The DEADPOOL Movie Anticipation Thread

[RAMA]

I finally saw the movie...was it entertaining? Well, I did laugh, sure. I feel the humor did get me through the movie, but it was gratuitously violent, meandering, and not nearly as good as a lot of other recent superhero movies nor do I expect it to even be one of the top 5 best superhero movies of the year.

Having said that, I can see the appeal to a certain segment of the public, so I can see why it's doing well. It's success just means we'll get more and a wider variety of superhero films. I wouldn't have imagined this when I stopped collecting comics 26 years ago.

RAMA

 

[Gaith]

It was definitely weighted towards the safe side, but the only thing that really bothered me was how toned down his disfigurement is. He looked like Ryan Reynolds with some skin-deep burns that healed badly. Some foundation and a wig and I wouldn't look twice at him on the street. Certainly no one is going to be nauseated at the sight of him.

Indeed. I was sure the movie would win back some of its credibility by having Vanessa chew him out for being a moron, and not knowing a thing about her/women in general, and how put off they'd (not) be by his new face, and was seriously annoyed when she didn't.

Deadpool already subverted the trope that the leading superhero in his movie must be handsome, which Wade definitely wasn't post-transformation.

No?

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Not only damned buff, but a perfectly symmetrical face with perfect teeth and a completely normal nose. Compare him to the literal first GIS result for "average looking man":

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I bet many women, not to mention most punk/edgy women, would prefer Deadpool to that guy. And to a woman already in a relationship with him? Pfft. Weak sauce, amigos. (A Toxic Avenger face would have done nicely.)

Complaining that Wade wasn't ugly enough is just nitpicking.

Not when the movie demands we feel (and makes a big plot point of) his mortification/inner pain, it isn't.


I liked the movie fine, and chuckled throughout, but from its utterly conventional plot (ironic that, in a universe created specifically to avoid cliched metahuman origin stories, this allegedly rebellious one offers exactly that), to its utterly conventional one-dimensional love interest (an Improbably Beautiful Hooker with a Heart of Gold? only the 4,783rd iteration of that trope), to its utterly conventional non-dimensional baddie, to its utterly conventional action-heavy climax, to its milder-than-South Park attitude, I give it a solid B-.


... Now, a Negasonic Teenage Warhead outing, that movie I'd watch any day.
(But what happens when she turns 20? Is part of her mutation to be frozen at 18-ish?)

 

[Turtletrekker]

(an Improbably Beautiful Hooker with a Heart of Gold? only the 4,783rd iteration of​

that​

trope.)​

Twice played by the same actress.​

 

[Trekker4747]

Not when the movie demands we feel (and makes a big plot point of) his mortification/inner pain, it isn't.

I think the point was to him he was ugly. You could argue, in a very stretched manner, he's still good looking (uhhh, as you say symmetrical features and a good-sized nose for his face) but he's drastically worse-looking than he was before and to him he's ugly. I agree they didn't go quite as far as they could have in showing Wade's disfigurement but you're talking about one of the more handsome actors in Hollywood, they were probably only willing to do so much ti him.

But the "arc" of his story, so to speak, is that only *he* was hung-up on his looks and Inara loved the person that was him and wasn't as concerned about his looks as he was.

... Now, a Negasonic Teenage Warhead outing, that movie I'd watch any day.
(But what happens when she turns 20? Is part of her mutation to be frozen at 18-ish?)

Negasonic Millennial Warehead.

 

[Gaith]

Twice played by the same actress.

Indeed!

I think the point was to him he was ugly. [...] But the "arc" of his story, so to speak, is that only *he* was hung-up on his looks and Inara loved the person that was him and wasn't as concerned about his looks as he was.

Yeah, I got all that, hence my frustration with the movie when she didn't call him out for being a numbskull, when I had been for the past hour of screen time.

And, not to get all political, let's just note that the stalker he intimidated into leaving his victim alone (at the beginning of the movie, a classic "pet the dog" audience sympathy ploy) was pimply and unattractive, whereas the cabbie he encourages to commit murder and kidnapping towards the end was genial and handsome: classic audience psychological manipulation. So, our hero is a none-too-bright narcissistic sociopath - which, okay, that's a fairly gutsy artistic move - but the movie also absolutely asks us to feel sympathy for him when he reveals his somewhat-less-handsome face to his girlfriend. Again: weak sauce. If one is going to make a loathsome protagonist, one should commit to it.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I thought the same thing about his looks not being nearly fried enough for what they seemed to try to convey. I hadn't thought that maybe if it was Wade's vanity that took it out of proportion but I don't remember the movie making that case (see TJ Miller's jokes for example). At least, I didn't think he looked monstrous or anything if someone saw him on the street.

 

[Dream]

Deadpool Bluray going for $11.99 this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target.

Just a heads up for those that were waiting for a sale.

 

[LJones41]

"DEADPOOL" reminded me of the James Bond movie, "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER". A lot of funny humor, but a badly written narrative. In the end, I was disappointed. Didn't bother with the DVD.

 

[JD]

I just watched the movie for the first time today, and while I thought it was really funny, there really wasn't much more going for it. It had a couple pretty cool action scenes, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Collosus were fun. The story wasn't really anything to impressive. I'd probably give it an A or A-.
I do agree that they could have made Wade uglier, especially since they made such a huge thing of how ugly he was now.