This movie looks like it'll be good hearted fun all around. I'm kind of looking forward to it. PlaceboEffect, you're interested in comic book films. You looking forward to this?
Oh hell yeah. It's stirred up a bit of controversy already because they're trying something that's been talked about for a while and decided against by every cape movie involving it thus far: CGI affected exression eyeslits. As you may have noted in most comics in which the hero has blank white eyes (IE Batman Spiderman Wolverine with mask on etc), the eyes grow or merge with the browline to convey the faces expression under the mask. Obviously this doesn't happen in real life, but most people thought it looked to hokey. We'll find out. But I've seen the trailer and it looks GREAT. Also they aren't using WayPool as their character inspiration for Deadpool. AND THEYVE GOT FREAKING RYAN REYNOLDS. ITS PERFECT.
It looks like it'll be a lot of fun actually. I'm glad they're not shying away from the violence. The early Joe Kelly comics were dark. I hear one of the criticisms of Deadpool is that as he's gotten more popular over the years, Marvel has done a lot to sanitize the character.
Agreed. And make stupid meme-tier. I like DP when he had some depth and motivation rather than just 62 pages of hyper-self-aware 4th wall breaking memefilth being spewed.
In all honesty, I blame Christopher Priest, who I respect as an author by the way. It just happens that he took over Deadpool shortly after Kelly left and while the stories were entertaining, they were also downright silly. I really feel like his run is what set the tone for Deadpool.
Agreed. Taken at face value they were still not bad, albeit totally different in tone. The real problem was the precedent it set... and which road it inevitably started going down... Even nowadays you can get a randomly REALLY good DP comic. But it's not in the majority right now. I still highly recommend. It's beating the pants off of anything coming out of X-Men right now, and he's technically part of that collective.
I read Deadpool religiously all the way up to and through Agent X. After that I pretty much lost interest, though I do remember picking up a random issue or two of Cable & Deadpool. The only other complete arch I have is the three volume MAX run, which wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. Part of what made Kelly's run so amazing is that it was the perfect balance of tragedy and comedy. You liked him. You hated him. You felt sorry for him. There was some real depth there. I can't really recall anyone else working with him in such a way.
Yep. It really tugged the heartstrings in a way you'd never have thought possible after how he made a joke of everything at the start. I love me some DP & Cable. He's the straight man with the occasional snarky observation. He's the Ying to Wade's Wang--er, Yang. I highly recommend getting more of the issues. The overarching plots weren't even bad, and that tends to be the weakpoint of even pretty good serial comics.