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Watched it with the wife last night. We both enjoyed it for opposite reasons. The amount of beefcake would give any woman diabetes off the bat.

I mean it is what it is, and despite certain groups trashing it for some jokes, nothing was out of line for a character that literally was billed to be a big "Fuck You" to the Comics Authority. His nickname is "Merc with a mouth."

Deadpool was in top form, despite now entering the MCU under the heavy yoke of Disney and their "Family Friendly" draconian regulations. A love story ending suicide, Sure! Attempted Beastiality, Fine! throw some singing fine china and a french candle who obviously was a ladies man and start cashing the big return checks.

Fortunately for us, Disney knew a sure thing, only outright banning any drug content, leaving in the violence and other things.

But as a movie in whole, I'd give it a solid B+

Why? because it was like watching a man trying to untangle a huge ball of Christmas lights of story lines. The base was the Deadpool team up comics, where he worked with Wolverine, which was a fun, even if serious ride. Then toss in the current MCU phase, post snap, pre reality collapse timeline, then for some ungodly reason, reference a show that not everyone watched on Disney+, and then poke fun at an alternate time line of an alternate time line, and you got this movie. Not really hard to follow, but at least they did not try and shoehorn in an OP superhero last minute, Looking at you Captain Marvel, who should still be in a coma after Rogue stole your powers. Cant retcon a main cannon plot.

The soundtrack was a huge driving force for me. I mean the N'Sync intro, and then "Like a Prayer" for the climactic bits. Did Disney Censors not exist when that song was released? The whole song was about fucking. "In the midnight hour, I can feel your power." "I am on my knees..." But oddly enough, both songs fit snug with it all, and did not detract from the movie, though now if I hear those songs I will be drawn to those scenes.

If you are looking for a good movie to kill time with, its now free on Disney+, worth it to me, not because of geeky passion, but honestly because its a good, if lost in its own premise story.

The Nitty Gritty..

Story  7/10

Music 9/10

Art  8/10

Badassness  8/10

Total: Must at least watch once, or buy for your video collection. An unaltered, untouched up, buff as all fuck Hugh Jackman. Need I say more? Be sure to have a glass of wine with that Beefcake, Ladies.

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I was a fan of Wolverine in 1980 (collected comic books from 1980 to 85), however, comma, based on how horribly Hollywood absolutely mangled the first two X-Men movies, I gave up on superhero movies altogether.

Because I have Hyperosmia (heightened sense of smell) I related to Wolverine (also, his stories showed him being one with nature and I grew up in ranch country). Also, the fact that Wolverine was originally a Cold War experiment and weapon and I was serving during the Cold War, I totally got the storytelling of Chris Claremont.

If people want to see superhero movies, I get it but it is similar to me meeting a former competitive boxer. I asked him if he had watched the Rocky movies and he said "No. I can't stand to see fake boxing."

I just really hate the Hollywood treatment of great stories, which is why I like international cinema so much. European movies rarely end with a neat, ribbon tied around it, happy ending, seen in sooooooooo many Hollywood movies.

So, I don't mean to crap on your experience, everyone has their own tastes. I just get offended by Hollywood's treatment of something I once held sacred. 



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I was a fan of Wolverine in 1980 (collected comic books from 1980 to 85), however, comma, based on how horribly Hollywood absolutely mangled the first two X-Men movies, I gave up on superhero movies altogether.

Because I have Hyperosmia (heightened sense of smell) I related to Wolverine (also, his stories showed him being one with nature and I grew up in ranch country). Also, the fact that Wolverine was originally a Cold War experiment and weapon and I was serving during the Cold War, I totally got the storytelling of Chris Claremont.

If people want to see superhero movies, I get it but it is similar to me meeting a former competitive boxer. I asked him if he had watched the Rocky movies and he said "No. I can't stand to see fake boxing."

I just really hate the Hollywood treatment of great stories, which is why I like international cinema so much. European movies rarely end with a neat, ribbon tied around it, happy ending, seen in sooooooooo many Hollywood movies.

So, I don't mean to crap on your experience, everyone has their own tastes. I just get offended by Hollywood's treatment of something I once held sacred.

I see.

I would also like to point out that they did not fuck around with Wolverine's character, actually even paying homage to the comic's and X-men comics Yellow and Blue costume. The actor playing Deadpool is a staunch advocate for keeping characters as they were in comics, even going so far to lampoon his failed green lantern movie in the post credit scene of Deadpool 2.

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