Last Friday was a weird and laid back day for everybody at the office. We arrived at the office with no power, so we were told to just wait until the power comes back up.
We all went out to hang out someplace outside the office. By around lunchtime, we were all called back because the power was back up. Unfortunately, the Internet didn’t go back on so we didn’t have much to do.
Good news was that one of my officemates had a copy of the leaked X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. We propped it up on the big screen computer and watched it with all the office lights turned off. Felt kinda like watching in a movie house.
So, anyway, news that the leaked version was incomplete is totally untrue. It was complete, up to the end credits, just that the editing for the special effects weren’t finished yet.
The comic geek in the group explained that it was different from the actual Wolverine origin story. But when I watched it with friends outside the office, they said that part of if came from the alternate origin storyline for Wolverine.
The leaked copy was really a rough copy, you’ll still be able to see harness cables, unpolished green screen background insertion, and the 3D graphics are still in grey.
Let’s talk about the cast.
- Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas is in the movie playing John Wraith, a mutant with the ability to teleport.
- Agent Zero was played by Korean actor, Henry Kim. He played the doctor/boyfriend of the main actor’s ex-girlfriend in the original Kim Sam Soon tv series.
- Ryan Reynolds plays Deadpool. To most of my comic geek friends’ dismay, the movie’s take on Deadpool was rather far from the comic book character.
- Weapon XI, who we all thought was Deadpool after he got experimented on and injected with other mutant abilities was actually played by a different actor, Scott Adkins.
- Kevin Durand plays The Blob, who, in the movie, started out as someone normal-sized, and ended up putting on weight and looking like a blob.
- Dominic Monaghan (Lost, LoTR) plays Bolt, a mutant with the ability to power electrical devices with his mind. I really can’t take his role as Merry from LoTR off my mind. Haha.
- Taylor Kitsch (Covenant) played Gambit in the movie. For me, it’s just not as Gambit enough as what I’ve grown up watching in The Uncanny X-Men. Not as suave, and not as rugged-looking. But I guess that’s his take on Gambit.
Aside from these characters, Scott Summers and Emma Frost make an appearance in the movie. But I guess because Scott’s eyes were covered with a patch, they never really saw each other, so it’s not a problem that they didn’t notice each other when Logan got into Xavier’s School for the Gifted.
Emma frost was… errr.. just… fail! She was trying to protect other mutants from being hit by bullets by turning her skin to diamonds and blocking the bullets, but all she ended up looking like was a retard dancing “the robot”. Ugh!
Professor X made a brief appearance at the end of the movie. However, one question comes to mind though. Why was he standing up outside the helicopter that came to fetch the mutants from Striker’s hidden lab? He couldn’t walk, right?
Of course Hugh Jackmann plays Wolverine in the movie. I don’t think they’ll be getting someone else. Hehehe. But what really got me hooked was Sabertooth.
Liev Schreiber played the hero/anti-hero Sabertooth. The prosthetics fangs and facial (if the sideburns were fake) hair were great, not to mention his take on the rage-filled Sabertooth was flawless.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, we did watch the bootleg copy, but we’re still planning to see the movie version of the movie. It would be fun to see what the actual effects would look like after they’re done. I wouldn’t really mind spending on the movie again.
How about you? Have you seen the leaked copy? Do you plan to watch the movie when it releases on May 1st? Let’s talk.
Photos obtained from mania.com. More photos on the movie’s page in mania.com. For more information about the cast and crew of the movie, visit the X-Men Origins: Wolverine imdb page.
Nice blog! As far as bootlegs go – i passed on the Wolverine leak! Summer movies are usually the only time that I spend $10 for a flick, so I look fwd to watching all of the great blockbusters on the big screen. (check out our summer movie showdown) Cannot wait to see Wolverine movie!!
Comment by Jay — April 26, 2009 @ 1:09 pm |
I wasn’t really planning to watch the leaked copy, but when you’re in a room full of people watching it on the office’s huge flat screen monitor, I don’t think that can be helped. Haha.
A graphics artist friend told me it gave him a new perspective on the graphics work put into movies. We’ll probably watch it on the big screen once it hits the cinemas, still.
Comment by shoboink — April 27, 2009 @ 7:33 am |
FYI – at one point Professor X COULD walk. How he became crippled is in the comic books
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Comment by Jay — April 27, 2009 @ 5:53 pm |