I watched it twice in the same day and it is fun, same ol’ Ryan hammyness but it ain’t all that.
It’s not some threshold for a better MCU or nothing.
The movie is just No way home part 2, because we all know what that movie did right?
And how many people are talking about it now?
Same shit, different studio. Now its Fox. (Though No Way Home is still decent, recommended. Best MCU Spider-man movie because: Consequences. Not because cameos, but Peter had to grow up & finally become Spider-man)
Otherwise, Fanservice: The Movie
Just better Fanservice than Japan’s bullshit.
The plot of this Deadpool 3 is garbage only because it boiled down to (destroying timelines) which literally means nothing now and the villain was weak because her motivations make no sense.
They’re sent to the void, to go to the base then to escape, to roadtrip, to go right back to the same fucking base, then to some town, and that’s it.
I like a full circle setting when there’s meaning to it, not cause the set pieces were dry as fuck. (pun intended)
Logan somehow gets through to baldy to let them go buuuut now she wants to make the void the only frontier left, multiversal genocide. Ooookay then, cause that’s now a thing.
We don’t even get to see what happened to her in the past. We’re told.
The best thing about it is Wolverine. And Deadpool is a lot more serious at times in this movie.
The film is actually pretty critical of Deadpool through Wolverine and it works but the film itself was just a hack pander piece.
Using Logans corpse like that in the beginning was beyond disrespectful and mind-numbing. And no, being self-aware of the problem doesn’t vindicate the problem.
Dancing and shit, while weaponizing bones, just what the actual fuck is the MCU anymore.
That “call out your own writing flaws, thus that makes continuing the flaws A-Ok”shit didn’t work for Horikoshi and it ain’t working for you, DP3.
Now when you watch the Logan film again, just know- THATS what happens to his remains years later.
MCU comes and literally beats a dead horse.
My biggest complaint:
X-23 was underused.
This character is the Cassandra Cain of Marvel Comics (possible inspiration of Cain 90s to 2003)
She should’ve had more of a bigger role helping Wolverine heal emotionally like Logan was present for her in their journey in the previous movie- a poetic role reversal, but she’s helping to heal his Callous exterior.
The dynamic between her Wade, & Logan would’ve been great.
Not some rushed campfire scene where he spills his guts to a kid he doesn’t even know.
It’s a good good scene, one of the better ones cause DP isn’t in it- but it reads like it was payoff to build up and development we never got to see between these two.
When she walked in the room, and they saw each other: You could feel it, Hugh & Dafne have a very subtle acting chemistry, and its better when you remember: Oh shit, this is a different Wolverine but Hugh worked with this same kid way back when, didn’t he? Yep. Same people, believe it or not.
So you naturally want everyone else in the room to fuck off and just hear these two talk.
Now if Laura was there a little earlier, in more of the film and they had more time together not only would everyone want to see that, but it’d make his change of heart on his part make more goddamn sense.
Because now he has an actual dynamic with this young lady, who in some respects is his kid.
Maybe even set up her getting her own suit, admiring his.
Just wasted potential, all the effort went into “REMEMBER THEM!?”
Nostalgia-Bombs over storytelling. Sloppy
Got Lady Deadpool in the mix, yaaay (said someone), but why are the DP’s dropping so easy and not healing while moving or fighting like they’re mercenaries with healing factors too, they’re not zombies.
I get thematic timing, but if Lady DP was one of the first to drop, why wasn’t she getting up first or faster? Lmfao.
Again, they’re not zombies. And why aren’t they helping fight Bald chic after the fact when Peter shows up? Clearly he wouldn’t be down with all timelines being wiped.
Why doesn’t any of them have the teleport belt? Why doesn’t Wade have the belt yet!?
My favorite scene though is Wade & Logan going apeshit in the van, and thus Logans strength is soooooo much better represented in this movie than any of the others. And there have been plenty of good highlights in the Logan movie (X-24 is prime Logan so the feats are by proxy his own):
The way he manhandles Wade, tackles the van so hard the airbag deploys, he even slings the man through a solid wall- THAT’S Wolverine. Brute fucking strength.
That kind of strength behind unbreakable claws + the healing is why he’s a problem. Imagine that striking strength, it’s like a Car made of razor blades sideswiping you at 60 mph with every throw, and that’s lowballing.
Think about it, he’s got like 200–500 pounds + of metal on him, you know how strong he’s gotta be to carry that 24/7, even while swimming?
His weight class just skips a few tiers.
There’s a reason why he can give Hulk a little bit of a fight, Big Guy Hulk anyway “Dumb Hulk”. Green Scar? Not a contest. But Logan can hang with the best of them for a reason.
Even running on all fours in their first fight, *Marvel ultimate alliance flashbacks*
It got the little things right more than the bigger shit. They really lost me with that timeline destruction plot, please please please stop with the universe shit only If it boils down to “mwahaha me evil”
Did WE really forget why Thanos worked in the first place? less is more more.
Logan was a small scale film, very humble, with personal small scale stakes.
That’s why it works, thats why its tense, that’s why it’s emotional: because there’s no multiverse, no timeline, no reality bullshit. Just personal stakes.
DP&W is more fun than Logan, but Logan is going to age better than Deadpool & Wolverine. As it’s aged very well even now.
It aged better than Endgame.
We’re really overlooking the importance of a stake being “personal” to a character.
Why do you think Phase 3 even worked in the first place? Because Phase 1–2 had personal stakes, small scale storytelling first (small enough, Thor was punching kind of high with it’s 3rd act but hey, it’s Thor).
Now, people seem to enjoy this, good.
Nice to hear laughs than dead silence from collective regret that money was paid to see trash. Same with No Way Home.
I think we’ve had enough of preachy movies making people miserable: but at the same time we gotta trace back the formula to better storytelling, less predictable member-berry heavy gimmick plots- cause this just might become a branched genre of hammy exploitative movies, if all it takes is jangling keys.
Small scale stories are now underrated.
DUNE PART TWO crushes this easily in terms of writing, pacing, story, but this is one of the better films of 2024 tho. It’s a gimmick driven, fun ride, prioritizing the audience liking what they see and not making the audience like what the narrative wants them to see.
Wasted potential on many fronts, Laura should’ve been in so much more of this, hell she could’ve been the compass to guide them through the wastes to accomplish things with purpose instead of them aimlessly wandering from place to place. A more mature, realized Laura, give us some sit-rep on what happened to the other kids, remember those other kids? I still remember the eldest boy, Rictor; He was cool. I hink he was Avalanche’s kid.
All in all, the film is a one-trick pony, but it’s a fun ride.
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