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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).
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.
I come to Slashdot for tech news, not for a sneak peak at the TV commercials of tomorrow.
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.
I shudder to think what would happen if the MPAA hooked up with the Army.
Major public works would get busted down to private.
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.
The enemies of Democracy are
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.
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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