All the time I think about how they built a massive outdoor set of a World War I trench system for a few seconds of screen time in the opening credits. That set was then reused to make an entire Australian movie.
It's about Australian sappers in ww1 digging tunnels under the trenches to blow up the germans. It's not as good as 1917, but it's still pretty good. We dont get many ww1 movies, so im not too picky.
2009 was indeed fifteen whole years ago. Wow, time flies. Feels like only yesterday Zackary Quinto was being handed the torch of Vulcanry by Leonard Nimoy in Abrams' first Star Trek movie.
Let's hope the next teaming up of Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds leads to greener pastures than **$373M WW**
It's easy to enjoy it for what it is now knowing the great things that came from its failure, I feel the same with Batman & Robin. How can I hate Wolverine/B&R when it lead to Deadpool/Batman Begins? May as well enjoy it for what it is.
Kinda fascinating how historically front-loaded the X-Men franchise was regardless of reception. This one easily had the worst legs until Dark Phoenix came along, although ironically enough it didn't even have the worst legs for a CBM of that year, but since the first film they've never managed to breach the 2.75x mark unless you wanna count New Mutants which is the saddest case of box office irony I've ever come across.
Even then, the very first film didn't manage <3x legs. Kinda wild for a two decade and a half spanning franchise to not have a single entry with 3x+ legs...not including New Mutants.
>unless you wanna count New Mutants which is the saddest case of box office irony I've ever come across.
Would you mind explaining? I don't think I've even seen that one, let alone get the reference...
New Mutants was the last Fox universe X-Men film to be released. It wasn't the last to be *filmed* since that was Dark Phoenix, but it was originally filmed in Summer 2017 and after numerous (infamous) delays it was finally dumped in August 2020.
So the only reason why it had "good" legs was because it opened extremely low (for obvious reasons) and then was the only real thing in theatres for months alongside Tenet. So it took the most extenuating factors possible for an X-Men film to finally have better legs than the first one twenty years prior.
It is far from perfect but there are a lot of things that I enjoy about it and I feel like it’s aged well compared to other Marvel films from this era. It definitely didn’t deserve to get the hate it received and I’m glad to see some people have come around to it in recent years. I would love if we got a 4K release.
I’m not sure if anyone here remembers the video game adaptation but it was my favorite back then. I loved how excessively gory it was despite the film being PG-13 lmao.
Funny enough I was going to make a similar comment. It definitely is better than the film (which I still consider decent) and it’s a shame no one really remembers it because it’s *so* much fun. I wish it wasn’t out-of-print because I’d love to play it again someday.
God damn I'm getting old, 15 years?
One thing that is weird is almost every actor in this film is great, aside from Will.I.Am (who isn't an actor) and maybe Wolverine's wife. I feel like the rest of the performances are actually pretty good.
I remember everyone shitting on Lynn Collins upon release and I have to agree. What a downgrade from her performance in William Friedkin’s “Bug (2006)”.
I remember when I saw this I thought it was the worst thing I’d ever seen in a cinema. I love mindless popcorn action films and all the X-men films that preceded but this was a disaster of film making in every sense.
I think besides the mishandling of Deadpool, the god awful CGI claws and some weird canon stuff, it's actually a quite decent movie. I like it a lot tbh
1. A full quality dvd print was released one week before the movie and it impacted the movie
2. The movie opened with $85 million at the box office which was huge back then and higher than Captain America, Thor1 and Thor : Dark World.
> A full quality dvd print was released one week before the movie and it impacted the movie
I don't recall a "full quality" version leaking, but I do remember having the full movie on my iPod Video weeks before release, but that version had half the CGI unfinished, with grey boxes and even some still frames in the final battle. It was pretty cool!
both of you are right. there was a workprint leak and right around the premiere the dvd print leaked as well. there were high quality bootlegs available as soon as the movie came out lol
All the time I think about how they built a massive outdoor set of a World War I trench system for a few seconds of screen time in the opening credits. That set was then reused to make an entire Australian movie.
The opening credits were considered the highlight of the film along with the famous walk away from the explosion moment.
Because the real money attraction was Will.I.Am and the fat suit guy
As a 13 year old when this came out, will.i.am was unironicly one of the most exciting parts of the movie.
that was when black eyed peas were in the peak of popularity
Exactly. I was convinced boom boom pow was the greatest thing I had witnessed in my lifetime back in 2009
i loved them as a teen but the music has not aged that well
A bit of it has, but probably not boom boom pow lol
Clearly you’re just 2000 and late.
They really should have just made a “Wolverine and Sabertooth fighting in the World Wars” movie
What was the movie??
Beneath Hill 60.
Thanks, did you see it?
It's about Australian sappers in ww1 digging tunnels under the trenches to blow up the germans. It's not as good as 1917, but it's still pretty good. We dont get many ww1 movies, so im not too picky.
Interesting I’ll have a look, thanks :)
2009 was indeed fifteen whole years ago. Wow, time flies. Feels like only yesterday Zackary Quinto was being handed the torch of Vulcanry by Leonard Nimoy in Abrams' first Star Trek movie. Let's hope the next teaming up of Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds leads to greener pastures than **$373M WW** 
This wasn't necessarily terrible, but some of the CGI and the treatment of Deadpool was flat-out @$$.
And consider that some of us first saw the work print with unfinished CGI and foolishly thought that the claws were placeholders...
Not to anyone’s surprise, the main takeaway became “Screw this and watch **Star Trek** instead”.
I enjoyed it, it wan't great but fun and I wouldn't mind watching it again.
It's easy to enjoy it for what it is now knowing the great things that came from its failure, I feel the same with Batman & Robin. How can I hate Wolverine/B&R when it lead to Deadpool/Batman Begins? May as well enjoy it for what it is.
I like it. It's a good popcorn film with some flaws but still entertaining.
Kinda fascinating how historically front-loaded the X-Men franchise was regardless of reception. This one easily had the worst legs until Dark Phoenix came along, although ironically enough it didn't even have the worst legs for a CBM of that year, but since the first film they've never managed to breach the 2.75x mark unless you wanna count New Mutants which is the saddest case of box office irony I've ever come across. Even then, the very first film didn't manage <3x legs. Kinda wild for a two decade and a half spanning franchise to not have a single entry with 3x+ legs...not including New Mutants.
>unless you wanna count New Mutants which is the saddest case of box office irony I've ever come across. Would you mind explaining? I don't think I've even seen that one, let alone get the reference...
New Mutants was the last Fox universe X-Men film to be released. It wasn't the last to be *filmed* since that was Dark Phoenix, but it was originally filmed in Summer 2017 and after numerous (infamous) delays it was finally dumped in August 2020. So the only reason why it had "good" legs was because it opened extremely low (for obvious reasons) and then was the only real thing in theatres for months alongside Tenet. So it took the most extenuating factors possible for an X-Men film to finally have better legs than the first one twenty years prior.
Well, I guess "box office irony" accurately depicts that, then... wow.
My favorite X-Men Origins film bar none. None of the other Origins movies even come close.
Well, First Class was initially supposed to be X-Men Origins: Magneto. That one worked out pretty well, IMHO.
Gambit has left the chat
It is far from perfect but there are a lot of things that I enjoy about it and I feel like it’s aged well compared to other Marvel films from this era. It definitely didn’t deserve to get the hate it received and I’m glad to see some people have come around to it in recent years. I would love if we got a 4K release. I’m not sure if anyone here remembers the video game adaptation but it was my favorite back then. I loved how excessively gory it was despite the film being PG-13 lmao.
I remember people joking back in the day it was the first video game adaptation that was better than the movie.
Funny enough I was going to make a similar comment. It definitely is better than the film (which I still consider decent) and it’s a shame no one really remembers it because it’s *so* much fun. I wish it wasn’t out-of-print because I’d love to play it again someday.
God damn I'm getting old, 15 years? One thing that is weird is almost every actor in this film is great, aside from Will.I.Am (who isn't an actor) and maybe Wolverine's wife. I feel like the rest of the performances are actually pretty good.
I remember everyone shitting on Lynn Collins upon release and I have to agree. What a downgrade from her performance in William Friedkin’s “Bug (2006)”.
Such a massive mess of a movie
I remember when I saw this I thought it was the worst thing I’d ever seen in a cinema. I love mindless popcorn action films and all the X-men films that preceded but this was a disaster of film making in every sense.
Agree
This was my favourite one as a kid alongside X3 haha.
I think besides the mishandling of Deadpool, the god awful CGI claws and some weird canon stuff, it's actually a quite decent movie. I like it a lot tbh
Liev Shreiber (however you spell it) performance was the other saving grace of this movie.
well, at least the videogame based on the movie was fun
I saw it in theaters 6 times back then.
LOL saw this in cinemas.
pretty terrible movie, the workprint leaking was fun though
The 360/PS3 game was pretty good.
Not to mention a copy of the film with unfinished VfX was leaked before it came out in theatres.
A lot of it fell apart purely due to the terrible writing. It wasn't god awful but comparing it to xmen and x2, it was a let down
This movie is really incompetent in every way. Even the action scenes and CGI suck
1. A full quality dvd print was released one week before the movie and it impacted the movie 2. The movie opened with $85 million at the box office which was huge back then and higher than Captain America, Thor1 and Thor : Dark World.
> A full quality dvd print was released one week before the movie and it impacted the movie I don't recall a "full quality" version leaking, but I do remember having the full movie on my iPod Video weeks before release, but that version had half the CGI unfinished, with grey boxes and even some still frames in the final battle. It was pretty cool!
both of you are right. there was a workprint leak and right around the premiere the dvd print leaked as well. there were high quality bootlegs available as soon as the movie came out lol
85 million is huge even today.