Deadpool & Wolverine (Deadpool 3)
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Just saw it. First flick I’ve been in that packed in a loooooong time (Spiderman no way home?)
Great fun. And I’m not big on the first two! I laughed my balls off. My GF HOWLED during the opening credits… actually being Oz she laughed at all the Jackman Oz jabs
New Rockstars is gonna have a stroke doing the Easter Eggs.
Weird whoever said not as edgy… I thought the first two HAD NO EDGE… which is why I was more disappointed… or the edge was forced? I thought this went crazier… maybe it’s just cuz the audience was wild where I watched at 3:00 in the afternoon.
Hugh has a few years left in him. Half expected to hear “Seeya in secret wars!” At the end
Great fun. And I’m not big on the first two! I laughed my balls off. My GF HOWLED during the opening credits… actually being Oz she laughed at all the Jackman Oz jabs
New Rockstars is gonna have a stroke doing the Easter Eggs.
Weird whoever said not as edgy… I thought the first two HAD NO EDGE… which is why I was more disappointed… or the edge was forced? I thought this went crazier… maybe it’s just cuz the audience was wild where I watched at 3:00 in the afternoon.
Hugh has a few years left in him. Half expected to hear “Seeya in secret wars!” At the end
Yeah, unless you live off the grid until you watch the movie, you're screwed.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Hate those channels on youtube who feel they have to spoil things in the thumbnails. It's so petty.
Master Boda
Sr Member
Wow, I was like a giddy little girl through the whole movie.DVW delivered on so many levels I was not aware it could deliver on. Wish Marvel would do more R movies.
cboath
Master Member
Til he is 90!
Tan Djarka
Sr Member
Saw it again. Unlike Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, it did not change my initial impressions with a second viewing. As much as I enjoy fourth wall breaks and obscure references, when it constitutes half the movie's run time, it is a bit much.
The "a bit much" issue - How is it compared to the previous two Deadpool flicks? IMO those were watchable but borderline. The franchise likes to beat the viewer's attention span into submission.
AnubisGuard
Master Member
So much more. The first two feel restrained by comparison.
Tan Djarka
Sr Member
Yes, with all the cameos, multiverse complications, plus the usual side comments, it tends to slow the story a bit. The first two seemed to strike a balance between story and non-story elements, but this one, well... Didn't.
All the "hey, I get that reference" moments tend to pull you out of the story, and don't always benefit the overall narrative. Like I said, it's not a bad movie, it just asks alot of it's audience in terms of knowledge of the MCU, Fox Marvel, every movie that wasn't made, and the lives of actors in real life. In the unlikely event that you walked into this movie never having seen any of the previous films and shows, you'd be lost half the time.
All the "hey, I get that reference" moments tend to pull you out of the story, and don't always benefit the overall narrative. Like I said, it's not a bad movie, it just asks alot of it's audience in terms of knowledge of the MCU, Fox Marvel, every movie that wasn't made, and the lives of actors in real life. In the unlikely event that you walked into this movie never having seen any of the previous films and shows, you'd be lost half the time.
Yeah, I found myself thinking "I guess I should have watched the Loki series..."
Oh well.
I still found it enjoyable.
CB2001
Master Member
I'll tell you two things they'll possibly learn:
1. It's okay to have an R-Rated Marvel movie.
2. All they need to do to get money after losing a lot to projects that have shown no return is make one good film to pander to the real fans, and then take that money to fund several ****** projects that will put them back to needing more money, with them doing another good and pandering film to get more money to stay afloat again.
One hit doesn't put Disney back in black ink. Two hits (Inside Out #2) doesn't even do it. Disney is in deeper than that.
But there's no way the creatives in charge will learn the correct lesson. (That's not happening with the existing crew. They need to replace everybody.)
Studio bosses usually fixate on the most superficial factors. They will look at DP3 and think "It had an R-rating and lots of inside/4th-wall jokes. That's the secret sauce!"
cboath
Master Member
I mean it's not like a it takes a few years or more to make something like Inside Out 2...meaning those 'changes' began many years ago on that flick.
The big 'difference' here is that the filmmakers used two very popular fan favorite characters. According to them, they made several pitches before getting an OK, and the only rule was no cocaine.
Marvel should be playing with house money at this point. But that's not how studio accounting works. Endgame made 2B, great...they paid most of that in dividends so they can't use it to make the next 8 Marvel flicks instead. But, they tried to use their success to build out the framework and all people wanted, really, was more of the same 5 actors. They could have made the exact same movie exactly as well as this one was done but used She-Hulk in stead of deadpool and Capt Marvel instead of Wolverine and it would likely have flopped hard because that's not the fan favorites.
So, I would say they did learn the lesson because RDJ is now Dr Doom....I'm surprised they didn't announce Thor 5 and a new season of Hawkeye in SD. I'd bet a pile of cache we get Chris Evans and Scarlett back in Secret Wars, if not Doomsday as well. That will be the lesson they learned: Old popular characters good, new characters bad.
The big 'difference' here is that the filmmakers used two very popular fan favorite characters. According to them, they made several pitches before getting an OK, and the only rule was no cocaine.
Marvel should be playing with house money at this point. But that's not how studio accounting works. Endgame made 2B, great...they paid most of that in dividends so they can't use it to make the next 8 Marvel flicks instead. But, they tried to use their success to build out the framework and all people wanted, really, was more of the same 5 actors. They could have made the exact same movie exactly as well as this one was done but used She-Hulk in stead of deadpool and Capt Marvel instead of Wolverine and it would likely have flopped hard because that's not the fan favorites.
So, I would say they did learn the lesson because RDJ is now Dr Doom....I'm surprised they didn't announce Thor 5 and a new season of Hawkeye in SD. I'd bet a pile of cache we get Chris Evans and Scarlett back in Secret Wars, if not Doomsday as well. That will be the lesson they learned: Old popular characters good, new characters bad.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Captain Marvel and She-Hulk are not fan favorites because their movies/shows aren't very good. So your argument doesn't hold. If they had gotten better movies/series and if they weren't written as such obnoxious characters, people would have enjoyed them more.
