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[Kenny]

Truth is you gotta have a little background knowledge and movie iq to understand all the Deadpool humour.
For example there is a reference to the movie 127 hours and if you didn't see it, you won't understand the joke.
And the trailer is 5% of the movie.

 

[JJM]

spoilers bitches

Spoiler

I was also disappointed in seeing so meh supposedly serious moments...
Boy meets girl,boy gets a deadly disease, is desperate and gets fucked by some nut job ,survives the nut jobs attempt to control him but is a freak now,seeks revenge,fails,the nut job kidnaps the girl,the boy fights the nut job again and this time wins...seen in the Wolverine Origins film. Well at least it was funny a long the way so there is that
I expected more

 

[ScottishInterista]

its the deadpool origin, blame the guy who wrote the comic. Also spoilers

 

[wera]

It was done a lot better than most movies like this. Sure, it's no Watchmen in its serious moments, but after Batman Begins this is the best origins superhero movie.

The only thing I like in the comic books more is how he got the name, but it was done quite well in the movie as well.

Now for the jokes, the best ones are most def not in the trailers, the trailers just set the movie and character tone for people that don't know the character. Even some of the jokes made by Ryan were adlibbed while recording, which is ingenious how everything fits. Usually we cry about trailers spoiling the movies and the best jokes being spoiled, but usually also movies don't have so many jokes. They did great and didn't go overboard, the second movie will be crazier, IMO, especially since Cable will also be in it. Maybe even Taskmaster.

Spoiler: oh shit I just went full spoilers

I watched the movie twice, first in a smaller cinema with an older audience, that didn't read the subtitles apparently, because they laughed wwwwaaaay harder and more than the other cinema full of teenagers. Pretty sure they didn't understand some of the jokes, like the Are you there God? It's me, Margaret when Deadpool's blood sprays Colossus or all the callbacks to the horrible Wolverine:Origins movie, like the Deadpool doll and the movie dialogue taken from Wolverine:Origins.

Or the Radioactive Shar-Pei - clear Spiderman reference. Or the Blade reference, which is funny because Ryan Reynolds was in Blade Trinity and he's closer to being Deadpool there than in the Wolverine:Origins where he actually plays Deadpool.

My favourite lines include the coke/cure for blindness and the paedophilia jokes when he gets on the hunt for Ajax and gets to Agent Smith again.

 

[Kenny]

Exactly, wera.

Spoiler: .

Or when he says that Ajax got his name from the dish soap, lel. Whole cinema was laughing.

 

[wera]

I like it that they cut out some shit about Ajax to make the movie flow better, the main villain is just the plot device, played by the first Daario Naharis in GoT. Ed Skrein was a lot better than what I expected, he didn't really have a lot of lines and he also couldn't do anything outlandish with that character (compared to how Joker was portrayed by Heath Ledger), just a badguy with a british accent with no supervillain motive about taking over the world, it's all just business.

Oh, I just remember the Basil Fawlty line. See, you have to know your references for this movie. When is the last time somebody referenced Fawlty Towers in a Hollywood movie, if ever?

 

[Kenny]

Spoiler: .

When is the last time somebody masturbated to toy unicorns with baby hands, if ever?

 

[wera]

That's different in this context, Fawlty Towers is not something that the younger generation knows, while Unicorns are well known everywhere. I think. Whatever happens in the movie with unicorns is not something that you need previous experience/info to understand the joke.

 

[Kenny]

Spoiler: Uber Spoiler

 

[JJM]

Spoiler

 

[wera]

Where is noxxaro, I heard Spawn just got approved for 2017.

 

[Shaun]

They better do that with a R-rating too. Although, it certainly won't have the success that Deadpool has had.

 

[Jane The Virgin]

who cares about spawn?

 

[Shaun]

Some people said the same thing before Deadpool. It has a cult following

 

[Y&h]

They better do that with a R-rating too. Although, it certainly won't have the success that Deadpool has had.

Exactly.


I just read Todd McFarlane's (Spawn's writer) comments about a "Hard R" movie.



Before I start my rant, I have to clarify that I got nothing against the movie ratings or the healthy discussion about their influence on the content. That said, I hate Hollywood fads and sadly the latest debate regarding the ratings on Twitter is confirming my suspicions that it's nothing but a fad. Since Deadpool's release and some of the entertainment accounts have, for obvious traffic and clickbait reasons, incited this senseless discussion on how a rating will define a movie's success or how Deadpool is a pioneer for the possible R rated visions of Wolverine 3, Spawn, X-Force.. etc.

Some of these comic/movie journalists, who ironically are not outsiders to the genre, seem to forget that Punisher and Blade were R rated and that wasn't a game changer in the past. Granted, a bigger name property could have a different impact on the market and the public more than those two but Deadpool's exceptional success is down to the character more than anything else. I recall the Twitter fanboys calling DC movies dark so imagine if they applied the same "R" formula to a character like Batman? The only DC character that can stand up to Deadpool's concept and on the R rated setup is Harley Quinn but it relies on the Suicide Squad's success and DC's plans before we start speculating on a solo movie.

Even though it'll restart the old household name discussion on Robbie's ability of bringing people to the theaters in comparison to Reynolds and Affleck.

Oh and I'd like a Joker movie idea even if is his rendition without his other half (Batman) is difficult. Not to mention the fact that he's a straight up criminal which contradicts the leeway Deadpool and Harley have.

 

[Jane The Virgin]

Some people said the same thing before Deadpool. It has a cult following

not really, people just were mind blown (in the most negative way possible) by the version of deadpool without a mouth and shooting lasers from his eyes (its like making batman able to fly) from the wolverine movie. Deadpool is a very beloved character, one of the most popular marvel characters (talking about comics, not the superhero movie era characters).

sure, spawn might have a cult following, but it is a very small one... in order to earn more money they have to make it more pop-cultury, and fuck up the character...

 

[Shaun]

not really, people just were mind blown (in the most negative way possible) by the version of deadpool without a mouth and shooting lasers from his eyes (its like making batman able to fly) from the wolverine movie. Deadpool is a very beloved character, one of the most popular marvel characters (talking about comics, not the superhero movie era characters).

sure, spawn might have a cult following, but it is a very small one... in order to earn more money they have to make it more pop-cultury, and fuck up the character...

You might want to do some research. There was a Spawn film in 1997, and it was a box office success. And you would be surprised how many Spawn fans there are. You won't see people dressed up as Spawn everywhere, but that's partly because it's not as easy to dress up as Spawn as it is with Deadpool. Anyway it could work. Not saying it would earn even half of what Deadpool does, but they could make a cheap Spawn film and it could be a success.

 

[Pimpin]

I had heard of spawn long before deadpool..

 

[wera]

You all know i am a big deadpool fan, and i just started checking spawn... spawn has a lot of potential. Agreed that he cannot reach DP numbers since Deadpool has been postponed so many times i stopped believing it will ever come, it's been talked about for yeeeears

 

[Shaun]

I think the biggest reason behind Deadpool's success has been the advertising campaign, and word of mouth. Everyone I know has been saying good things about it. Even people that wouldn't normally talk about comicbook films