I could care less with what naysayers think or feel about Deadpool for a few simple reasons.
- It's a critical and commercial success.
- It had a far less budget than the severely overhyped "BvS" and "Suicide Squad". The producers of those films have clearly never heard the term, "Less is More". And I'm not just talking about the money spent on those films.
- It's already out rating both those films at the present time (SS has only been out a week) and Deadpool's been out longer.
- I'm heartened by the fact that others have admitted to watching this multiple times already. My boss admitted to seeing this three times at the cinemas. I've seen it just the one time and will eventually get it on blu ray so I can hopefully pick up on all the other jokes I missed the first time around!
- The sequel will no doubt be highly anticipated, but one big advantage that it has is that it doesn't need to go down the flashback route like it did in the first one, and we already know a lot about his character and how he was created. Now they can tell a completely new story without having to jump back and forth through time periods (hopefully).
- there's no more deserving person in Hollywood for this kind of box office success than Ryan Reynolds. He copped so much flack for "The Green Lantern" (a lot of it was underserved), it would have been very easy to give up and completely stay away from being the lead in another superhero film.
But his persistence has paid off, and although he's had his fair share of great, decent and god awful films in the past 15 or so years, that was all leading towards this stand out role. Thoroughly deserved and I really hope the sequel can live up to expectations where others have usually failed.
- And lastly, the people have spoken. Six months after its release its an 8.1 on IMDB as I write this. I don't need to read any comments from the small minority who hated/disliked Deadpool, that this wasn't a highly entertaining, suprisingly great film.
Unless you've seen "Going Overboard", you have no right to start a thread called "Worst Film Ever"!
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