Deadpool

Spoilers on cameos if you want to find out.

Another review from a site I like a lot.

I'm holding off on reviews, or at least any more reviews, til I've seen the film on Thursday.

Assuming the bug I seem to have caught wears off by then.

Deadpool's healing factor, plox.

The early response has been so great that Fox has greenlit a sequel.

WHOA. I would have at least waited until it officially premiers! What if it's awful and critics are trolling us?

What's interesting is imagining what possible storyarcs they could do for a sequel.

This movie is basically a loose adaptation of Deadpool's origin story (and subsequent battle against Ajax) as told in Deadpool #14-18 (the numbers may be off) from his 1998 series.

He doesn't have all that many storyarcs to make into a iconic movie (he doesn't have many storyarcs in general, dude was created in 94. That borders on a newborn by comic standards). The Cable & Deadpool issues are where gold can be struck for movies, but other than that there'sthe T-Rey storyarc which is basically T-Rey mind-fucking Deadpool about his identity (which is preeetty terrible).

And there's the Healing Factor arc in which Deadpool becomes a big-shot after supposedly killing the Four Winds (four Japanese mob bosses) in a single hit. Then the guy who actually killed them, Black Swan (by far Pool's best arch-enemy), an arrogant Wicked Cultured assassin for whom killing the four winds was his One Last Job, proceeds to inffect Pool with a mind virus that lays waste to his mind and healing factor. Pool proceeds to spend the rest of his time Secretly Dying until he finds out Swan was behind it and goes to fight him before his time runs out.

It's nowhere near as epic as I'm making it sound, but the arc is one of my favorites for being funny, having Black motherurfucking Swan, and a killer third arc (Deadpool's showdown against Swan).

edited 9th Feb '16 7:00:03 PM by Gaon

While I'm optimistic about the movie, it should be noted that the last time Fox greenlit a superhero sequel, it was done without regard to quality.

edited 9th Feb '16 7:18:33 PM by LordVatek

Having Deadpool fight Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis at the same time in a ballet death fight would be awesome!

Just came back from watching Deadpool a while ago...

And I was totally grinning ear to ear from start to end. (Not to mention absolutely bopping to Salt-N-Pepa's "Shoop".)

(+ when compared to "Dudepeel")

Now to wait a few months and see Jeremy Scott's take on this film.

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot to include Jon Bailey's own take on this film.

edited 15th Feb '16 10:30:44 PM by IncognitoNinja

Actually, they've pretty much said that they want Cable in the sequel. So it'll likely take from Cable & Deadpool.

Deadpool, Cable and Deadpool and X-Force is how I could see a trilogy. Have the X-Force team be Deadpool, Cable, Colossus(or X-23 if they replace Wolverine with her), Psylocke and someone like Fantomex and you're pretty much set.

Has there ever in the history in cinema been a case of this?

Completely different circumstances. They greenlit an FF sequel on the (stupid) hope that the movie was gonna be a big hit and spawn a franchise well before anyone had actually seen or reviewed it. The immensely negative reception killed it.

This is them looking at the overwhelmingly positive reception to a movie and deciding to okay an sequel after it looks like there's a definite market for it.

edited 10th Feb '16 7:34:13 AM by comicwriter

Actually, X-Force is coming out next year. Cable and Deadpool are confirmed to appear, concept art suggests Domino, Cannonball, Warpath and Feral will round out the team.

X-Force is currently not on Fox's slate and the concept art was never authenticated. No actors have been cast either.

If the movie were going to be coming out next year, they'd have already started production.

Some reason the movie is opening here three days later.

Jesus theatres the character is wacky and random not his release schedule.

Already paid for my ticket - I get to see it tomorrow night.

44 hours to the second showing on opening day for me. Already paid for my ticket. It has sold out.

Jezebel gave it a good review. While the AV Club gave it a B-.

Just got back from it.

Very good. There was real sincerity to it and lots of likeable characters, the humour, while crude, didn't come off AS crude, everything felt like banter a pal of yours would say to you, or that one wise-ass in a crowd of freinds who always has to have the last word even when he's in trouble.

Without spoiling anything, you will lose it when this hits

Go see it. For all the crassness and violence in the promotion, It's a very cosy and heartwarming film

edited 10th Feb '16 1:55:13 PM by Zarius

Makes me wonder who did the animation for that sequence and the ending credits. Those were hilariously well-done.

And to a lesser extent, I could say the same for the opening credits, with this song for maximum soundtrack dissonance.

Yep, I wouldn't mind getting the Director's Cut DVD of this once it comes out.

edited 11th Feb '16 12:40:46 AM by IncognitoNinja

Could not take the Jezebel review seriously, sorry.

It's awful. You could get the exact same experience by spending two hours in the worst crevices of Reddit and 9GAG.

Or just pay me the equivalent of a ticket and I'll make two hours of sex jokes in your ear. Same thing.

Also, I'll point out how funny it is that movies do X, and then I'll actually do X with a straight face (also known as 'fucking horrible satire').

It's always funny to see someone who hates superhero movies try to review superhero movies.

Oh dear. I was worried that this movie would be sex jokes and "lel fourth wall breaking" ad infinitum.

The only other Deadpool stuff I've had was the game, and Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe. Though the comic was fun, if the humor in the movie anything like the game, then I'm afraid I'm not impressed.

edited 11th Feb '16 8:23:11 AM by GiantRobots

I saw this yesterday and enjoyed it far more than I thought I would. It's definitely not to everyone's tastes and even I thought some of the jokes were needlessly coarse but the film was just so much fun that I didn't care all that much, but then I am a great fan of fourth-wall gags. The taxi driver was the best character in the film though.