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FOX's Roger Friedman over a barrel! Will FOX bone their own?
If you haven't kept up with the rampant insanity that is the Wolverine leak than this will serve to only further confuse you. Yesterday someone mentioned in the comment section of Korey's response to our CNN exposure that they had seen a review on FOX. At the time I thought that person was on crack - I mean, who in their right mind at FOX would post an internet review of FOX's own stolen film?
His name is Roger Friedman, and if there's any justice in the world he will be fired by Monday.
The long and the short of it is this: the guy downloaded the movie, copped to doing it, then proceeded to fellate it in the way only Friedman knows how (to Fox films that is) going so far as to call it better than The Dark Knight. Apparently by the end of the review he made comments about subsequently downloading I LOVE YOU MAN (Paramounts film) because it was easier than going out in the rain to see it in a theater. FOX had this to say about their employee.
We've just been made aware that Roger Friedman, a freelance columnist who writes Fox 411 on Foxnews.com - an entirely separate company from 20th Century Fox - watched on the internet and reviewed a stolen and unfinished version of X-Men Orgins: Wolverine. This behavior is reprehensible and we condemn this act categorically - whether the review is good or bad.
Ooops. I like how they try to pretend that Foxnews is an "Entirely different company" rather than a subsidiary of the same gargantuan corporation. But that's just an amusing aside. I don't think I need to even express the kind of rage this incites. FOX is a company that in 2007 tracked down a guy who worked in the projection booth of a theater and wrote an early review of Fantastic Four: RotSS for Ain't it Cool News and threatened his theater chain with pulling their business if he wasn't summarily fired. I can only imagine the dicks Friedman is having to suck right now just in the vain hope that he can keep his job and ever work in this industry again. The guy wasn't exactly high on the integrity totem pole to begin with - but now, dear god. If Fox doesn't fire him, the blogs will never let them live it down. The article is no longer available, except...oh thank you google and your lovely cache feature:
Yes, I’ve seen "X Men Origins: Wolverine." It wasn’t at a screening, either. I found a work in progress print of it, 95 percent completed, on the internet last night. Let’s hope by now it’s gone.
But the cat is out of the bag, as they say, and the genie is out of the bottle. There’s no turning back. But no, I will not tell you the big twist/surprise toward the end. Not now, a whole month away from release. That wouldn’t be nice.
Right now, my "cousins" at 20th Century Fox are probably having apoplexy. I doubt anyone else has seen this film. But everyone can relax. I am, in fact, amazed about how great "Wolverine" turned out. It exceeds expectations at every turn. I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer.
I don’t know what the really big headline is here: the fact that "Wolverine" is so good, or that I also found the current top 10 movies in theaters, as well as a turgid domestic drama called "Fireflies in the Garden" with Ryan Reynolds and Julia Roberts — the latter in a minor role while her husband, Danny Moder, is credited as director of photography.
I did find the whole top 10, plus TV shows, commercials, videos, everything, all streaming away. It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer. I could have downloaded all of it but really, who has the time or the room? Later tonight I may finally catch up with Paul Rudd in "I Love You, Man." It’s so much easier than going out in the rain!
But back to "Wolverine": this is the prequel to the first "X Men" movie. Directed by Gavin Hood, the film is as cutting edge as it is old fashioned. This may be the big blockbuster film of 2009, and one we really need right now. It’s miles easier to understand than "The Dark Knight," and tremendously more emotional. Hood simply did an excellent job bringing Wolverine’s early life to the screen.
You know what's NOT easier than going out in the rain you easily amused fucktard? Find a new job. Hey Roger - I hear Daftbot is hiring...
His name is Roger Friedman, and if there's any justice in the world he will be fired by Monday.
The long and the short of it is this: the guy downloaded the movie, copped to doing it, then proceeded to fellate it in the way only Friedman knows how (to Fox films that is) going so far as to call it better than The Dark Knight. Apparently by the end of the review he made comments about subsequently downloading I LOVE YOU MAN (Paramounts film) because it was easier than going out in the rain to see it in a theater. FOX had this to say about their employee.
We've just been made aware that Roger Friedman, a freelance columnist who writes Fox 411 on Foxnews.com - an entirely separate company from 20th Century Fox - watched on the internet and reviewed a stolen and unfinished version of X-Men Orgins: Wolverine. This behavior is reprehensible and we condemn this act categorically - whether the review is good or bad.
Ooops. I like how they try to pretend that Foxnews is an "Entirely different company" rather than a subsidiary of the same gargantuan corporation. But that's just an amusing aside. I don't think I need to even express the kind of rage this incites. FOX is a company that in 2007 tracked down a guy who worked in the projection booth of a theater and wrote an early review of Fantastic Four: RotSS for Ain't it Cool News and threatened his theater chain with pulling their business if he wasn't summarily fired. I can only imagine the dicks Friedman is having to suck right now just in the vain hope that he can keep his job and ever work in this industry again. The guy wasn't exactly high on the integrity totem pole to begin with - but now, dear god. If Fox doesn't fire him, the blogs will never let them live it down. The article is no longer available, except...oh thank you google and your lovely cache feature:
Yes, I’ve seen "X Men Origins: Wolverine." It wasn’t at a screening, either. I found a work in progress print of it, 95 percent completed, on the internet last night. Let’s hope by now it’s gone.
But the cat is out of the bag, as they say, and the genie is out of the bottle. There’s no turning back. But no, I will not tell you the big twist/surprise toward the end. Not now, a whole month away from release. That wouldn’t be nice.
Right now, my "cousins" at 20th Century Fox are probably having apoplexy. I doubt anyone else has seen this film. But everyone can relax. I am, in fact, amazed about how great "Wolverine" turned out. It exceeds expectations at every turn. I was completely riveted to my desk chair in front of my computer.
I don’t know what the really big headline is here: the fact that "Wolverine" is so good, or that I also found the current top 10 movies in theaters, as well as a turgid domestic drama called "Fireflies in the Garden" with Ryan Reynolds and Julia Roberts — the latter in a minor role while her husband, Danny Moder, is credited as director of photography.
I did find the whole top 10, plus TV shows, commercials, videos, everything, all streaming away. It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer. I could have downloaded all of it but really, who has the time or the room? Later tonight I may finally catch up with Paul Rudd in "I Love You, Man." It’s so much easier than going out in the rain!
But back to "Wolverine": this is the prequel to the first "X Men" movie. Directed by Gavin Hood, the film is as cutting edge as it is old fashioned. This may be the big blockbuster film of 2009, and one we really need right now. It’s miles easier to understand than "The Dark Knight," and tremendously more emotional. Hood simply did an excellent job bringing Wolverine’s early life to the screen.
You know what's NOT easier than going out in the rain you easily amused fucktard? Find a new job. Hey Roger - I hear Daftbot is hiring...
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Comment by IMAXcinema on April 6, 2009 at 11:40am - easier to understand than the dark knight?he must be a dumbass.well.................. robert downey jr himself also said tdk was hard to understand and that he didnt like it all that much.
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Comment by hellsing3000 on April 5, 2009 at 3:09am -
Man, what a douchebag. I think he was trying to be some kind of investigative reporter trying to expose the world of internet piracy, I mean from the quotes he speaks of the process as if it is a foreign practice that he has never experienced. I think he was trying to blow the whistle on something. Everyone knows that the current top ten is there bad quality or not they are there sometimes a week before the movie comes out. His sentiments reek of complacency. The only thing that is sensational about this story is that the file is an unfinished product released a month before it hit any theater. His big mistake is having a loose tongue and not realizing that it doomed his job.
While internet piracy is more or less illegal I don't think it hurts movies good ones that is. It gives the otherwise uknowledgeable consumer an opportunity to make a decision for him or herself to not waste money on an inferior product but being that there is no better experience than watching a film in the cinema.
Hollywood has been shoving inferior movies down our throats for years, but as the market becomes more saturated and trailers become more and more misleading. As technology evolves, so does the industry and soo... does its fans.
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Comment by Sumgai on April 4, 2009 at 9:11pm - Deadlinehollywooddaily.com is reporting that Mr Friedman has been let go.
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Comment by Troy the Corpse Killer on April 4, 2009 at 7:55pm - wow this guy is a fucking retard. his dark knight statement is ludacris. even if he did see it, u keep ur fucking mouth shut!! WOOOOOOW.
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Comment by Deadly Dr. Jay on April 4, 2009 at 7:27pm -
Find a new job. Hey Roger - I hear Daftbot is hiring...
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Comment by David on April 4, 2009 at 7:01pm - It's natural selection Carlyle. Fox has leak, better weed out the weak ones while they're at it.
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Comment by Dexter on April 4, 2009 at 3:42pm - What was hard to understand about TDK? ... Oh wait this guy is so fucking moronic that he publicly announced very recently partaking in illegal activities right in the middle of a piracy uproar. WOW!! I bet Barney or Sesame street are hard to understand if you're that stupid in the first place.
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Comment by Miley Zor-El on April 4, 2009 at 2:13pm - I believe it could be miles easier to understand. But that's not a good thing. Simple addition is miles easier to understand that trigonometric functions. Pat the Bunny is easier to understand than Romeo and Juliet. Miles easier to understand to me is a nice way of saying the depth a three-year-old could understand.
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Comment by Rusty Shackelford on April 4, 2009 at 12:45pm - I'm still confused how family guy can talk so liberal and be very anti fox/republicans
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Comment by stevoarome on April 4, 2009 at 12:41pm - there is a conspiracy here, maybe fox leaked there own film on purpose hmm must investigate further.
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