Yeah, that's an error on my part given the clear separation between the MCU and other Marvel Universes in Cinema (MUiC?). Still, I'm not wholly convinced that 'Pool, from the outset, needed to be so heftily connected to the X-Men, especially given the lesser names they could afford and the cheap nature of Colossus overall. The films (wrong) need to have a "Big" finale is really the sole reason that Colossus and Negasonic are in the film (special effects and powerful people throwing each other around), but neither add to the tension or the drama. A nice bit of comedy (all on Wades side, mind), but their inclusion is forced and detracts from the weirdness of Wades little place in the universe.
Further to this, the finale clearly took place atop a derelict Helicarrier, I found THAT to be a slightly forced use of continuity into the MCU. It doesn't have a great big SHIELD badge on it, but it's clearly a nod to the MCU. Be it a nod-and-a-wink, or an inclusion into the grander Marvel universe... either way, I thought it was a forced little moment, not needed.
In fact, the need to have a "big thing falling down" moment, was one of my main irks of the film. The fact it plays that moment, with no irony or satire, is annoying. The biggest issue with most of the recent Superhero films is the endless "falls from the sky motif". Avengers: AoU even runs the gag of "sod a plane, lets have a city fall from the sky". 'Pools budget limitations were clearly something the production crew had to work through, but given some of the creativity on display in the film, it would have been nice for them to have a more inventive finale either different from that long string that has come before, or at least aping it in some way or other.
Regardless what all of the publicity is trying to push, this film is actually very by the numbers and I think the "risks" are just dick jokes and blood on the screen for once. They are great dick jokes and the violence is well realised, but it is gloss over an old Origin story, with gratuitous X-Men cameos and a rock-em-sock-em finale. I would have preferred Negasonic (or similar character) to have been Deadpool's sidekick rather than Colossus' and for his team to have been unique to him and the setting they were creating - perhaps other "test subjects" he had come across and liberated during his hunt for "Ajax".
I understand that this was a very hard sell for Reynolds and Miller to Fox and significant compromises were made so they could get the film up out of Production Hell. They got a lot of Deadpool himself right, yet compromised pretty much everywhere else. Perhaps that was the compromise this time and one can only hope that after a $150 million weekend, this will allow the film makers to really push the boundaries like they were selling to the public this time.
Hugo - that ended up in a different place than where it started
