That Movie - Yeah - THAT One
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:02 am
(Written for my APA)
So I Went and Saw It
I went and saw Deadpool. I can say that i am definitely whelmed. Not over- or under- whelmed, you understand - just whelmed.
Way too many of the jokes weren't nearly as funny as the writers and director apparently thought they were.
The bullet-time stuff was overused.
The flashback structure was way too convoluted.
And, let's face it, most of the basic mechanics of the character were done better in The Mask (the comic, not the movie).
I did, for the most part, enjoy it - but, let's just say, the amount of pre-release hype was not justified, and, i think, worked against the film when i finally saw it.
The opening credits were funny - but not as funny as they would have been if i hadn't accidentally hit a spoiler somewhere.
Ryan Reynolds did wonderfully with what he was given - giving the character the right air of manic desperation.
Stan Lee's cameo was one of the better jokes in the film.
Simply from intellectual curiosity* when it comes out on DVD i'm gonna have to check the strip-club sequence to see if they were actually throwing real full frontal at us or if the girls were wearing cleverly-designed and coloured nether garments.
I went in knowing virtually nothing about Deadpool - i had already quit reading the various X-thing titles some time before the character was introduced, and have not had the least urge to go back to them since.
Deadpool is, very much, a product of the Liefeld era and Liefeld's ... for want of a better word ... style, which is, to me, one of the most repulsive and over-indulgent times and styles in the history of comics**.
Yeah, i enjoyed it more than i didn't, but i'd just as soon not have actually paid for a ticket - to me, this is more a Redbox or Netflix film.
Basically, i don't recommend it for anyone who's not a comic reader/fan.
Oh, well.
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* Prurient interest? Me? Noooo!
** Frank Miller, after the brain-eater got him and he began letting his rather twisted misogyny run wild is, of course, worse - especially because he started out in such a promising manner.
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Of course, there were trailers for several films, a couple of which looked even less like i'd want to buy a ticket to them - of them, i can only recall Sacha Baron Cohen's latest effusion of cinematic flatulence, The Brothers Grimsby...
Oh, yeah! Suicide Squad, which looked even stupider on the big screen than on IMDB on my computer monitor
So I Went and Saw It
I went and saw Deadpool. I can say that i am definitely whelmed. Not over- or under- whelmed, you understand - just whelmed.
Way too many of the jokes weren't nearly as funny as the writers and director apparently thought they were.
The bullet-time stuff was overused.
The flashback structure was way too convoluted.
And, let's face it, most of the basic mechanics of the character were done better in The Mask (the comic, not the movie).
I did, for the most part, enjoy it - but, let's just say, the amount of pre-release hype was not justified, and, i think, worked against the film when i finally saw it.
The opening credits were funny - but not as funny as they would have been if i hadn't accidentally hit a spoiler somewhere.
Ryan Reynolds did wonderfully with what he was given - giving the character the right air of manic desperation.
Stan Lee's cameo was one of the better jokes in the film.
Simply from intellectual curiosity* when it comes out on DVD i'm gonna have to check the strip-club sequence to see if they were actually throwing real full frontal at us or if the girls were wearing cleverly-designed and coloured nether garments.
I went in knowing virtually nothing about Deadpool - i had already quit reading the various X-thing titles some time before the character was introduced, and have not had the least urge to go back to them since.
Deadpool is, very much, a product of the Liefeld era and Liefeld's ... for want of a better word ... style, which is, to me, one of the most repulsive and over-indulgent times and styles in the history of comics**.
Yeah, i enjoyed it more than i didn't, but i'd just as soon not have actually paid for a ticket - to me, this is more a Redbox or Netflix film.
Basically, i don't recommend it for anyone who's not a comic reader/fan.
Oh, well.
=====================================
* Prurient interest? Me? Noooo!
** Frank Miller, after the brain-eater got him and he began letting his rather twisted misogyny run wild is, of course, worse - especially because he started out in such a promising manner.
=====================================
Of course, there were trailers for several films, a couple of which looked even less like i'd want to buy a ticket to them - of them, i can only recall Sacha Baron Cohen's latest effusion of cinematic flatulence, The Brothers Grimsby...
Oh, yeah! Suicide Squad, which looked even stupider on the big screen than on IMDB on my computer monitor
