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I Saw A Movie: Deadpool

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29 Feb 2016 19:15 #223546 by wadenels
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Mr. White wrote: Wade, being a full adult, and not demonstrating any powers...I wonder what made that group think he had some latent ability?


What makes you think I don't?
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01 Mar 2016 07:45 #223563 by JEM
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I thought they covered how Deadpool got his powers in the story. I'm not sure what more clarification is needed. They explained it step by step. It seems a peculiar aspect to hook onto as a complaint about the movie, and honestly as much as I enjoyed Ant Man, the plot had holes you could drive a scaled up Thomas the Tank Engine through, so it's par for the course.

I have the same reaction to games like GTA:V, but I didn't see the movie in the same way. The (later) GTA games and their ilk have a form of cynicism that itself insults and degrades the player/audience while purportedly entertaining them. Deadpool as a movie actually has a positive, optimistic outlook and I'm not sure that he killed more generic villains than John Wick ever did.

Wolverine R rated movie might be a good thing! I ran out of eye-roll in one X-Men movie when he chest punched some (just doing his job) guy in the chest with six adamantium claws and the guy fell bloodless to the ground for some sleepy-weepy time.

Maybe Colossus had eaten a bad chimichanga that day.

All this being said, Kick Ass (the first) was a better off-kilter super hero movie.

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01 Mar 2016 12:58 #223573 by mutagen
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I guess what I thought I knew about marvel mutants is that their power was something that manifested itself while the individual was a kid or teen. Wade, being a full adult, and not demonstrating any powers...I wonder what made that group think he had some latent ability?


Assuming for a second that mutant abilities of the x-men variety can and do have a genetic basis, this isn't an unreasonable assumption. For even simple genetic models, like Cystic Fibrosis, there are a 100 times more carriers than victims. For something as complex as seen in these movies, most of the non-mutant population would have to have at least some of the required genetic baggage, otherwise the probability of a mutant being produced would be effectively zero.

Crap. Now that I have used science to explain a comic book movie on a boardgame forum, I feel like I have unlocked some sort of uber nerd "achievement".

I would watch an R rated Wolverine movie. I much prefer films where I don't have to stare at a mask the whole damn time.

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01 Mar 2016 15:24 #223581 by metalface13
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To clarify my statements a little, I'm fine with R-rated super hero movies. That's what some characters and stories merit. What I don't like is the movie studios attitudes of "well shucks this works, lets do it again!" Mostly because Fox has screwed up so much with the X-Men and Fantastic 4 movies they're grasping for anything that leads to success.

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01 Mar 2016 17:03 #223586 by jpat
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metalface13 wrote: To clarify my statements a little, I'm fine with R-rated super hero movies. That's what some characters and stories merit. What I don't like is the movie studios attitudes of "well shucks this works, lets do it again!" Mostly because Fox has screwed up so much with the X-Men and Fantastic 4 movies they're grasping for anything that leads to success.


A movie Fox didn't want to make has already grossed over ten times its budget. I'm guessing "more of this, please."

I liked the movie alright. I'm way aged out of the target demo, and I don't see Deadpool as either particularly witty or (in 2016) a particularly effective critique or deconstruction of comic book heroes, but the movie has basically good to very good characters, and it has the decency to have comedy- rather than epic-style length and pacing. To be more affirmative, it's probably the kind of movie that studios should make a few more of (and used to make quite a lot of): the midbudget movie that's small enough to take some risks with (doesn't have to be a "tent pole") but big enough to avoid looking and seeming super cheap (even though this one comes pretty close, and even mines that for one of the better jokes).
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