True, but that only answers the participation part. She’s still having to deal with a crazy, annoying person and has no particular reaction to it. And, if I was to watch the movie again, I could come up with many further examples. It wasn’t just the two that I gave, so removing Domino from the mix still doesn’t change anything.
This one was great comedy, but I also tend to think the first one was the better overall movie. For all its poking fun at comic book/movie tropes, this one stuck a lot closer to the standard formula and muddled the heart of the story.
I loved it. It wasn’t as amazing an experience as the first one, but it might have secretly been better (just that you can’t wow people as much the second time around). I’m just the perfect sucker for this kind of movie.
Do I understand correctly that (my sweet baby) Bill Skarsgard plays a character whose super power is to vomit on people?
Yup.
While I was very entertained by the film, I will agree that the CGI was, uh, inconsistent. The first shot of the X-Men jet coming in and landing at the evil school was so comically bad that I immediately thought it was intentional. Then realized that, nope, that’s just what they’re passing off as a jet coming in and landing.
But that’s the thing with Domino. She’s lucky. She’s blissfully unconcerned with what could go wrong because it legitimately can’t for her. She’s where she’s supposed to be to maximize her benefit.
If Deadpool’s a psychopath and she’s got the urge to follow him, it’s because she knows it will work out for the best. Like Teela Brown in the Ringworld books, it’s hard to write and identify with a character who just simply has the best-case outcome happen to her naturally. It’s like the Universe goes out of its way to maximize outcomes for this one person.
Saw it last Sunday. I loved (loved!) the first Deadpool movie, not this one. Stupid stuff that went on too long (baby legs, Deadpools endless undeath scene), uninteresting characters (emo fire boy and pretty much everyone else), senseless plot, boring unvillain. The only fun stuff was Domino. It was tedious as hell, and I considered walking out more than once.
2 out of 5 stars. Possibly even 1 star.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Maybe they were trying to match the aesthetic of the original, which was lower budget and way lower expectations?
I found the “cure for blindness” bag wickedly funny (though technically out of step with his desire to be a better person for Vanessa), but what was it and the cocaine a callback to? I haven’t seen the original since it came out.
Same here.
Literal LOL and I agree with you on all counts.
Right? I guess you don’t watch “Atlanta” on FX, because that’s where I’ve been drooling over her for the past couple years. If I had to name off the top of my head the Top 5 “hottest AF” female actors active in my adult lifetime, two of them are in this movie: Morena Baccarin and Zazie Beetz. (The other three are: ScarJo, natch; and best buds Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek.)
I was sitting super close to the screen, and I somehow missed both of these!
I liked. Saw it yesterday, the theater wasn’t packed. I think it might be a better movie than the original, but it wasn’t as fresh as the original.
The people around me either didn’t get the jokes or didn’t think they were funny. They were young, and some of the references were probably before their time.
Loved the post credits and would have loved it even more if Deadpool went and fixed more inconsistencies in the X-men franchise.
There’s a scene in the first movie, I think it’s the last thing DP says to Blind Al as he leaves to go kick Francis’s ass.
I wouldn’t have remembered it except I just saw the first movie on TV recently.
Having thought about it for a few days, the second movie was too earnest. I wonder if they could have found some way to make Deadpool sort of heroic, but reluctantly. Maybe Vanessa starts working at a hospital, but winds up putting in ridiculous hours because of all the violent criminals. Deadpool sets out to clean up the city, not because he’s altruistic, but because it’s the only way he can get some time to bang his hot wife.
I should say that I only know the character from the two movies. I don’t know if this is in line with how he’s portrayed in comics.
Considering their apparent love of dubstep, I want a Deadpool/Claptrap one-shot crossover comic. Also, I hadn’t heard Bangarang in quite some time. This is probably the only movie to reference Yentl and Annie along with music like AC/DC and Skrillex.
And yet they didn’t include the LL Cool J tune. WTF?
We saw it and loved it. After the reading this thread, I think my expectations had been lowered, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was not a horrendous brick with two dimensional characters as I expected. It was funny and charming and violent as heck. I’ve been reading the Spiderman and Deadpool comics, so I kept hoping for more of an Avengers cross-over, rather than the X-men one, but that’s my own fantasy. Maybe someday.
I loved the credits scenes at the end.
Saw it over the weekend with my wife. I enjoyed it a lot more than she did due to my love of comics. This movie had a lot of in-jokes for the fans that went over the casual viewer’s head. I was one of the only people that laughed at the “can’t draw feet” and “both our mothers are named Martha” jokes.
I thought it was actually not as good as the first one.
I was really disappointed when I thought they had set up a pretty clever solution to the story and then did the cliched ending.
I thought Deadpool would die…and get to be in “heaven” with Vanessa. The heroes would mourn and talk about how noble Deadpool ended up being…start to roll credits…and then smash cut to the destroyed overpass and crashed convoy truck. We see pair of Deadpool legs stumbling around and then pan up to a baby torso and arms and baby Ryan Reynolds head and he look at the camera and says “who the fuck am I?”
They could essentially reset by having Deadpool’s healing work for both halves of his body. When Juggernaut tore him in half…his top half regrew his bottom… why not let his bottom half do the same? His brain regrows but it doesn’t hold any of his memories.
I agree that would have been a fresher take on the ending and I might have enjoyed that more than the one we got. DP could even lose the scar tissue and there would be more pretty-face Ryan Reynolds to include in the next movie. He did also blow himself up into about ten different pieces at one point, though, but I assume he just chose to reabsorb all those body parts rather than regrow them. Continuity-wise, though again, that could have been fairly problematic if he can choose to cut off all of his fingers and have ten more DPs running around the world. For starters. Vanessa might be a very happy woman, though.
For another ending I thought they were gonna use, I was just assuming that the Firefist kid was going to let Deadpool do his deathly emoting, then melt off the collar and DP would just heal up again. In fact, it seemed kind of lazy that no one seemed to be doing anything to try to remove the collar until after the time travel fix where it wasn’t an urgent issue anymore.
They tried to, but Deadpool told them to stop - despite everything, he was still suicidal, and the power dampening collar was the only way for him to die.
The “regrowing from the legs” thing would have been funny, but this is a dude who regularly leaves chunks of himself lying around. If he regrew into two people from the “baby legs” incident, there should also be another Deadpool out there because of the “baby arm” incident from the first movie.
Also, having a Deadpool who’s not horribly scarred is like having a Batman with living parents.
I think the first movie made a mistake by having him end up with Vanessa. Wade’s supposed to be a tragic figure under all the jokes and irreverence. He’s got an extremely fucked up backstory, and a side effect of his powers is that he’s never really sure which memories are real and which are a side effect of having cancer in every cell in his body, including his brain. Any sort of happiness he has should be a prelude to having his entire world kicked out from under him, but in the context of the movies, that necessarily means fridging his girlfriend, which is problematic for a whole host of other reasons. I was glad that they undid it at the end of this film, but that just leaves them with the same problem in the next one.
Ah, I do remember that now, though I still don’t see the group around him as all “we just have to honor his wishes” types.
Agreed, and I don’t think they had a sequel in mind when they wrote it that way. Having her die immediately in this one just felt like a cheap reset to get him back to a tragic figure again. Maybe it can become a running joke, though. How can the writers make him incredibly miserable this time?
Yeah, that bothered me, too. The only character there who would give a shit about what Wade actually wanted would be Colossus, and he’s such a lawful good weenie that he’d probably violate that just to preserve the sanctity of Wade’s life.
Yeah, exactly that. I respect them for figuring out a way to un-fridge her, but they can only go back to the well so many times. Eventually they have to either legit kill her off, or have her abandon Wade, which is going to be really hard to justify at this point, giving the characterization they’ve given their relationship up to this point. Neither solution is really appealing.