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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jul 26, 2024 12:44:58 GMT -5
Off topic, but I miss actual midnight screenings. There was something really fun about going and watching a movie at 12:01am release day with a room full of the hardest of hardcore fans. These “Special Thursday Preview” just aren’t the same, it’s literally just releasing the movie a day early. What’s even the point of announcing a July 26th release date when it actually releases on the 25th?
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Post by uewfigfed on Jul 26, 2024 13:02:58 GMT -5
Can a mod do the spoiler leaks for me cuz everytime I try? I bomb hard. But here’s my theory: {Spoiler} The TVA reveals that the Fox FIRST CLASS/Logan/Deadpool timelines is preserved, meaning several things: - MCU is in serious trouble losing Tony as an anchor being - MCU still hasn’t FOUND their anchor being (Cough SPIDERMAN cough..) - The Universes (Sony/Fox/MCU) can now live in simultaneous harmony, avoiding incursions completely, which will be obviously be affected by nuKang - Either The Thunderbolts or New Avengers are pulling the Quill here
The only “hint” is the Thor/DP death which will most likely happen IN secret wars, where I expect the first class team to be the representatives for the X-men (being the only team that isn’t consistently killed across the multiverse)
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Post by "Magic" Mark Hurr on Jul 26, 2024 13:14:41 GMT -5
I had an 11:00pm showing. I got there at ten and the said all merch was movie theme merch was sold out. Not that day's worth, but all that location received. Smh. I'll get my hands on something eventually.
As far as my experience, I enjoyed the movie. Deadpool movies have their own pocket style. Seeing these characters in Deadpool will be totally different in other Marvel productions. I was just in awe with the rest of the characters that played major roles. It was like you and your friends trying to come up with a marvel movies with these characters when we were kids.
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Post by chrom on Jul 26, 2024 13:44:07 GMT -5
Along with International viewings, The Film has already grossed 100 million at the box office.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 26, 2024 14:33:55 GMT -5
That was f***ing awesome. {Spoiler}- I'm always up for seeing Jennifer Garner kick ass. She does mostly family films, so it's always nice to see her go back to beating ass.
- Snipes coming back was fantastic, as well as the jokes at Blade being stuck in developmental hell.
- No shock that the action sequences were great.
- Hugh and Ryan have off the charts chemistry. Hopefully we get to see them together again.
- Just when you think that "Like A Prayer" can't get any more of a badass song (easily Madonna's best), we get it twice in this movie.
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Post by salz4life on Jul 26, 2024 15:37:50 GMT -5
Off topic, but I miss actual midnight screenings. There was something really fun about going and watching a movie at 12:01am release day with a room full of the hardest of hardcore fans. These “Special Thursday Preview” just aren’t the same, it’s literally just releasing the movie a day early. What’s even the point of announcing a July 26th release date when it actually releases on the 25th? I saw Infinity War at an 11:00 showing. It was fun. I actually got pulled over for doing 40 in a 30 on the way home. The officer asked where I was coming from and I said seeing Infinity War. He asked me how it was and we had like a ten minute conversation about it. He gave me a warning. LOL
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Post by salz4life on Jul 26, 2024 15:38:45 GMT -5
I had an 11:00pm showing. I got there at ten and the said all merch was movie theme merch was sold out. Not that day's worth, but all that location received. Smh. I'll get my hands on something eventually. As far as my experience, I enjoyed the movie. Deadpool movies have their own pocket style. Seeing these characters in Deadpool will be totally different in other Marvel productions. I was just in awe with the rest of the characters that played major roles. It was like you and your friends trying to come up with a marvel movies with these characters when we were kids. That's probably the best reason to go to the initial showings on Thursday.... the movie related merch.
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Post by salz4life on Jul 26, 2024 15:41:31 GMT -5
That was f***ing awesome. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}- I'm always up for seeing Jennifer Garner kick ass. She does mostly family films, so it's always nice to see her go back to beating ass.
- Snipes coming back was fantastic, as well as the jokes at Blade being stuck in developmental hell.
- No shock that the action sequences were great.
- Hugh and Ryan have off the charts chemistry. Hopefully we get to see them together again.
- Just when you think that "Like A Prayer" can't get any more of a badass song (easily Madonna's best), we get it twice in this movie. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Maybe both Deadpool and Wolverine/Logan should take over the Stan Lee spot on ongoing Marvel films. Even if it's just a voiceover or something... I think it would be hysterical one or both of them just hanging out in a scene with one of two lines or even voiceover/narrate a certain scene in each movie.
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Post by gerbilfacedgeek on Jul 26, 2024 17:23:50 GMT -5
Anyone watch last night's Press Your Luck with Deadpool and Wolverine?
I could go for a Whammy Multiverse of Money now. 2020s Whammy, 80s Whammy, the 2002 CGI Whammy, the devil from Second Chance....
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Jul 26, 2024 17:42:00 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I just want an Age of Apocalypse movie now after seeing how amazing that Wolverine variant was.
And also idk how they don't cast Henry Caville as Wolver...the Calverine now like HONESTLY...it probably aint happening as this was just to appease that thought you knew you wanted but never thought you REALLY wanted it untill right at that moment.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jul 26, 2024 18:01:00 GMT -5
Can a mod do the spoiler leaks for me cuz everytime I try? I bomb hard. But here’s my theory: {Spoiler}{Spoiler} The TVA reveals that the Fox FIRST CLASS/Logan/Deadpool timelines is preserved, meaning several things: - MCU is in serious trouble losing Tony as an anchor being - MCU still hasn’t FOUND their anchor being (Cough SPIDERMAN cough..) - The Universes (Sony/Fox/MCU) can now live in simultaneous harmony, avoiding incursions completely, which will be obviously be affected by nuKang - Either The Thunderbolts or New Avengers are pulling the Quill here
The only “hint” is the Thor/DP death which will most likely happen IN secret wars, where I expect the first class team to be the representatives for the X-men (being the only team that isn’t consistently killed across the multiverse) {Spoiler}Considering the main MCU is the "Sacred Timeline", I don't think it needs an "anchor being" per say. Or it has multiple ones. Either way, I don't think it plays by the same rules that Deadpool's universe is.
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Post by chrom on Jul 26, 2024 18:02:06 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I just want an Age of Apocalypse movie now after seeing how amazing that Wolverine variant was.
And also idk how they don't cast Henry Caville as Wolver...the Calverine now like HONESTLY...it probably aint happening as this was just to appease that thought you knew you wanted but never thought you REALLY wanted it untill right at that moment. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I approve of him being The MCU's main Wolverine.
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Post by Scooterdust on Jul 26, 2024 19:05:00 GMT -5
I saw it and OMFG...Spoilers here. There's so much here to go through. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}It's not Cap, it's Jonny Storm. Nice while he lasted, but Evans returning (especially after that Free Guy cameo), even if the dream fight between Human Torch & Pyro lasted for as long as Brock & Goldberg's 2016 Survivor Series match. Also, forgot Pyro existed.
I'm disappointed I did not hear the phrase "That's a lightsaber, dude" as it appeared in the previous two Shawn Levy/Ryan Reynolds projects (Free Guy & The Adam Project).
Crowd cheered for every cameo, but the loudest was Blade, followed by comics-accurate Gambit from another Fox project stuck in development hell. You know what? I say let Snipes return to Blade. If Ali falls out, screw it. Snipes proved he could still go, even if the cameo was tongue-in-cheek. I do like the fact that Garner & Snipes both worked with Reynolds in the past.
Is it me or does Dafne Keene still look like she is still the same age as in Logan? Almost had no idea she was supposed to be older here.
So if Cassandra knows she's Charles' twin, does she also know she's Juggernaut's sister, or was that retconned after DP2 even after that Juggernaut mentions his brother and survives (remember, he starts getting up while they walk away). I do think Cass was the perfect Big Bad for the universe to go out on, considering she's essentially the evil version of the person who started it all.
RIP Nicepool, but Dogpool would always outlive you, no matter how many 4th wall breaks Nicepool could do.
The biggest cheer clearly goes to Wolverine putting on the mask for the first time in cinema history, and the fact that it's set to Like a Prayer (as is basically the whole third act). With all the cameos in the Deadpool Corps, I'm surprised Rob Mcelhenney wasn't given one of those, but apparently he's a TVA guard, so I'm gonna assume he's the one DP begs for that "special loving."
The fact that the Fox Universe is preserved, not destroyed, is a nice send-off here.
Okay, hear me out on this. I don't think Logan or Wade are the "Anchor Being." I think it became (or always has been) Peter as he tells the Corps to stand down and essentially saves them from a near-neverending fight. I do think Logan and Wade kinda got their molecular structures reconfigured though, which is why this Logan finally seems like a nice guy by the end. He got some of Wade's personality.
I'm exhausted, and not speculating anymore tonight.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jul 26, 2024 23:11:03 GMT -5
I saw this late last night with a packed house and thought it was great! {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The first X-Men came out when I was in high school, so while I didn't grow up with them, I kinda "matured with" and loved a lot of the pre-MCU Marvel movies. And once the MCU really started taking off, people really bagged on those movies. I feel like between this and Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel Studios have done a good job of saying "hey, those movies weren't perfect, but they walked so that we could run". So hats off for that.
I mentioned before I cried at the end of Logan. I also cried during the Green Day "Time Of Your Life" montage over the end credits of this movie. I'm a big stupid softie.
I don't know if this needed to be in a spoiler tag.
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Post by Display Name on Jul 26, 2024 23:54:02 GMT -5
It’s been awhile since I’ve felt like that in a theatre. It was so f***ing fun!
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 27, 2024 1:39:04 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I just want an Age of Apocalypse movie now after seeing how amazing that Wolverine variant was.
And also idk how they don't cast Henry Caville as Wolver...the Calverine now like HONESTLY...it probably aint happening as this was just to appease that thought you knew you wanted but never thought you REALLY wanted it untill right at that moment. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} I approve of him being The MCU's main Wolverine. {Spoiler}The only problem would be if he had to fight the Hulk. Wolverine's not supposed to be almost as big as Hulk. Outside of that, do it.
Give Cavill a shot in a universe that won't screw it up, hopefully.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 27, 2024 4:09:18 GMT -5
I had an absolute blast. {Spoiler}Outside of the cameos we knew from trailers I did not expect any of the ones we got. Chris Evans being back was already a good enough surprise, and damn it they really did bait it well with him looking like he was in a red, white, and blue outfit until…”FLAME ON!”, and I was like, “OH SHIT, JOHNNY!”, so that’s now two Fantastic Four members introduced in Disney films, 3 FF characters overall in Disney productions when you count Doom’s cameo in X-Men ‘97.
Blade, Elektra, and god damn Gambit were incredible to see. “There’s only *one* Blade”, shit at this rate Wesley that might actually end up being true because the MCU Blade film recently just got hit with yet another set back, which just gets even more baffling because this film clearly shows you can just put Blade into stuff and let him kick ass(also amusingly even setting aside Ali, you’re technically still wrong cause of the Blade TV series, but I’ll let that one slide). But man, finally, finally, finally, FINA-GOD DAMN-LLY seeing Channing Tatum as Gambit was so so so so so so god damn cathartic to me. I just know Tatum had to have been on cloud nine, maybe even crying, when he actually got to suit up during production. That Gambit film project was to him what the first Deadpool film was for Reynolds. And they gave him a comic accurate suit and let him just go to town with the Cajun accent.
And Cassandra Nova, god damn. Really fun villain just chewing the scenery, and the effects of her digging her hand into people’s heads was appropriately disturbing.
I would have liked to see more of the existing DP cast having stuff to do, at the very least Cable given this was a plot involving the TVA and time-y wime-y nonsense, but minor gripes aside given how this film was doing so much to give the Fox/non-Sony or MCU Marvel productions a proper celebration/swan song.
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Post by uewfigfed on Jul 27, 2024 7:31:45 GMT -5
Can a mod do the spoiler leaks for me cuz everytime I try? I bomb hard. But here’s my theory: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler} The TVA reveals that the Fox FIRST CLASS/Logan/Deadpool timelines is preserved, meaning several things: - MCU is in serious trouble losing Tony as an anchor being - MCU still hasn’t FOUND their anchor being (Cough SPIDERMAN cough..) - The Universes (Sony/Fox/MCU) can now live in simultaneous harmony, avoiding incursions completely, which will be obviously be affected by nuKang - Either The Thunderbolts or New Avengers are pulling the Quill here
The only “hint” is the Thor/DP death which will most likely happen IN secret wars, where I expect the first class team to be the representatives for the X-men (being the only team that isn’t consistently killed across the multiverse) {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Considering the main MCU is the "Sacred Timeline", I don't think it needs an "anchor being" per say. Or it has multiple ones. Either way, I don't think it plays by the same rules that Deadpool's universe is. Ahhhhh I see I see. I also wonder if the Wanda reference means anything
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Post by Facetious on Jul 27, 2024 8:49:15 GMT -5
Off topic, but I miss actual midnight screenings. There was something really fun about going and watching a movie at 12:01am release day with a room full of the hardest of hardcore fans. These “Special Thursday Preview” just aren’t the same, it’s literally just releasing the movie a day early. What’s even the point of announcing a July 26th release date when it actually releases on the 25th? Selfishly, I loved that I was able to see it at 6 on Thursday. It was a nice birthday gift and I didn't have to pick my kid up from my parents super late or expect them to come out to watch her lol. BUT I do get what you're saying. Seeing a ton of the marvel films back in the day like that was some of my favorite memories
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 27, 2024 10:01:06 GMT -5
So--spoiler free, is this worth seeing?
I notice it has a poor metacritic score, but it is so hard to tell nowadays if that's because it is bad, or a bunch of snowflakes got upset because the film featured a trans character or something.
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