It’s Deadpool’s world, and we’re just living in it. Topping $500 million at the global box office Tuesday, Marvel Studios’ blockbuster sequel will soon cross $1 billion.
I know I’m not the target audience for this, I’ve never been a “comic book guy”, I’ve enjoyed most of the Phase 1 thru 3 movies, though the faceless armies of CGI that showed up as the big boss battle at the end of every single one did wear thing. Everything after phase 3 hasn’t been worth watching. Ryan Reynolds Deadpool seem to be a fan favorite, to me, it’s always seemed like embarrasing over the top camp, with no real purpose. Started watching Deadpool & Wolverine, and it was just so much more of the same, with two unkillable beings slashing at each other in between cursing for the sake of shock, I didn’t make it more than 20 minutes before I had enough and shut it off. I sincerely don’t get it. Would I have liked this when I was 12? I’m at a complete loss here.
You shut off the theater?
think smaller, and more digital
You shut off a shakycam bootleg with terrible audio?
Deadpool is a meta mockery of comics and comic book movies. The entire thing is that he is making fun of the genre and reality. He makes jokes about the actor to make fun of the character the actor is playing. Deadpool references Reynolds’ wife and both of their previous films, he makes fun of Wolverine by joking about Jackman gaining weight after his divorce, he makes fun of Fox because Disney owns them both now. So much of the humor depends on you knowing as much trivia as Deadpool and that makes the movies harder to watch.
He is a fan of the universe he is in because he is literally aware that he is a comic/movie character. The 4th wall breaking is him actually acknowledging the viewer, because he is aware of the viewer. There is a meta joke where everybody else in the movie sees Deadpool turn his head and make a comment as if there was a camera there that they can’t see. To everyone else he seems absolutely insane, but he sort of isn’t.
The potty mouth aspect is what it is, Deadpool is not a character for puritans and children. Deadpool is former special ops and a degenerate, both groups can fill a swear jar in a polite conversation. Deadpool and Wolverine fighting all the time is part of their relationship from the comics, they work out their differences/frustrations by trying to kill one another and they know they can’t kill each other. It is friends or brothers roughhousing taken to the extreme. Their friendship is violence towards one another and on others done together.
To really get the most out of the franchise requires you to not care about cursing as anything more than a part of speech, you need to be a fan of dirty and dark humor, and you need to get most of the references. If that isn’t you, you aren’t the target audience and that is ok.
I loved the 3rd one the most. Every 10 minutes was another “holy shit” moment and they barely gave a refractory period a chance.
I always thought the thing with Deadpool was that he was crazy and narcissistic enough to believe that he’s a comic book charcter and because he actually is that makes him capable of his superhuman 4th wall breaking abilities.
He is “crazy” and “narcissistic” because he is aware of the nature of his reality.
He knows he is the main character, because he is. He is very self deprecating and his narcissistic guise is more of an act than how he actually feels about himself. He is constantly calling himself stupid, being critical of his performance, and feeling like people don’t like him(they don’t like him because he is an annoying crazy person).
He seems crazy because he talks to the audience, he references shit that doesn’t make sense. If you knew someone who would “turn to the camera” and talk about something the actor that plays you did 20 years ago, you would think he was crazy too. He knows he is a comic book character and can’t die, he is the main character at that, so he has no fucks left to give. He isn’t insane, he is just mentally unwell from having the knowledge of reality that he does. Professor X had a brain hemorrhage and died after diving into Deadpool’s mind because he was incapable of handling what Deadpool knew and understood. That is one rub I had with DPvW, Nova should have had her grey matter start coming out of her nose when she started finger fucking Deadpool’s mind.
He doesn’t break the 4th wall because he is insane, he is insane because he can break the 4th wall.
His brain is constantly being ravaged by his cancer and healed which also leads to him being the way he is.
He even suggested he had a baby-sized penis, and showed it on screen. I can’t believe that got past the censors.
I mean, didn’t someone get convicted for AI generated child porn earlier this year? I guess if you have a Hollywood budget and lawyers, its OK???
He was an adult with a regenerating penis that hadn’t gotten full-size. You know some censor saw something of themself in Deadpool for that scene.
I guess it is like that 1000 year old vampire teen exemption?
yeah, i don’t get it. i don’t get “professional wrestling” or “reality tv” either, but know they are each multi billion dollar entertainment options that millions seem to enjoy.
So it’s like Fleabag in capes?
Why they make R-Rated movies where the comedy is clearly aimed at single-digit agers says a lot about the average level of humor in our societies.
Is this another one of those “superhero” movies where the faux-edgy humor makes you cringe for the writers?
