Spoilers Deadpool 2 - Grading and Discussion Thread
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I was so focusing on the left guy, and Cable, I completely neglected to look at the guy on the right.
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Sorry saw it yesterday but my friend and I didn't laugh out loud once. Kind of smiled a few times and little noises, but nothing like a proper laugh. I did actually groan out loud a few times, esp some of sign posted jokes you could see coming a mile away. Notably the "I can't feel my legs, oh there they are." Good god
If people like it fair enough, but the style of humour and constant silly songs gets so repetitive for me, and it's just cheap n easy gag after cheap n easy gag. CONSTANT references to things like Thanos, Haweye, Black Widow, suns getting real low etc had me groaning as well after a while. I felt at time it was so close, teetering on the edge even, of turning into a Meet The Spartans/Scary Movie style stupid spoof movie.
I can imagine if were a 14 year old American boy I'd probably find it hilarious, but personally didn't do much for me. I also think the 35 trailers (which showed me every joke before I saw it, another reason I didn't really laugh much) and Deadpool appearing on every TV show, adverstisements, sketches, skits, etc over the last couple of months has meant I'm frankly pretty sick of the guy already and it's only his second movie.
I'd agree with Mark Kermode's review at the end where he said frankly he was just bored through a lot of it.
Sorry saw it yesterday but my friend and I didn't laugh out loud once. Kind of smiled a few times and little noises, but nothing like a proper laugh. I did actually groan out loud a few times, esp some of sign posted jokes you could see coming a mile away. Notably the "I can't feel my legs, oh there they are." Good god
If people like it fair enough, but the style of humour and constant silly songs gets so repetitive for me, and it's just cheap n easy gag after cheap n easy gag. CONSTANT references to things like Thanos, Haweye, Black Widow, suns getting real low etc had me groaning as well after a while. I felt at time it was so close, teetering on the edge even, of turning into a Meet The Spartans/Scary Movie style stupid spoof movie.
I can imagine if were a 14 year old American boy I'd probably find it hilarious, but personally didn't do much for me. I also think the 35 trailers (which showed me every joke before I saw it, another reason I didn't really laugh much) and Deadpool appearing on every TV show, adverstisements, sketches, skits, etc over the last couple of months has meant I'm frankly pretty sick of the guy already and it's only his second movie.
I'd agree with Mark Kermode's review at the end where he said frankly he was just bored through a lot of it.
The continuing Green Lantern gags are one of Reynolds' less inspired stabs at self-mocking humor. At a certain point it becomes like the remark regarding President Carter that "his idea of self-deprecating humor was to make fun of his staff."
The mouthless-Deadpool shooting was better - as long as he only does it once.
Okay, gave it a A-. It was pretty funny, but not quite as funny nor as brilliant as the first Deadpool. Thought Beetz and Brolan were great additions and I hope they stick around. Colossus is remarkably effective for a guy who's all CG; I think I like him better than I like Rocket Racoon. Helps, I suppose, that they don't really try to do eyes.
The mouthless-Deadpool shooting was better - as long as he only does it once.
Okay, gave it a A-. It was pretty funny, but not quite as funny nor as brilliant as the first Deadpool. Thought Beetz and Brolan were great additions and I hope they stick around. Colossus is remarkably effective for a guy who's all CG; I think I like him better than I like Rocket Racoon. Helps, I suppose, that they don't really try to do eyes.
Shouldn't the time traveling Cable cease to exist, considering that the timeline was changed?
If "brilliant" means a barely existing plot. Regardless of whether "Deadpool 2" was funny or not, I can honestly say that I found it better than "Deadpool". At least the former seemed to have a plot. I think Wade should have shot the writers of "Deadpool" in that post-credit scene.
I really didn't care for Deadpool, but I thought I was going to love it. I laughed when I was watching its trailer, but for some reason I just didn't find those scenes funny when I was watching the movie.
I felt its biggest mistake was Vanessa, in my mind she shouldn't have been in either movie at all. I just don't really accept her character or her relationship with Wade, I feel she's incredibly one dimensional and even pretty offensive in part 2. I mean, she is nothing except his girlfriend, she is just there to look pretty and want a baby, right? I just don't feel Wade's a person who'd be so attached like this, and his being late for his anniversary was sort of lame to me. I feel he'd do better as a very casual pansexual, if I'm making sense?
I feel they're trying to do two things simultaneously, he's supposed to be this person who takes nothing at all seriously and makes crazy jokes all the time, but he's also supposed to have this super serious love for a cardboard character that defines his character, and I just don't feel this juxtaposition works for me at all. I feel there's an R rated hero movie, called Super with Rainn Wilson and Liv Tyler, that does this whole heartbroken thing just sooo much better than Deadpool, because I really can feel his pain even though he's like totally oblivious to reality.
So I feel maybe I couldn't been drawn into the silliness more if I wasn't being pulled out by its attempts to be darkly serious. But putting those together just really falls flat for me, but I felt I was the only person not laughing really. I did find the very end credits part funny where he was erasing his own mistakes, but I didn't know he'd done that before. I wish his whole movie had just been zany like that.
I felt its biggest mistake was Vanessa, in my mind she shouldn't have been in either movie at all. I just don't really accept her character or her relationship with Wade, I feel she's incredibly one dimensional and even pretty offensive in part 2. I mean, she is nothing except his girlfriend, she is just there to look pretty and want a baby, right? I just don't feel Wade's a person who'd be so attached like this, and his being late for his anniversary was sort of lame to me. I feel he'd do better as a very casual pansexual, if I'm making sense?
I feel they're trying to do two things simultaneously, he's supposed to be this person who takes nothing at all seriously and makes crazy jokes all the time, but he's also supposed to have this super serious love for a cardboard character that defines his character, and I just don't feel this juxtaposition works for me at all. I feel there's an R rated hero movie, called Super with Rainn Wilson and Liv Tyler, that does this whole heartbroken thing just sooo much better than Deadpool, because I really can feel his pain even though he's like totally oblivious to reality.
So I feel maybe I couldn't been drawn into the silliness more if I wasn't being pulled out by its attempts to be darkly serious. But putting those together just really falls flat for me, but I felt I was the only person not laughing really. I did find the very end credits part funny where he was erasing his own mistakes, but I didn't know he'd done that before. I wish his whole movie had just been zany like that.
Well, Deadpool 2 had no plot to speak of - just incident piled on incident held together by a preposterous and kinda corny story. It's cute how Wade and Vanessa became such a conventionally romantic couple in planning their baby, just in time for her to snuff it. There was a fair amount of that kind of cheese sprinkled throughout the flick, which was one of my problems with it.
The plot to Deadpool was simple, linear and made basic sense - which is all it needed to do. Plot's not really much to talk about in superhero movies, and in the case of this series it exists as an armature to hang gags on.
Yeah I got tried of the Green Lantern jokes too. The thing is, I saw it at the cinema when it came out in 2011 but haven't seen it since. Was it actually that bad? I remember going into it not expecting much, and was moderately entertained, never felt like watching it again obviously.
But they make out like it's on the level of say Catwoman, 2015 Fantastic Four, Battlefield Earth or something equally dire. When really wasn't it simply a fairly forgettably average superhero movie?
(Just asking as I can't remember much of it)
But they make out like it's on the level of say Catwoman, 2015 Fantastic Four, Battlefield Earth or something equally dire. When really wasn't it simply a fairly forgettably average superhero movie?
(Just asking as I can't remember much of it)
Just saw it, very funny movie.
I laughed allot
I laughed allot
If you have to "have a tolerance", you are homophobic. Being "grossed out" makes you homophobic. Reacting with "ewww" noises is a behaviour indicative of homophobia.
Most of the reviews I've seen have said that it's not as good as the first one, so it's interesting that it seems like most posters here prefer the 2nd one. Personally, while I don't particularly like either one, the number of jokes that landed for me were substantially higher here. It's still nowhere near as good as Thor: Ragnarok, but I guess it's kinda on the right track-ish?
I would have loved to have seen that! Reminds me of this bit from Red Dwarf where they accidentally create a time portal.
Disney keeps getting away with their plagiarism because they pick suitably obscure references. First Cars was totally a remake of Doc Hollywood and now this.
I would have loved to have seen that! Reminds me of this bit from Red Dwarf where they accidentally create a time portal.
Disney keeps getting away with their plagiarism because they pick suitably obscure references. First Cars was totally a remake of Doc Hollywood and now this.
Solid A+ from me. I haven't laughed that hard or that loudly because of a movie in a very long time. Deadpool 2 is perfection.
Di anyone else think Cable came from the Days of Future Past dark future at first? The ruined building and purple lighting was straight out of that, and then later it's happy families until pyro kid shows up.
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