Deadpool

[Merusk]

Speaking of Liefield, check the name on the Starbucks cup in the opening.   

[Ironwood]

Well, that was rather enjoyable.  In two minds about it though.  It was still your bog-standard not terribly interesting Origin movie.  It was also a non stop bit of fun.

[Lakov_Sanite]

That's what can make a good romantic comedy or any other type of movie, by the book but charismatic and funny enough you don't care.   Kinda how I enjoyed John Wick for being a 'pure' action movie, this was a pure distilled super hero movie that was all lean, no fat.

[K9]

I enjoyed this. The plot is paper thin, but the gags come at a great pace and there was really nothing I didn't find amusing.

[RhyssaFireheart]

I loved it. 

Hell, even the husband loved it and he had no idea who Deadpool was going in.  He just saw one of the commercials during the Super Bowl and thought it was funny, so he decided to go with me.

[Soulflame]

It was violent, crude, bloody, immature, and utterly over the top.


The whole family loved it.

[Khaldun]

We also found it very amusing and entertaining. I am hoping the 15-year old doesn't have questions about the sex montage, though.

Big shout-out to the writers. The tone on Deadpool is extremely easy to get completely wrong, but they pretty much got it just right.

I do hope that if they do Cable in a sequel, he is played entirely for laughs, like Colossus in this one. There is no way to make Cable anything but utterly pants-on-head-ridiculous. It would be kind of hilarious if they actually tried to fourth-wall explain his origin.

[HaemishM]

Deadpool breaks the record for best opening by an R-Rated movie ever.

Seriously, $135 million domestic, over $260 million worldwide on a $58 million budget. Even if you count marketing as double the budget, it's already made a profit domestically in one weekend. Highest February opening ever, beating Fifty fucking Shades of Gray. It just utterly killed. Even if the second week dropoff is big, it's still justified the insistence on an R-Rating, as well as all the hype that was built from that CGI sequence that made its way around the Internet.

It was good for the same reason a lot of the Marvel movies are good - it seems like the producers/studio laid down a few ground rules and a framework, then stepped back and let the creative people do what they do.

[Evildrider]

I want Karl Urban as Cable.   

[Soulflame]

I want Kiera Knightly as Cable.

[Evildrider]

Kiera Knightly as Domino!

[Segoris]

Kiera Knightly as Domino!

Lol

Once was enough. Though, for real, she might not be bad for it

[Ironwood]

Isn't that right, my dear Chair

[SurfD]

Deadpool breaks the record for best opening by an R-Rated movie ever.

Seriously, $135 million domestic, over $260 million worldwide on a $58 million budget. Even if you count marketing as double the budget, it's already made a profit domestically in one weekend. Highest February opening ever, beating Fifty fucking Shades of Gray. It just utterly killed. Even if the second week dropoff is big, it's still justified the insistence on an R-Rating, as well as all the hype that was built from that CGI sequence that made its way around the Internet.

It was good for the same reason a lot of the Marvel movies are good - it seems like the producers/studio laid down a few ground rules and a framework, then stepped back and let the creative people do what they do.

I honestly dont see this dropping off in any meanigfull way untill at least the second or third week.

The theatre I work at had it in 2 of our largest auditoriums (a 400 seat IMAX house and a 380 ish seat Normal house) and we had to open up a third auditorium for an Additional late show (we axed a show of something and moved Zoolander into one of the tiny auditoriums movies go to to die) and we STILL ended up turning people away in droves because shows were sold out multiple hours in advance.  Hell,  we had people coming to our theatre from as far away as an hour + drive (note, we are on the edge of metropolitan Toronto, there are probably at least 10 other theatres within 1 hour of us) because they said every theatre around them was also sold out.

This thing is going to have heafty legs untill damn near everybody who can has finally managed to see it.

[Jeff Kelly]

Yeah, apparently no one told them that R-rated movies are box office poison.

[Jeff Kelly]

Deadpool is currently leading the german box office charts. It's the 6th best February launch ever with 900,000 tickets (1st: 50 shades 1.3 m).

[Tmon]

It was violent, crude, bloody, immature, and utterly over the top.

That sums it up for me and my wife, neither of us are comic book/super hero fans but this movie was just fun.  We went because she watched a trailer someone posted on youtube and she thought it looked funny.  There were 3 or 4 other superhero movie trailers before Deadpool started but she said they looked like too much serious business to bother with.

[HaemishM]

Yeah, apparently no one told them that R-rated movies are box office poison.

Hollywood has been SO wrong about this for so long. PG-13 really has been a bad thing for Hollywood, IMO. Maybe it's because I'm an adult now and don't have kids, but I haven't even paid attention to the ratings for anything in forever other than to see if something that should be R isn't (like an Aliens movie or Deadpool). Hollywood has insisted for so long that anything big budget has to be PG-13 or better so as not to turn away the kiddies, but it's somewhat creatively stifling. I still don't see it changing much because Hollywood execs are mostly fucking idiots but it is nice to see something that needed an R-rating get and be hugely successful doing it.

Of course, it's also a huge win for really damn good marketing.

[Merusk]

Well they weren't initially wrong about it. It served its purpose with the very protectionist parents that early Childrearing Boomers and Gap-gen parents were when it was introduced. Gen X and young Millenials have totally different attitudes about what's appropriate and levels of media savvy. It's not like the 80s where, "oh shit, why is this PG?" could happen because you had no way of gathering information beforehand. Famously Jaws, Gremlins, Wizards, and Mommie Dearest had PG ratings. Whoops.

Additionally I'm not a fan of the "do away with PG-13" movement that's out there. It lets movies like The Breakfast Club (which was "R" how crazy is that?) be accessible to the right audience while also letting parents know, "no, this isn't a Disney Channel movie. Look into why it has this rating."

I also want to take a moment and give Kudos to my local theater who was actually checking IDs outside the room and made sure a few idiot parents who bought tickets online didn't bring their 8-year-olds to the movie. Good job.

[HaemishM]

My problem isn't with the PG-13 rating. If we're going to have ratings, I appreciate it being there as a good indicator that yeah, this is a bit more adult than an 8-year old should see but it isn't full-on Showgirls. I just think Hollywood has handicapped a number of movies creatively because they didn't want to shut out 13-16 year old ticket sales.

[Selby]

I also want to take a moment and give Kudos to my local theater who was actually checking IDs outside the room and made sure a few idiot parents who bought tickets online didn't bring their 8-year-olds to the movie. Good job.

The wife got a 5 minute lecture from the ticket taker on her bringing the 13 year olds to this movie.  Her response was "they'll hear worse language from me over the rest of the day and see more violence on the internet!"

[Surlyboi]

Breakfast Club was R because it had too many "fuck"s in it. I still find it super shitty that two f-bombs equals an R rating.

[Merusk]

James Gunn nails why Deadpool's success will ultimately be a bad thing:
http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/james-gunn-worried-deadpool-teach-wrong-lessons.html?mid=twitter_vulture

TLDR: Bad imitations incoming.

[Lakov_Sanite]

It's not a bad thing and it's inevitable no matter what type of movie it is. See:Twilight and YA movies.  Being successful leads to poorer imitations, it's just nature.

[HaemishM]

It's not like Fox hasn't made other shitty imitations of superhero movies and failed in the past. See Fantastic Four or both of the Wolverine movies.

[Khaldun]

I think Gunn is right in that the studios have NO FUCKING IDEA why Deadpool worked. Maybe not even Marvel Studios. So there will be dumb bad attempts to reproduce the formula. Dumb bad R-rated superhero movies with lots of masturbation jokes = objectively worse than other kinds of studio imitation. This is a really fragile formula that was cooked into a beautiful potion by really skilled people. Bad cookings will be unusually toxic.

I think I felt especially dread when I saw one prognostication today that this would greenlight an R-rated Gambit movie. This is the worst possible thing ever. This is a thought worthy of having aliens nuke us from orbit.

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What would be good? An R-rated X-Force movie that mixed the sensibility of this film with Rick Remender's more serious X-Force comics. That's part of what made this work, in fact--just enough seriousness about Deadpool's sufferings, about his relationship, etc.

Though they did downplay just how disgusting he looks in the comics--I had to point out to my wife and daughter than in the comics, the guy has open, bleeding, pus-oozing sores all over his body, he's not just a burn victim.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Though they did downplay just how disgusting he looks in the comics--I had to point out to my wife and daughter than in the comics, the guy has open, bleeding, pus-oozing sores all over his body, he's not just a burn victim.

I didn't mind this as much because while it could have been a technical limitation I think the movie would lose something by forcing reynolds to emote as pizza the hutt.

[Khaldun]

I'm sure the expense of that actual makeup/CGI + losing Reynolds' basic appeal as an actor had something to do with it.

[HaemishM]

I agree about the Remender R-Rated X-Force material. I think this group could do that one and make it work.

R-Rated Gambit, though? FFS, why? Gambit isn't even that interesting of a character and R-Rating won't help him be more interesting.

[Trippy]

R-Rated Gambit, though? FFS, why?

So Anna Paquin can get naked?

[Lakov_Sanite]

TBH I'm so meh on gambit that making it rated R actually makes me a bit more interested.

[Ghambit]

This is now my new favorite Marvel movie.  And my most favorite Valentine's Day movie ever.
But, I feel like it's almost a bad thing liking it that much.  Like... I feel dirty, but I like it.

[Furiously]

1/4 of the audience was under eight for the showing I went to in Arizona. It made it very uncomfortable for watching.

[Ghambit]

1/4 of the audience was under eight for the showing I went to in Arizona. It made it very uncomfortable for watching.

Uncomfortable? This is the greatest love story ever told. 

[Furiously]

I didn't say it wasn't fucking great, I just said it wasn't fucking comfortable with all the fucking kids yelling they had to use the fucking potty to their fucking parents who didn't care.