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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 12, 2016 5:02:21 GMT -5
I guess I have to create a thread for this as I can't find the general movie thread.
Anyway I went to see this movie last night and I quite enjoyed it. Theatre was pretty packed for a late showing as well (even a single cosplayer, which is absolutely not common over here when you go to the movies), so the movie seems to do reasonably well for an R-rated, semi-low budget movie.
Storywise the movie luckily seems to dig mostly in the Joe Kelly run for most of the story beats. Wade is still a bit too sympathetic compared to Kelly's version, but the Bugs Bunny on crack from Way's run it's (mostly) not. There are a few fourth-wall breaking jokes, usually about the movie's lack of budget.
It deserves it's R-rating: violence is over the top and bloody from time to time and it has nudity and sex.
Leaving out the spoilers till we get a bit into the thread, but the movie knows what it is and does that pretty well, switching between the over-the-top action and more dramatic flashbacks. If you hate Deadpool, the movie is not going to change your mind.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2016 11:06:49 GMT -5
Looking forward to seeing the movie. I have heard nothing but good things about the movie so far.
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Post by MatthewP on Feb 12, 2016 13:13:16 GMT -5
I'm not a real fan of Deadpool in the comics, but I quite enjoyed the movie. Lots of wacky humor with plenty of violence, all hung on a simple but adequate plot. A good time as long as you don't object to the language.
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Post by Warmonger on Feb 12, 2016 15:30:47 GMT -5
Going to see it tomorrow night
Been looking forward to this one for a while.
Glad to hear that it's mostly inspired by Joe Kelly's run.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2016 17:06:52 GMT -5
Sorry, Everyone ... this is not my cup of tea and I just find it not my taste. I seen clips of this movie and I learned some things from my Comic Book Fans here in my hometown that this movie should be avoided for me. I'm not a Deadpool Fan and sorry to say that.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 13, 2016 2:45:48 GMT -5
Deadpool isn't a terrible character in theory...he just annoys the hell out of me because of the way Marvel has used him the last decade or so. Gwenpool anyone? I read some of the Joe Kelly run when it first came out and enjoyed it, but for my taste, Deadpool would be best used as a member of a team or villain for the X-Men, not as a solo feature.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 13, 2016 17:08:07 GMT -5
Deadpool isn't a terrible character in theory... This is the most I have ever disagreed with anything. |
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Post by Gene on Feb 13, 2016 20:42:41 GMT -5
I enjoyed it. The sheer quantity of superhero movies these past few years has created this sense of sameness among them, especially the Marvel Studios releases. It was refreshing to see a movie break from that mold. It felt like the filmmakers and Reynolds really cared about making a Deadpool movie, not a Marvel movie.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 14, 2016 18:58:15 GMT -5
I thought the movie was simply glorious.
I laughed with unusually high frequency. There was a lot to enjoy. The opening credits were superb and perfectly set the tone for everything to follow.
The movie just seemed to revel in being it.
Something every superhero fan should probably see.
We can talk about my favorite jokes later, when everyone has seen it.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 14, 2016 19:03:30 GMT -5
I have not read much of Deadpool in later years. All his earlier appearances were terrible. I reread New Mutants #98 in preparation for the film. If it's not the worst comic ever made, it's only because Liefeld made so many.
I also read the more-recent Deadpool story with Captain America and Wolverine ("The good, the bad and the ugly") because it was so highly regarded, but still wasn't impressed.
The only Deadpool comic I've ever loved is the Spider-Man issue, in Deadpool #11.
So I went into the movie not a Deadpool fan per se. But the movie sold me.
Even at their best, I tend to think of these Marvel films as shadows of the great comics. But there are exceptions. Iron Man and Big Hero 6 are the other films I liked more than the comics which inspired them.
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Post by dupersuper on Feb 16, 2016 11:44:54 GMT -5
My sister loved it, and she's not a comic geek (though like most these days she's into a couple comic movies/shows [Marvel Studios movies, Agents of SHIELD, Supergirl, just started binging Arrow from the beginning...])
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Feb 17, 2016 7:08:52 GMT -5
Saw this today. Not a fan of Deadpool in the comics, or in general really. Don't know much about the character. The film was okay. Humor is definitely the strong point, but the story is kind of lackluster. Also the villain is really generic. Colossus is my favorite X-Man, but him being in the film is really random along with another X-Girl(?) who most people will have no idea who is she.
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Post by Mormel on Feb 18, 2016 2:14:26 GMT -5
^The other X-Girl is Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and many X-Men readers might not recognize her either, even if she did make an appearance in Morrison's run. She initially appeared only as a student of Emma Frost, and a victim of the Sentinels' raid on Genosha, and she was established as having been killed; then she was brought back in Astonishing X-Men but it quickly turned out to only be an illusion. And that was ten years ago.
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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 18, 2016 10:13:29 GMT -5
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Post by Golddragon71 on Feb 18, 2016 11:12:16 GMT -5
I've always been a DC guy so I never paid much attention to Deadpool until the movie trailers hit.
That being said I really enjoyed it (But I will NEVER be able to listen to "Calendar Girl" the same way again! (and it plays at least once during my shift Every Day at work.))
a lot of the critiques I have read after seeing it say that it's hard to do this kind of movie as a franchise without it getting stale real fast and as much as I liked it I can see what they mean.
(Lobo had an ongoing Comic for five and a half years, 1993-1999 and as much as I loved the character, the book did get really stale toward the end.)
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