Well what did you people want?!?!?!?! - Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Discussion

[–] TheArgentinian (7061) 4 months ago

A good script and not just a collection of jokes and winks at the audience?

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[–] StealthCrasher (211) 4 months ago

It had all of those

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[–] Alex (1503) 4 months ago

The plot was absolute nothing burger. We all know they had to justify bringing Wolverine back somehow but couldn't they choose a more compelling villain? They dont even have a final confrontation with her and it was a real copout. I wanted to see how they'd win against a OP villain w/o the helmet.

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[–] MeYouFools (169) 4 months ago

"I wanted to see how they'd win against a OP villain w/o the helmet."

You saw that. That's literally how they save the universe(s). Don't like that they didn't do it with violence? That's on you.

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[–] Alex (1503) 4 months ago

I meant smth different. They didnt even share the room at the end. Lame.

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[–] grhqofb5 (346) 3 months ago

Great script, but it did have an excessive number of jokes and winks to the audience. Even had a couple jokes about its use of winks to the audience.

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[–] DavidM (875) 4 months ago

It's a soulless wank of Hollywood, a movie that won't have any sense in 15-20 years, as all his jokes are based on a veeeery specific context.

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[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 4 months ago

That’s nice, o real one preaching to the choir up here. (Keep in mind uncool folks who really liked this film like so many outside these circles do: moviechat here is a specific hate circle. Disliking most things, to put it lightly, is the way.)

But yeah, you go projecting soulless wank shouting into the void.

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[–] ReelReviews14 (1220) 3 months ago

>> It's a soulless wank of Hollywood, a movie that won't have any sense in 15-20 years, as all his jokes are based on a veeeery specific context. <<

You could make the same criticism of the iconic timeless film Airplane! (1980). A lot of the jokes in the film won't make sense to today's viewers, and require very specific knowledge about late 70s/early 80s U.S. culture and contemporary events at the time.

The film overall, however, is STILL entertaining as hell!

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[–] MarvinKMooney (15) 3 months ago

Airplane! and a superhero movie are not comparable.

There are thousands of superhero movies. Airplane! doesn't belong to a film franchise, it is an original idea, unlike Deadpool.

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[–] ReelReviews14 (1220) 3 months ago

>> There are thousands of superhero movies. Airplane! doesn't belong to a film franchise, it is an original idea, unlike Deadpool. <<

Airplane most definitely belongs to a franchise and has a specific genre of film. It is a Parody film. In fact, it really spawned the "modern" Parody film "formula" in much the same way Spider-Man and X-Men did for superhero movies in the early 2000s. Airplane! has a sequel and spawned dozens of films directly using the same format or intimating to a large degree, such as The Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Spy Hard, Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Borat, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist!, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, etc. etc. Indeed, Airplane! did for Leslie Nielson what X-Men did for Hugh Jackman.

Airplane specifically parodied hollywood Disaster Films, which had oversaturated the market and become cliche by the late 70s. It's obviously poking fun at the Towering Inferno/Earthquake/Poisidon Adventure/Airport type "style" of Disaster films, which wouldn't make sense if you were watching a modern Disaster film, like San Andreas with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

I'll have to rewatch Scary Movie and see if a lot of the gags require knowledge of late 90s pop culture to get what they're referencing to.

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[–] FootOfDavros (8142) 3 months ago

I love Airplane! but I can't think of many examples of that.

I guess an example would be the Rocky 38 movie poster but I guess most people would still get that know or into the future.

Maybe some classic film quotes? (Can't remember off the top of my head)

But a lot of the Airplane humour was visual gags which will continue to work...

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[–] Kowalski (75520) 4 months ago

I WAS EXPECTING LESS...THIS MOVIE WAS EPIC!

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[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 3 months ago

I enjoyed it.

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[–] MyPhoneAccount (235) 3 months ago

I agree!!! It’s literally SO much better than stupid snoozefests like Citizen Kane, Schindler’s List, or Taxi Driver. I mean, did any of those movies have comic book references and cameos from a-list actors! NOPE!!! So yesh this movie better win best picture at this years oscars and if it doesnt well you know it’s because the kamala harris voters got to offended by all the anti-woke humor!!!!

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[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7699) 3 months ago

I agree. I liked it. The people who hate it are the anti comic book film snobs who make it their goal to complain about comic book films being a genre on every Superhero film board. They're all a pack of fools.

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[–] 123Guy (7259) 3 months ago

I dont even bother with comic book movies and found this hilarious.

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[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

For it not to exist. Jackman's Wolverine should have never been brought back after Logan.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 3 months ago

It wasn’t.

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[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

Excuse me?

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[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 3 months ago

If you think about it, it was a different Wolverine from a different timeline, so one could go one further and imagine it to be a different Jackman, if you get where I’m coming from.

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[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

I'm talking about Jackman playing Wolverine at all. Leaning into this multiverse nonsense was obviously the only play they had, and it's a cheap way to bring actors back and build hype.

RDJ as Iron Man for instance - would I want him brought back in some other form? No. His ending in Marvel was perfect. But they're doing it anyway with some Doctor Doom bullshit.

People keep eating it up however, so they're not going to stop.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (38068) 3 months ago

I’ve been reading comic books for over 50 years - nobody stays dead forever.

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[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

And you think that's a good thing? That's one mediocre, messy aspect of a specific format that should not be emulated - it lowers the stakes, and cheapens the story and its characters.

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[–] StealthCrasher (211) 3 months ago

This is a different variant of Wolverine, child.

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[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

Read the rest of the comments (literally right there ↑) before responding, child.

Your predictably lame and studio-regurgitated excuse has already been dealt with.

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[–] TandyMan (11096) 3 months ago

The people wanted Logan 2 with dick jokes.

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