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I'm confused... What does "[expletive]" mean?

Hahaha! That is exactly what I thought when I read the title. Why would I download a crappy version when I can see RR and Taylor Kitsch on the big screen? All. That. Muscle. Definition.

Poor Snikt683, hairy Wolverine Oscar host is the last thing I'd want to see when sitting down to eat a yummy hot pocket.

"Yummy hot pocket"? I'm sorry? Did you mean molten hot on the edges with a glacial center?

Seriously, I'll download it illegally when its a finished version. I mean...uh... I'll go pay good money to watch what will surely be shit in my local theater. Yeah.

Flush pockeeeeetttt!!

Online, theater, it's still a bloated prequel to a disappointing comic book movie (which was a sequel), which has already become obsolete after the genre hit a new zenith with The Dark Knight, and Iron Man. Who could possibly give a shit about this thing other than girls who want to see Jackman shirtless, again?

Because it's a summer blockbuster and I am inexplicably drawn to summer blockbusters. I love going to the movies, buying a giant soda, fighting back the crowds for a good seat, and settling in for complete and utter inanity. Then, upon leaving the theatre, I find the cool yet comfortable summer night air refreshing and pleasing. Summertime and movies brings me back to my youth, to being excited over something. I need to leave the cynicism behind and I find that being cynical about movies such as this is a complete waste of time. If not, I'd probably be beating my skull in daily.

I have a Dr. Cox level of hatred for Hugh Jackman . I have never seen him in anything remotley entertaining .

George, let's not overlook the girls who want to see Ryan Reynolds look all hot.
We're important too!

Jesus Christ, how does Ryan Reynolds fit acting into his busy schedule of living at the gym?

Man, this movie looks bad. Like, Tomb Raider bad.

If the leaker came to my door with the final print and offered to pay me to watch I probably still wouldn't.

If I see this movie, it will be at the drive-in. Ryan Reynold's abs will be fucking gigantic on that screen. Plus, I'll be in my car so I can, uh, enjoy the gratuitous man bodies to the fullest extent. (That's totally on-topic, right?)

I for one am shocked, SHOCKED that illegal downloading is being condoned in this establishment.

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Pardon my density, but haven't several franchises found ways to work with fan communities, all things digital and blah, blah, blah?

They're interested, so feed them. I know my LotR DVD sets (All of them. The extra-turgid, endlessly detailed versions.) are just about worn out. Ditto for my Firefly & Serenity. And it took me years to hunt down DVDs of Brooks' adaptation of Mahabharata (Developed from Buck's translation). And the tabletop book about that project. And a couple bios. And I have followed the cast from project to project because they are so good.

Embrace the rabid fans. Because they'll invest way more than one movie ticket. Put up a web site. Feed them content. Didn't BSG just do this brilliantly? Isn't there a column on this very site about the accidental prototype for a fan-feeding franchise in TV and movies - Star Trek. This isn't news, people!(!)(!!!)

Piracy only happens when someone who wants something can't get it more easily through legitimate channels. All the effort expended to do piracy? Convert that to dollars. All the effort expended to “fight” piracy? Apply that to increasing availability and driving down the price. The freaking Grateful Dead freaking made room at their performances for the "bootleg" recorders. The freaking Grateful Dead and their drug-addled, hippie-dippie followers are better capitalists, and patrons of the arts than all the MBAs & big name donors doing the other thing.

Most of us have figured out that big-budget productions take big budgets. We get it. We'll pay. Our investment in what we like is huge. We'd invest more in if the idiots in charge will just let us. We want to patronize the things we enjoy. We hate it when an artist, group, creator or franchise we connect with goes away, and we know that money is the sincerest form of flattery. (Apologies to Heinlein.) We're a tens-of-thousands army of ten-dollars-at-a-time patrons of the arts. Different from nickles and dimes extracted from the one true variation the "owners" are willing to emit to the world, enforced with great cost and decreasing effectiveness by ever more draconian arrays of storm troopers and questionable technology, how about making it easy (or possible) for us would-be patrons to get what we want and pay up? I'll buy literally everything from artists I appreciate. I think of paying for the occasional dud really just supporting a career I appreciate.

Let's see. Co-opt the rabid fans, of genre, of particular artists, of cheesecake, of all three. (Joan Severance as Addison Carter's mind implant in Max Headroom - that's a trifecta of yummie.) Or pay extra (sunk) money to enforcement that pisses off your customers and is doomed to fail.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. Which, to do. What to do.

Boneheads.

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And while I understand all the ab / pec / studliness anticipation, will this Woolverine have boobies?

Really? No one else noticed "Deal with your consciousness"?

I noticed. I thought it was deliberate. As in, deal with the fact that you'll still be conscious after you watch it, no matter how much you pray for the sweet release of oblivion.

I'll still pay full price for the promise of hairy, angry, shirtless Wolverine, and I don't want to hear a peep about it. After a couple of thousand years of misogyny, it's my turn to objectify.

I will confess (I live abroad, dear NSA) to downloading (sometimes). But I also buy anything I like.

Here's my point:

With 'Burn after Reading' I NEEDED to see it. I'ts a Coen, thats all there is to say about it.
NEED!
So I *checks over shoulder* downloaded a "good cam".
And I didn't like the shitty copy the internet served my eyes.
It Sucked..

(Wait, all you Coen lovers, there is a point..)

Then me Girl wanted to see it in the theatre, and offcourse I tagged along.

I loved it. Laughed my behind off. Thought it was really funny.

So here's my point:
You will never see the quality of a movie from an unfinshed workprint/Cam or any of that stuff. For me the suspension of disbelieve is just tottaly gone. Out of the window.
So how Fox or rabbid-fandogs can evaluate the quality of a movie from a bad copy is beyond me.

I'll see this one when it comes out in Amsterdam.

"Deal with your consciousness"? WTF does that mean?

"Conscience," perhaps?

Look at that picture. Look at how awesome Deadpool is in comic form. Dressed like a ninja, armed to the teeth, not cross-eyed...

Fuck you, Ryan Reynolds. Fuck you and your pube beard.

Can we get an unofficial review of this thing? I'd rather have a ruptured appendix than watch X-Men 3 again, so let us know if Wolverine is just as bad.

Don't worry Dave, you'll get over it eventually. We all eventually get over SOME aspect of our life being irreparably damaged in some way. Think of all the remakes...yes think of them all.

But yeah, Deadpool looks awesome. Makes me tear up a little when I think of how this movie is just proobably going to ruin more of the Marvel universe. Damn.

Any news regarding this movie has a picture of Ryan Reynolds attached. I realize that Dustin probably locks everyone in their respective mother's basements when anything Wolverine-related pops up, but can't you guys stage a coup, throw him down, chain him to the heater and get a pic of Hugh Jackman up? Or Taylor Kitsch? Or Liev Schreiber? Pretty please?
IMDB search confirms I spelled Sabretooth's name right. Go me.