Why do you need to ‘counter’ somebody’s take on a film? That implies their take is not valid and needs to be corrected in some way. I know, I know, everything on the internet has to be a confrontation now.
My friends and I were left wondering ... was this queer or were we being queerbaited? And does it matter?
The plot made about as much sense as any multiversal shenanigans or the average Doctor Who episode when they get really "timey-wimey". IE, don't sweat the inconsistencies. Everyone understood the assignments, I was actually impressed with Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova, and Chris Evans was having a blast and reminded me why I watched those Fantastic Four movies.
I'm also just super impressed the they decided to put Cassandra Nova, crazy backstory and all, in an MCU movie. Of all the deep cut villains to pull out for this they went for the Mummudrai?
Channing Tatum's Gambit both worked and didn't, IMO. The voice was great ... but while I appreciate the comic accurate costume, the headsock was too thick and messed up the physicality of the character.
Anyway, enjoyed it, all the music choices worked on me, was glad to have some fun.
Channing Tatum's Gambit both worked and didn't, IMO. The voice was great ... but while I appreciate the comic accurate costume, the headsock was too thick and messed up the physicality of the character.
Why do you need to ‘counter’ somebody’s take on a film? That implies their take is not valid and needs to be corrected in some way. I know, I know, everything on the internet has to be a confrontation now.
Ultimately there are two ways to have such threads.
1) As a passive reception. A person gives their take, another person gives their take. The two never meet just people posting notes.
2) As a discussion and debate. I think part of the fun of these discussions is digging into the movies themselves. What makes a movie good or bad? What do people like or dislike about a movie? What does a movie "mean"....or does it mean nothing?
I personally find number 2 far more engaging. I mean if we want to have a review site where people just post reviews with no comments we could....but its a discussion board for a reason, we discuss....and that often involves debate.
And note this is not an internet thing nor a modern concept. Literary reviewers have debated written works for centuries, often asking the same questions.....what makes a work good or interesting? What does the work say about the past, present, or future...is it a work of pure farcical fun, or does it have a deeper meaning to examine? Is the book in fact....well written? And those reviewers have argued and debated with each other far longer than the internet has been around.
And I am all in for Cavill as Wolverine but my guess is when Marvel gets around to bringing in the X-Men it is going to be a lot of very young, fresh faces.
I believed all the press about Dafne Keen not being in the movie at all until the last trailer. They got me, and I almost didn't even go see the movie because of it. And yeah... not enough Laura, but every frame of her screen time was pitch perfect. Like, I made an exception for seeing a Wolverine movie in which she wasn't Wolverine... but the movie itself just made me so much more excited for the prospect of her Wolverine movies.
They put a lot of effort into "disappointing" Keen fans coming into this movie, including putting her in The Acolyte to make sure she was in the house and covering up why she was in the house. They may not be planning to give me what I want, but they have definite plans for her going forward into the next stage of the MCU.
He's already aging out of the role-- cue the Matt Damon GIF-- but if I was going to get really excited for Radcliffe in the MCU, it'd be as Quentin Quire. He'd crush it, and he'd look amazing in the pink undercut. Or... look, I'd feel really bad about only recasting one of the Netflix Defenders, but everyone else was perfect and a ripped Radcliffe (with kung fu lessons) would be a brilliant Danny Rand in a Shang Chi sequel. Frog Man... if he gets to be a major supporting character in a Spider-Man movie.
Deadpool is canonically... very complicated. All of his iconic bromances are all very much brutally unrequited romances on his part and he's outspokenly sexually attracted to pretty much every superhero and many supervillains over the age of 30. He just doesn't canonically identify as any sexual orientation or identity and semi-canonically doesn't know what most of the letters stand for and he isn't part of the queer community.
He's a weird old dude who pretty much had to come to terms with his queer sexuality in an abusively conservative military family, military school, and then the actual military... and then joined the extremely queer (at least -coded) superhero community as a villain to paramilitary mutant teams when "mutant rights" was still primarily an allegory to racial conflicts. He understands how badly he just wants to bone Cable and Spider-Man, but doesn't have the language to process or express how desperately he's in love with them, except by pretending to be pretending to hit on them.
Superficially, he's just walking a very fine line between queerbaiting and actual representation. When you dig deeper, mostly recently and only in the hands of certain writers... he's an iconic portrayal of Gen X and "late" Boomer men who never had the chance to belong to 20th century gay culture and feel profoundly alienated from 21st century queer culture. Like a lot of the best parts of Black Panther, I feel like those authors took a crap sandwich of problematic with good intentions and turned it into provocative by design.
Have to say... I was really impressed with the opening three minutes. I've decided to avoid spoiling anyone else on the movie because it's the first time I ever walked into a movie thinking I knew what I was going to get and was surprised by the opening credits.
"Look, we know the title of this thing so I know what you're wondering: how are we gonna do this without dishonoring Logan's memory? Well, I'll tell you how. We're not." Followed by two minutes of Deadpool literally desecrating Logan's corpse and then two hours of the only possible way I could imagine a sequel to Logannot dishonoring the memory of either the character or the film. Every part of this Logan's story reinforces and reaffirms all of the themes of Logan, and every part of Wade's and Laura's stories in this movie tell us how that Logan's sacrifice mattered and that his heroism outlived his entire universe.
Of all of the things I expected walking into this movie, I didn't expect that. I really, really believed that Logan was going to be the only Wolverine movie that would ever make me cry.
He's already aging out of the role-- cue the Matt Damon GIF-- but if I was going to get really excited for Radcliffe in the MCU, it'd be as Quentin Quire. He'd crush it, and he'd look amazing in the pink undercut. Or... look, I'd feel really bad about only recasting one of the Netflix Defenders, but everyone else was perfect and a ripped Radcliffe (with kung fu lessons) would be a brilliant Danny Rand in a Shang Chi sequel. Frog Man... if he gets to be a major supporting character in a Spider-Man movie.
Radcliffe as Quentin Quire? Huh. I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, I'd be down for it. I mean, my wish for Radcliffe as Wolverine is mostly based on the physical traits of him being (a) short and (b) ripped (or at least having the ability to be). To be perfectly fair, I don't know if he has the ability to project the menace Wolverine should have. I mean, he's a pretty good actor so I'm sure he does, but I don't know that.
To be perfectly fair, I don't know if he has the ability to project the menace Wolverine should have. I mean, he's a pretty good actor so I'm sure he does, but I don't know that.
Hands down, I consider Elizabeth Olson's Wanda to be the most terrifying villain in the MCU.
I have a crazy pipe dream about an adaptation of TMNT on Netflix based almost entirely around casting Tom Holland as Casey; it has nothing to do with is performance any of the MCU movies, and everything to do with his turn in The Devil All The Time. Sometimes you just don't know what an actor is capable of until someone gives them the chance to try.
The girlfriend and I finally went out and saw it last night. A month after release and the theater was still packed, which is nice to see.
I enjoyed every moment of it. I was probably the perfect audience for this film. I grew up at the right time that I watched a lot of the early, pre-MCU Marvel movies as a kid when they were coming out in the late 90's-early 2000's. It was really nice just to see a love letter to these forgotten heroes.
I do agree with some of the other folks.. There was probably some fat they could have trimmed and cut it down to a clean 90 minutes.. But at the same time I didn't find myself itching to get it over with.
All in all.. No real complaints.. No real notes. Just a good movie. I'm really glad I made a point to go watch it in theater.
