X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Opening Day $35 Million.

[OrlandoEastwood]

The numbers were just released. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wolverine.htm

[Batman1980]

Not the best numbers, really makes one wonder how much the work draft on the Internet hurt the box office...

[mugupo]

Number ain't great might due to fact of the pirate version leak out early, i went there yesterday, is only 50% pack.

[OrlandoEastwood]

Well it could all depend on how it does today. I've been debating watching it in theaters because the theater in town decided to bend everyone over and raise the prices on tickets. I honestly do not want to spend $10 a ticket.

[t0nythebeat]

seriously.
Wolverine is 100% trailing Iron Man and this opening is AMAZING.
Wolverine will loose about 27% of Friday's audience today and look for it to end in the $80 to $85 million range for opening week (could be higher but don't count on it).

this was a great opening making more than X-Men and trailing X2 ... now the troubles ahead might come, but we'll see. I think it can atleast reach $155 million domestic.

[ivanb06]

yeah i work at AMC and we were expecting sell out after sell out.

it only sold out 4 of the 20 showings.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by t0nythebeat

seriously.
Wolverine is 100% trailing Iron Man and this opening is AMAZING.
Wolverine will loose about 27% of Friday's audience today and look for it to end in the $80 to $85 million range for opening week (could be higher but don't count on it).

this was a great opening making more than X-Men and trailing X2 ... now the troubles ahead might come, but we'll see. I think it can atleast reach $155 million domestic.

I agree with your assesment. Don't think it will match Iron Man's initial weekend box office total. However, as a huge superhero fan. I am glad it is doing well.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Not the best numbers, really makes one wonder how much the work draft on the Internet hurt the box office...

One day raking in $35 million isn't the best?

Logan

[Batman1980]

The man who uploaded an unfinished copy of the 2009 blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine has pleaded guilty to felony copyright infringement.

Gilberto Sanchez, a New York-based glass installer and musician, uploaded a work print of Fox's hit superhero movie a month before its May 2009 release. Sanchez pled guily at a March 14 hearing in federal court. He will be sentenced in September by U.S. District Judge Margaret Murrow and faces up to three years in jail and a $250,000 fine (or twice the gross gain or loss attributable to the offense).

Sanchez, 48, was indicted in December 2009 on one count of illegally uploading an unfinished work print of Wolverine to the file-sharing website Megaupload.com. Under the screen name "SkillyGilly," Sanchez posted the movie and promoted it on several movie forums. Fox and the FBI tracked down the copy and ultimately determined it was a work-print tape that had been brought to an unidentified post-production house in March of 2009.

Cofronted, Sanchez admitted he uploaded the film and that he knew it was illegal. He told the New York Times that he bought a DVD of the film for $5 from a street vendor in the Bronx. The name of the post-production house that served as the source of the leak has never been revealed. Wolverine grossed $373 million worldwide for Fox.

Source - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...pyright-172895

[Spirit Zero]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Mkay so after the semi successful X-Men trilogy came this origins tale (prequel) which was originally also gonna carry on with Magneto and Professor X...I believe. We all know how that turned out though, I think the idea of yet more origin tales was perhaps a bit daunting for everyone.

So the movie is about Wolverine's origins but that is a bit of lie really, its mainly about one period in his life. At the start we see Logan as a child and how he befriends Creed, fast forward through the ages we then see the pair fighting in most of the biggest wars such as the American Civil War, WWI, WWII and Vietnam where Creed kills an Officer. The pair are then executed by firing squad? did that happen to US troops in Nam? Anyway its only then that the outside world finally notices these two blokes have been alive for over a century, I still think that would get noticed as time pasted by and we approached the modern era. The funny thing is the movie skips past all this information but it looks way more interesting and fun than what we actually get. I'd love to see Creed and Logan fighting in WWI/WWII and Nam.

Moving on we see Stryker hiring the pair to join his Team X which is easily the coolest part of the film with the most potential yet alas it is lost. The team isn't the same as the comic source material but I guess that is a given, my main issue was the fact that only Agent Zero and Wade Wilson are given anything to do. The other issue being that both of those characters come across as so powerful that I found myself asking why you would need the other guys! hell both Zero and Wilson wiped out everybody single handed without breaking a sweat. Oh and did anyone else notice how the entire team just strides down the middle of a street up to the enemy stockade?! aren't they suppose to be some kind of special ops unit?? stealth anyone???!!!

Eventually the plot takes us to Logan's most iconic bit of backstory surrounding the reinforcement of his skeleton with Adamantium. Now this entire section makes no sense and is the most cliched movie crapola ever...well that and the few times we see characters screaming into the sky with rage as the camera zooms away from their face. Firstly Stryker and his military/scientist buddies all want to create a superhuman/mutant with this experiment. They have spent millions upon millions funding it...and it works! No sooner have they managed to achieve their highly expensive goal Wolverine breaks free and escapes...of course. Because every test subject always manages to break free and run off endangering everyone (if its a monster).

What is hilarious is the fact that Stryker immediately orders Wolverines execution the minute he escapes! you just achieved what you set out to do and now you're trying to destroy it!! Plus you deliberately made Logan invincible so how the f*ck do you expect to take him down?! I mean really...if you're gonna make someone (especially a powerful mutant) invincible don't you think that might cause you problems further down the road if you lose control of him...errr hello? 'Hunt him down, take his head off'...errm you just said he was invulnerable, how do you plan on managing this?...why are you shooting at him Zero? (jackass).

From here on it became uncomfortable as we see a nice old couple get needlessly killed (and blown up!) after they help Wolverine and we the audience start to warm up to them in a Pa and Ma Kent type way. It seems that was merely in there so Logan could pick up his natty leather jacket...yet I also find myself wondering how the f*ck Zero and co actually found him there anyway. Its also at this time you start to notice the CGI effects are pretty naff truth be told. The now infamous cartoon-esque Adamantium claws which are somehow smooth like blades even though they are covering knobbly bone claws. There is also some pretty horrendous greenscreen effects that stand out badly such as Jackman on the motorbike and the helicopter gun pilot.

Everything naturally leads up to a big climatic battle between Creed Logan and Wade Wilson/Deadpool which for some unknown reason takes place on top of a huge cooling tower. In between all this Gambit pops up for again no real apparent reason other than to please the fanboys. He's clearly a real card shark when we first meet him so I literately have no idea how he would find anyone dumb enough to play cards with him but I digress. At least Gambit is Gambit...Deadpool or Weapon XI is pretty much an abomination frankly, I'm not totally up on this characters lore but they really fudged with it right here, dude looks like a Mortal Kombat character. Also why exactly is Stryker wanting to make Weapon XI? surely Logan and Creed are virtually indestructible as they are, why the need to create this uber mutant who will obviously be too powerful to control. Its so daft and a horribly bad bad guy plot cliche.

When I first saw this movie I quite liked it but now I can see where the many flaws lie. It tries to be a sensible gritty superhero movie but is actually a very cheesy predictable and hokey action movie with all the regular cliches. I think Hood forgot that his superhero flick was a prequel and is suppose to be set in the 70's (I think it is) because the general technology on display is way too good for that era. There are some nice points without a doubt, some good effects and some good visual moments that capture what we all know and love about Marvel. Unfortunately overall it all looks a bit artificial and actually poor in places, it doesn't even feel like a Wolverine origins story but more like another X-Men installment.

5/10

[Infernal King]

lol nice necrobump

[Astro Zombie]

Is this 2009 again?

[toddly6666]

I too was entertained when it first came out but it has aged horribly and is quite a bad film.

[metalsonic]

The beginning was so promising, but then it just....

[AdubW1982]

Is there an extended cut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine?

[NegaScott128]

No.

[AdubW1982]

Ok. Thanks. I saw there was an extended cut on VUDU, but not on Blu-ray. So that confused me.

[Poya]

Still the best X-Men film ever made.

[Chaotic]

Flop

[imsounoriginal]

I've always liked certain things about this movie but the overall finished product is just a mess. I don't hate it, I don't like it, it just kinda exists. It's due for a rewatch though, haven't seen it in years. Maybe I'll watch it before I rewatch Logan.