Wolveriiiiiiiiiiiiines!!!! Okay, so a few things about this movie, which is a useful title to remember the next time someone claims that Hollywood is run by liberals. I remember seeing this movie as a kid and being really into it. I wasn’t scared, like “oh, shit, this could happen” (which was what was intended, I am sure) but I was really involved in the characters and story. Seeing it now, I can recognize that the story is ludicrous and the characters are as flat as Calista Flockhart (haven’t used that line in a while) but I will give credit where credit is due — even though he was given a lousy script with lines that can only be described as howlers, Patrick Swayze (!) puts in a really good performance. I am going on record here as saying that the man has or at least had some acting chops. I can’t say as much for C. Thomas Howell or the others. Another notable thing is the portrayal of violence in the first act. It is very clumsy and random, probably very realistic. This is kinda done away with by the end when the school jocks become the A-Team. . .but it is jarring at the beginning. Anyway, I now own the VHS of this (no, I didn’t pay for it) so if anyone wants to borrow it you may. It is a real time capsule of something. (What with all the Mexican-Russians taking over small town American and making the local movie theater show Alexander Nevsky and all. . . )