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Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker
Deadpool is probably my favorite comic book movie because I like Reynolds and enjoy most of the humor and Deadpool 2 has a few jabs at Fox News and conservatives (actually surprised they didn’t create a mini outrage about liberal Hollywood making jokes about them in blockbuster movies)
Personally I enjoy most of the Marvel movies as fun popcorn flicks to watch. None of them have had great storylines or anything like that but they have entertained me enough where it was worth the $8-$11 for a ticket
Yeah, I'm with you. I was a yuge comic book nerd as a kid too so I've enjoyed even the bad ones to some extent. (My two other nerdo friends and I used to buy comics, read them ONCE, then place them into plastic sleeves where I assume they remain to this day...one kid wound up with all of the books after the rest of us outgrew them and I know damn well he's got a few valuable gems in there, assuming he kept them).
I remember seeing Superman (1978) in theaters and being blown away by it, even after seeing Star Wars the year before. And Superman was pretty terrible by today's standards (though it's still one of my all time faves, what a monstrous cast!). But the dialogue was, well, like a comic book, which describes 90% of those movies. To me that's what makes Deadpool so freaking good. I never read anything like that in my books.
We all know that the budgets for these movies aren't focused on storylines and scripts, they're going to fx and paying big name actors to be in them. I'm pretty much OK with that.