It's more of a slap in the face to that ******* Tom Rothman. The same guy who didn't have faith in X-men, really just superhero films in general. Look at where we are now. Then he denied Singer the right to use Sentinels in X2 because he said the audience would find giant robots stupid and silly. Pretty much every Transformer movie has hit 1 billion WW. Then due to being a greedy, penny pinching..., he fast tracks X-men 3 because he didn't want to wait for Singer to make Superman Returns. That turned into a sloppy mess and just to have more showings (and budget too I imagine) it gets chopped to a 90 minute film. With that many characters? He's such a moron.
I know before he left Fox he had something to do with blocking a solo Deadpool film being made and it was confirmed that he had a huge hand in altering and forcing things on the director of Wolverine: Origins. Hell, in that leaked footage for Deadpool, even Reynold's at the end of it says, "hi Tom!".
I hope to hell he has zero control or input at Sony for the new Spider-Man films.
It's already at $708M WW. $800M will be nothing, once streaming and home video sales start to factor in.
Goes to show Imo that studios need to reign their budgets in even more and smartly make movies rather than chucking money at it and hoping it makes a bajillion. Deadpool is a great example of an ultimate ROI and I hope Reynolds had a contract in place that gives him a big fat pay day alongside all the other dedicated people involved in bringing this long gestatting project.
I came to a startling realization yesterday: Deadpool is simply an adult version of The Emperor's New Groove.
Let's look at some correlations here, shall we?
Both movies break the fourth wall regularly and follow non-linear timelines, complete with narration by the main character explaining just how ridiculous their life has become and is.
Both characters begin as relatively normal people (emperor or not) who are easily classified as anti-heroes.
Both characters are horribly disfigured by a series of events gone awry, a transformation which keeps them from the object of their desire (Wade from Vanessa, Kuzco from being Emperor and his pool).
Both characters must enlist the help of a poor sidekick in order to rebuild their strength post-transformation (Wade shacks up with Al the blind lady, Kuzco shacks up with Pacha).
Both villains have a strong dumb sidekick.
Both villains are horribly distraught that the anti-hero is alive ("A llama?! He's supposed to BE DEAD!!!!" "He's just bad for business.").
In other words, David Spade's Kuzco is the real Deadpool (maybe even Wade's ancestor?), and we've just been waiting for the sequel for 16 years.
Love it! I shared it with a few co-workers who loved this as well
Finally saw this today. Some old guy walked out after Deadpool shot three dudes in the head with one bullet, and never came back. I'm pretty sure this means the movie was awesome.
Finally saw this today. Some old guy walked out after Deadpool shot three dudes in the head with one bullet, and never came back. I'm pretty sure this means the movie was awesome.
I love this. All of this. Marvel isn't going to let someone like this make any big decisions.
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You know what I love about all of this.
It's more of a slap in the face to that ******* Tom Rothman. The same guy who didn't have faith in X-men, really just superhero films in general. Look at where we are now. Then he denied Singer the right to use Sentinels in X2 because he said the audience would find giant robots stupid and silly. Pretty much every Transformer movie has hit 1 billion WW. Then due to being a greedy, penny pinching..., he fast tracks X-men 3 because he didn't want to wait for Singer to make Superman Returns. That turned into a sloppy mess and just to have more showings (and budget too I imagine) it gets chopped to a 90 minute film. With that many characters? He's such a moron.
I know before he left Fox he had something to do with blocking a solo Deadpool film being made and it was confirmed that he had a huge hand in altering and forcing things on the director of Wolverine: Origins. Hell, in that leaked footage for Deadpool, even Reynold's at the end of it says, "hi Tom!".
I hope to hell he has zero control or input at Sony for the new Spider-Man films.
'Deadpool' Stunt Coordinator Says One Scene on the Blu-Ray is "More Personal and More Vicious" Than in the Film
We know, we know–you're probably tired of Deadpool news, but it's hard to hold this info to ourselves. The hard R rating of Deadpool lent itself to vicious scenes, including shots of Deadpool looking at some bad guys through a bullet hole in his arm, but during an upcoming interview with Deadpool stunt coordinator Philip Silvera (who also was stunt coordinator for both seasons of Daredevil), it looks like we haven't seen ANYTHING yet.
When asked about some of his favorite stunts and sequences in the film, Silvera mentioned that he's particularly fond of the final sequence, but his favorite scene was the Workshop battle between Wade and Francis. Silvera let us know we'll see even more of it in the eventual Deadpool Blu-Ray:
"It might have gotten a little too violent for the feature film; even though the film was a hard R, that scene gets a lot more personal and more vicious towards the end. You've got to remember," Silvera continues, "this is a guy who has been torturing Wade the entire time. The way he views Wade is very different, and you see it come through in the action and the way they see each other. It’s still a brutal scene. But the full version of that sequence. It’s vicious, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing that."
As are we. Now keep in mind, that scene ended with Wade naked and impaled inside of a burning building, so there's no telling how vicious this scene is actually going to be.
JUST watched this tonight. Great movie! Funny as hell. I was a bit shocked at the hard R rating. I went in thinking this was a PG-13 affair. Can't wait for Deadpool 2.
While this weekend belonged to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, another superhero was still making enough noise to upset the history of the box office. Deadpool has finally reached a big milestone. It is now officially the highest grossing R-Rated movie of all time. This comes after the Marvel and 20th Century Fox adventure has been in theaters for 7 weeks.
Released in 2003, The Matrix Reloaded held onto the highest grossing R-rated record for a surprising 13 years. It stood firm with its worldwide take of $742 million. But Deadpool just stuck another impressive weekend run under its belt, taking in an additional $5 million at the domestic box office. This pushes its global tally to $745 million.
In the states, while Deadpool knocked The Matrix Reloaded out of the way, it is only the third highest grossing R-rated movie at the domestic box office. It is stuck behind American Sniper, in second place with $350.1 million, and The Passion of the Christ in first place with $370.7 million. Deadpool currently has stateside earnings of $349.4 million. It's not yet clear if it will have enough staying power to knock down Mel Gibson's biblical epic. But if it does, expect to see a lot of 'Deadpool is more popular than Jesus' headlines.
Deadpool is only less than a million dollars from taking down director Clint Eastwood's American Sniper in the states, so expect to see that happen at least by next weekend. It still has more than $20 million to go before beating The Passion of the Christ. With the home video release of Deadpool just around the corner this spring, most box office analysts don't believe the http://movieweb.com/deadpool-movie-t...hiversary/Merc with a Mouth has any chance of dethroning the son of god. But stranger things have happened.
Did anyone else mention this: casting Arnie as Cable in the sequel? It's the type of role Arnie would do nowadays, especially knowing that everyone will watch the sequel. Would they not cast Arnie though because he is somewhat similar to Deadpool's Collosus?
Maybe I'll go see this again for a 3rd time on Tuesday cheap night to help give it another bit of a boost. It would be fantastic being able to say, "Deadpool is more popular than Jesus."
When would theaters pull Deadpool out of theaters - when it makes less than a million dollars on Friday - Sunday? What's the general rule of thumb? If the movie is still averaging a million dollars per weekend day, that seems pretty damn good.
It seems a certain Ryan Reynolds entire career has been leading to this one moment. Who else could play a superhero character in a badly received movie, where said character was completely panned for the overall portrayal, only then to be cast again as the same character in a somewhat undeniably risky reboot...of sorts. The next question is could he do the same thing again with another Green based superhero character?? Anyway it seemed Reynolds and co were not ready to give up on old Deadpool, they weren't gonna go down without a fight...and possible second mauling in another iffy superhero flick, which was entirely possible. So some test footage was made, footage that did look more in-line with the original source material and ultimate vision, it was 'accidentally' leaked online by persons unknown (Reynolds), fan reaction was positive and thus we have another comicbook flick (an R/18 rated one).
The plot is your standard comicbook affair really. Wade Wilson is a merc with an attitude, he's a mouthy git and a bit of an anti-hero essentially. He meets a girl at the local escort/stripper bar/club type place and they fall in love. Everything is going swimmingly until Wade is diagnosed with terminal cancer, but luckily there is some shady government type that offers Wilson a chance to be cured through some dodgy, top secret experiments. Normally most folk would be like...dodgy top secret government experiments you say? errmm...no, I'll pass but thanks for asking. Alas Wilson is gonna die from cancer soon so what the hell right. The experiment in question is a process to try and awaken latent mutant genes within the body, something that is done by torture basically, which seemed weird to me. I mean, does every human have these latent mutant genes? does this mean technically anyone can be transformed into a super powered human through this process? I don't believe there was anything particularly special about Wilson originally so I guess anyone can be transformed as far as I can see. Anyway the process eventually works and triggers mutant genes which enables Wilson to heal super fast, this cures his cancer, or manages to stop it going further, but somehow deforms him badly at the same time, leaving him looking like a burn victim for no reason whatsoever. From here on Wilson wants revenge and a cure from the man who did this to him (Ajax) and thusly becomes the masked vigilante Deadpool.
This takes me to me first point and question, admitting right here that I'm not up on Deadpool lore. Why exactly does Wilson want to kill Ajax so much? I understand that Wilson did not expect to get badly disfigured in the experiment, so that's a bummer for him sure, and I understand that Wilson simply took a disliking to the guy, so bad first impressions, OK sure, but he still managed to save his life and give him what he ultimately wanted. So yes I can see why Wilson wants to get Ajax for the possible hinted cure, but end of the day, he did make him a superhero, he did technically cure his cancer, so that's somewhat good right...right?? This also leads me to something Ajax said which I didn't get, he mentions to Wilson that they actually create slaves for wealthy people, what exactly does he mean by this? is this a diehard comicbook thing I'm not getting? Who are these wealthy people? super villains? would that be why they need mutated super strong slaves? Obviously that's another reason why Wilson wants revenge on Ajax because he was tricked, technically, but I'm just not sure what the trick was about.
Like many movies of this vain there are the usual things that are...kinda dumb. The fact that the main protagonist is invincible yet the bad guys keep on shooting at him, at what point do you realise it ain't doing shit. On a counter point, why does Deadpool run away from bullets when they don't really have any effects on him, I'm guessing because healing takes time, but still, he hides a lot when there appears to be no need. At the end when Ajax fights Deadpool, sure I know you gotta have this sequence for movie reasons but its just pointless, Ajax knows he can't really defeat the guy. This is always a problem with comicbook flicks, there are many characters that can't really be beaten so fighting amongst themselves feels aimless, its just there to look good. I also found it kinda weird how people don't think much of a bloke running around in that costume with guns and swords strapped to himself. That cab driver merely takes it all in his stride, oh there's some masked vigilante with a multitude of weapons on my back seat, just another day then.
On the plus side this movie is a fresh approach from the more formulaic superhero flicks of late, or ever even. By that I of course mean the outrageously, in your face, smartass humour which Deadpool is of course infamous for, and the unique fourth wall breaking. Now I'm not gonna say this movie was ball-bustingly hilarious or anything, but it certainly made you smile at times. Again the humour isn't exactly intelligent or witty, its more crude, crass and obviously caters for comicbook/movie nerds more than anything, some of it hit home nicely, some not so much. For example, when Deadpool mentions that Negasonic Teenage Warhead looks like Ripley from 'Alien 3', I kinda cringed a bit because its a very dated reference about females with shaven heads that everyone used back in the day. On the other hand I did smile at Wilson's mention of Basil Fawlty when taking the piss out of Ajax's British accent. Nothing outstandingly amusing but a nice little bit of pop culture that will have gone over many youngsters heads I'm sure. The fourth wall breaking I found unusual mainly because its not really been done before and I'm not used to this characters antics. I guess it sorta works, but at the same time it sorta doesn't. It took me outta the film I gotta be honest, if they include this in future X-Men movies or whatever then it might harm them, the seriousness aspect obviously.
As for the characters well again it nothing overly spectacular really, again being a diehard comicbook fan probably helps here. Ajax is just some muscly bloke who doesn't feel pain, his sidekick Angel Dust is just some super strong chick, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead sounds awesome but didn't really do that much in all fairness...accept exert big explosions of energy or whatever. I really liked the look of Colossus in this, he looked really badass, maybe overly badass, like...how the f*ck do you stop him badass, like...who would win in a fight between Hulk and Colossus type badass (probably Hulk?). I didn't like his cheesy, cliched last bit of dialog at the end either, mind you that whole scene with Deadpool mulling over whether to kill Ajax or not, was completely predictable and hamfisted. The only real issue I had here was the blatant lack of any other characters from the X-Men universe...or even some X-mansion students. Yes I know this was actually the quip of a verbal joke from Deadpool which was amusing, but it only tended to highlight why there genuinely wasn't any more characters. I mean they could of at least thrown some extras in the background as students for the X-mansion scenes surely, those sequences looked really cheap and sparse because of that. Maybe that was the aim for the point of the joke, I dunno but it looked weak. The quick quip from Deadpool in one of these scenes mentioning both actors that have played Professor X in other movies, was another example where I was taken out of the movie, clever but ultimately distracting.
It is nice to see a kickass violent action comicbook flick that's set within a more PG-13 universe (eventually), that hook most definitely works/worked. The violence itself was nothing original nor mind-blowing though, the usual CGI stuff, CGI blood and wounds, high-flying martial arts type tomfoolery, lots of faceless henchman cannon fodder types blah blah blah. The whole film looked a bit...plastic to me to be honest, a bit fake in general, Deadpool's CGI animated eyes also looked a bit cartoonish to me, if I dare say that. I also realise this film didn't have as bigger budget as other superhero flicks but this movie did tend to feel more cramped at times, more confined to a few scenes. The trailer featured a lot of highway action, and a lot of the movie certainly does spend time there (from a flashback perspective), similarly there is a lot of time spend on the finale sequence which seems to be based on one of those helicarriers from The Avengers movies. In the end, again I just can't go along with current hype as I simply didn't find this movie as good as it was cracked up to be. I think more practical action/violence based effects would have been better here (damn I miss big squelchy squibs), but that's just my personal preference. Again, I find myself saying its not a bad movie by any stretch, there are some solid moments, and more importantly it is pretty fresh, but its still no way as awesome as I was expecting.
6.5/10
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