Batgirl0202
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We finally saw Deadpool & Wolverine this past weekend. I've never seen a matinee showing so packed on a Sunday. Mind you it is a long weekend here in many Canadian provinces...
My verdict? It's another Deadpool movie...
I've gone on record as saying that I'm not the biggest fan of this franchise (or of Ryan Reynolds for that matter), and this third film didn't do much to change my mind about that. It's probably my favourite of the three films, but that has little to do with the character or the lead actor. In fact, it occurred to me while watching this how Vaughn's Kick-Ass and Gunn's Suicide Squad handled the superheroics/comedy mashup thing much, much better. In those films the humour sprung naturally and organically from the absurdity of the source material, whereas I realized that Reynolds' fourth-wall-breaking, obvious joking, pop culture riffing schtick is really starting to grate on me...
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie while it was playing, the guest stars were fun, and it was great to see Hugh snikting away again. I just don't see myself returning to the film multiple times on streaming. For what it's worth though, my friends all loved it, and they're not huge CBM fans like I am. Read into that what you will...
The question now becomes where Marvel goes from here, though I think the question naturally answers itself. The biggest MCU hits of the pandemic era - namely the ones that either hit a billion or came closest to it - were No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, and Wade/Logan, three films that jumped headfirst into the whole Multiverse concept.
Anyone who honestly believes that Marvel will move on from the Multiverse thing, I have some cheap swampland in Florida I'm looking to unload
Oh and before I forget, Happy Civic Holiday to all Canadian Hypesters who live in provinces that recognize it
My verdict? It's another Deadpool movie...
I've gone on record as saying that I'm not the biggest fan of this franchise (or of Ryan Reynolds for that matter), and this third film didn't do much to change my mind about that. It's probably my favourite of the three films, but that has little to do with the character or the lead actor. In fact, it occurred to me while watching this how Vaughn's Kick-Ass and Gunn's Suicide Squad handled the superheroics/comedy mashup thing much, much better. In those films the humour sprung naturally and organically from the absurdity of the source material, whereas I realized that Reynolds' fourth-wall-breaking, obvious joking, pop culture riffing schtick is really starting to grate on me...
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie while it was playing, the guest stars were fun, and it was great to see Hugh snikting away again. I just don't see myself returning to the film multiple times on streaming. For what it's worth though, my friends all loved it, and they're not huge CBM fans like I am. Read into that what you will...
The question now becomes where Marvel goes from here, though I think the question naturally answers itself. The biggest MCU hits of the pandemic era - namely the ones that either hit a billion or came closest to it - were No Way Home, Multiverse of Madness, and Wade/Logan, three films that jumped headfirst into the whole Multiverse concept.
Anyone who honestly believes that Marvel will move on from the Multiverse thing, I have some cheap swampland in Florida I'm looking to unload
Oh and before I forget, Happy Civic Holiday to all Canadian Hypesters who live in provinces that recognize it
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I've been quite entertained by seeing a lot of people love D&W but also a few who I expected to not like it come away not impressed. I haven't see many films like this where I can totally understand people both loving and being massively annoyed by it.
