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[tangeriner]

So I just got back from Deadpool 2, and I have Thoughts. Okay, I actually really liked it. I thought I might not due to the face ... drum roll, and by that, I mean, I hate you 20th Century Fox ... Shatterstar dies five minutes after he's introduced. But thanks to years of sitting through various X-Men movies that have hurt my feelings as a comic fan, I realistically set my goals at 1) would like him to have ridiculous long hair and 2) would like him to have two lines min. I didn't want him to be pureed, but I guess I need to be specific to the X-Men movie gods about these sorts of things.

Things that delighted me:

• Black Tom Cassidy!! One of my favourite villains.


• Domino was a revelation. I LOVED her so much.


• The fight-on-the-moving-truck-caravan was very clearly filmed in Toronto, which was lovely.


• The opening James Bond credits. With the Celine Dion song. My god. Perfect.


• Post-credits was the stuff of genius.


• Deadpool's chemistry with both Colossus (boooo) and Cable (yaaaay).


• The scene with the legs. If you've seen it, you know the one. I laughed very hard.


• The multiple jokes about how bad Angel is in the X-Men movies. Pigeon wings. FUCK YES.


• The music choices were amazing.


• Shatterstar was good enough. Not great, but Lewis Tan did what he could with basically nothing.


• Josh Brolin was made to play Cable.


• HOPE.


• RUSTY.

Things I did not like:

• WTF SHATTERSTAR. Dear movie gods: just ONCE treat a character I like well. I mean, maybe it's my fault for picking bad favourites, BUT SERIOUSLY NOW. It's getting personal.


• The Juggernaut was just ... awful. Terrible CGI. Terrible voice acting.


• Ness. :(


• Um ... not much else to be honest. I liked the movie a lot, even though, you know, Star RIP. I just can't get over Pigeon Wings. God, can someone PLEASE bring me on for some Angel history lessons. I can prove, with charts and a PowerPoint, why he is the most heroic of X-Men. And loves those fucking wings more than anything. I will rant about this someday at length.

Comments

[dine]

I haven't yet seen Deadpool 2 but had to read your comments! I'm so sorry about Shatterstar - it does sound like you need to be much more explicit in your wishes, and not just assume TBTP will understand those include a not!suddenly dead character.

[tangeriner]

I'm like that person who gets a wish granted, but wasn't detailed enough, so it turns horrible. SIGH. It's fine. (Also, Lewis Tan very noisy on social media and seems convinced he's in X-Force ... which would make sense, due to reasons).

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I want to see it tonight, so hopefully that happens-- maybe *crosses fingers*

[tangeriner]

I'm crossing my fingers for you! It was a tonne of fun.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Oh it will-- I mean all I am thinking is that I seriously need a Deadpool icon

[tangeriner]

Your icons are all so gorgeous. I'm sure Wade would fit right in. :D

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

The icon of Deadpool lounging in a floating swan, that is the one I sort of want to make-- and thank you for the compliments! <3 makes me happy

[kerithwyn]

OMGWTFBB! I am so sorry you had to witness your boy dying so quickly. I am boycotting this movie on your behalf!

(...okay, I prolly wasn't going to see it in the theater anyway due to longstanding Deadpool dislike, but now I have EXTRA REASON.)

phooey. I'm glad you liked it anyway, and ANGEL IS THE BEST X-PERSON I STAND WITH YOU.

[tangeriner]

And when I say pureed, I mean pureed. But he's green-blooded in DP2, so that's kinda fun, I guess? AND RITH HE WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE FIVE MINUTES I HAD HIM. WEEEEEEP. I mean, thank you for the boycott, such a mean (to me personally) movie. Woe.

WARREN IS THE BEST. I know this usually devolves into us shouting into the void together about how he is the best, BUT WE ARE RIGHT. And he's no longer in an active book, with Astonishing changing creative leads and teams rosters. Woe again.

Comics, why does it feel like you hate me specifically?