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Surprise! FOX lied about "Wolverine" (Spoilers?)

Admiral Buzzkill

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...FOX stubbornly insists that the workprint is missing the material from the reshoots. It makes sense, too, as the trailers have scenes that are not featured in the workprint (Wolverine carrying his girlfriend to the beach, a young Ororo in Nigeria).

Well, having seen the finished film, the mystery is solved: the workprint version IS in fact identical to the release print, sans effect and some audio work. It's obvious that FOX is trying their darndest to keep this news from getting out, because it will eliminate most of the motivation for people who have seen the workprint to pay for a ticket.

Some scenes from the trailer are not in the finished version, either.

The finished effects are lackluster, to say the least - some really bad CGI work made me groan numerous times...

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Well, there was a scene where he was carrying his girlfriend, but did notice that it was different in the trailer. I don't think they showed him setting her down (I would have noticed ebcause in the trailer you can see her kind of kicking her legs around a bit) and there was no beach. I wonder if it was inteded to go in the same spot. I think he carried her earlier in the film though she was wearing jeans and a flannel shirt as she did not wear black leather until the last act
 
This doesn't surprise me in the least. Nice going. guys! :bolian:

I don't feel too bad, it's still going to make a shit-ton of money.
 
You know what's funny?

Nine times out of ten, people around here will read something on AICN, they'll berate "Fat Harry", say his "spies" are always wrong and the majority of the site is 90% bogus lies.

But I think this will get a lot of replies of people going "I told you so!" Why? Because it just confirms what they want to believe, because it's fun to hate on something.

You watch. You watch how everyone agrees with the article and there are no "Fat Harry and his web site is always wrong" comments. Hypocrites.
 
I'm willing to believe that the film sucks because I couldn't even make it through the trailer.
 
Fat Harry is so up to date on the x-men and wolverine he didnt even know about Emma Frosts secondary mutation and that happened a decade ago in the comics.
 
Who the HELL is ''Fat harry''?

Harry Knowles, the guy who owns and operates the AICN site. He is a man of generous proportions, I hear.
I take it those ''generous proportions'' you speak of are not his genitals?:lol:

You'd have to ask "Yoko." :lol:

I've come to like Harry's online personna immensely, BTW. He is one of the most unreservedly enthusiastic people on this end of the Internet.

I think AICN has a pretty good track record - with their "spy reports" anyway - certainly better than most movie sites. And ol' "Moriarty" basically laid out several of the most closely-kept story secrets of the upcoming Star Trek movie script back in August of 2007.
 
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He isn't a good writer, or even very consistent with his reviewing, but I don't (and never did) understand the hate for him.
 
This is a disaster for FOX.

I watched the movie last Friday night at a friend's place. I'll admit that I'm less likely to see it in the theater now.

I can't imagine how horrified the people involved with the movie must be.

I hope it does decent business.
 
^How did you see it? I take it, it was not thru LEGAL means?

It was not.

I never download stuff illegally. I'm not judging, it's just not my style.

But my buddy had a copy of it on DVD that he got from another friend, and he kept insisting that I come over and watch it.

I eventually watched it, more to placate my friend than out of any desire to see the movie.

The scary part is that my friend is the last guy you would ever expect to have a copy of this thing on DVD, as was the guy who loaned it to him, which leads me to believe that this thing is all over the place, not just in the hands of the usual internet-geek suspects.
 
I guess we'll see next week - it's still tracking to open big.

The fact that the film leaked actually put Wolverine out of the entertainment section and onto the front page a couple of weeks early and got people talking about it in a way that all the studio's money probably couldn't buy - and of course, that fact motivated a lot of silly conspiracy theories about a "deliberate leak." However, the additional attention may draw in more folks who became curious about the movie than the leak cost them.

I mean, hey - if people will go out of their way to steal the damned thing it must be super-extra valuable, right? Like the old story about Captain Cook and the sauerkraut. :lol:

)Sam, do you animate your own avatars or do your minions handle that?)
 
I thought AICN was condemning watching the workprint, so how they'd see it and why are they reporting on it?

Well yes with an addendum. They said they wouldn't talk about it until after the first legitimate press screenings took place and only be people who had seen those legitimate press screenings. Since that just occurred it allows them to mention them.
 
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