ICV2 reports that the Wolverine movie will apparently feature ‘Easter eggs’ (a term more often used on DVDs to denote hidden extras), with not one but two segments to play after the end of the titles, which will contain important scenes for the characters involved the makers say. However, the two different after-title extras will not appear together, they will be attached to the end of different prints of the film, necessitating more than one trip to the cinema. A little gift to the dedicated fans who do wait in the auditorium right until the lights come up just in case of something like this or simply a big of a wheeze to try and make people buy two sets of cinema tickets? I wonder if you are that determined to see both sets of extras how do you know which are being screened when you purchase tickets? Would be rather annoying if you go back a second time and see the same Easter egg again, I’d have thought, I wonder if there’s a way for cinema staff to tell fans beforehand.
April 30th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Holy smokes. First they fill it full of characters to up the chances of a “backdoor pilot,” and now they’ve given it the old “variant covers” treatment.
Between this and the whole integrated continuity jazz, these movies are REALLY losing their lustre. All that money, only to piss away screentime on Emma Frost and – and – and I don’t want to spoil it for people who haven’t seen the trailers, but *******?!!
Imagine trying to watch Corrie, only to discover that the REAL story happens in Emmerdale. Imagine having to watch the 10pm EastEnders repeat to get the complete story, because they cut bits out of the 7.30 show.
Imagine having to watch HOLLYOAKS.
*shudder*
You can’t take your audience for granted. Not these days.
I don’t think I want to see this thing, now.
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April 30th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Easter eggs are one thing, this is just a horribly cynical marketing ploy to extract more money from those people who do the right thing and go to the cinema to see the movie. And this from the people who complained so much when an illegal copy of the film got out onto the net.
All it will do is encourage more people going online to find either illegal copies of the movie or just illegal copies of the after credits sequences. What a ridiculous move on the part of film-makers.
April 30th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I think this is a desperate ploy on part of the producers to keep box office numbers at a respectable level considering that this movie is getting panned by critics: http://www.newsy.com/videos/wolverine_declawed/ It is going to work though, at least on me, I’m going to see it and I’m going to stay til the end…I’m a fool for that kind of stuff
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I’m annoyed. I saw the movie twice (once with the hubby and once with my son) and got the same “extra bit” at the end twice. Maybe they are all the same!