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Codename Wolverine
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Original Release Date:
2009
Original Running Time:
107
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Fanedit Running Time:
89
Time Cut:
22
Time Added:
2
Brief Synopsis:
Wolverine the movie; the closest as possible comic continuity edit.
Intention:
Being a fan of the X-Men and a loyal reader of the Wolverine solo comic book since my teenage years I was not satisfied with what Fox did with the character in his origin movie, while it does follow the sequence of events that took place over the years in the obscure comic continuity of his origin, too many things were changed for my taste…
Release Information:
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  • Digital
Editing Details:
Conceptually the changes will be as follows:
- Completely remove all mentions, references and conversations
indicating that Wolverine and Sabretooth are brothers; this is simply
not true in the comic canon, in which at some point it was speculated
that Victor Creed was Wolvie’s father… which in the end it was
proved not to be the case. And whether James Howlett was indeed the
son of his family mansion’s groundskeeper is left loose in the air, as
in the Origin miniseries.

- While it will not be possible to make the black ops team the same as
in the comic cannon (originally consisting of Logan, Creed, John
Wraith, Silver Fox and Maverick), some improvements have been made to
the scenes. Most of the action has been left for continuity reasons,
except for a certain character climbing buildings for no reason, and
Wade�s most over the top action.

- Completely remove all plot regarding Logan volunteering for the
Weapon X program, in the canon it was an abduction/forced drafting by
the Canadian government to create their version of the Super Soldier
a.k.a. Captain America.

- Incorporate/replace the deleted/alternate scenes to the movie, I
have two of them from the blu ray and all are quite good for the movie
IMO.

- Fight scene with Gambit tightened, removing the most over the top elements.

- No Silver Fox drugged to fake death, which is better left
unexplained; she has no mutant powers and also she is not Emma Frost’s
sister.

- The bastardized version of “Deadpool” AKA Barakapool on the final
act is still present, but he is now only referred to as “the mutant
killer” and “Weapon XI” and is isolated from Wade Wilson, who did
appear during the Team X mission.

- Most (almost all) of the lame attempts at humor are cut out.

- Various small fixes regarding nonsense lines and redundancies.

- Make sure to watch all thru the end credits, Japan epilogue included
following the current Marvel movie trend.
Cover art by Rogue-Thex (DOWNLOAD HERE)
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A worthwhile attempt to wrest something of value from this ultimately pointless Wolverine prequel, but the editing is unfortunately still quite choppy, and the attempts to bring the already dubious continuity of the FoX-Men films closer to the comics fixes nothing and succeeds only in muddying the character connections present in the film. Deadpool and Sabretooth in particular are diminished even further in this edition. While some of the cheesiness is reduced, that was most of what I was able to enjoy about the original cut, so all that's left is the superhero equivalent of a Nickelback music video. Boring, leaden, and even Canada doesn't want to be associated with it.

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I really enjoyed this edit. It reduces bloat, cheese, arbitrary changes to characters and canon, and flows well. Nice and fast. Quite a lot is cut but you won't miss it -- with one exception, to which I will return. Some excesses remain in the film e.g. Wolverine using his claws to turn his bike around, but I can't see how every bit of excessive stuff could have been cut. I am also not sure it must all be cut, anyway: we're talking about a character with essentially fantastic abilities, a metal skeleton based on an imaginary mineral etc., so the bar for realism is already pretty low.

There are a few bits where audio transitions are notable, but nothing serious.

The only real criticism I have is that too much of Kayla/ Silver Fox is cut. The story about the Trickster, the revelation about her sister, and her revenge on William Stryker at the end could have been kept while meeting the aims of the fan-edit and the absence does weaken her quite a lot as a character -- and in consequence, our understanding of the relationship with Logan.

But look, this is subjective, my preference , and should in no way discourage you from seeing this fan-edit.

Way better than the original.

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This edit aims to remove a lot of the weak parts of X-Men Origins Wolverine to create a stronger film.

A/V: quality Decent A/V, looks like a DVD source but not bad.
A/V editing: Average editing. Noticed quite a few of the cuts, sudden changes in scenes or audio fading in and out too quickly.

Story: The narrative is clear and easy to follow. But the plot is still poor (this is not the fault of the editor). Most of the cuts made were to remove particularly weak points of the film, however I disagreed with removing Kayla/Silverfox's backstory as it made her character feel hollow and undeveloped. I did like the removal of Logan and Creed sharing a father, I felt that plot point was silly. I thought removing Silverfox's final act of revenge against Stryker was a mistake.

Unfortunately, this film is unsalvageable and does not work well as a feature length film, although havok's effort is certainly commendable.
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Okay, first I have to say that I really respect the work and the heart that goes into making a fan-edit like this. It's super difficult to try to turn such a bad film into something that fans will enjoy. So it's with that in mind that I offer my feedback.

Sadly, this edit totally didn't work for me. I appreciate the intent to make it "as close to the comic book as possible", but the material available just doesn't lend itself to that. In order to make it a good FILM, all the wrong things are cut. There are really quite a lot of setups and context deleted, as well as conversations that add depth to characters or develop the plot. What we're mostly left with is a string of "this happens, then this happens, then the next thing happens..." It's just all events with no reason for us to care and nothing to pique our interest.

Havok1977 mentioned reducing "over the top moments" but there are still 100s in here. The movie is virtually non-stop cheesy, unbelievable action moments, from Wolverine using his claws to turn his bike to Zero flying/jumping up into a passing helicopter to Gambit turning his staff into a helicopter... There are also tons of cheesy cameos as fan service that would be better cut out, from Storm as a child being in the same village Wolverine's adamantium comes from to an early X-team being assembled by Professor X to a bookend added in with Professor X that accomplishes nothing.

An additional issue with this edit is that the polish just isn't there. There are multiple occasions where there are very abrupt visual edits and hard audio ins and outs. As fragmented as the narrative already feels with the removal of a lot of dialogue, it feels downright jarring combined with the edits. The film really has very few stretches with any sense of flow or where any tone is created. When it is there, it's for an action segment, and the tone is "big cheesy green screen scene".

It's probably impossible to make a decent film out of this trash script and poor direction. But if it were to be done, it wouldn't be by being a slave to the comics, which have gone back and forth on Wolverine's backstory so many times I can't count. It would be in attempting to create a film that cuts out the cheese and leaves in the character moments. This is the total opposite. I see that it was enjoyable for a few others, which is why I gave it a shot, but it was just not at all what I was looking for. Apologies again to the editor, that's just my taste.

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This one is going on the shelf next the The Wolverine. What an improvement! So many dumb moments, forced connections and disrespect to characters are removed and it now works with other X-Men movies. This is now actually a pretty good movie and way truer to the source material.

There were a couple of abrupt audio changes but nothing that took me out of the experience. The bit at the beginning with Professor X was also a little jarring and not all that necessary but, again, didn't diminish enjoyment. Also wish it was HD but visually it's good enough and the 5.1 audio makes the quality just fine and totally watchable. That said, without a doubt Codename: Wolverine the best way to watch this movie.

Truly enjoyable. Thank you Havok1977!

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