# Deadpool. Seen it. (Open Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033 "2016-02-13T18:58:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/81 "2016-02-25T23:32:48Z")
Here’s a weird idea: Fox should just release 2 versions of Deadpool 2: one PG-13 and one R. These releases are on over 4000 screens, shouldn’t be difficult to see which one does better if they really wanted to know. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/82 "2016-02-26T13:43:06Z")
> [@Dingbang](#): > > Exactly. I took my 12 yo son this past weekend because he was really eager to see it after the trailers and commercials. I had no idea who Deadpool was but he explained to me the basic back story. > We immediately loved the whole attitude and style of the movie. We were both laughing out loud repeatedly. Then the girl shows up and the sex started. I figured there was going to be a brief sex scene, no big deal. No, it was an extended montage of all sorts of sex acts, including Ryan Reynolds getting buttfucked with a strap on dildo. I covered his eyes through that and hoped that was the worst of it and we’d be on to action scenes and jokes. > But it just kept coming. Constant talk about not just sex, but really really raunchy sex. Scenes of Ryan Reynolds masturbating, the strip club, etc. I finally had to take my son home about halfway through the movie. > Now I’m not blaming anyone but myself for not checking into the movie before taking my son, but damn, that was way beyond a lot of “fuck” and some dirty jokes. I’m past the point of trying to keep my son’s delicate ears from hearing bad language, but some of this stuff was enough to make me squirm. And I assure you I’m no prude. > This is a very hard R, and very different from any other comic book hero movie. I wish I’d known that ahead of time. I felt bad having taken my son and exposed him to some of that. > It’s a shame though, because if I’d gone on my own I would have loved it. I’m surprised the theater didn’t post some sort of warning, or the ticket-taker people didn’t say something. Granted it was opening weekend, but there were signs everywhere stating how bad it was and both Ms. Cups and I (she 26, me 29) were carded to make sure we were of age. Maybe they toned that down because they assume people have heard about it by now. Sorry that it didn’t work out for you though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/83 "2016-02-26T14:24:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Ryan Reynolds does a lot of ad libbing in his movies. Watch almost any of his movies on DVD, and there’s almost always an outtake of him doing the same scene over and over, with a different line in each take. [Here’s an example from _Blade III_.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bln5M-rltvs) > > I imagine the outtake reel on the _Deadpool_ DVD will be almost as long as the movie itself. I heard T.J. Miller speaking about the scene and there were tons of lines thrown around that didn’t make it. The entire crew got into it. > [@Dingbang](#): > > I’m past the point of trying to keep my son’s delicate ears from hearing bad language, but some of this stuff was enough to make me squirm. And I assure you I’m no prude. Then maybe I’m complete pervert because nothing made me squirm. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/84 "2016-02-26T16:34:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Then maybe I’m complete pervert because nothing made me squirm. Me, either (well, not any of the sex stuff…the violence was a little bit up there for me), but I don’t have kids, so that may be a difference. I personally thought the Calendar Girl montage was awesome, and just about fell on the floor laughing at the pegging segment. The masturbation jokes were only really funny because hey, it’s Deadpool. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/85 "2016-02-26T17:26:01Z")
I’m trying to think what they would have had to do to get an NC-17 - or what the ‘unrated’ version would have ?? Parents that took young kids to the film only have themselves to blame -[Deadpool himself BEGGED parents to think twice.](https://www.google.com/#q=deadpool+don%27t+take+your+kids&tbm=isch&imgil=HxHlIHOS_hl2uM%253A%253B6KlpBSD6D72v6M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.dayton.com%25252Fnews%25252Fnews%25252Flocal%25252Fwhy-world-are-parents-taking-kids-see-r-rated-dead%25252FnqSD2%25252F&fir=HxHlIHOS_hl2uM%253A%252C6KlpBSD6D72v6M%252C_&usg=__6meRZntGTtplFNL59GKGBs2KNfM%3D&imgrc=HxHlIHOS_hl2uM%3A) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/86 "2016-02-26T18:02:13Z")
> [@simster](#): > > I’m trying to think what they would have had to do to get an NC-17 - or what the ‘unrated’ version would have ?? More Reynolds butt? Reynolds penis in more than one dimly-lit, very quick-moving fight scene? (Ooh…now I have to petition for an NC-17 version!) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/87 "2016-02-26T23:46:02Z")
Saw the movie today. Loved it. Reynolds was perfect. Colossus as the goody-two-shoes straight man was amazing, especially his monologue at the end with Wade refusing to give a single fuck. Negasonic Teenage Warhead was as awesome as Wade thought her name was. Props to Karan Soni (who I’ve seen in the Red Dwarf-esque Yahoo series ‘Other Space’) as Dapinder. I was especially pleased that Deadpool retained his fourth-wall-breaking abilities, and I loved the fact that despite being more or less two straight hours of blood, tits, toilet humor, and CGI action, it was at its core a love story with a happy ending. I got a chuckle out of the fact that there was a six-pack of Olympia tallboys on the shelf in Weasel’s bar. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/88 "2016-02-27T01:14:11Z")
I finally saw it last week. It was fine. I didn’t love it, but I felt the same way coming out of _Iron Man_ so that tells you my tastes do not often align with the mainstream. I’m not a fan of ‘R’ rated content as a rule, and I thought most of the comedy fell flat\*, _especially_ the fourth-wall stuff. It _really_ tried, and far be it for me to pass negative judgement when it’s been so overwhelmingly popular, because it really wasn’t a bad film, it entertained me just fine, but in the end my review is: it was nothing special. \*_I think that about most comedy movies these days. It’s changed into something that I’m just not “getting” anymore. I still like many TV comedies, so I don’t know what’s up with the movies._ ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/89 "2016-02-27T18:32:54Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I would have preferred a little more story in Deadpool than we got IMO. I thought the pacing was a bit off and needed to tell a bit of a better story overall. I saw it last week and I would have preferred **ANY** story than the one we got. Frankly, I haven’t been this bored with a film in quite some time. I believe it’s because for an action film (for want of a better term) there’s no conflict. None. Sure, they tried to shoehorn some sympathetic scenes, but they fall pretty flat (you can’t have sympathy scenes withe characters that have no dimensions, and Wade and Vanessa’s characters are paper thin) Besides all that, I guess I could have gotten something out of this film, if it wasn’t for all the repetitive scenes. Every scene, in the beginning and at the end are the same. Hundreds of nameless henchmen getting killed an the two main protagonists, who can’t be killed or for that matter, harmed fighting. So, where’s the conflict or drama with characters who can’t die? And if Wade can regenerate limbs, why the hell can’t he regenerate his scarred skin? I can deal with fantasy attributes with fictional characters, but if you create ground rules (regenerating body parts) you got to stay consistent. Oh well, hope **“Captain America”** ,\*\* “Dr. Strange”\*\* and the **“X-men”** films later this year make up for this missfire. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/90 "2016-02-27T19:15:37Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > And if Wade can regenerate limbs, why the hell can’t he regenerate his scarred skin? I can deal with fantasy attributes with fictional characters, but if you create ground rules (regenerating body parts) you got to stay consistent. I just assumed the appearance of his skin is a side effect of his mutation. Deadpool’s skin isn’t scarred any more than Colossus’ is. It’s just much uglier. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/91 "2016-02-27T19:53:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Saw the movie today. Loved it. Reynolds was perfect. Colossus as the goody-two-shoes straight man was amazing, especially his monologue at the end with Wade refusing to give a single fuck. Negasonic Teenage Warhead was as awesome as Wade thought her name was. Props to Karan Soni (who I’ve seen in the Red Dwarf-esque Yahoo series ‘Other Space’) as Dapinder. I was especially pleased that Deadpool retained his fourth-wall-breaking abilities, and I loved the fact that despite being more or less two straight hours of blood, tits, toilet humor, and CGI action, it was at its core a love story with a happy ending. > > I got a chuckle out of the fact that there was a six-pack of Olympia tallboys on the shelf in Weasel’s bar. Yes, one of my friends said it was a rom-com, after all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/92 "2016-02-27T20:59:35Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I just assumed the appearance of his skin is a side effect of his mutation. Deadpool’s skin isn’t scarred any more than Colossus’ is. It’s just much uglier. In the comics, the random bumps are there because Wade can heal from anything, but so can his cancer. He heals. His cancer heals. The cancer gets shoved out of critical systems, but lumps aren’t critical, so that’s where it ends up. ---
**Author:** ![FasterThanMeerkats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@FasterThanMeerkats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FasterThanMeerkats)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/93 "2016-02-29T16:05:58Z")
Great movie. Was utterly shocked at how many kids \<15 and many \<10 there were in the audience (fully 25% in a packed theater), especially when it’s been out this long. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/94 "2016-03-10T21:22:12Z")
Saw _Deadpool_ a few days back with my 16-year-old son. He knew a lot more about the character than I did. I was surprised by how raunchy it was (A pegging joke? Masturbating over a unicorn? _Really?_) but the ultraviolence was about what I expected. Loved all the jokes, bad pop music and fourth-wall breakage. A fun superhero spoof - I’ve already recommended it to others. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Best opening credits ever! Yeah, those were great. Especially the “Produced by: Some Douchebags” credit. To the tune of Juice Newton, no less! > [@msmith537](#): > > It absolutely was a helicarrier. It had giant nacelles attached to it. It looked like it was either being assembled or taken apart… Being taken apart for scrapping, I assumed. > [@incidental](#): > > Some family showed up with what appeared to be a 6 year old, when I went to see it this weekend. I thought about saying something before the movie started, but decided it was none of my business. > > The child was escorted out of the theater in tears about half-way through. Unbelievable. Some pinheads brought their very young child along to see _Saving Private Ryan_ when I first saw it in theaters. What were they thinking? This is worth a look re: the movie’s Easter eggs: [http://moviepilot.com/posts/3777643](http://moviepilot.com/posts/3777643) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/95 "2016-03-10T22:32:12Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m trying to imagine a PG-13 version of WATCHMEN. > > Can’t manage it. [Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w) ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/96 "2016-03-10T23:36:11Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I’m surprised the theater didn’t post some sort of warning, or the ticket-taker people didn’t say something. They should really have some kind of system where they post a rating of recommended age ranges with a bit of information about it, like this rating is “for strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity.” Maybe if they’re really serious about it, they should require kids to have a parent or guardian with them for some movies. I don’t know how anyone could come up with such a system or get theaters to use it, though. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/97 "2016-03-11T04:08:09Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’m not a fan of ‘R’ rated content as a rule, and I thought most of the comedy fell flat\*, _especially_ the fourth-wall stuff. It _really_ tried, and far be it for me to pass negative judgement when it’s been so overwhelmingly popular, because it really wasn’t a bad film, it entertained me just fine, but in the end my review is: it was nothing special. That’s about how I felt. It seemed to fall into the fairly common mistake of thinking that swearing and pop culture references are inherently funny even in the absence of any actual jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/98 "2016-03-11T06:10:41Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > That’s about how I felt. It seemed to fall into the fairly common mistake of thinking that swearing and pop culture references are inherently funny even in the absence of any actual jokes. It’s our generation’s version of the three stooges. Not all comedy comes from jokes! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/99 "2016-03-14T17:13:28Z")
Finally saw this over the weekend. Laughed my ass off. For some reason, Wade and Blind Al arguing over Ikea furniture put me into tears. As regards the R rating - last weekend, I drove my 16 year old daughter and one of her friends (also 16) to see this movie. I wasn’t going to see it then, because I had other plans, and having read the parental guides I wasn’t going to embarrass all of us by seeing it with them. They wouldn’t let the two of them see the movie _unless I went in with them_. They called a manager over too to confirm the policy. She claimed it wasn’t unique to this movie, but I’ve definitely brought them to R rated movies before at this same theater before without an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033/100 "2016-04-03T15:37:40Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > In the comics, the random bumps are there because Wade can heal from anything, but so can his cancer. He heals. His cancer heals. The cancer gets shoved out of critical systems, but lumps aren’t critical, so that’s where it ends up. I just saw Deadpool yesterday, and I was wondering if his origin and appearance were different in the comic books. Because in the movie he did look burned and bad, but not so hideously disfigured that he was impossible to look at. I didn’t know if he avoided seeing Vanessa because he was that shallow, or because he thought she was, or if maybe in the comic books he is absolutely horrible looking but they couldn’t or didn’t replicate that in the movie. Regarding the movie, I thought it was fine, nothing amazing but entertaining enough. It reminded me of Shoot 'Em Up with the cartoonish violence, but I liked Shoot 'Em Up a lot better. And Deadpool was funny, but a lot of the jokes weren’t jokes as much as references. I will be interested to see what Deadpool 2 is like though. It could be better with them not having to waste time with the origin story, I’m hoping that’s the case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadpool-seen-it-open-spoilers/746033.md?page=6)