I'm breaking the rules with this entry because I've seen this movie too many times to nitpick and hate. Who am I kidding? You can't hate this movie. Anyone who does needs to jam a lit sparkler up their *elephant trumpet* and do sit-ups. But I'm doing this because I don't want to disrupt the flow of the X-Men line.
The titular hero opens up his movie with a taxicab ride that stops on an overpass where he drops into one of the best opening action sequences everyone put to film. It's so awesome that it calls the attention of the only two X-Men agents the studio could afford: Colossus, who speaks with a Russian accent for some reason, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the coolest name ever. They arrive just as Deadpool was taunting a man named Francis, a regular British bad guy who is responsible for his disfigurement. Colossus lets Deadpool smack him around a bit, resulting in Deadpool breaking both his hands and a foot. To avoid getting taken to the professor (McAvoy or Stewart? These timelines are really confusing.), Deadpool cuts off his hand and falls into a passing garbage truck below.
In the midst of all this, we are treated to three flashbacks involving how Wade Wilson went from Mercenary for hire to Vanessa's b*tch to getting terminal cancer to going into a "Super Soldier" program to becoming Deadpool to rooming with Al, an old, blind lady. While Wade is recuperating, he treats us with the most adorable and entertaining banter in a couple Marvel ever created. Al is comically putting together IKEA furniture, despite being blind, and giving Wade advice that looks aren't everything even though Wade says the exact opposite. All Wade wants is to look like Ryan Reynolds and rekindle his relationship with Vanessa.
But Francis formally known as Ajax decides to play dirty by getting Vanessa involved. Wade is forced to push up his plans and save the woman of dreams. Because it's a Marvel movie, he succeeds and Vanessa is okay with his f*cked up face.
I do have some questions now that I've seen the other X-Men movies. Why does Colossus have a Russian accent? When we see him in the other movies, he wasn't some 'roided out WWE wrestler with adamantium(?) for skin. He was a buff 17-year-old that could carry the universe's deepest TV under one arm. I used to have one just like that, by the way. Jeremy, from CinemaSins, pointed this out first, but why aren't there extras walking around the school? There were plenty of them in the four movies before. There were even children under ten. I'm confused about how anyone really gets their powers.
I don't mean to beat this dead horse again, but Jean Grey says mutation happens during puberty under stress. What about that kid that could change the television channel by blinking? He's got to be at least eight. I know in some cases puberty can start that young, but what was his stress? His older brother kept taking the remote to watch something else? Wade gets his powers by getting superhero steroids injected into him before undergoing stress, from flogging to waterboarding to chilling in an ice bath to being put in an airlock chamber that finally triggers his healing powers. If Wade can heal, why couldn't he heal from the stress regiment? I guess it wouldn't make a very good revenge story if he walked away unscathed.
When Deadpool kills Agent Smith, he pushes the camera away to hide what he does to him. In a country that glorifies violence to the point that it's in our children's movies, what could be so bad that it can't be in an R-rated movie? Dismemberment? Seen it. Cutting off his head? You can see that on TV. Break his fingers? That's in The Prestige, rated PG-13. Rip his still beating heart out of his chest so he can see how black it is before he dies? Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the reason the PG-13 rating exists.
I think it's cute that Deadpool thinks he's so special that he's aware of his surroundings, like breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging he's in a movie. He's not the first to do it though, nor is Ferris Bueller, whom he parodies in the end. Woody Allen did it first, as far as I know, in Annie Hall. Then Christian Slater did it in Kuffs. Before getting kicked out of the Hollywood Elite, Kevin Spacey did it for years on House of Cards. However, this movie managed to spark a movement in all filmmaking where even commercials are aware that they are commercials. While it's fun to see a movie making fun of itself, I really would like to return to a time when movies were a fantasy. Even movies that don't include magic are fantastical. We escape to these stories to forget our real-world problems. I don't want a movie to remind me of my problems.
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Released On: February 12, 2016
Rating: R
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T. J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic
Director: Tim Miller
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.0/10
Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Saturn Awards
(Click here to view more awards for "Deadpool.")
Videos
CinemaSins - Everything Wrong With Deadpool in 16 Minutes or Less
How It Should Have Ended - How Deadpool Should Have Ended
Screen Junkies - Honest Trailers - Deadpool (Feat. Deadpool)
The titular hero opens up his movie with a taxicab ride that stops on an overpass where he drops into one of the best opening action sequences everyone put to film. It's so awesome that it calls the attention of the only two X-Men agents the studio could afford: Colossus, who speaks with a Russian accent for some reason, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, the coolest name ever. They arrive just as Deadpool was taunting a man named Francis, a regular British bad guy who is responsible for his disfigurement. Colossus lets Deadpool smack him around a bit, resulting in Deadpool breaking both his hands and a foot. To avoid getting taken to the professor (McAvoy or Stewart? These timelines are really confusing.), Deadpool cuts off his hand and falls into a passing garbage truck below.
In the midst of all this, we are treated to three flashbacks involving how Wade Wilson went from Mercenary for hire to Vanessa's b*tch to getting terminal cancer to going into a "Super Soldier" program to becoming Deadpool to rooming with Al, an old, blind lady. While Wade is recuperating, he treats us with the most adorable and entertaining banter in a couple Marvel ever created. Al is comically putting together IKEA furniture, despite being blind, and giving Wade advice that looks aren't everything even though Wade says the exact opposite. All Wade wants is to look like Ryan Reynolds and rekindle his relationship with Vanessa.
But Francis formally known as Ajax decides to play dirty by getting Vanessa involved. Wade is forced to push up his plans and save the woman of dreams. Because it's a Marvel movie, he succeeds and Vanessa is okay with his f*cked up face.
I do have some questions now that I've seen the other X-Men movies. Why does Colossus have a Russian accent? When we see him in the other movies, he wasn't some 'roided out WWE wrestler with adamantium(?) for skin. He was a buff 17-year-old that could carry the universe's deepest TV under one arm. I used to have one just like that, by the way. Jeremy, from CinemaSins, pointed this out first, but why aren't there extras walking around the school? There were plenty of them in the four movies before. There were even children under ten. I'm confused about how anyone really gets their powers.
I don't mean to beat this dead horse again, but Jean Grey says mutation happens during puberty under stress. What about that kid that could change the television channel by blinking? He's got to be at least eight. I know in some cases puberty can start that young, but what was his stress? His older brother kept taking the remote to watch something else? Wade gets his powers by getting superhero steroids injected into him before undergoing stress, from flogging to waterboarding to chilling in an ice bath to being put in an airlock chamber that finally triggers his healing powers. If Wade can heal, why couldn't he heal from the stress regiment? I guess it wouldn't make a very good revenge story if he walked away unscathed.
When Deadpool kills Agent Smith, he pushes the camera away to hide what he does to him. In a country that glorifies violence to the point that it's in our children's movies, what could be so bad that it can't be in an R-rated movie? Dismemberment? Seen it. Cutting off his head? You can see that on TV. Break his fingers? That's in The Prestige, rated PG-13. Rip his still beating heart out of his chest so he can see how black it is before he dies? Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the reason the PG-13 rating exists.
I think it's cute that Deadpool thinks he's so special that he's aware of his surroundings, like breaking the fourth wall and acknowledging he's in a movie. He's not the first to do it though, nor is Ferris Bueller, whom he parodies in the end. Woody Allen did it first, as far as I know, in Annie Hall. Then Christian Slater did it in Kuffs. Before getting kicked out of the Hollywood Elite, Kevin Spacey did it for years on House of Cards. However, this movie managed to spark a movement in all filmmaking where even commercials are aware that they are commercials. While it's fun to see a movie making fun of itself, I really would like to return to a time when movies were a fantasy. Even movies that don't include magic are fantastical. We escape to these stories to forget our real-world problems. I don't want a movie to remind me of my problems.
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Released On: February 12, 2016
Rating: R
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T. J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic
Director: Tim Miller
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.0/10
Awards
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical - Nominated
- Best Actor Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Ryan Reynolds - Nominated
Saturn Awards
- Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
- Best Actor in a Film Ryan Reynolds - Winner
- Best Film Screenplay Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick - Nominated
(Click here to view more awards for "Deadpool.")
Videos
CinemaSins - Everything Wrong With Deadpool in 16 Minutes or Less
How It Should Have Ended - How Deadpool Should Have Ended
Screen Junkies - Honest Trailers - Deadpool (Feat. Deadpool)
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