry, but the movie was crap. The way to go would’ve been making X4, and somehow trying to undo the damage of that movie. Really, the whole X-Men franchise is messed up… It’ll likely never get fixed, so long as FOX retains the rights.

Gambit was just a plot device with a stick in this movie and the only thing that made his presence bearable was the amount of fun Taylor Kitsch was obviously having in the role. My friend (another non-comics person) enjoyed it too but knowing how good it could have been marred the whole experience for me.

Some of them? They probably did. Not all reviewers are worth reading. Actually, most reviewers are not worth reading.

But some obviously wanted something they could just enjoy, and they flat out didn’t enjoy this film.

“Admittedly, there’s probably a Dark Knight-level story that could be told about Wolverine, but this sure as heck wasn’t it.”

You’re right, it wasn’t, and that’s a shame.