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Leaked Wolverine Origin Trailer Makes the Rounds
Uriah noted that the Comic Con wolverine origins trailer has been circulating in high quality camcorder form, very conveniently broken into a first and second part. Despite the terrible camera angle, the movie looks pretty good ... at least, while we wait for the Avengers.
I remember in the web's infancy that if you had a fan page, you got a cease and desist, even though you clearly weren't breaking any laws. Companies attacked their fans, rather than rewarding them for adding to the hype machine and giving them free PR.
Oh, and the trailer (what I could make out of it) looks pretty damned good.
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A story about a leaked fucking trailer?
It would be great if it was an intentional leak and the press found out about it. When an indie artist does it I don't mind, but when a big movie studio and supporter of MPAA does it... well. You see the juicy scoop right there.
I really don't understand the purpose of holding back a trailer and only showing it to a select few people. If it was unfinished or something, It'd be understandable, but these are finished already.
It's for promotional use, it's to promote the film, SURELY you want as many people as possible to see it?
Or maybe I missed something?
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I'm confused..... What happened to Alpha Flight ? Are they rewiring the storyline again ?
End of Line.
How do you figure that?
Because he was "cool." And Marvel figured out that all they had to do was put him on the cover of a comic book it would sell. And if you made 3 different versions of the cover, people would buy all three. So then they figured they needed more Wolverine-like characters to sell more comics, so they started making them, and they tended to suck. Then they started letting the comics artists become celebrities, at which point they started to demand their own series. And most of them couldn't write. It was kind of a chain reaction thing.
So you want a wolverine movie... that isn't just a bunch of violence?
Do you know who wolverine is? Have you ever seen any media with the character before?
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Eh... Wolvie had been doing his thing since the 70s. It's not like he was forgotten about until the 90s, he was already an extremely popular Marvel character.
No. Wolverine didn't ruin comics in the 90s. Comics in the 90s ruined themselves.
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There were some excellent comics that were out in the 90's. The problem wasn't 'comics' in general, but Marvel milking their fans with multiple #0's and #1's, metallic covers, lousy plots, awful dialogue and poor pencilling. I assume that contributed to their near bankruptcy.
Could be good. They have always tending to 'soften' wolverine down with each new incarnation of his character. At the starting comics he was a whirl wind of claws that would literally spew blood and guts of 50 ninjas all over the pages. Everything a young impressionable adolescent was eager to treat his eyes to. Imagine wolverine power of regeneration what a real person would do... wolverine did it... smoked, fought, got shot, had a good time with out a concern for his personnel safety, and to top it off he killed nasty ninjas and bad guys (all things any kid would imagine doing if he had his power). Then they 'soften' him and started to add dialogue, taking valuable blood soaked page space for a text bubble. As long the movie does not have him picking daisies with Sabretooth and calming talking things out it might actually be OK.
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Comics can't keep their stories straight... so why bother doing so for TV/Film/cartoon*/etc. adaptations - especially given the constraints of the movie format, etc.?
* though the X-Men cartoon was quite nice, I don't think one could actually call it 'canon'.
From alternative universes to timetravel to cross-overs** to introducing new characters that are -exactly- like a previously existing (and sometimes not even dead-yet) character for the sake of furthering along a particular plot.
** I'm sorry, but why would spiderman be fighting superman, exactly - and just how would superman not actually be winning this? Please. Leave each superhero in its own little 'universe' already. (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Stark.)
If you want at least a reasonably solid storyline with a beginning and an end, then comic books are one of the last places you should be looking. With Heroes being popular as it is and having a high 'X-Men'-appeal itself, I can't help but fear that it, too, will end up being dragged on and on and on.
Back on-topic.. Gambit is a hugely popular character from the comics as well as the cartoons... fans have wanted to see Gambit in the first three X-Men movies and were denied it; I'm not saying the movie studios are bending to the will of the fans, but you can't exactly blame them if they did - even if it's just because of dollarsigns in their eyes :)
In my opinion, that's what ruined comic's in the 90's.
Can I nominate all those "issue" and soap storylines? If I wanted to read about secret love children forced into the child sex trade by getting abducted and being doped up with heroine, well I'd read bad teen lit. I want my superheros to occasionally fight bad guys, not be so caught up in their love triangles it's like "bad guy who?"
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