The back-and-forth banter between Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds following the recent Deadpool 3 announcement has been highly entertaining to witness, and the latter has kept things going by seizing the opportunity to take a dig at the infamous X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Before he redeemed the character in the Deadpool movies, Reynolds actually played a version of the Merc With(out) a Mouth in the much-maligned X-Men spin-off, and the unholy abomination that emerged to do battle with Jackman's Logan towards the end of the movie remains one of the most ridiculed elements of any comic book movie to this day.
Reynolds was asked about working with Jackman while being interviewed for the Just For Laughs comedy festival at the O2 Arena in London, and while he did praise his co-star for being so kind and generous to his colleagues, he couldn't resist the chance to keep their long-running fake feud going.
“Everyone’s expecting me to eviscerate Hugh Jackman, but I will say he was one of the first movie stars I ever worked with, back in 2007, on an absolute trash fire called X-Men Origins Wolverine – that one was on him,” said Reynolds. “And what struck me about him was just he was so kind. He was one of the first people I watched at that level that treated the caterer the same way as the director or the producer or the head of the studio. He just treated everyone the same. And you know that kind of impression spreads. And I think Hugh Jackman is probably responsible for a lot of better people who work in the weird and wonderful world of showbusiness. So yeah. Also [frick] that guy.”
Though Origins did have a few highlights (Liev Schreiber's Victor Creed, for example), we can't see too many people disagreeing with Reynolds' assessment of the movie.
Reynolds also starred in 2011's Green Lantern, which has also come in for its share of criticism from the fandom! The actor fully acknowledges that the movie didn't work, and explains where he felt things went wrong.
“There was just too many people spending too much money and when there was a problem rather than say, ‘Okay, let’s stop spending on special effects and let’s think about character. How do we replace this big spectacle thing – that isn’t working at all – with something that’s character based?’ and that just never – the thinking was never there to do that,” he explained. “And to their credit, it’s a very old school way of looking at things. It’s just ‘Let’s just keep spending our way through this.’ And that was – it didn’t work. At the same time, there are 185 people that worked on that movie, they all had an amazing time, we loved shooting it. Truly, shooting the movie was a lot of fun. But, you know, sitting in that premiere, watching that, oh my God. It’s tough.”
Again, we don't see too many people disagreeing here, but if you think either Origins or Green Lantern are underrated and undeserving of the hate, be sure to let us know in the comments.