Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-14 (Thursday)

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

 On 11/15/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
 

 What did you watch?

 
 On the day I woke up at 3:30am and couldn't get back to sleep, I finally
 managed to get through "Deadpool & Wolverine", and also a Lifetime flick.
 
 So I watched:
 
 Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney+) - Going in, I expected this - but this
 was definitely less funny than the first two "Deadpool" flicks,
 especially "2" (which is my favorite).
    And the recurring characters from the first two flicks, even Morena
 Baccarin, get little more than cameos here (and T.J. Miller's character
 is completely memory-holed without reference; Brad Pitt's "character"
 from "2" is also inexplicably absent, though this one may have gotten an
 oblique reference!).
    In short, this flick suffered a lot of the same problems as "Ant-Man
 3" - generally ignoring cast/characters from the first two films; being
 less funny (pretty much *un*funny in the case of "Ant-Man 3"!);
 launching into a new "quest" with a new "big bad" that we don't
 particularly care about - though this one is admittedly a lot better
 than "Ant-Man 3"!
    The other problem I had with this one was its deliberately much
 closer integration with the rest of the "MCU" (and especially in the
 recent "Multiverse" stuff) - the first two films worked as well as they
 did, I believe, exactly *because* they were nowhere near the MCU, and
 only had ties to 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" flicks. This one explicitly
 *forces* both Deadpool, and Wolverine, into the MCU, and the film wasn't
 the better for it, IMO.
    What does work here are the cameos. I don't want to spoil it, but
 some of the cameos actually wowed me, because I didn't see them coming,
 and they tie this film in with some earlier franchise stuff that was
 pre-MCU as well.
    That said, I was disappointed that Channing Tatum was playing Gambit
 here (yes, I know he's wanted the role for years!), and that poor Taylor
 Kitsch was once again ignored.
    Sidenote: I had totally - I mean totally! - forgotten that Chris
 Evans was in the original "Fantastic Four" flicks!

 
Oh, I did. And he was just as miscast in that as he was as Captain America,
and as every other actor in the same role in the fantastic, four flicks has
been.
 

    Anyway, some of this does work - I really like the montage where
 Deadpool tries to find himself a "Wolverine" in the Multiverse and keeps
 getting brutally beaten by various versions (including by "The
 Cavillrine"! Ha!!). And the creepy looking dog with the mutant tongue
 ("Dogpool") is a great bit too.

 
Apparently, one of those was Reynold’s daughter and one was his kid.