This Wolverine leak is worse than anyone could have possibly feared – word has it the film’s actually quite good.

It’s a disaster! Wolverine was supposed to be terrible from start to finish, but now word’s got out that it might not be a relentlessly dismal parade of cinematic diarrhoea that’ll make you consider actual suicide, and heads are going to roll for it.

First up is Fox’s Roger Friedman, who positively reviewed the leaked copy of Wolverine and got the sack for it. Let that be a lesson – if you’ve watched Wolverine online, make sure you tell everyone it’s crap.

When Wolverine was leaked online recently, it kickstarted a chain reaction of events that could culminate in a genuine disaster. Are we talking about 20th Century Fox losing so much money from the leak that it goes under? No. Are we talking about the implementation of new Draconian internet laws? No. Are we talking about the fact that, with Wolverine hobbled by the leak, Transformers 2 will end up being the biggest movie of the year by some margin? Yes, yes we are. Doesn’t bear thinking about, does it?

But that’s something to worry about further down the line. In the meantime, let’s focus on Roger Friedman from Fox, who’s just been sacked for reviewing the movie online. BBC News reports:

Fox News said that the company’s representatives and Friedman “mutually agreed to part ways immediately”. It said that Friedman’s behaviour was “reprehensible” and that it “condemned this act categorically”. The journalist wrote in his column on Thursday that downloading the 20th Century Fox film was “so much easier than going out in the rain”.

Yeah, and you know what else is easier than going out in the rain? Choking to death on some coins. You heard it here first, folks – watching Wolverine is about as fun as choking to death on some coins. Or something. Please credit that quote accordingly when you use it on the movie posters, Fox.

Anyway, the problem here doesn’t seem to be that Roger Friedman reviewed the leaked copy of Wolverine, or that he reviewed it positively. The problem seems to be that Roger Friedman didn’t seem to work out that Fox News and 20th Century Fox both have the word ‘Fox’ in the title. And, to be fair, he’s lucky that he only got fired for it – a mistake that colossally stupid should really only be punishable by some form of brain surgery.

Anyway, let’s lament the loss of a man we didn’t know from a website we didn’t read for writing about a film we don’t care about in the correct manner. And that’s by defiantly reviewing the Wolverine leak ourselves. Ready?

No, no we can’t bring ourselves to watch it. Christ, Wolverine looks wank, doesn’t it?

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