DEADPOOL MOVIE

[markecho]

Saw this on Sat and my cousin and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Both of us being X-Men fans of the 90's, we were glad to finally see Colossus given some justice!
DP (the character) was as expected and glad they gave Colossus enough screen time. The story was a little slow, but the humor and all the references to everything outside the movie were great!

Can't wait to own this movie and watch it again.
Glad Fox finally delivered!

Hope HT does a Colossus also. They already had practice with Winter Soldier.

 

[spindrift]

DP was good and entertaining but instanty forgetable to me. It was a one trick pony- now the "shock effect" on superhero films is over.
We can look forward to more R rated superhero movies of third-tier characters but who will budge first? DC or Marvel(beyond the inevidible Wolverine R rater)?

...and I think Kick Ass did the "superhero R rating film" better.

 

[pturtle]

Saw this last night. Well, half of it anyway. For the first time since "Jason X" I walked out of a theatrical film. Not for me. At all. Deadpool is not a "superhero film for grown-ups." The original RoboCop was for grown-ups. The Crow was for grown-ups. Blade was for grown-ups. This doesn't even "count" as a true superhero movie. It was "Scary Movie: Super Hero Edition." I can handle R. I can handle violence. I can handle naughty words. But this really was just a feature length version of the Red Band Trailer. They tried SO hard, and always in such a pervasively low brow "Wayans Bros" kind of way.

I'm not outraged, it was in fact exactly the film that the red band trailer made it out to be. And I walked into it. There's CLEARLY an audience for this kind of thing. I'm not it. It could have been good. I did laugh at about every 10th joke. Even out loud once or twice. The initial pile up on the highway looked cool. His costume was cool. But the jokes seemed to just be raunchy for the sake of being raunchy or were borrowed from funnier movies/shows. The sex through the holidays gag felt like it was from Naked Gun. The "you made a Star Wars reference??" "No, I made an EMPIRE reference!" was an exchange that Leonard and Penny made on The Big Bang Theory years ago. Meh.

As far as I'm concerned I paid to see Batman beating up some guys in a warehouse on the big screen. That was cool.

Get a load of this granddad guys

FoX-Men is ready to take over the world, get on the bandwagon Khev.


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[GodzillaSpawn]

Blade 1 / Dredd > Deadpool

Blade/Deadpool > Dredd

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[Wor-Gar]

When you really look at the history of copycat Hollywood, the problem is that the wrong lesson is going to be learned from the success of Deadpool. Instead of it becoming about taking risks, it becomes about taking risks that are similar to the superhero movie. It’ll be cloned with a lack of voice and lack of vision

Sad but true. Curiosity driven ticket sales translate into "a hit"... dumb.

 

[Khev]

FoX-Men is ready to take over the world, get on the bandwagon Khev.

Hmm, I really doubt that Apocalypse will enjoy the box office success we're seeing with Deadpool. I'm not even sure that Civil War or BvS will open as big either, though if BvS gets an 80% rating or above then I wouldn't be surprised if that one surpassed $200 million right out of the gate.

IIRC GotG earned more than CA:TWS and DOFP. People like "new" things especially when they think they are fun and surprising. Obviously DP fits that bill for a lot of people right now.

 

[bboy]

...and I think Kick Ass did the "superhero R rating film" better.[/QUOTE]

Funny, this thought kept sneaking into the back of my head while watching this in theaters. I think the hyper-violence was done so much better and the humor (I never thought kick ass was all that funny) just sort of rolls off as less painful than the humor in deadpool. And an added extra, kick-ass pulled off breaking the fourth wall beautifully in small doses. I'm starting to see an end of a superhero era here with deadpool. I think the general masses are just sick of superhero movies and this movie was sort of in on the joke, though half-assed and practically one of the most basic hero movies. This potential rush of R rated hero movies is going to be a disaster.

 

[jye4ever]

Ultimately Deadpool's success is great for the overall health of the cbm industry even if it's at the expense of poking some fun and roasting said industry.

I'm still undecided if DP was a better X-Men movie then the actual X-Men movies.

 

[bboy]

^ eh id say people are overreaching with saying colossus was so well portrayed as well as the other xman. Of course its easy to make a character come off well with such little amount of dialogue and actual involvement in the plot ( Even though I really really liked his final speech and deadpool's reaction). Also from my memory the X-men films always came off as pretty violent for pg13. X-men 1 and 2 really go for it with just the absence of blood. I was pretty young when it first came out and I remember a couple of my friends being terrified of it, the full throttle sci-fi elements and mutations remind me of something like the x-files. Of course I wish the singer movies had the family soap opera feel that xmen has always had, but I really think they are under rated. I've been watching the animated series and its pretty damn close in some respects plot wise.

 

[jye4ever]

This blows my mind:

"Deadpool, an R-rated movie about an off-beat superhero who is unfamiliar to the general masses, made more money opening weekend (domestic) than The Wolverine did in its entire run."

 

[karamazov80]

Just saw this. I really enjoyed it. Not every joke made me laugh, but several did. Some were laugh out loud quality. He was a likable character. Action was really good. Colossus was great to see, and they played off each other well. End of credits sequence made me smile. But mostly, I love that we're getting something different here in a film connected to a mainstream comic company and team. I look forward to seeing the sequel!

Also, Khev is a sourpuss!

 

[Super Goblin]

Saw this last night. Well, half of it anyway. For the first time since "Jason X" I walked out of a theatrical film. Not for me. At all. Deadpool is not a "superhero film for grown-ups." The original RoboCop was for grown-ups. The Crow was for grown-ups. Blade was for grown-ups. This doesn't even "count" as a true superhero movie. It was "Scary Movie: Super Hero Edition." I can handle R. I can handle violence. I can handle naughty words. But this really was just a feature length version of the Red Band Trailer. They tried SO hard, and always in such a pervasively low brow "Wayans Bros" kind of way.

I'm not outraged, it was in fact exactly the film that the red band trailer made it out to be. And I walked into it. There's CLEARLY an audience for this kind of thing. I'm not it. It could have been good. I did laugh at about every 10th joke. Even out loud once or twice. The initial pile up on the highway looked cool. His costume was cool. But the jokes seemed to just be raunchy for the sake of being raunchy or were borrowed from funnier movies/shows. The sex through the holidays gag felt like it was from Naked Gun. The "you made a Star Wars reference??" "No, I made an EMPIRE reference!" was an exchange that Leonard and Penny made on The Big Bang Theory years ago. Meh.

As far as I'm concerned I paid to see Batman beating up some guys in a warehouse on the big screen. That was cool.

So the Big Bang Theory made a reference to the show Empire years before it was on tv, weird.

 

[meanstreak]

This blows my mind:

"Deadpool, an R-rated movie about an off-beat superhero who is unfamiliar to the general masses, made more money opening weekend (domestic) than The Wolverine did in its entire run."

That's insane. If Fox was smart they would green light X-Force right away and have Deadpool 2 come up next with Cable.

Scrap Gambit and put him in X Force and have Cable bring some members from the Singer films into the current time period by time travel (Psylocke, Angel, whomever else would work for X Force)

 

[Khev]

Khev is a sourpuss!

The movie wasn't up to my sophisticated standards. Now good day sir, I say good day!

 

[crows]

 

[Khev]

 

[EVILFACE]

This blows my mind:

"Deadpool, an R-rated movie about an off-beat superhero who is unfamiliar to the general masses, made more money opening weekend (domestic) than The Wolverine did in its entire run."

It also did the same to R rated Watchmen. But in it's defense had material and characters completely unknown to people outside of comic circles. Released today, Watchman should perform better.

Just saw this. I really enjoyed it. Not every joke made me laugh, but several did. Some were laugh out loud quality. He was a likable character. Action was really good. Colossus was great to see, and they played off each other well. End of credits sequence made me smile. But mostly, I love that we're getting something different here in a film connected to a mainstream comic company and team. I look forward to seeing the sequel!

Also, Khev is a sourpuss!

I enjoyed much more than Hail Caesar.....

But still don't give a flip about Deadpool.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

...and I think Kick Ass did the "superhero R rating film" better.

Funny, this thought kept sneaking into the back of my head while watching this in theaters. I think the hyper-violence was done so much better and the humor (I never thought kick ass was all that funny) just sort of rolls off as less painful than the humor in deadpool. And an added extra, kick-ass pulled off breaking the fourth wall beautifully in small doses. I'm starting to see an end of a superhero era here with deadpool. I think the general masses are just sick of superhero movies and this movie was sort of in on the joke, though half-assed and practically one of the most basic hero movies. This potential rush of R rated hero movies is going to be a disaster.[/QUOTE]
In my respectful opinion I don't think you can be more wrong.

I think this films success is on its own merits and the popularity of deadpool himself. Regardless if DC gets their crap together, civil war, guardians of the galaxy 2, black panther are films that will re-inject the superhero movie hype train. This genre is in full swing.

And the scary thing is marvel doesn't even have the rights to their biggest superhero at the moment.

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[bboy]

Hopefully your right, just reading that list of upcoming movies makes me feel like a kid on christmas

 

[Scareb]

Second viewing, still loved it.

Definitely a different crowd from Friday night. You could tell the die hard nerds were the majority on Friday. More enthusiasm, more almost energy towards the jokes. That's not to say that people weren't laughing at this viewing. Still lots of laughs, especially at the more powerful jokes but not as much on the others. Heard almost no laughs during the opening credits. Some laughs and lots of smiles but nowhere near as bad as Friday.