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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
« on: December 17, 2018, 05:11:12 AM »
Wow. We don't get Aquaman for another week and a half. Will be in there the moment it releases though. Looks like a great ride.
As for Deadpool, yes I have seen it. And I hated it. I loathe it.
I have not seen the original DP2. I am a sook and I can't stand blood and guts. I have no interest in seeing it and don't feel it adds anything to a movie. So I thought this was going to be perfect for me. I've seen much M rated (PG-13 is essentially the equivalent of M in AU) stuff before. Pretty much every Marvel movie is M rated. No problem.
How the hell this got an M rating genuinely befuddles me. This was far, far worse. Ironically, Peppermint released around the same time. That was rated MA (which is the level above M). The worst you saw in that was a quick shot of someone's foot that got blown off. It was nowhere near as bad as Deadpool. From what I can tell, OUaD was just a retelling of DP2 with the blood and F-bombs removed. You still see him blow himself to pieces when he's lying on top of the drums of diesel or whatever they were, you still see him get torn in half by Juggernaut and the two halves of his body lying there on screen, you still see him get a fence pole through his head. I was uncomfortable most of the way through. Nearly walked out. Family friendly....like hell.
By far the best parts were the bits with Fred Savage. They were genuinely amusing. In fact, I reckon the whole movie would have been more enjoyable if it was nothing but a dramatic reading of DP2 with Fred making the odd interjection and quip.
In fact this movie just told me that the Deadpool character can't carry his own movie despite how well Ryan Reynolds plays the character. Ignoring all the above ranting about the violence that should not have been there, I just didn't enjoy it. A lot of the jokes felt shoehorned in and just flopped, story was uninteresting. It felt like a movie made purely for gratuitous violence and (bad) jokes that was made purely for its own sake, with nothing else to justify it.
In my opinion, the whole Deadpool schtick is done. It was funny the first time because it was new and fresh (and I would argue done far better) but the second was more of the same, just executed far worse.
I think he's a great support character and look forward to him showing up randomly in the MCU, but not on his own.
As for Deadpool, yes I have seen it. And I hated it. I loathe it.
I have not seen the original DP2. I am a sook and I can't stand blood and guts. I have no interest in seeing it and don't feel it adds anything to a movie. So I thought this was going to be perfect for me. I've seen much M rated (PG-13 is essentially the equivalent of M in AU) stuff before. Pretty much every Marvel movie is M rated. No problem.
How the hell this got an M rating genuinely befuddles me. This was far, far worse. Ironically, Peppermint released around the same time. That was rated MA (which is the level above M). The worst you saw in that was a quick shot of someone's foot that got blown off. It was nowhere near as bad as Deadpool. From what I can tell, OUaD was just a retelling of DP2 with the blood and F-bombs removed. You still see him blow himself to pieces when he's lying on top of the drums of diesel or whatever they were, you still see him get torn in half by Juggernaut and the two halves of his body lying there on screen, you still see him get a fence pole through his head. I was uncomfortable most of the way through. Nearly walked out. Family friendly....like hell.
By far the best parts were the bits with Fred Savage. They were genuinely amusing. In fact, I reckon the whole movie would have been more enjoyable if it was nothing but a dramatic reading of DP2 with Fred making the odd interjection and quip.
In fact this movie just told me that the Deadpool character can't carry his own movie despite how well Ryan Reynolds plays the character. Ignoring all the above ranting about the violence that should not have been there, I just didn't enjoy it. A lot of the jokes felt shoehorned in and just flopped, story was uninteresting. It felt like a movie made purely for gratuitous violence and (bad) jokes that was made purely for its own sake, with nothing else to justify it.
In my opinion, the whole Deadpool schtick is done. It was funny the first time because it was new and fresh (and I would argue done far better) but the second was more of the same, just executed far worse.
I think he's a great support character and look forward to him showing up randomly in the MCU, but not on his own.
