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Deadpool & Wolverine
We saw it last night, and I had a great time!
(This icon has NOTHING to do with literally ANYTHING in this movie but it's about my closest one to a generic superhero icon.)
I do NOT think this is the movie to start with if you've never seen a superhero movie or even if you've never seen a Deadpool movie, but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I didn't know much about it beforehand .... other than, y'know, Deadpool and Wolverine.
The whole movie was fun (and very funny) so I don't want to be like "the credits were the best part" but the montage of behind-the-scenes from the early Fox superhero movies was such an unexpected delight! It really made the whole movie feel like an affectionate homage to the earlier movies, and I felt like it took me straight back to being in my early 20s seeing the first Fox X-Men movie and being totally blown away that it was a superhero team movie and it was GOOD. I want to rewatch the early X-Men movies now.
I also had a really, really good time seeing Gambit in it! He's one of my comics favorite characters from My Youth who has never made it to the big screen yet, and it was SUCH fun. Especially since the people in the row behind us were clearly big comics fans themselves, and one girl was evidently having the time of her life every minute Gambit was onscreen; I remember hearing her gasp out loud in delight when he did the card-shuffling trick in the big fight.
All the cameos were really fantastic. Chris Evans playing Johnny Storm instead of Captain America was hilarious and I'm glad I wasn't spoiled for it. (Also very positive he was having a good time cursing in the credits stinger.)
I am completely positive that *I'm* not enough of an obsessive comics nerd to catch all the easter eggs, and I still caught a lot of them! (The cavalcade of real-life recreations of classic Wolverine covers! "Liefeld's Just Feet" on the boutique sign!)
And I really did genuinely enjoy and have feelings about the character arcs, especially Wolverine's. (I saw a post on Tumblr afterwards that was something like "He said that his whole world died, and then when you find out the real backstory, you realize that the X-Men were his whole world" and THANKS, COME FOR ME WHY DON'T YOU.)
That being said, I think reflecting back on the earlier two Deadpool movies made me think about the MCU's "empty calories" problem lately. "Slower paced and more heartfelt" is ... not at all the way I would normally describe a Deadpool movie, but compared to this one which was more or less a 2-hour fight scene, they actually were? Especially the first one. This one definitely felt like a movie By The Same People Who Produced Endgame!!! - bigger, fightier, more superhero-y.
But it was a big, dumb, funny, silly, bombastic great time and I'm glad I went. 😎
(This icon has NOTHING to do with literally ANYTHING in this movie but it's about my closest one to a generic superhero icon.)
I do NOT think this is the movie to start with if you've never seen a superhero movie or even if you've never seen a Deadpool movie, but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad I didn't know much about it beforehand .... other than, y'know, Deadpool and Wolverine.
The whole movie was fun (and very funny) so I don't want to be like "the credits were the best part" but the montage of behind-the-scenes from the early Fox superhero movies was such an unexpected delight! It really made the whole movie feel like an affectionate homage to the earlier movies, and I felt like it took me straight back to being in my early 20s seeing the first Fox X-Men movie and being totally blown away that it was a superhero team movie and it was GOOD. I want to rewatch the early X-Men movies now.
I also had a really, really good time seeing Gambit in it! He's one of my comics favorite characters from My Youth who has never made it to the big screen yet, and it was SUCH fun. Especially since the people in the row behind us were clearly big comics fans themselves, and one girl was evidently having the time of her life every minute Gambit was onscreen; I remember hearing her gasp out loud in delight when he did the card-shuffling trick in the big fight.
All the cameos were really fantastic. Chris Evans playing Johnny Storm instead of Captain America was hilarious and I'm glad I wasn't spoiled for it. (Also very positive he was having a good time cursing in the credits stinger.)
I am completely positive that *I'm* not enough of an obsessive comics nerd to catch all the easter eggs, and I still caught a lot of them! (The cavalcade of real-life recreations of classic Wolverine covers! "Liefeld's Just Feet" on the boutique sign!)
And I really did genuinely enjoy and have feelings about the character arcs, especially Wolverine's. (I saw a post on Tumblr afterwards that was something like "He said that his whole world died, and then when you find out the real backstory, you realize that the X-Men were his whole world" and THANKS, COME FOR ME WHY DON'T YOU.)
That being said, I think reflecting back on the earlier two Deadpool movies made me think about the MCU's "empty calories" problem lately. "Slower paced and more heartfelt" is ... not at all the way I would normally describe a Deadpool movie, but compared to this one which was more or less a 2-hour fight scene, they actually were? Especially the first one. This one definitely felt like a movie By The Same People Who Produced Endgame!!! - bigger, fightier, more superhero-y.
But it was a big, dumb, funny, silly, bombastic great time and I'm glad I went. 😎
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My local grocery store has a Marvel playing cards promotion (you spend some you get some cards) and if I had been at the height of my Marvel obsession this would have been really fun, but now I get a vague warm fuzzy feeling and that's all. Still I think this combo could be entertaining!
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If you do watch it, I hope you enjoy it! :D I don't think you need to have seen the second one. (It is referenced occasionally, but I think anything plot-relevant is fairly obvious.)
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The soundtrack was spectacularly grew-up-in-the-80s-and-90s (plus the Wrath of Khan reference near the end!) and the ending credits gave us the same flashbacks to the shock of the 2000 X-men movie being anything but terrible -- also they were so young! And there were a couple of younger folks in the audience who we overheard wondering where that footage was from and getting it explained...
But yeah, I feel like it's been a while since I've seen a superhero movie that genuinely, surprisingly impressed me like that. Which I think is partly the movies themselves, but also just me and superheroes not being where my interests are right now. And whether that's cause or effect I can't really say...?
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But yeah, I feel like it's been a while since I've seen a superhero movie that genuinely, surprisingly impressed me like that. Which I think is partly the movies themselves, but also just me and superheroes not being where my interests are right now. And whether that's cause or effect I can't really say...?
Yeah, I think they've just gotten so samey. Actually it makes me think that perhaps the situation with superhero movies now is not too different from how it was in the 80s/90s - except back then, they were largely terrible because the f/x were bad and the movies overall were either aimed at kids, or stilted and too serious. (I remember that part of what made the 2000 X-Men feel so fresh and fun was because it was both dramatic *and* funny - it was actually a very similar tone to the MCU, and there really hadn't been anything in that style yet.) And now they're not AS bad but they're also pretty much the same thing in every movie - big CGI-heavy fight scenes, some pop culture jokes, some lampshading and some nostalgia music.
As much as I legit did enjoy Deadpool & Wolverine, I also found it interesting that, without having seen any of the trailers, I kept spotting trailer shots in the movie - like "this is definitely in there because it'll play well in trailers." Superhero movies have just gotten so slick and commercial-feeling that it's hard to stop noticing the marketing calculation on "here's the trailer shot, here's the toy tie-in, here's the moment designed to make this song go viral" etc. I don't know how much of this is just that I'm personally tired of them, but I also do feel like they're getting increasingly soulless and starting to feel like blatant cash grabs. (I mean .... clearly they've always been cash grabs. XD But I didn't used to feel quite this aware of it while I was watching.)
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