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Post by thechase on Jul 20, 2024 2:51:34 GMT -5
I will say, regardless of anything else to do with marketing, I’m still not sure what this film is about. Originally I thought {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Deadpool was going to this Wolverine’s Earth to find the way to solve his problem and now I think {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} a lot of timey wimey stuff at the end of Loki Season Two has sent a lot of the FOX universes to the plain and Deadpool and Wolverine have to go in there to find what they need before it’s erased. I don’t think it’s even desperation, it’s finally giving the core of what the film is about instead of just LOOK, IT’S SABERTOOTH! DOGPOOL! SOME OTHER RANDOM X-MEN! etc I say it's desperation because they keep showing all the easter eggs in the trailers rather than hold them back for surprises, it's like they have no confidence in the actual story to invest anyone. The recent trailer works perfectly well without them.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 20, 2024 2:58:50 GMT -5
I will say, regardless of anything else to do with marketing, I’m still not sure what this film is about. Originally I thought {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} Deadpool was going to this Wolverine’s Earth to find the way to solve his problem and now I think {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} a lot of timey wimey stuff at the end of Loki Season Two has sent a lot of the FOX universes to the plain and Deadpool and Wolverine have to go in there to find what they need before it’s erased. I don’t think it’s even desperation, it’s finally giving the core of what the film is about instead of just LOOK, IT’S SABERTOOTH! DOGPOOL! SOME OTHER RANDOM X-MEN! etc I say it's desperation because they keep showing all the easter eggs in the trailers rather than hold them back for surprises, it's like they have no confidence in the actual story to invest anyone. The recent trailer works perfectly well without them. I don’t see how showing the fact a character that they teased would return in the trailer itself being revealed as in the movie is an Easter egg as much as something really obvious. Heck, it actually made me more interested to see it to see how she would be with this Wolverine after the Wolverine she was with died and especially since she seems connected to the rest of the story. For that? We don’t know yet. How do we find out? See more of the movie. EDIT: Like I said, I feel there's more there to this. I was probably going to see it anyway but have more reason to see it outside of "Oh, Deadpool makes jokes about the MCU and Wolverine fights Sabertooth at some point" which is fine but not "I got to see this Day One" material. And heck, like I said before, I'm still not sure what the story beats of the film are fully which for a big superhero movie, I can't remember the last time that happened with a trailer. Maybe Endgame?
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jul 20, 2024 4:32:46 GMT -5
I say it's desperation because they keep showing all the easter eggs in the trailers rather than hold them back for surprises, it's like they have no confidence in the actual story to invest anyone. The recent trailer works perfectly well without them. I don’t see how showing the fact a character that they teased would return in the trailer itself being revealed as in the movie is an Easter egg as much as something really obvious. Heck, it actually made me more interested to see it to see how she would be with this Wolverine after the Wolverine she was with died and especially since she seems connected to the rest of the story. For that? We don’t know yet. How do we find out? See more of the movie. EDIT: Like I said, I feel there's more there to this. I was probably going to see it anyway but have more reason to see it outside of "Oh, Deadpool makes jokes about the MCU and Wolverine fights Sabertooth at some point" which is fine but not "I got to see this Day One" material. And heck, like I said before, I'm still not sure what the story beats of the film are fully which for a big superhero movie, I can't remember the last time that happened with a trailer. Maybe Endgame? From what I'm hearing in fact, they have way more surprises in store than what we've seen. So teasing X-23 here is just icing on the cake. Getting the feeling this film is going to be one of the more important MCU films, what is hilarious considering it's a damn Deadpool movie lol.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 20, 2024 5:16:42 GMT -5
From what I'm hearing in fact, they have way more surprises in store than what we've seen. So teasing X-23 here is just icing on the cake. Getting the feeling this film is going to be one of the more important MCU films, what is hilarious considering it's a damn Deadpool movie lol. Feige is out there saying just that.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 20, 2024 5:27:17 GMT -5
Theory from the trailer… {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Cassandra Nova uses Paradox’s machine that quickly kills timelines to power up. You can see a timeline turning into spaghetti just like Loki season 2. If they plan on keeping Kang as the villain leading into Avengers 5&6 and the soft reboot of the MCU…I fully expect in the credits we finally get to find out who Kang Prime is and he uses the same technology to power up killing timelines and screws with what Loki did at the end of season 2. I also expect either Loki or Mobius to trust Wade and Logan to help recruit other Prime heroes to help stop Kang once and for all.
Thats if they don’t do something dumb to just write him out. {Spoiler}There's a rumor on Twitter that Marvel is naming the new Kang next Saturday.
Now, it is Twitter, so take it with a grain of salt, but that would coincide with the weekend release. If the new Kang Prime is in the stinger or something like that, it would be pretty hard to hold that secret very long.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 20, 2024 6:41:27 GMT -5
Theory from the trailer… {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Cassandra Nova uses Paradox’s machine that quickly kills timelines to power up. You can see a timeline turning into spaghetti just like Loki season 2. If they plan on keeping Kang as the villain leading into Avengers 5&6 and the soft reboot of the MCU…I fully expect in the credits we finally get to find out who Kang Prime is and he uses the same technology to power up killing timelines and screws with what Loki did at the end of season 2. I also expect either Loki or Mobius to trust Wade and Logan to help recruit other Prime heroes to help stop Kang once and for all.
Thats if they don’t do something dumb to just write him out. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}There's a rumor on Twitter that Marvel is naming the new Kang next Saturday.
Now, it is Twitter, so take it with a grain of salt, but that would coincide with the weekend release. If the new Kang Prime is in the stinger or something like that, it would be pretty hard to hold that secret very long. {Spoiler}It ain't going to happen but man, I really want Cress Williams. Imagining him turning around and going "I'm Kang" is genuinely giving me goosebumps thinking about it.
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Post by chrom on Jul 20, 2024 7:05:27 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} The reveal won't be Kang, It'll be Krang
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 20, 2024 8:58:43 GMT -5
We get a Press Your Luck episode next week promoting the movie.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 20, 2024 9:16:34 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} The reveal won't be Kang, It'll be Krang So does that make this the One Known As The Reveal for the Ones Known As The Audience of the Terran Celluloid Feature Known As The Ones Called Deadpool and Wolverine?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 21, 2024 17:27:58 GMT -5
Another character confirmed. {Spoiler}Hunter B-15.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jul 21, 2024 21:06:32 GMT -5
The video is mostly the last trailer, but it does contain some original haha footage at the start.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 22, 2024 19:43:31 GMT -5
Wolvie got one, too!
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Post by chrom on Jul 22, 2024 21:06:52 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 23, 2024 2:05:31 GMT -5
Cameos being reported after the premiere: {Spoiler}• Human Torch (Chris Evans) • Blade (Wesley Snipes) • Gambit (Channing Tatum) Unconfirmed reports of: {Spoiler}(via archival footage or as corpses)
• Magneto (Ian McKellen) • Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) • Hulk (Edward Norton) • The Thing (Michael Chiklis) • Daredevil (Ben Affleck) • Punisher (Thomas Jane) • Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) • Jubilee (Lana Candor) • Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna) • Thor (Eric Allan Kramer) • Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) Also... {Spoiler}It's apparently strongly hinted that the next Avengers movie will be Avengers vs. X-Men. Obviously, pinches of salt until this weekend.
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Post by salz4life on Jul 23, 2024 8:27:50 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}There's a rumor on Twitter that Marvel is naming the new Kang next Saturday.
Now, it is Twitter, so take it with a grain of salt, but that would coincide with the weekend release. If the new Kang Prime is in the stinger or something like that, it would be pretty hard to hold that secret very long. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}It ain't going to happen but man, I really want Cress Williams. Imagining him turning around and going "I'm Kang" is genuinely giving me goosebumps thinking about it. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}I've thought of him as a replacement as well. Cress Williams is outstanding!
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Post by salz4life on Jul 23, 2024 8:28:45 GMT -5
Wolvie got one, too! Why are they not selling these individually??? I would buy both of them and I don't need them.
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Post by chazraps on Jul 23, 2024 19:38:06 GMT -5
NO SPOILERS
I absolutely loved it. The most refreshing superhero movie in years. Sometimes you see a movie and it give you exactly what you didn't know you needed, and this is it. Fan service done right where everything makes sense and is given a reason, I think what's not being said about the film as it's probably going to be most enjoyed by those who petered out of superhero movies in the mid-aughts for whom the MCU just became too much for. It's a love letter to a style of superhero movie you don't see any more - and it does so without putting any other type of movie or its fans down.
Additionally, the story is a tremendous allegory for how corporate mergers affect the arts. The meta moments are never overbearing, and even with them the film never loses emotional resonance. Highly, highly recommend it - even for those (especially for those) who feel completely burned out and disinterested by superhero / Marvel movies.
I'll also say - what I saw was a strictly critics only screening. Sometimes critic screenings have "sneak peek" contest winners or theater insiders - this was just adults with pencils who write about movies for a living. That said, I have never, ever *ever* in 15 years of working in media professionally and going to these kinds of screenings heard such audible laughter and cheers from a critics-only crowd. These are the most potentially jaded, exhausted movie fans there could be - at the very least people who've seen it all - and they all turned into kids again. One of the (in a good way) damndest screenings I've ever been to.
My full, also spoiler free, review:
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Post by chrom on Jul 23, 2024 19:52:45 GMT -5
Wolvie got one, too!
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Post by chrom on Jul 23, 2024 20:34:50 GMT -5
Early Predictions say that it's going to make 360 million it's opening weekend
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Jul 24, 2024 2:53:09 GMT -5
i have tickets for it this weekemd, can't wait.
its nearly my favourite time of the year, where you get to see a Marvel film then come back to threads like this and read the utter BS some people put in here as "I've been told/insider information says/sources say" nah mate, you just made stuff up.
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