Deadpool

[jayman3]

Speaking of cosplays, every time I go to a con, I see thousands of Deadpools. Last year, there was a Deadpool conga line going around the convention floor. There had to have been at least a hundred of them lol.

I can only imagine the increase of cosplays after this movies release. I'm getting ready to face an army of Deadpool, Kylo Ren, Rey, and Harley Quinn cosplayers at this years convention.

[Aerodude73]

Box Office: 'Deadpool' Makes History With $132.4M Weekend, Colossal $152.2M Holiday.

For the four-day holiday weekend, Deadpool earned a colossal $152.2 million. Ryan Reynolds' R-rated superhero movie is obliterating numerous records over the long Valentine's Day/Presidents Day weekend, while it opens to a resounding $132.3 million overseas for a global bow of $284.5 million.

Reynolds' film received an A CinemaScore from all age groups. And 92 percent said they would recommend it to a friend, while 76 percent checked off the excellent box, on par with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to ComScore's PostTrak exit polling service.

** THR.com **

[willtopower]

What you wrote:

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

That's not said to be pompous, but simply because I know how dangerous things are for impressionable minds.

How it should be read:

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

That's not said to be pompous, but simply because I know how dangerous things are for my impressionable mind.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Originally Posted by Moviefan2k4

In my opinion, any child being even remotely "okay" with extreme language, gore, or graphic sexuality is not a good thing. I was born in '80, and didn't see my first R-rated film until age 13; it was "My Cousin Vinny" on VHS. Later, I became addicted to "slasher" movies, having to swear them off completely because my thoughts and emotions became affected. Just because a kid wants to see something, it doesn't mean they should...and its the parents' job to make sure of that. After ditching horror, I have very few R-rated films in my collection. That's not said to be pompous, but simply because I know how dangerous things are for impressionable minds.

You've admitted that you have some issues. Those are specific to you. I believe you admitted that wearing a Michael (Halloween) mask made you feel impulses. That's you and your issues. I wear a mask and I feel nothing. It's a mask. Whatever I connect to it, is mine and mine alone. I don't feel anything wearing the mask aside from whatever reason I wanted to wear one.

It's ok to be ok w/ things that aren't really happening. It's a 2D image w/ sound coming at ya. And the person watching it is totally in control in how they accept that imagery. I don't feel anything except for what I allow. To me? Tone affects me more than the actions of the characters. I don't feel anything just watching actions.

I watched Alex Murphy's hand get blown off at 3 and thought that was crazy to see. It didn't affect me though. It is one of my favorite movies still cuz it's damn good but it's impression on me in my psychological state is pretty much zero. Cuz it's not real. It's never been real to me. I got that as a kid. I understood negative and positive actions really well as a kid. Mostly cuz my parents were very good in teaching me to understand things. These are stories and sometimes some stories aren't very nice essentially. And that's life. I got that. I got right and wrong pretty quickly.

[Freezeup]

Saw it this afternoon and the theater was surprisingly packed. LOVED it! 5 stars. Reynolds was truly born to play this role.

Only complaint was Colossus constantly in titanium/metal mode. Otherwise, great time through and through. Just a FUN movie.

The Bea Arthur tshirt was glorious.

[Aerodude73]

"How 'Deadpool's' Marketing Won Over Fanboys (and Everyone Else)".

The campaign for Ryan Reynolds' racy R-rated superhero movie ranged from the sublime — including billboards sporting the Emoji for poop — to taking over more traditional outlets like the Super Bowl.


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The elusive and distracted fanboys have returned in force to the multiplex, first for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and now for Deadpool.

The Ryan Reynolds superhero movie opened to an astounding $132.4 million for the three-day Valentines weekend and $152.2 million for the four days, the biggest R-rated opening of all time and the seventh-biggest for a comic book opening. (Merc with the Mouth just became Merc with the Money.)

No one saw those kinds of numbers coming -- even Fox. Expectations were tempered since the movie had a R rating, unheard of for a comic book movie. Not only that, it's "hard" R. But the demographics tell the story: At least 62 percent of ticket buyers were males, says Fox. And 47 percent were under the age of 25, a higher share than any recent comic book movie, according to exit polling service PostTrak. Nearly 37 percent of Deadpool's audience were between the ages of 18 and 24, a stellar turnout compared to just 19 percent for Guardians of the Galaxy and 19 percent for the more traditional X-Men: Days of Future Past (both of those films were rated PG-13).

Fox’s marketing operation is being given high marks for their provocative and irreverent campaign, which launched in earnest almost a year ago. “We treated this as a combination of a superhero movie and an R-rated comedy. And Ryan was the real genius behind this,” says Fox domestic marketing chief Marc Weinstock, who made waves at Sony when orchestrating District 9's marketing campaign.

Weinstock and his marketing and publicity staff at Fox were given carte blanche from the get-go. They worked closely with the Deadpool team — including Reynolds, first time feature director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick — in bouncing off various ideas. "We did all of them, and the ones that were great, we used," Weinstock says.

In March 2015, a first-look appeared of Deadpool in his costume lying on a bear-skin rug, mimicking the famous playboy centerfold of Burt Reynolds. The material was a key test to say whether fans approved of the costume. They did. And in summer, Fox sneaked the fist trailer at ComicCon. Two weeks later, Fox and the filmmakers convinced Conan O’ Brien’s show on TBS to change its rating to TV-MA so as to debut the first Deadpool red-band trailer. It was the most viewed red-band trailer in history, garnering 114 million hits. The second red-band trailer debuted on Christmas Day, nabbing 90 million views.

"This is probably as much variety as I've ever done for a campaign. And it traveled more because so much of it was outrageous and audacious," say Weinstock.

Box office analyst Jeff Bock says fanboys ate it up. “Deadpool is unconventional in ways,” says Bock, “but I call it a return to the core values of what comic books offer — an abundance of energy, unbridled excitement, spontaneous comedy throughout and general snarkiness.”

Most everything about the Deadpool campaign was designed to go viral, including a billboard with a poop Emoji that, combined with a skull and an “L,” spelled out the character's name. That and another mock billboard making Deadpool look like a Nicholas Sparks rom-com appeared in fewer than 10 locations, but were the talk of social media. There was also a "touch yourself tonight campaign" in which Deadpool encourages men to check themselves for early signs of testicular cancer, an April Fool's Day gag suggesting the movie would be rated PG-13 and an 11th hour video from Betty White reviewing the movie.

Deadpool's campaign also had more traditional components, including green-band trailers. And the movie invaded the mainstream Super Bowl, holding its official press junket the day before the game not far from Levi Stadium in the Bay Area.

"At that point, we wanted to be everywhere. And we knew from tracking that we had reached beyond the core fans. We were getting everybody. Our whole plan was to be accessible as possible in explaining who Deadpool was, while treating the fanbase with respect," says Weinstock.

Adds Bock: “I think everyone realized — especially after Guardians of the Galaxy and the success of that relatively unknown property — that the genre needed a kick in the pants. Audiences were finally ready for an anything-goes, language-be-damned film that poked fun at the world it inhabits, and delightfully breaks through the fourth wall. This bodes well for adding the comedic elements back into franchises like Spider-Man, which really hurt itself trying to be more like The Dark Knight than remain true to its ink and blotter origins.”

[Geoff D]

That's what threw me about Deadpool's success: there've been runaway trains of viral marketing which didn't translate to good box office, there've been hard R adaptations of long-term comic book favourites which didn't translate to good box office...it seems like, for once, all dat marketing hit the sweetest of spots and actually got fans off their arses and into theaters.

[Chloenator]

[aiman04]

They cheated a lot of women with this:



Of course I'm joking but seriously, I've seen on the social media someone lured their mom to see it by showing that poster.

[Tony208]

It is a love story after all. It's their fault for thinking a movie named Deadpool would be an ordinary one.

[DanTheMan]

Tons of jokes that just didn't land (and people say Ted 2 was awful), a generic villain who was overshadowed by his own henchwoman, underutilizing TJ Miller, and unconventional flashbacks/flashforwards that just threw me out of the loop.

Otherwise, Ryan Reynolds fits the Deadpool character perfectly (needs to work on his humor for next time), and he and his love interest's chemistry was believable. Needed more of Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead because they were the standout characters for me. Gina Carano's

[Show spoiler]fight with Colossus

was badass and I like that entire sequence. Love me some superhero movies....but this was not one of the great ones, let alone the good ones. Almost as disappointing as Origins: Wolverine.

2/5

[WhySoBlu?]

Originally Posted by Tony208

It is a love story after all. It's their fault for thinking a movie named Deadpool would be an ordinary one.

The first time I mentioned to her that my wife and I had pre-ordered tickets for this, my mom asked me if it was a remake. I laughed, but I was a little proud that she remembered the title of a Dirty Harry movie from the early '90s...

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

Tons of jokes that just didn't land (and people say Ted 2 was awful), a generic villain who was overshadowed by his own henchwoman, underutilizing TJ Miller, and unconventional flashbacks/flashforwards that just threw me out of the loop.

Otherwise, Ryan Reynolds fits the Deadpool character perfectly (needs to work on his humor for next time), and he and his love interest's chemistry was believable. Needed more of Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead because they were the standout characters for me. Gina Carano's

[Show spoiler]fight with Colossus

was badass and I like that entire sequence. Love me some superhero movies....but this was not one of the great ones, let alone the good ones. Almost as disappointing as Origins: Wolverine.

2/5

what!?!?!

[Impossible]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

2/5

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

what!?!?!

30-40 people in my audience. Maybe 4-5 real laughs, not chuckles by the end.

It's shocking how many jokes were missing, nonetheless by Reynolds himself. I also feel the trailer maybe showed too many of the good jokes because the audience and myself have that mentality of "Oh yeah, we've seen/heard that already."

One of the funniest lines actually came in the early start of the movie:

[Show spoiler]"Someone's not counting!"

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

30-40 people in my audience. Maybe 4-5 real laughs, not chuckles by the end.

It's shocking how many jokes were missing, nonetheless by Reynolds himself. I also feel the trailer maybe showed too many of the good jokes because the audience and myself have that mentality of "Oh yeah, we've seen/heard that already."

One of the funniest lines actually came in the early start of the movie:

[Show spoiler]"Someone's not counting!"

there were probably close to 150 people in my showing and I missed more than enough dialogue b/c the entire audience was laughing throughout the whole movie.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

there were probably close to 150 people in my showing and I missed more than enough dialogue b/c the entire audience was laughing throughout the whole movie.

That's what I had anticipated going in, and my crowd had a mix of older teens, adults in their early 20s, and a few older couples. Nothing was really sticking, not even TJ Miller's stuff, and that's his shtick where he usually excels.

For the record, I don't have a stick up anywhere in my anatomy. I'm a normal person like anyone else who attends silly, raunchy comedies as well as fun and light-toned comic book movies. GotG did comedy well, Ant-Man did comedy well, Kick-Ass certainly did comedy well. This one should've surpassed them all, but with the exception of a handful of chuckles, I heard virtually every line of dialogue with ease, and it may as well been crickets in the theater. I can't explain the experience.

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

That's what I had anticipated going in, and my crowd had a mix of older teens, adults in their early 20s, and a few older couples. Nothing was really sticking, not even TJ Miller's stuff, and that's his shtick where he usually excels.

For the record, I don't have a stick up anywhere in my anatomy. I'm a normal person like anyone else who attends silly, raunchy comedies as well as fun and light-toned comic book movies. GotG did comedy well, Ant-Man did comedy well, Kick-Ass certainly did comedy well. This one should've surpassed them all, but with the exception of a handful of chuckles, I heard virtually every line of dialogue with ease, and it may as well been crickets in the theater. I can't explain the experience.

Well you did see it in Florida - a desensitized state. Numb to violence and plastic surgery.

[Blu-Benny]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

That's what I had anticipated going in, and my crowd had a mix of older teens, adults in their early 20s, and a few older couples. Nothing was really sticking, not even TJ Miller's stuff, and that's his shtick where he usually excels.

For the record, I don't have a stick up anywhere in my anatomy. I'm a normal person like anyone else who attends silly, raunchy comedies as well as fun and light-toned comic book movies. GotG did comedy well, Ant-Man did comedy well, Kick-Ass certainly did comedy well. This one should've surpassed them all, but with the exception of a handful of chuckles, I heard virtually every line of dialogue with ease, and it may as well been crickets in the theater. I can't explain the experience.

sucks that you didn't enjoy it.

[Lt. Brannigan]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

Well you did see it in Florida - a desensitized state. Numb to violence and plastic surgery.

Going by headlines, Deadpool has nothing on Florida Man...