Chris Claremont wrote the Wolverine comics series that inspired Fox's The Wolverine - the second Hugh Jackman solo X-Men spin-off movie. He wasn't fully convinced by the transition his ideas underwent from page to screen, though. The first two acts were kick-ass, and they set this up to be a really exceptional, different movie, he said to Vulture. But, as the film careened towards its ending, he was less impressed. That moment he starts motorcycling up the 400 kilometres he was almost riding into a different movie, Claremont pointed out. He also wasn't keen on the film's use of what he calls 'superhero tropes.' Specifically, he cited scenes like "the Yakuza against Wolverine, the Viper imprisoning Wolverine, the Silver Samurai cutting off Wolverines claws" as problematic. The summarised his views very succinctly with this next sentence: "the point is not how many artful ways can he cut someone to shish kebab. He's not a hater of all comic book movies, though. In fact, he called out the moment in Iron Man 3 with "Tony Stark watching what he thinks is Pepper Pottss death" for particular praise, in that same interview. He might've been more pleased if The Wolverine packed a similar emotional punch.
