Snikt!

So, I went and saw Wolverine this weekend. Let me start by explaining a little about my perspective on the movie. I'm a casual comic book fan. Here's what I mean:
Facts I know: Cyclops' real name, Wolverine's claws are adamantium, what the Phoenix is, and so on.
Facts I don't know: Current active teams (Excalibur, X-Factor, etc), who built the Sentinels, etc.

As for the movie. I enjoyed it. After doing some post-movie research on who exactly was in it, I realized that the portrayal of some of the mutants could have been off-putting to some die hard fans, but that's not how I watched it. Was it engaging? Did I care? Did I stay up, even though it was a midnight showing and I had to be at work in 6 hours? The answer to all of these is a resounding YES!

Would I recommend it to my friends... hmm, this is a bit tentative. Friends that just want some popcorn and a movie. Yes. Friends that do know who built the Sentinels, that's for them to figure out on their own (but they'll probably see it anyways).

Here's the thing. I had no problem accepting the conventions of the movie. Wolverine and Sabertooth were half-brothers. Fine. Cyclops is used by Stryker's mutant army for eviltude. Sure. Humvees in the early 80s. HELL NO!. See, there's this scene where Wolvie's being hunted and the army chases after him. Helicopters are all Hueys (although I've been informed by a reliable source that Black Hawks were possible). But for this scene, suddenly two Humvees pop out of the woods. The problem: Humvees didn't start to get deployed until 1985 (I didn't see my first Humvee until 1994). To make the issue even more egregious, the previous scene showed the army tooling around in Jeeps, which is what they should have had!

Verisimiltude. Look it up.