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Post by Pavan on Jul 26, 2024 9:27:19 GMT
Mostly fun. Filled with tons of cameos, references and meta jokes to the point they become a li'l exhausting at times. The movie has a thin plot and a villain that's serviceable to it so that they can do their schtick. Its worked for the humor but it also dragged down the film but Ryan Reynolds sold every joke and Hugh Jackman held everything from falling apart.
The team did a good job marketing this thing without leaking any spoilers. My younger self would've gone crazy with all the fan service but putting that aside there are still some proper laughs to be had- 7/10
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 26, 2024 13:00:26 GMT
I enjoyed it. You certainly have to be predisposed to this kind of movie but I thought it worked a lot better than part 2. The cameos and variants were a lot of fun and I don’t think they were overdone (even though it was getting close). The story is pretty basic but it’s the chemistry with Reynolds and Jackman that carries the movie. And certainly no one can say this was “disneyfied.”
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 27, 2024 5:12:53 GMT
I liked the first Deadpool a good bit and thought the second one was a bit shaky. But I hated this one. The humor was hit or miss but after a while got grating for me*, the cameos didn't do much for me since they aren't really characters (Tatum MVP though) and this story has so little narrative momentum that even at just 2 hours it felt excessively long. Reynolds is good at doing his thing but he and the other 4 writers on this miscalibrate the balance between punchlines and actual connective tissue so every moment of pathos just falls completely flat when it's not just standing on the shoulders of previous movies that did the work (especially Logan, a legitimately great screenplay in this genre). Jackman's Wolverine ends up being underserved in this regard as his character gets flanderized into an automaton of rage with the movie making a snide joke about a third act flashback before then proceeding to do so - I should've seen that coming, though, since the movie also jokes about exposition despite that being every scene that isn't just Reynolds doing a 5-minute set. Any attempt this movie makes at trying to make a statement on what it's about fails to register; this movie isn't about friendship or loving what you have before it's gone, this movie is about seeing Hugh Jackman in the yellow costume standing next to Deadpool. I find it interesting that all the kind of cameos and fan service-y stuff is really only something that is serviceable in live action. When Spider-Verse came out, the hoopla wasn't about how they were finally doing Spider-Man Noir or Spider-Punk (characters that I would have never expected to be on the big screen), those movies had to actually tell a story and be interesting. Or think about if they tried this in another genre, like a gangster film that suddenly has a third act cameo from a de-aged Al Pacino playing Michael Corleone. That wouldn't be something celebrated, it would be rightly laughed at as inane and stupid. But if you tell someone that the MCU is gonna bring back an actor playing a character from a movie they hated 20 years ago, they'll cheer. Weird. *Something I do find funny is that Disney has twice now (Spider-Man first) enveloped characters from other companies and made their movies about how the characters desperately want to be Avengers.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jul 28, 2024 2:57:15 GMT
I just came back from Deadpool & Wolverine. Very entertaining. I am not going to complain much here. The film does a great job of balancing extreme violence with meta jokes. I love the cast, especially the chemistry between Jackman and Reynolds. Emma Corbin does a decent job as the villain. Interesting twist by making them the sister of Charles Xavier. 9/10 for me. It's just good old stupid fun.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 28, 2024 13:58:24 GMT
I just came back from Deadpool & Wolverine. Very entertaining. I am not going to complain much here. The film does a great job of balancing extreme violence with meta jokes. I love the cast, especially the chemistry between Jackman and Reynolds. Emma Corbin does a decent job as the villain. Interesting twist by making them the sister of Charles Xavier. 9/10 for me. It's just good old stupid fun. Not really a twist, she's from the comics.
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Post by SZilla on Jul 30, 2024 18:57:06 GMT
Agonizing. Shame on my friends for inviting me out to see this in theaters and shame on me for going. 3/10
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Post by avnermoriarti on Aug 3, 2024 0:27:20 GMT
Emma Corrin is slowly becoming her love partner, their resemblance is uncanny. What's going on???
For the rest, is just too self-aware to work, when you're putting yourself down before anyone can enjoy the moment... where's the fun ? Lots of gen-x/old millenials jokes for new generations to get and Red Rocked owned N Sync's Bye Bye Bye and Simon Rex didn't even have to shake his ass.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 9, 2024 4:59:40 GMT
Not sure this thing even qualifies as a movie... the “plot” is so obviously an afterthought and is just an excuse to make non-stop Disney/Marvel/Fox jokes and have a million cameos. But I laughed a lot and had fun, and that’s all I really wanted out of this. There’s one review that described it as basically an extended Family Guy episode, which pretty much nails it.
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