As you’ve probably heard by now, an early rough cut of Fox’s big tentpole movie Wolverine leaked onto the intertubes. “In a case of piracy that some analysts called unprecedented, untold thousands of people watched a version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine online Wednesday, a full month before its scheduled theater release,” The New York Times reported. According to the New York Daily News, many top film sites took a stand, refusing to review the leaked version of the movie. “‘You're doing yourself a disservice if you see the film this way,’ said Jeremy ‘Mr. Beaks’ Smith, West Coast editor for Ain't It Cool News.’[The fans that download it] are going to make their judgment on what they see, and that's not how the director ever intended for the movie to be screened.’”

A CNN report on this story, however, has drawn some unwanted attention to a worthy but lesser-known movie site.

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So the long-awaited Star Trek trailer dropped, by all available evidence, sometime on Saturday and was exhaustively analyzed on the Internet by everyone capable of typing with an interest. As a franchise now over the forty-year mark, there's legions of the (overly-)invested just waiting to see what J.J. Abrams was going to do to Gene Roddenberry's long-straggling franchise. (Never mind that the Mission: Impossible had been kicking around for just as long when he got around to doing the third installment; presumably no one was that invested in the series' '88 iteration, whereas there's some desperate souls out there who still want to talk about how awesome Deep Space 9 was.)

And, of course, no one can agree on anything. But we can all agree on one thing: men who spend too much time on their hair aren't manly.

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