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Critics want a good screenplay. Fans fine with cameos and references.

posted 4 months ago by e3e34ifj (1912)
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What a shock. Another mid ass MCU movie, but hey! It has cameos and references to the comic books (that 99% of the fanboys have never read) so 11/10!!! Who cares if the screenplay fucking SUCKS and if the jokes aren't even remotely funny, MATTHEW MCCAOUAINGHEY IS IN IT!!!! OMG THAT'S WAY BETTER THAN WRITING SCRIPT!!!!

I know that's an obnoxious post but Marvel fanboys piss me off so much. This movie is a 6/10 at absolute best but the fact that MCU fanboys have send this into the IMDb Top 250 on references and cameos alone annoy the hell outta me. It's clear what they want, and it's not a good script.

Where's my Powdered Toast Man movie with cameos from Alexandria Daddario, Michael J Fox, Jim Carrey, Halle Berry's Catwoman, Peter Griffin, Better Call Saul, the Hawk Tuah girl, and Obama? Now that would hopefully catapult the film higher than Shawshank Redemption!

[–] BKB (9916) 4 months ago

I mean, prior to you watching this, did you research anything about this before paying good money to see it?? You had to have known this was going to be the movie to finally insert DEADPOOL into the MCU and was going to be a separate movie not related to the other 2. Now, when it does come to the X-MEN, I'm more of a Patrick Stewert Professor X fan than I am for James Macavoy in the role

[–] leader (1962) 4 months ago

That is a lot of anger for such an okay movie.

[–] horrorfan000 (2309) 4 months ago

Have you seen the other Deadpools?. No one walks into a Deadpool movie expecting a masterpiece script. Just cameos, references and a fun ride and that's what we got. I thought it was good for what it was and i loved the humor.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 4 months ago

I liked the first Deadpool alot, not knowing anything about the character. I thought it was funny enough based on the screenwriting and not shoehorned references and cameos (although there were some, they were not the driving force of the movie). Never saw the second one.

I felt that the board meeting for this movie went "this script needs tons of work, but we got Matthew McConoghey, Wesley Snipes, Henry Cavill, and half of the Fantastic Four cast in this movie. So I think the script is fine."

[–] horrorfan000 (2309) 4 months ago

"we got Matthew McConoghey, Wesley Snipes, Henry Cavill". If these 2 were in it i missed it.

[–] horrorfan000 (2309) 4 months ago

OK i looked it up on Youtube. McConoghey was hidden under that Deadpool mask i guess. Didn't recognize Cavill under that Wolverine hair.

[–] xergan (1067) 4 months ago

McConaughey was, I think, the Cowboy Deadpool in the finale. Who else should he play?

[–] horrorfan000 (2309) 4 months ago

No idea. I just thought because i didn't see him maybe the poster was mistaken or confusing him for Channing Tatum.

[–] Luffy (1236) 4 months ago

I stopped watching superhero movies since I disliked No Way Home. I don't like Scorsese's newer movies as well, but the guy was right. Comic book movies are mediocre.

[–] FilmBuff (7237) 4 months ago

I'm not a fanboy by any stretch. I don't know very little about the comics, and most of the references go over my head. That said, this film has a brilliant script. The dialogue and pacing is on par with that of the classic screwball comedies from Hawks, Sturges, Leisen, Wilder, and the rest. It's a very different kind of comedy-- crass and violent-- but it's impeccably written, and delivered equally well.

The film works on an entirely different level for the fanboys, and it's clearly quite effective there, too. I saw it with two other people. One is a comic book guy, and he was awed by all kinds of references that we missed. My other friend and I appreciated it in an entirely different way. We're cinephiles, and found totally different aspects of the film that we loved.

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 4 months ago

‘If the jokes aren’t remotely funny’

I thought the film was a hilarious buddy comedy from start to finish and the story was decent for an action comedy, no worse than the previous two Deadpool films.

Sucks you didn’t find it funny but there’s no need to get so triggered because many people did.

[–] Luffy (1236) 4 months ago

So you are saying you and other Marvel fans are in a select and exclusive club where you guys are connoisseurs of what comedy is. Right?

Why lie to yourself?

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 4 months ago

Haha, yeah that’s exactly what I’m saying.

You sound butthurt that this movie has become a critical and commercial success, cope harder.

[–] Luffy (1236) 4 months ago

You think I sound butthurt? And you think this movie is good/great?

You will probably enjoy the next Deadpool movie when the latter turns 90 and starts speaking in an Indian accent, talks about his unwed flower of a girlfriend who is played by Judy Dench.

Do you also mistake Buzz Lightyear for Daniel Plainview?

[–] FilmBuff (7237) 4 months ago

I can't speak for WhereIsRent but I also found the film to be hilarious. I saw it in a nearly-full theater, and the entire audience laughed from start to finish to the point where I'm planning to go see it again this week to catch all the jokes I missed due to the audience's laughter at the previous joke.

Appreciation of that kind of rapid-fire dialogue style of humor isn't limited to the MCU, and it's clearly appealing to the audiences seeing the film. If you don't care for it, that's all good. There are many styles of comedy out there. This film offers a nice blend of intellectual wit and crassness that you don't often find in a film. Usually you either get the clever jokes in tandem with the dry, British-style wit a la Monty Python or Thor:Ragnarok or you get the vulgar jokes along with juvenile humor a la an Adam Sandler film. It was refreshing to get raunchy humor done intelligently. I can see how that would also be off-putting.

[–] Luffy (1236) 4 months ago

Poor bastard.

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 4 months ago

Pathetic trolling!

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 4 months ago

It's fun to be triggered. Maybe all the jokes about touching wee-wees got unfunny after the 673rd joke about it.

[–] e3e34ifj (1912) 4 months ago

But...but muh references....