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dot com slash awards. Only at a sleep number store or sleep number dot com. Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan Of Garbage where we're taking a look at the Wolverine trilogy of films. Yes. Has there ever been a series of movies where they get steadily better? Like a trilogy that gets better, I don't know. It's a real reversal of fortune, isn't it? I mean, most franchises, you wouldn't give them this opportunity. If they release this,
like apropos of nothing, just out of the blue, no. You don't get another one. Bloodshot. Wow. You know, in the era in which we currently exist, if an Netflix released a first movie like this, they wouldn't, they wouldn't do two more. They might do two more. They might do one more if they filmed two at the same time, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. I'm thinking about Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, aren't I? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, leave a like because we're of course talking about X-Men
origins, Wolverine. It's right. The first in what was supposed to be a series of X-Men prequel origin movies. This was the big one. This is the first one that was going to kick off the whole era single character origin movies. To some degree, we got it in another form. We got X-Men first class, which gave us the origins of Magneto and Professor X. We sort of got, subsequently, we've gotten very small origins for characters multiple times. We've had Cyclopsis
origin two or three times. Yes. I guess to some degree. I mean, we get some of it in this. True. He was in a jail at a school and then he ran away. Then he ran into a helicopter. He's a tortured soul. The true indignity of having to write out a hundred lines as a high school student in your mid to late 20s. Oh my god. But anyway, I've got some notes here. Sometimes I write notes. Sometimes I don't write notes. Sometimes I lose my notes, but then I find them
because this one says I search for, I can't believe I have to watch this again. That's my first note of this. Is that because we've done a movie commentary for it already? And we've watched it in our own private time. That's true. And we've probably talked about it on our podcast, The Weekly Planet, we've talked about it. It's the best and worst superman. It's the best and worst ex-man movies. Here's what's talking about the ex-man chronology. Let's talk about the time line.
What's canonical? What's not? There's never been a trilogy where the trilogy gets better. I'm sick to death of a James. I'm like a man on his deathbed, slowly realizing that he's seen the faces of his co-workers more than the faces of his children. But in this case, my co-workers is the movie ex-man origins Wolverine and my children is all my cool jackets that I can't wear currently because I'm in this little room. You can bring your jackets. I can wear a cool jacket,
couldn't I? So the way this happened was during the filming of X-Men 2. Yes, they went, oh there's a bit of X-Men origin Wolverine in this because you see the facility, he has some flashbacks. You know, you visited it, he has a big punch up with a lady Wolverine like a striker. Striker? No, none of those. What's that lady deathstroke? Lady deathstroke. And I'm going to let that one slide. Tell him how wrong he is in the comments, folks. I was going to say you will let
that slide, but nobody else will. That's right. So the initial idea was let's tell a story set in Japan before the X-Men movies and all two like the Silver Samurai and I love interest in all of that. That sounds familiar, that's the next movie. The studio said no. No, let's take it right back. Yes. To bone claws. So Hugh Jackman's production company seed productions got on board for this also. They've done two movies, this and the movie Deception, which is also apparently a bad movie.
I haven't seen it. According to David Benioff who wrote this. Oh, one of the guys, one of the again, the Thrones guys. One of the GOT bros. Yeah, yeah. I mean, this also happened during the writer's strike. So a lot of this was thrown out. The original script was influenced by the Wolverine scented comics. Wolverine scented. Yeah. What do you think? What do you think he? Sweat? I mean, Sweat obviously. Yeah. The woods. Yeah. Young Wolverine though, probably like Poperee. Oh,
yeah, he would. Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. So it was the Wolverine comics from 1982, Weapon X from 1991 and the origin Wolverine comic from 2001. Gavin Hood, of course, directed this. You say, of course, like anybody of course. Of course. I had to go. He was hand picked by Hugh Jackman, but he was battling with executives the entire time. One of the most famous stories was that an executive by the name of Tom Rothman had a set repainted from darker to lighter because he didn't
like it. Richard Donner had to get flown out. His wife Lauren Shullardonner produced this. Richard Donner directed the first two is Superman movies. It's all story. We've talked about them. So he was flown into like ease tensions. It was a nightmare. Hey, everybody shut up. I directed Superman. And everybody shut up and settle down. Go to your corners. It's me, Richard Donner. Back, back, settle, easy. Hugh Jackman easy. Executives easy. Apparently, Hugh Jackman, very nice guy on
set. Everybody loves him. Everybody talks about the off-hip. How do you feel though about explaining Wolverine's origin and not just here, but in the comics also? I've never liked it. Yeah. I like the idea that he's a man with a mysterious past. He exists now and we see snippets of his past and some snippets. Oh, Snickers. No. Yum yum yum. Yum yum yum. P-nuts, protein. They are good. I like him. Yeah. My faves. Yeah. Yeah. Mars bar too much. I don't
Mars bar recently. I'm like, that's too sugary. This is a man who's also, I should point out, this we're going to be extended, is drinking a giant monster energy juice. I'm drinking a monster juice. I'm drinking a mango loco. And as I said, the healthiest and most organic figure that is the can. It's got the caffeine of five coffees. I've had two sips of it and I am off my rock. I've got to give you the strength of half a man. It's been about 20 minutes. It's my weapon
X. Anyway, I prefer the idea that he is here now and we don't know what happened. He's got fragments of memories and we don't know what's real and what's what has been manufactured by the weapon X program and etc. And then you know, you don't need to know he's a fancy little boy. No, throughout the eighties and the nineties in in X-Men comic books and in his own solo series,
we got little bits of it. To me, that was interesting. And again, I kind of feel like, and I've said this before, but I kind of feel like there is no origin that the actual comic book creators can give us or the movie producers can give us that is as interesting and intriguing as we can imagine for ourselves. As nothing. As nothing. Exactly. That's right. You know, you know, we got, we know he we know he was part of a, you know, the weapon X program. And he was part of like a
secret strike force. There's an imagery where he's wearing like the computer on his head and he's got a computer on all the chords and whatever. That's all you need. We've tied, we've connected his brain directly to a virtual boy. He walked into a wall. I think we're on the right track. And we know he, you know, he was in World War II and you know, he met Captain America and that's kind of intriguing and interesting. And I think that's enough that I think maybe that's enough.
Although that being said, I think the opening montage of this movie is very good. It's amazing. It makes you think this might be a good movie for a second. I'll tell you what, and you may, you may have this information here, but people may not remember this movie was leaked and incomplete. Oh, yeah. This movie was leaked several months before release and it came out on the internet. And I remember I acquired a copy of this probably through Hugh Jackman Center to us.
Yeah, Hugh Jackman Center to us. It was all above board. No, I think you probably sent me a copy. No, no, I, I never saw the work print of this. I can't believe it. Well, try to implicate me in your crimes. All right, fine. Then I got it. I purchased a burnt DVD out of a car boot. Anyway, I watched the opening montage of this. It still had incomplete visual effects and etc. But I remember watching
this at the time and going, this is so incredible. I am not going to watch the rest of this. I'm going to wait and I'm going to spend ticket money at the box office and I'm going to watch this in cinemas in a few months time as it is meant to be seen because I have faith that based on this montage that this is going to be a really good movie. And it isn't. No, it's a dreadful movie. And you know what I think one of the problems with it is it's supposed to explore like the psychology
of Logan, like Izzy, an animal, Izzy, a man, like how did he become this way? But he's just a bloke who's angry sometimes. Like who cares? All the behind the scene stuff is like we want to see the evolution of how he becomes the guy that shows up in the first X-Men. But even though he like lost all his memories and gets the claws, like he's had physical changes, his personality is identical. He's exactly this way. He doesn't go on a journey or an arc. The journey I guess for him is
he was tricked for a bit. Yep, that's right. He's friend. He had a friend. He was a good friend for a hundred years and then... Is his brother, maybe? He's maybe his brother and then his friend. His friend went a little too far. What idea? I'd want to know. He took too long to figure out he went too far. Like decades of him like murdering innocent people and being like, hey, don't do that. Look into Vietnam. Look at him right up to Vietnam to figure it out. That's right. Come on, man.
Wait, you've been killing everybody. You've been killing people on their side. You've been killing people on outside. You're just swinging wildly and going, woo, I love murder. And you know, after about 50, 60 years of that, I'm starting to question your motives, Saber 2. Another note that I had about the opening montage that I've not thought about until now is you wonder how much paperwork it would have taken to get them assigned to the same platoon every time. I'm like a hundred
years. Yeah, that's hard work, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. I'd like to sign up to fight Vietnam. You have to bring my friend as well. He's my brother, I think. We've got to be on the same team the whole time. We've got to fight back to back. That's right. I'm here to stop him killing indiscriminately. Yes, he is going to do that. Yes, we will take this gun and bang it. Yes. And the thing about Logan is he doesn't make any decisions that are deemed questionable.
There's no gray area in him. I mean, he kills his dad. He kills his faked. No, he kills his real dad, doesn't he? But he doesn't buy accident. After he kills his dad, his personality is established. Great choice on fake dad, by the way. That's an Australian actor whose name I'm going to get Brian something Brian. It's probably Peter O'Brien. He looks like a Peter O'Brien. That's what does he. Yeah, but great choice. I know in best from the Alexi sales sketch, psycho ward 11.
Yes, there'll be no clips of that available. No, but here it is. It is Peter O'Brien. Terrific, I love him. So, Sabatouith, he was offered a muscle suit. He lives right. Okay. Much like he said he was like, I'll just keep my shirt on the whole time. He's got some muscles. Yeah. Because the Jaggernaut from the previous movie Vinny Jones wore a muscle suit and he's like, that's humiliating. I'll just I'll just work out a little bit.
I like his casting. He does some good killing. There's a moment where he grabs Will I Am spine. Yeah. You know, I'm trying to teleport. I like that. He improv that on the day. Did he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, there's all sorts of minor mutant characters showing up. There's Kevin Durand as blob. There's William I Am as Kestrel. There's Dominic Monahan as Chris Bradley. Great. Just beautiful stuff. I like how he transitioned from like special forces guy to just a guy working at a carnival.
Did you appreciate his jacket? Yeah, I was alright. Yeah. It's not as a jacket guy. You'd appreciate his jacket. I mean, I guess you don't like all jackets. Is that? Yeah, but I mean, you know, you'd think you'd be happier. You got to retire and spend more time with his jacket. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's got a girlfriend who tells a really long story about the moon. Yeah, that's your life. Yeah, Silver Fox. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. And of course, Taylor Kitches in this says, Remy Labieu.
I forgot he was in this. I forgot he was in it as much as he said it. I have a note here that says I'd honestly forgotten that Gambit canonically exists in the Fox X-Men universe to the extent anyone is canonical in the X-Fox X-Men universe. You know what I mean? Where do you go after this? Who knows? Nobody knows. Yeah, but his stuff and the stuff with the blob feels very video gamey. You're not getting past me. Yeah. I'm not telling the information until you
beat me up. I've have a note here that says about the owl market this movie, it just becomes a series of fetch quests and comical misunderstandings like, oh, he said, Bob, but you thought he said, blob, you better fight. Yeah. Oh, Wolverine has dog tags. So he's probably exactly the same guys that other guy, you know, who has dog tags who kidnapped you and experiment on you better fight. Better fight. Stupid. It is stupid. It's stupid. It's a stupid movie. It's a stupid movie. I don't
like it, my sense. Yeah. The effects are bad. It's not just the claws. The claws are atrocious in this. Yeah. The bone claws are fine. Yeah. But I think they're mostly real though. Yeah, but the idea being I think that when the new and shiny that he gets new, he gets his new adamantium claws and so they're fresh and shiny, but they look awful. You see them like the practical ones like on set for the behind the scenes stuff and they don't look that much better. They're way too shiny and
way too smooth. But there's other stuff like there's a part where Saber Tooth throws Wolverine into a car. It looks really bad. There's a moment where Saber Tooth scratches the hood of a car, Gavin Hood. That looks really bad. There's a bunch of half finished or just not very good special effects in this that I do not care for. And of course there's Deadpool. There is a cool truck flip though. I think there's a moment where where there's a moment where Wolverine, he cuts down the side of
a mini flips it towards a helicopter. I thought that looked pretty good. And then the explosion happens. Oh, he doesn't look at it because he's so cool. That's the need to look at it. He's seen an explosion before. There's also some really bad ADR where Agent Zero taunts him before Wolverine kills him. And it's just yeah, so good. Yeah, they changed that Wolverine was supposed to just stab him, but they're like, well, this has to be PG 13. So you'll light him on fire and have a big explosion.
Yeah, nice. It's really good. Yeah, but Deadpool. So Ryan Reynolds was told because he had already signed up for a Deadpool movie or role that listen, we're going to do this with or without you. And we're going to you two. Yeah. Yes, that's a real hard. Yeah, again, during the writers, we don't make Deadpool with or without you. Good song. Yep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This was also during the writer's strike. So Ryan Reynolds has said that like he showed up on the day and the script said Deadpool, they already talks fast. So all that's written and improved by him. I can't wait. He's got his two guys, a girl and a pizza place in Provesque. Yeah, he knows what he's what he's a comedic man. No, he said, oh, people are going to go nuts over this. This version of Deadpool and the executives were like, yeah,
and it was like, no, you've misread the way I said that. Maybe my inflection was wrong. People are going to go nuts because this is bad. I'm employing my trademark two guys and a girl and a pizza place sarcasm there. I said, people are going to go nuts over it. Why would they do it like this? They way to play to none of his strengths at all. The studio really thought they were doing something with this and the diamond eyes that I saw it behind the same thing. It's like, well,
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expect to lose one to two pounds per week. Individual results may vary. I the diamondized like the dead but it's like because I'm lazy. I think they went okay. We're collecting newton DNA for the pool, the dead pool. I think people will like, I think the executive thought, well, that'll be really clever and people will like that. We've worked backwards. I think they are wrong because they're always wrong. I think it's really good actually
that they thought about it a little bit. And also the way he's controlled. It's like one of those old, the text command video games. I have a note here just says terrible UI design and the control device for dead pool. So you have to type out decapitate if you want him to decapitate a guy. D-E-C-A-A-P. What if you're in a hurry and you're many to do a time, but get your IT guy to make a decapitate button hotkey or make it F7 or do it like 1990s point and click adventure style.
Use big sword on Wolverine. I don't understand. Nonsense. Terrible. Also, if you have a flawless mind control chip, you can install in somebody. I want it. Maybe put it in Wolverine. Yeah. Or maybe just talk about him in another room where he can't hear you planning to betray him. In the room? Yeah. Oh, this worked, but he's asleep, which is bad. We should kill him. What are we doing? Oh, he's a white. Let's erase the memory of his girlfriend. Let's do that. Yeah. He'll be cool with
that. He will be cool. I mean, are you cool with that? He's mad down. Why is he mad? He's running around. He's about to read his note. I thought I as a weapon X executive would have his number, but I don't. He's mad at me. It's almost like I'm dumb. I'm an executive who's dumb, but I get it. One of my notes just says new to Jackman. New Jackman? Pretty good. Yeah. That's that's a good rhyme. One of my notes just says lessons learned from a kindly old couple at least half a
century younger than you. Oh, yeah. You know, I think they wanted a mar and a park. Can't they wanted an art? May. There's somebody special. We can talk about it in trivia. I like it. So exciting. I can't even wait to tell you. Okay. We'll have to wait for it. Okay. But then how do we explain how he never interacts with him ever again? Oh, let's have him get mone down by a sniper. Big explosions. Yeah. I think also the action just isn't really great. A lot of really obvious
wirework. Agents zero, I guess, is the fun idea that's kind of executed poorly. Deadpool like cutting up bullets is nothing when he's Wade Wilson. Yeah. I just don't just I can't with any of this. The stuff on top of the big smoke stack or whatever it is. That's not bad. Like they're fighting back to back and he's teleporting in and out. I like that idea. But again, it's a bit it's a bit too late in the game. Yeah. And the ending. It's weird that after everything exploded and Wolverine
was like, I'm leaving strikers like nails the time to attack. It should leave man. I have I have a logistical question. And look, it's probably negated by the fact that X-Men continuity is is all over the place and it ultimately does not matter. But I mean, if if if nowhere else, this is the place to really lock this down. Yeah. So strike a kind of kill Wolverine. No. But he can wreck his memories
like scrambling an egg. Yeah. So how he does this is he shoots him twice in the head with adamantium bullets. Now, my question is does Logan then have two permanent bullet holes in his skull? Did you like incapacitate him doing a like a three stooge's eye poke? You just stick you. The three eyeballs. No, you just stick him through the holes in his skull. He's got two four head holes. You could just poke him in there. I assume the bullets were lodged. Oh, no, they have to go through
his brain. So they're just rattling around in his brain. That's I mean, they're either permanently lodged in his brain or did they come out the other side? So he's got four permanent bullet holes in his skull. He does whistle when he runs. Might be it. Somebody must know somebody in the production side. You'd think so. I don't think they've ever thought about this. No, absolutely not. Just like how would the adamantium heal over his skull? You know what I mean? It's a good question. It's a great
question. Sorry, you're right. It's a great question. Great question. Yeah. What else do you have in terms of notes? That's it. Oh, Professor X is in this as well. He shows up looking like a cartoon and then all the X-Men kids run towards the cartoon helicopter on the most on a dreadful looking green screen. Oh, yes. Don't even put that in. You see Professor X, you cut back to the students and you just like, oh, they're safe. They're with Professor X who can walk what year is this set?
Is this before or after the flashback in X-Men? This is sort of sent in the 80s, right? It's sort of sent in the 80s. Because the original X-Men mood, like the 2000 X-Men movies, they're set in the near future. They started like 2005-ish. Right. Yeah. So, so this movie is set maybe in the 80s. Yeah. But I mean, in the X-Men first class continuity, that's the past 60s. So, but then there's an X-Men movie where they revisit weapon X and Wolverine is in there. And another timeline has
been scrambled like an adamantium brain. But does that mean they recaptured him and put him in the facility with and put the computer on him? This time with this time of connecting his brain directly to an Nintendo DS. Oh, no wait, he was captured in days of future past at the end or something. Well, or he wasn't? I don't know. It also, it doesn't, it doesn't matter. Yeah. We also got a post-credits scene in this, but we got a different post-credits scene in Australia
if you recall correctly. Yeah, right. Yeah. So, we didn't get the decapitated headpool moment. We got Wolverine drinking in Japan and he goes, I don't have any memories. Yeah. We got the shitty one. I mean, they're both not great, but the only thing I remember is I love the taste of Foster's beer. I guess the implication being that the next one will be set in Japan. And it is, but it's not a direct sequel to it. No, it's decades later. Yeah.
And if I recall the post-credits sequence of the next one post, it has another kind of narrative thread that is carried over into the next X-Men movie, but not really. Again, there's the weird decade break or decades break. We'll look at it too. We'll look at it next week. Absolutely. Anyways, it's time for our regularly occurring segment. It happens every week. It's called Thoughts and Prizes. It doesn't happen every week. It's the return of Thoughts and
Prizes, Mason. This is an opportunity for you, Mason. Yes. And the Watchers and listeners of this video to hear some of my thoughts and win fantastic prizes. What are the prizes? What do you mean? What are the prizes? The prizes will be revealed when you win. Interest. We've been through this. We go through it every week. Yeah, but I'm trying to get through defences here. Like this is a whole. It doesn't feel like a scam. Yeah. It's something, though, isn't it? Oh, it's something. Just like the
prizes, they're real. Have this up there. Yeah. Here's some of my thoughts. When all the logs rolled on Wolverine, I set out loud. Login. Nice. That's good. That's actually a good thought. Yes. Is that getting any closer to Prizes? Saying your thoughts are good. That's not hurt. I'll tell you that much. Okay. All right. I liked the bit where he does his little nudie run across the farm. That was fun. Nude Jackman. That's probably where that note comes from.
Yeah. Do you think you did a full nude? Or do you think you did like? No, they do. They do the flesh covered sock or whatever. That's pressed. That's generally what they do. That's gross. Where do they get the flesh from? That's not part of my thoughts and prizes. I don't know. I don't have that information. Okay. Now, I did have an answer before when you were like, does he have a man to him, staff rattling around at his brain, etc. We see an X-ray of his skeleton.
Or an X-ray in the first X-man movie. There's no holes in it. I'm assuming they're just lodged in there. I don't know though. That would mean if you tapped the back of his head, hard enough they would pop that. They might fall out. Yeah. There's a moment where you get that prank on him and you put the coin. Yeah. Push the coin on his head and he keeps tapping and then two bullets come out. You'd be like, Christ on a bike.
When Wolverine becomes a lumberjack, Striker turns up and goes, you have an age today. It's been six years, man. You all look exactly the same. Uh-huh. Weird thing to say. I think Striker at the end would need a bath because it would feel good on his feet. It would feel much better. Can you imagine having a bath after that? Like a nice warm bath? Are you going to do it a sting a bit? No, it's doing initially. But you put some Epsom salts in there. Okay. That should be all right. Yeah.
Also, this needs to be mentioned. The game is good. This is based on... Oh, yeah. The game that is based on this movie is good. It's a good game. It's kind of got a war-esque. We've done a video on it on this channel. But yeah, it's worth playing if you want a better version of this movie. Um, let me have a look. No, no prizes. Sorry. Interesting. Yeah. God, you have no bad run, aren't you? I think I'm having a pretty good run. I mean, if you had a good run, you would have won a prize.
Okay. It doesn't normally take this long for somebody to win a prize. If something must be wrong with this... No, I'm just looking at the system and... Everything seems to be in order. It's a system, okay. We're developing some clues here. Okay. The clues. It's all very transparent. Yeah. You get it. I don't get it. You get it. Anyways, it's time for X-Man Origins trivia. trivia, Origins X, whatever. Scott Adkins. Trivering? What? Trivering. Trivering. We can do that for next week. Okay, great.
Make a note. Somebody make a note. Put it in the comments. Yeah. Remember to say Trivering next time. Scott Adkins doubles for Deadpool in the climax because Ryan Reynolds was busy working on another movie. Oh. Scott Adkins is a stunt performer. He's an actor as well. He's been a... I think he was Ben Affleck's Batman stunt star. He's the big boy. He's the big boy in John Wick 4. He is a big boy.
Yeah. The close-ups of Ryan Reynolds have filmed like of his face and whatever and everything else is not him. The old couple that Logan befriends, their names are Travis and Heather Hudson. They are the civilian names of Guardian and... Alpha Flies. The end of the game. The leaders of the Canadian superhero group Alpha Flight. Wolverines. I mean, not anymore. No. Also, you'd think they'd see him and go, I got superpowers like us. I know you're an Alpha Flight.
And we've been on the same team maybe? Yeah. Yeah. You'd think that. Yeah. It's just a fun reference that nobody got, including you. That's great. Despite knowing. They don't say their names. Well, exactly. So why do it? What's at the point? To kill them. Yeah. To upset people. Yeah. Wolverines log cabin in the wilderness was constructed on the hillside in New Zealand. Unfortunately, because of the very noisy and high winds the set had to be dismantled and rebuilt in studio.
It's a big waste of money. That is good for you. Uh, Logan gets his signature jacket. Oh, hell yeah. From the old man in the bar. He's... Barn. He's an Alpha Flight. However, he leaves it in Gambit's plane before the film's climax. How's he get it back for X-Men? One-Lin? Well, director Gavin Hood suggests that he would later have another run in with Gambit and he would give him his jacket. He'd be like, oh, he left his jacket. And he'd go, what jacket?
Oh, we've lost your memories, but we've did an adventure. Yeah, you got this. You told me you got this from two members of Alpha Flight. But they were old and they'd never been superheroes and they got shot in the head. No, not doing a superhero thing, just in a barn. Yeah. Also, I love the fact that the director had to answer that question. Yeah. That question was presented to him and he had to go, I have... I can't just go... Yeah, but how long did it hold on to it?
Yeah, I can't just go, I don't care and you shouldn't carry that. You've wasted your life, person asking this question. The first person that Wolverine would have remembered is Gambit. Because that's when he came to, he sees Gambit. Gambit's like, let's go. Chris Hemsworth, an old and iron rike audition for the part of Remy LeBio, slash Gambit. Like as in two guys in a trench coat? Yeah, they did it to you.
Well, they would have worn the signature gambit trench coat, but in the hopes of it, wouldn't you? Yeah, right. And Hugh Jackman earned $25 million for this movie and he did a big workout. That'll be nice. Yes, and footage of him working out. On top of his parcel money? Yeah. That's right. Right. He was lifting it all. Lifting it all up. Now, in terms of box office, it had a budget of $150 million, and the return was $373.1.
But of course, as mentioned, a bootleg copy of this movie was leaked online before release. There had no water market, had unfinished alternate visual effects and different font in the credits. Oh, boy. No, no. It was downloaded about 4.5 million times. People say that it did contribute to this not having as high a box office as X-Men 3, but this still did very well, regardless of it being a bad movie and it was leaked. Also, if you want to know the full story of that, I've done a video on it.
Oh. It's called The Time X-Men Origins Wolverine was stolen. Oh, did you come up with that, no? Did you come up with that, no? It's the first thing I thought of. How did you come up with that? It's the first thing I thought of. Okay, that's actually the good idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it explains. It explains in the title. It explains in the title for itself, explain the story. It's a fascinating story. I made a guy goes to jail for it. Oh, God, this is me. Yeah, it will be you.
The trial's coming up. There's a guy who worked at Fox and 20th Century of Fox, of course, made this movie who did a review of it before it came out and went, it was easy. I downloaded it online. And he got fired. It's a whole thing. And anyway, you're able to trace the source back to how it happened and it's all in that video. Is he Jackman the whole time? Partially, yes. Oh, no. Yeah. Anyways, he should be in prison. You Jackman. Yeah. Yeah, great. You Jackman.
Or he should be in a museum next to Ned Kelly's armor and follow up talk because he's our hero. He is. I feel like Hugh Jackman going to prison would be like the time Paddington went to prison. Like he'd change the whole vibe of it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I put on a show. They would. Anyways, if you enjoy these videos, you can enjoy the Merleys. You can enjoy them. But you can enjoy them early at BigSoundWitch.co.
Of course, we're going to be talking about the Wolverine and then Logan over the next few weeks. Those videos always go up there early. But in addition to that, we do video game Let's Place. We recently did one on the X-Men Arcade game. We do movie commentaries. We've got one coming up on the original X-Men, but we've also done a bunch of other X-Men movie commentaries on there. We do a comic book club. That's right. Recently, we looked at Old Man Logan.
Ooh. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, Mason. That's right. There's so many content there. There's so many content. It's crazy over there. Nine bucks a month that helps support this, keeps it all ad-free. That's right. In terms of sponsors, et cetera. Now Logan, obviously, very well-nobody. No good. It's a classic. The Wolverine, I remember enjoying. Me too. And it came out. But I haven't watched it since it came out.
I like the bit where the Silver Samurai suit opens up and it goes, I'm an old man. I want to be young. Give me your bones. That's right. That's right. I'm going to stick this thing in your bones. I'm going to get all your bones used out. It'll be my bone juice. Yeah. I'll be young again. Woo. Yeah. Anyways, thank you to Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Lawrence. I'll see you all on the next one. Grab that, Jeremy. Guys, we'll see you next week. Oh, we have a podcast weekly planet.
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