So. ‘Hail, Caesar!’ or ‘Deadpool’ tomorrow?

…WHAT? I’m being SERIOUS, here. I heard that the one isn’t actually bad, and if I don’t see it this week on the big screen then I probably won’t, ever. And I heard that the second is, well, everything that you would expect from a Deadpool movie. So I’m totally legitimately torn, here.

:pause:

Should I have said ‘totes legit torn?’ That’s the proper slang these days, yes? I mean, I’m going to be 46 in a couple of months, so I probably need to get whatever lingering shreds of being with it out of my system now so that’s it’ll be less of a shock later.

17 thoughts on “So. ‘Hail, Caesar!’ or ‘Deadpool’ tomorrow?”

  1. From what I hear, if you go to Deadpool, you’ll have to go twice in order to pick up on all the lines you laughed through the first time.
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    Do you like seeing George Clooney mug for the camera? I hear “Hail, Caesar!” has that, in Dapper Dan spades.

  2. Deadpool. I haven’t seen “Caesar” but the reviews indicate an unevenness to it even in the positive reviews. Deadpool, on the other hand, is about as good a movie about Deadpool as you’re likely to ever see.

  3. Flip a coin. It worked for Hillary in Iowa. As far as slang goes, I work with teenage kids, but I believe that in the next two or three years I will have to change vocations, because by then they will be speaking an entirely different language.

  4. I liked Hail Caesar. I really liked Deadpool. I would say Hail, Caesar because of the time crunch…unless you may not have another chance to see Deadpool either, in which case, sorry Coens.

  5. Both good. Deadpool: naked Morena Baccarin. Hail Caesar: George Clooney getting smacked in the face. You make the call.

  6. Deadpool. Just because I actually want to see it in the theater.
    The last time that happened was Pacific Rim.

  7. I haven’t seen either, but the one I’m interested in seeing is Hail, Caesar! so that would get my vote.

    1. Movies are expensive. My wife wouldn’t say anything if I saw two movies in a week, but it’d be a different ‘wouldn’t say anything’ if I saw only one.

  8. I haven’t seen Deadpool. Both of us are huge old movie buffs and thoroughly enjoyed ‘Hail, Caesar’. I think that’s the key. If you know and enjoy watching TCM, then You will almost certainly love ‘Hail Caesar’. It has a genuinely decent human being as a hero. There isn’t much violence, sex or bad language (Except for Scarlet Johanson). There are a lot of insider jokes. And for once a Hollywood movie actually deals with the reality of Hollywood communists. And it has Jeff Lewis from ‘the Guild’ in a minor role.

    1. …You see my problem, then. 🙂 They’re two movies that are getting good reviews for completely different reasons. 🙂

      1. Deadpool is made by people who genuinely love the Deadpool comics. They went out of their way to make the movie for the fan, non-fan be damned.

  9. Hail Caesar . The scene where the Clooney character bores Marcuse to tears alone is worth the price of admission . And as all of us who read Marcuse back the day , boy did he have it coming , being bored to tears .

  10. Deadpool. One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. My friends who are Deadpool fans and had expectations also loved it.

    Do NOT take the kids.

    Oh, and I vow kanly on any grown man that uses “totes” unironically, and maybe even then.

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