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Friday, April 3, 2009

You know it's bad when you wish someone would say april fools

While no good april fools pranks happened close to home, there were several groups of people that were hit pretty hard on April 1st, too bad they weren't jokes.

First, a unedited, unfinished version of X-men Origins: Wolverine was put on the world wide web for everyone to see. Fox, the distributer, is absolutely pissed that someone would do this. Now there is worry that the opening weekend numbers may fall as a result. And those who have viewed it have generally commented that it is a pretty bad movie. Here's a question for the person who stole the footage and for all the people who viewed this unfinished version: What is the purpose of watching a movie? Is it not to be entertained? Do you expect an unfinished product to be as entertaining as a finished product? That's like going to a photo shoot and taking the first unedited photo, turning it into a cover, and then have people say how ugly the model is. I imagine it would look something like this:

And also, don't you think it's unfair to comment on someone's work before they have a chance to finish it. That's like telling Michaelangelo in the middle of painting the Sistine Chapel that the colors are too bright. I'm not saying Wolverine will be like a masterpiece, I'm just saying that I expect the finished product to be pretty good (when I watch the illegal pirated version).

Some more bad news. This time at the hands of a university. It seems that on April 1st, UC davis sent out acceptance letters along with many other universities. Only problem is that they sent the letters to every single person who applied. Then about an hour later, they sent out emails to the people who didn't get in but were told that they did. This must have been pretty crushing, especially if the students had out of ecstacy declined offers from all the other inferior colleges they had applied to, thus leaving them without a university or a future. If I were UC Davis, I would be expecting a pretty big class action lawsuit any day now. That's just how it's done in the US.