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What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
| May 20th, 2018 at 4:59:37 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Oh my god. I just tried to watch Deadpool on TV. I lasted 18 minutes. Absolute piece of garbage made for 12 year olds who love the F word. Mindless drivel. Here's one of the huge number of one star reviews that sums it up: If you enjoy sitting in on conversations that are typical of young and foolish teenage boys this is the movie for you. Every other line contains the F word and for some reason the director thought penis jokes are the funniest around. The story is about as hollow as the humor. It's a cheap and bland story about revenge and invincibility painted with a veneer of "love" that is as misguided as the character's personality.The movie is littered with sarcasm and cynicism that just becomes depressing after a while. Ryan Reynolds acts like a 13 year old boy throughout the movie, cursing and making penis jokes and then talking to the audience thinking he is very funny. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 20th, 2018 at 6:56:41 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12531 | Deadpool is great. I saw Deadpool 2 Thursday night. It is equally as great. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| May 20th, 2018 at 8:39:30 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Deadpool sucks. I was embarrassed for Ryan Reynolds. The stupid bathroom humor that wasn't even clever, it was like Mad magazine in 1962. That you think it was great makes my point for me. I'm sure Terapined thought it was marvelous. The one star reviews are some of the most scathing I've ever seen, 10 times more clever than the movie. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 20th, 2018 at 9:04:32 PM permalink | |
| zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | I sat through it on HBO months ago simply because of the hype. Only laughed once ("hashtag: drive-by") and at the end wondered who the secondary characters were. The metal guy? Who's that? The little girl who did whatever she could do? (don't remember what she could do, don't care) Who are these people? I had to ask around at work for answers. No interest in seeing the sequel. |
| May 21st, 2018 at 2:25:48 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Deadpool was introduced as a minor character 9 years ago in the 4th X-men movie. He basically didn't speak and had a big fight scene. Two years later, Ryan Reynolds made the incredibly bad Green Lantern super hero movie which lost a fortune. In 2016 Fox decided to make Deadpool the lead in their 8th X-Men movie. The production budget for the first R-rated X-man movie was less than half the normal budget for these films. It shocked everyone by becoming the biggest X-Men hit ever. It looks like the 2018 sequel is not doing as well in the US/Canada market after the fanboys showed up for opening day, but overseas it is now a familiar product. So despite the larger budget, there will certainly be a fourth film. The R-rated film Logan (the 10th X-Men movie) was supposed to be the sendoff for Wolverine after 17 years. Of course, it made a lot more money than the the previous movies dedicated to Wolverine. Now Ryan Reynolds wants to team with Hugh Jackman to make a combined Woverine-Deadpool film. |
| May 21st, 2018 at 4:02:57 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12531 |
There is a HILARIOUS scene during the end credits of Deadpool 2 that references both of these failures. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| May 21st, 2018 at 6:32:07 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I remember the scene from the original movie, but I have never seen either Deadpool movie. They don't really interest me. |
| May 21st, 2018 at 6:53:44 AM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12531 |
That version of Deadpool in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie was universally hated. I'll put this in spoiler tag in case anyone doesn't want the joke ruined before seeing Deadpool 2. There is a time travel device in Deadpool 2. During the end credits, Deadpool gets ahold of it and travels back to the scene you've embedded from Wolverine and murders that original version of Deadpool by repeatedly shooting him. Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is just staring at him in disbelief and Deadpool tells him he's "cleaning up the timeline." Then we cut to Ryan Reynolds (the actor, not in Deadpool makeup) in a fancy office looking at a script and saying, "This is it, your big break." Cut to an over-the-shoulder shot and we see he's holding the script to Green Lantern. Deadpool appears behind him, we hear a gunshot, and see blood spatter all over the script. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| May 21st, 2018 at 8:01:53 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 | If you get old enough with a reputation for solid performances you can make anything you want and still get acting work. Like De Niro. I will probably see at least one of the Deadpools sooner or later. My problem is, I only bother to go out to a few movies, so it usually only a couple in the theaters at most. Most stuff I end up seeing later on cable. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| May 21st, 2018 at 10:38:01 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I quit shortly after the Reynolds character asked the bartender to 'give him a blowjob', which is a drink, and a very old joke. I'm sure every 12 year old boy in the audience sniggered and guffawed, that's who the joke is aimed at, like the rest of the dialog is. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |