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more about #wolverine more comments → OCEntertainment: First time I've heard of Wolverine as a box office smash. Frankly, I loved it for it's cheesiness, but I know I'm not in the majority. Nice to know th... more » Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: Raise your hand if you have downloaded a movie! more » dry-roasted-peanuts: Damn you Hugh and your monster freaking shoulders... more » Hamslicer: I'm sick of non-violent offenders being put in prison. How much does that cost us?! Geez, give him the fine, make him watch the movie 250 times and ... more » Rocketknight: If she was taping the party, not the movie, I don't see why she would be convicted of anything. The taping of the movie would be incidental to the rec... more » Bill-Lee: "Information on how Sanchez allegedly obtained the feature film is still yet unknown." This guy Sanchez is probably just the fall guy for the Fox exec... more » icelight: "...and was actually taping a birthday party that was taking place inside the theater and not the actual movie itself. The MPAA, because we don't wan... more » PlaidNinja: The difference is this: A Wolverine leak might mean a viewer might potentially skip paying for the film in favor of a bootleg. A New Moon leak means... more » ♠ Final ♠: Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism. more » AngeloPolyxena: no one minded when luke killed a billion sentient beings on an artificial planetoid. more » Jeyl: "Does Marcus actually kill anybody directly, or just cause their deaths by tearing apart their security?" No. The only time anyone dies while persuin... more » Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » comrade_leviathan: This entire discussion does hinge on the concept of acceptable collateral damage. Working for the greater good with the greatest possible expediency ... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » origin002: Batman begins sticks out in my mind for this. The scene that bugged me was when he dropped little explosive devices that flipped cop cars. I'm sure th... more » -
#wolverine
A Tale of Two Leaks: What Happened to the Wolverine and New Moon Pirates?
Cold hard justice showed up at the door of the man who leaked the Wolverine movie onto the internet this year. He was arrested. Meanwhile, a New Moon bootlegger walks free. More » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#booklists
If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
Movies may thrill us with their huge ideas and set pieces, but you always know that anything a movie did, a novel did it first... and better. If you liked these dozen recent movies, here are some books you'll love. More » -
#triviagasm
The 15 Dumbest Superhero Retcons Of All Time
Superheroes can escape almost any trap... except for 50 years' worth of backstory that's dated, self-contradictory or gets in the way of a story. So what do you do? Reach for the retcon! Here are 15 examples of retcon fail.
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#triviagasm
3 Ways To Meet (And Get Nasty With) Your Opposite-Sex Duplicate
The most frustrating, annoying thing about the opposite sex is that they're not you. Why can't you just meet your exact duplicate — except for sex? You'd be a perfect match. Luckily, science fiction suggests 3 ways it could happen. More » -
#comicswecrave
Robot Detectives Battle Superhero Bastards For Your Comics Dollars
Hope you've been saving up your pennies for this week's comic haul: There's an impressive amount of new releases that you'll want to take home and cherish for at least the next seven days. Yes, these are Comics We Crave.
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#comicswecrave
Wood, Dreams And The Victory Of Evil In This Week's Comics
Killer puppets and wily foxes offer the best thrills in this week's new comic releases, but there's also a nice taster for curious potential Hellboy fans and even the seventh issue of a six issue mini-series. Hello, Comics We Crave!
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#reviewathon
Marvel: Rise Of The Mediocre Cartoons
Marvel's live-action movies may fill multiplexes and please fanboys across the world, but what about their animated movies? With a boxset just released of their six DVDs to date, I settled in for a movie marathon to investigate. Bad idea. More » -
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#xmen
Magneto Dead, Deadpool Reboot: X-Movie Update Motherlode!
Empire recently talked to X-Men movie franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner about plans for Wolverine 2, X-Men First Class, Deadpool and Magneto, and got some some interesting updates on what movies will happen when... if at all. Spoilers ahead.
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#comicswecrave
Cinema And The Internet's Finest Comics Invade Your Local Store
It's a week of big names at your local comic store: Star Wars! Star Trek! Spider-Man! Iron Man! But don't let that distract you from fine webcomics-in-print, vampires, spooky holiday tales and all those other Comics We Crave.
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#superheroabc
Snikt Up Your ABCs With Wolverine
It's not exactly Sesame Street, but artist Sean Murphy's awesome Wolverine Alphabet series shows just one potential way for Marvel to get in with future owners Disney. After all, what could be more educational than mutants helping kids to spell? More » -
#furries
Furries Take Hollywood: The Year of Yiff
It's turning out to be the year of the Furry. There's cat people, wild things, a fox in a suit. Here's the complete list of this year's furry people, ranked by sexiness.
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#hughjackman
Hugh Jackman Is Our RoboRocky
It may be time to have a science fiction intervention for Hugh Jackman. Fresh from the moderate success of this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he's considering taking on the lead role in the upcoming robotic boxing movie Real Steel. More » -
#xmen
Should We Expect New X-Men By 2011?
Is X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Kid Cyclops twitter-teasing us, or are we closer to the prospect of the X-Men movie reboot than we'd previously thought? Click through for speculations and potential spoilers. More » -
#falldvdpreview
The io9 Guide To 2009's Fall DVD Releases
Last week, we told you about the movies reaching theaters this fall, but it has to be said: Sometimes, even just going to the theater seems like too much hassle. Here's what you can watch at home, instead. More » -
#wolverine
Wolverine's Movie Future May Include His Death
Talking about the future of Fox's Wolverine movie franchise, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner revealed some thoughts about what could happen following the second movie's ninja-filled trip to Japan... including an adaptation of a comic fans wouldn't expect. More » -
#marvelcalling
Marvel Wants To Show You Spidey's Calling
Feel like you need a visual ringtone for some of your friends? Marvel have got you covered - they've teamed up with mobile company Vringo to offer a new set of video ringtones showcasing Disney's favorite heroes. More » -
#movies
So What Happened To All Those Dark Knight Imitators?
It's been over a year since The Dark Knight made a billion dollars and revolutionized genre cinema. At the time, everyone said we'd be seeing a spate of Dark Knight-influenced "dark" superhero films. So are any of them still happening?
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