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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.
Gee, I wonder how all these trailers are being "leaked" all of a sudden... are management types finally clued into the power of internet buzz?
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I guess they didn't manage to delay the cam release 38 hours. Expect box office failure... unless the movie is any good (but that doesn't count).
I know it may not sound all that "nice", but, if you could make some kind of a gismo that could detect camcorders and then jam them, and have it in a movie theater, I bet you could get stinking rich.
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A story about a leaked fucking trailer?
Much as I dislike the whole heavy handed **AA nonsense,
people who sneak camcorders into theatres are just low.
They're not low. They usually sit back a bit to get a better angle.
This should not be confused with the Origin mini-series that explores Wolverine's childhood and reveals his real name.
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 ?
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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.
It is more about respecting others copyrights and property rights. You many not agree with it but you should respect it, having it leaked out before hand may be a positive or negative thing but if they didn't want it out people should respect their rights to do so. By not doing so has created things like DRM etc. and attempts to fix the problems that tend to tread towards getting into our own privacy. If you don't respect others privacy and they will not respect yours. and you shouldn't hold people/and companies at a higher standard if you are not willing to follow it yourself.
I don't think Civil Disobedience would fall under this case as well IANAL but it doesn't seem to show by trying to keep the information private is against on anyone's rights, and it seems the offender is breaking the rights of the company.
There is the right to free speech but there is also the right of privacy. If you respect both then they normally don't conflict with each other.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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?
"I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do ain't very nice."
Er...I take it you've never read any Wolverine comics? Even the seminal Claremont/Miller limited series back in the '80s was ultra-violent.
This is what I hate generally hate about comic book movies (and this applies to all movies made from print media sources). I understand that you have to make some changes because you are dealing with years of back story and have squeeze it into 2 hours.
But that said, would it kill them to at least keep the story straight rather than add characters who had nothing to do with the Weapon X program? Blob and Gambit had NOTHING to do with the weapon x program (not even in any sort of retcon'ed timeline). Where is Maverick, Mastadon and Kestrel? They are not listed on IMDB on the cast list (but Blob, Gambit, Deadpool and gent Zero (the latter two were involved in later incarnations of the Weapon X program, not Wolverine's origin).
So maybe I am being a picky fan boy, and the movie does look awesome, but would it kill them to get it right for once?
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
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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Characters with no tension or nuance, but they looked good posing, so that's all they did.
Rob Liefield created the Ginyu Force?
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I'm not paying to see a movie in public, not with the assholes. I'm not paying to rent it, either.
Too many assholes at home?
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
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.
Can /. think of anyone who would be better suited to the role?
Me. My sideburns are at least 4 inches longer than Hugh Jackmans.
Funny, found out recently, when I interviewed for this position, my manager emailed the whole office to tell them that Wolverine was in the office applying for a job. I remember wondering at the time why everyone was looking my way...
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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 :)
Hmm. Itersting bug in /.. Hit the preview button, type some more into the textbox while the preview loads. The text won't show up in the preview, but it will in the post.dsafsdaf
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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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