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Friday, April 3, 2009

Film The Interwebz Drive Wolverine to Alcoholism.

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM

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First: Gyah! THIS IMAGE WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS FOR DECADES

Second: As you've no doubt heard, a mostly finished, DVD-quality workprint copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked on Tuesday, inspiring a royally pissed Twentieth Century Fox to make some pretty serious phone calls. ("Hello, FBI? It's Fox, the studio that brought you Alien vs. Predator and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!")

Boasting several unfinished effects shots (and lacking about 10 minutes' worth of reshoots), Wolverine was still downloaded by a ton of people, and no one knows how this will affect the box office of the film when it comes out on May 1. (My guess: Not at all. While Fox is characterizing this leak as the End of Days from a legal perspective, I think they've more worried about bad word of mouth than anything else—and bad word of mouth, no matter how toxic, likely won't diminish what should be a huge opening weekend for everyone's favorite X-Man.)

Anyway, New York magazine's Vulture blog has 15 Reasons Not to Download Wolverine. Read it. Here's reason 11:

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In the theatrical version, Sabretooth saves Wolverine before he falls off a ledge. In the downloadable one, he sweetly holds his hand, even though Wolverine is visibly supported by wires and a harness. It's pretty adorable, actually.

 

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I saw the leaked version of the movie.

I'll probably go see it in the theater.

I'm also a big nerd.
Posted by Graham on April 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM · Report
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Oh THAT'S what you were talking about on the Twitter. I was so confused.
Posted by kiala on April 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM · Report
3
Henriksen, you bastard. I'm never going to eat breakfast while reading BT again.
Posted by Will Radik on April 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM · Report
4
Fuck this movie with a giant rusty fiberglass obelisk. The best thing about wolverine is his amorphous back-story. If the writers didn't take that into account (and I can't imagine they did), I will go completely apoplectic.

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Posted by A CAT, probably on April 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM · Report

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