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This week, I saw Twisters so I am all the way back in on going to see big Summer blockbusters in theatres. Deadpool and Wolverine feels like an event I should be apart of.
The first X-Men movie came out in 2000.
Every Fox-produced X-Men movie was a pile of dogshit. If I’m being generous, the Michael Fassbender as Magneto movies were fine.
Logan was the only standalone X-Men movie that truly knocked it out of the park, a farewell to Hugh Jackman and his Wolverine character of two decades as the face of the franchise, anddddd Hugh Jackman is just back like we didn’t watch him die on that tree holding X-23’s hand.
Ok. Sure.
Now that Marvel/Disney have the rights back from Fox, it’ll be interesting to see the MCU version of Deadpool. Every character seems to talk like Tony Stark now so I imagine Deadpool and Wolverine will have a bunch of Avengers-style, Joss Whedon-esque interactions, saying corny lines like “Ummmm, so that just happened” and literally winking at the camera.
I’ve waited 24 years to see a live-action Wolverine wearing that iconic yellow costume from the comics and it’s on a 55-year-old playing alongside Van Wilder, and his 2004 sense of humor, in a film that looks like it was shot in an empty Fox lot next to the Master Chef kitchen.
I keep seeing clips from this big desert fight scene where Wolverine fights Sabretooth again. It’s insultingly cheap-looking. A PA was pouring bags of sand on the Masked Singer set. Is Disney poor?
It appears as though the entire budget for this film went into paying Hugh Jackman enough to convince him to pretend to have knife hands one more time and all of the nonstop marketing. You cannot walk through a grocery store without picking up a product you like and seeing in covered in Deadpool bullshit.
This movie doesn’t feel like a movie. It’s just content—something to be consumed and forgotten by dinner time.
Will Deadpool and Wolverine be good?
Probably not.
The premise doesn’t even make sense.
Hey, you know that version of Wolverine you liked for the last 20 years and looks just like this Wolverine? Well, that was a different Wolverine. This Wolverine is from a different universe and has no recollection of any of the events you watched. It’s more like “Deadpool and Some Random Other Wolverine”.
Plus, this feels like a movie built on cameos and surprise appearances like the reveal of who Lady Deadpool will be which could be anyone from Blake Lively to Taylor Swift to just Ryan Reynolds wearing a wig.
If you don’t see this on opening weekend, there won’t be a point in seeing it all because all of the surprises will be posted online.
Recently, the MCU has become all about sneaking little cameos in like The Illuminati in Doctor Strange or all of the previous Spider-Men in No Way Home.
Deadpool and Wolverine feels like it has nothing to do with Deadpool and Wolverine and everything to do with the guest appearances of Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike and X-23.
This isn’t a movie as much as it’s a meme factory. Get ready for two months of lame gifs and TikTok sound bites.
And I hate that I will 1000% be spending the remaining $30 in my bank account to see a movie that’s 10 years too late. Can’t wait.
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