Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy, July 26, 2024) Movie • Page 29

I really enjoyed this. It’s pretty goofy and the reel at the credits was a tear-jerker.

 

This received an A CinemaScore.

 

No other opinions are needed now. Let’s shut it down

 

What is the "fifth wall"?

 

This was my least fav Deadpool movie, the meta was cranked up to 11, Hugh Jackman got almost nothing to do except say “shut the fuck up” a LOT of times, and they stole yet another bit from MacGruber (the human shield).

I did laugh a few times, and I enjoyed the cameos, but mostly it felt like watching a video game with zero stakes.

 

I am curious what people mean when they say this, because it's my understanding the stakes are the destruction of Deadpool's timeline and eventually the entire multiverse. If the meaning is that it never feels like they're going to lose, kind of hard to pull off in a genre where the given is that the hero is going to win. Infinity War was incredibly shocking in how badly they lost; it's not something a lot of superhero films do.

 

Jackman was really good in the scene where he’s laying into him before they fight in the car. Which reminds me, god, the product placement in this was nauseating.

 

I had to look it up and apparently it means when characters reference the actors’ past work. Not sure if that’s the actual meaning though.

 

Well, I think the answer here is multifaceted, because you’re absolutely right that this genre doesn’t often “lose.” I think the main problem is one of script. The friends that Deadpool helpfully reminds us of throughout the movie are only in about 10 minutes of it in the beginning. So we’re already off on a tough foot if the stakes are being built exclusively on movies I haven’t seen for 6 and 8 years, respectively.

From Wolverine’s side, the film commits the cardinal screenwriting sin of telling, not showing. We know he’s a drunk, we know he’s sad, but he only tells us. I’m not saying I want to see a bunch of mutants get slaughtered, but his motivation rings hollow throughout the film because this isn’t a Wolverine we really know anything about, imo.

 

This forum is the most negative place in all of the Internet on the movie which is hard to do. Loved it. More fight scenes need to be set to Madonna. This movie was just fun. So fun. Why do y'all hate fun? Lol. No I get it people want something more out of it but that's all I was looking for and I got it.

 

They said it on the Big Picture podcast, but basically we know it’s a foregone conclusion that in MCU movies, superheroes aren’t going to die and it’s more about how they’re going to win.

There are no stakes to this because we’re reminded repeatedly Deadpool and Wolverine are invincible by them telling us and showing us by beating the hell out of each other several times. But beyond that, if it’s Deadpool’s friends and timeline he’s worried about, he rarely ever takes it seriously, down to him doing the escalator and swimming tricks behind the door when he’s going to sacrifice himself.

If he truly has no fear of dying when trying to stop Nova from getting the Macguffin machine, why should we?

 

I’ve seen way harsher on Twitter; think everyone here has been pretty level-headed, balanced, and nuanced.

 

We really gotta start being nice to our billion-dollar franchises.

 

Levy is a hack though

 

So if I'm following, it's not so much that the film has no stakes, it's that it acts like it has no stakes. Which I get that.

Clearly I can't form an opinion on this film yet, but I think the problem with writing a character like Deadpool is never knowing how serious he needs to be at any given moment before he gets "out of character".

The character is supposed to be wacky and break the fourth wall, but I have read moments in comics where he's been surprisingly lucid and sometimes even the most moral person in the group, if you can believe that.

 

Some of it was fun. Some of it made me roll my eyes so hard they almost got stuck in the back of my head.

 

Yea like I thought this was going to be a fucking unbearable nightmare beginning to end (such as Free Guy or The Flash) but I ended up having fun. It’s more of a TikTok than a movie though. Nothing here is meant to last longer than the night we all saw it this summer. Not a single joke or reference is going to make any sense to anyone as time moves along. (Seriously, who will remember the corporate chaos of the Disney fox merger that wasn’t there closely following it as it happened)

 

I would love to see this.

10000%

 

The comment he made about how dog pool was created by an armadillo fucking whatever blah blah blah was the cringiest joke in the entire movie. Just so bad.

 

It was between that, the woke mob joke and the Borderlands trailer for when you could hear a pin drop in the theater.

On the contrary, huge laughs for Gambit. Feel like they used that just enough, with the Minions joke hitting the hardest.

 

Yeah all the gambit stuff worked for me

 

Yea the Gambit thing was easily the funniest part of the movie. Channing Tatum in his 22 Jump Street zone which is catnip for me