Tag: deadpool & wolverine

Well, there will be no living with @vancityreynolds now.

At least, not if you’re one of the suits at Disney. “Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine has crossed a major milestone at the global box office as it surpassed $1 billion on Sunday.” Disney-Marvel rather needs some numbers on the board right now, so the successes of both DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE and INSIDE OUT 2 are going to have even more influence on future projects than even their billion dollar grosses might suggest.

Also, I have every confidence in Reynolds being a 100% certified Grade-A PitA about it, with all of it focused like a parabolic mirror on a group of people who I don’t actually like very much. I know parasociality is the pernicious drug of this age, but surely a little vicarious schadenfreude won’t hurt. Even if it does hurt, it’ll barely be a sting. More like a pinch than anything else. I can take it.

My mini-review of DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE.

Short version: this was a big, sloppy, double-handful of meta-humor, bites-of-the-hands-that-fed-them, and gleeful fanservice, squeezed together into a movie and thrown at the cinema screen. …It was GLORIOUS. I hope it makes a billion dollars at the box office, if only so that I can watch Ryan Reynolds say whatever he wants to Disney’s face for a while.

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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE looks like it’ll be all right.

I saw some people freaking out about reviews for DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. I’m not entirely certain why:

A 80/97 split on Rotten Tomatoes is absolutely good news, going in. That translates to, “It’s a crowd-pleaser that the critics will begrudgingly admit is put together well.” That’s all I wanted! I want something fun that I can watch after I have a beer and some wings with my future sister-in-law-in-law (it’s complicated). I’ll be happy to get it, too.