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I just checked and if the leak is "contained" then the (around) 4500 available bit torrent downloads I just saw that say "X-Men.Origins.Wolverine.WORKPRiNT" must be for something else :-/

You (DP) almost make it sound like we should be hoping and rooting for the story to die down and the marketing team's damage control to work. I hope exactly the opposite.

you're so wrong about this it's ridiculous. the fact that you're writing continued commentary on it shows that obviously it's not dead. this is bad, bad news. and of course you'll never admit that you pulled the notion that movie bootlegs are predominantly the domain of "urban blacks and hispanics" completely out of your ass. that's the kind of crap i expect to hear from jeffrey wells if i bothered reading him.

Why do you "hope exactly the opposite," Jeff?

More people aware of bad movie = fewer people seeing bad movie.

I know I might sound like I'm lying, but I'm not. I was gonna download the leak because I thought it would be interesting to compare the workprint to the finished film. When I tried to download it, the torrent stopped at 90% and wouldn't work when I tried to open the incomplete file. So as far as getting the workprint off of torrent sites is concerned, I'm sure private trackers still have it available, but the average person won't be able to get it.

However, I do know that the work print is floating around my University campus hub, and I plan to get it off there at some point next week. At this point, I download a lot of movies simply because I can't afford to pay for them, so I don't feel to bad by doing this, especially since I plan to pay to see it in a theatre anyways. Judge me if you want. I don't care.

Maybe it's not actually a bad movie, Jeff. Maybe it's just a few fanboy jerk-offs saying it's bad because that's the "cool" thing to do.

Have you seen it?

No, I haven't, I don't download stuff. So that's fair of you to say.

That said, all evidence points to it indeed being bad. And I trust the combined opinions of hundreds of people more than I trust the concerted efforts of the studio marketing blitz.

I eat muffins in the store while shopping simply because I dont want to pay for them. I also try to steal mulch from Home Depot. I have also been thinking of scooting the stroller close to the candy in the check out aisle and pretend not to notice when the infant grabs a pepperment patty.

Thanks, I feel better.

that made more sense when I was typing it under a-loco's confession.

Wow, that idiot Roger Friedman has actually reviewed the workprint. And he works for Fox News!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512139,00.html

Shouldn't he get fired for this?

Friedman's "review" is to off-set the bad WOM and an attempt to bang the piracy drum a little louder.

What he wrote about flawless downloads in seconds is bullshit, unless he's pulling them within a Newscorp building on a T1.

They better announce a culprit or I'm going IO-conspiratorial and claim Rothman had this done so he can blame the internets if it sinks or take credit for the re-shoots if the theatrical is deemed a marked improvement.

There is a big audience for this film that doesn't care/doesn't know what a bunch of nerdy comic book lovers think about a shorter, incomplete version of this film with unfinished FX. The effect of this leak on the opening weekend will be minimal. The mainstream chatter about the film is that it leaked. Period. Big deal. Most people aren't going to dig deeper to find out what bloggers think or download it for themselves (they won't be bothered to hunt for it or learn how bittorrent works). Poland is right that the story is dead. It's just unfortunate that it's going to be lede for any reviews in a few weeks.

i watched it again. didn't seem so bad the second time. Will.I.Am is still a black hole of talent. Every time he's on screen i thought "aren't there real actors they could have hired?"

Some of the action is awkwardly staged, and i realize it's unfinished, but a lot of the shots have that television feel, like youre watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All the scope of the movie is relegated to greenscreen/backlot style staging that never feels like youre in the real world. I had the same complaint about Watchmen.

"At this point, I download a lot of movies simply because I can't afford to pay for them, so I don't feel to bad by doing this, especially since I plan to pay to see it in a theatre anyways. Judge me if you want. I don't care."

I can just see Poland now, planning the next revival of "Les Miserables", with James Gandolfini as a_loco as Jean Valjean, and Marcia Gay Harden as hcat as Inspector Javert:

"If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long hours ago
My dorm was a source that was better than Fox Co.
They gave me a torrent and enabled a_loco
How they blamed me and scoffed at my chintz
Just for stealing a WOLVIE WORKPRINT...'

I'm sorry, that was awful.

Hallick, I'm not gonna lie. I'm kinda high right now and that post made me rofl.

"There is a big audience for this film that doesn't care/doesn't know what a bunch of nerdy comic book lovers think about a shorter, incomplete version of this film with unfinished FX."

Yeah. But weren't they all in "Be Kind, Rewind"?

This story isn't going away, at least not until opening weekend when the real fall out will be seen.

Martin S -

The other day, I wrote, half-jokingly, in my blog and elsewhere that Fox might have leaked it as a form of insurance fraud (ie - the film leaks, the film tanks, they claim 3rd party criminal actions for said flop, they can cash in insurance policy). In the last few days, I've gotten several emails from former Fox employees who tell tales of Fox intentionally leaking stuff and then pretending that wasn't official, or blaming lackeys for leaking stuff that 'untouchables' (like, say, the people who make action figures) actually were responsible for.

Obviously I have only their word on this, and I have neither the time nor the talent to play Woodard and Bernstein. But let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if Bruno Hoffman and/or Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested for the leak in a few days.

Martin S., Remember you wrote:

Friedman's "review" is to off-set the bad WOM and an attempt to bang the piracy drum a little louder.

What he wrote about flawless downloads in seconds is bullshit, unless he's pulling them within a Newscorp building on a T1.

They better announce a culprit or I'm going IO-conspiratorial and claim Rothman had this done so he can blame the internets if it sinks or take credit for the re-shoots if the theatrical is deemed a marked improvement.

You inspired me to defend Roger Friedman on First Amendment grounds. Maybe what Fox means by "internal matter" is that it may have been viewed in a Newscorp bldg on a T1, and he covered those tracks by saying it was better than leaving the house in the rain. So what if he's petty and mean, do you want to join me? I wrote:

I have no skin in the game; don't care one way or the other, but I thought Friedman's post was satirical because he claimed to watch it streaming as opposed to downloaded, not having the time or drive space, he said. Where does one get this kind of internet connection? The situation at least deserves a First Amendment right to free speech examination, lest we start taking ourselves too seriously and live to
regret it. Yeah, I'm being dramatic, but no one's taking it up.

That was funny Hallick and though I have the utmost respect for Marcia Gay Hardin (her debut in Millers Crossing is one of my favorite perfs, I was shocked when she gave such a warm performance in Late for Dinner one year later), you've got the gender wrong. I would be closer to Jesse Bradford with some lifts in his shoes.

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