I just rewatched
Deadpool for the first time, and it was even better than my initial viewing. Partially because when I watched it at the theater, it was packed, depsite it being on a Tuesday. The guy sitting beside me too wouldn't stop nervously bouncing his knee up and down
for the entire fucking movie, which was also basically causing my seat to vibrate the entire time. Another reason is because I was able to hear a few more lines of dialogue that I somehow missed, as well as hearing some of the music better.
Can't say it's perfect, becuase there's plenty that could easily be criticized, and also a handful of goofs, but overall it's just great. I've also always been a fan of Ryan Reynolds (which I'm sure some of you will remember from when
Green Lantern was announced...), and I feel that he unjustly got shit on a lot as the reason many movies were either finanical, or critical failures. He's definitely not the best actor ever or anything, and I'd argue that he's maybe not even that great, but he's definitely not
bad. You can see he's got some acting chops too in movies like
Buried,
Adventureland,
The Voices or
The Nines. He's also
extremely charismatic. He's just been in a whole lot of really shitty movies that wouldn't have really been saved by some other actor.
Regardless, it seems like Deadpool was the character he was born to play. It's like watching Ryan Reynolds playing himself. Yeah, he already had a shot once before, but both the script and dialogue were fucking awful, so it's not like he actually had much to work with. Can you even think of anyone else would would have knocked it out of the park like he did in this film?
Side note: anyone excited about the new
Avengers movie,
Civil War?
I'll admit to being a bit of a Marvel Studios whore (I fuckin loved Iron Man 3 and Avengers 2) but for some reason I can't completely explain I never much cared for DC universe stuff, with the exception of Man of Steel (which I seem to be in the minority of liking it) and of course Nolan's Dark Knight. I really had very little motivation to see BvS, and after the reviews, even less so.
I grew up reading comic books (ended up with close to 10,000 at one point), but I never could really get into DC either. I found the Marvel characters to not only look more interesting (aside from Batman), but the character development, themes and stories for the most part were just more interesting to me. I think the biggest reason is because despite having such inhuman abilities, Marvel tried to make their characters feel relatable, and human. DC has too many "god-like" characters that also focus very little on the mundane, real world problems most people face. Batman is probably their most relatable character (despite being a billionaire). I find that with the movies, it's pretty much the same thing, on top of having the additional roadblocks of good directors and screenplays.
I don't know why, but it seems like the Marvel (characters, not specifically studio) movies, with the exception of the more recent
Spider-Man are just overall a much higher quality than any DC related movie, aside from the first two Nolan films as well as the first two Superman films. It could be argued that if not for those DC films (as well as giving Burton much credit for revitalizing the genre and renewing interest in it, if only briefly until it was ruined again) that we wouldn't be where we are now.
Iron Man seemed to be the start of the more recent comic book movie explosion, but it probably wouldn't have even been considered if not for
Batman Begins.
Right now it's a great time to be a geek. I always wanted more
good comic book movies, and I also always wanted more good Star Wars movies. Never thought I'd see not only the quantity we have right now, but the quality too.
