Deadpool is a love story. True, it’s violent, vulgar, and occasionally funny, too. But the heart of the movie is a love story between Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin. After the disaster of Green Lantern I thought Ryan Reynolds would never star in another superhero movie. But, in Deadpool we find Reynolds tortured to activate his latent mutant powers. And, when those mutant powers appear, Reynolds finds he’s practically indestructible. Of course, the Bad Guy who was torturing Reynolds decides to go after his girl friend, Morena Baccarin. Big Mistake! Expect a huge climatic battle. Deadpool surprisingly took in $150 million last weekend. Not much is opening this weekend so I expect Deadpool to rule the top of the Box Office this week, too. If you’re looking for a quirky, violent love story then Deadpool will delight you. GRADE: A
I’m sure we’ll see it eventually, but we still have a lot of the Oscar hopefuls to catch up on. Tonight we rented THE MARTIAN.
Jeff, THE MARTIAN follows the book almost exactly. You and Jackie will enjoy the movie. Matt Damon is very good.
I think none of these no longer appeal to me. We saw THE WITCHES, which was better than I expected.
Patti, DEADPOOL has a massive body count. I want to see THE WITCHES, too.
THE WITCHES doesn’t interest me.
We saw the preview for the new X-Men movie and it appeared to be all née people. Jennifer Lawrence is in it
Jeff, Jennifer Lawrence is terrific in the X-MEN movies!
I really want to see this. I have seen reynolds promoting it, and think he’s adorable. He’d been trying to get the movie made for some time. Someplace I saw a picture of a promotional poster that mentioned “nice ass” which seems to set the tone for the movie’s smart alec tone. I was probably one of the few people who liked green lantern, though not enough to buy it. Wonder if it will be promoted as a comedy (like the Martian).
Maggie, Ryan Reynolds took a risk with DEADPOOL and it looks like he’s a winner this time! I’m sure they’re working on a sequel right now.
I love that reynolds was named sexiest dad alive!!!
Maggie, there are some sly references to Ryan Reynolds’s sexiness in DEADPOOL.