#because normally you only see negasonic and yukio and colossus

[thatwitchrevan]

Wait the X Men are literally still alive in Wade's universe....

[patchworkf]

Deadpool and Wolverine negativity that no one asked for under the read more. Don't read this if you liked the movie it will feel like a bunch of bad faith takes and very personal opinion.

If you enjoyed the movie that's great! Go on and live your life happy and don't let me ruin your fun.

I haven't watched an MCU movie since Endgame. I wanted to watch this movie with a friend who hadn't watched the previous 2 deadpool movies. I remember being kind of disappointed by them when first watching in the cinema when they came out.

I was a bit of a fan of the character and mostly convinced myself to like the movie.

Gonna go down the line bit by bit for things I got disappointed by, and I feel like it's not biased because I talked about these exact points with my friend before watching the third. Like, these exact points, like they went down the line and took care to remove everything I and my friend loved about it.

Fast forward and I am watching the movies with my friend in preparation for visiting the cinema. I loved them.

It might be the fact that I became just an older adult, or a storyteller, or, idk, an appreciator for more human traits.

1. The humor

Let's start weak. Very personal opinion, but with 3 exceptions I didn't laugh. At no point did I think that a joke was very well excecuted like they were in the Deadpool Fox movies. The jokes were really only funny lines, no action, no interaction with the environment.

2. The characters

After the first two, I absolutely expected to keep seeing Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and how they interacted with Deadpool. But fuck me I guess. Who cares about Colossus wanting Deadpool to be an X-Man, who cares about Negasonic Teenage Warhead or Yukio unless for the little "Hi Wade" that became a running joke in the second movie. Colossus literally got 5 words in this movie. I did not mind the cameo stuff too much, but they acted like it was such a big deal while I as an audience member really didn't feel that.

3. Wade's personality

A big compliment I gave the first two movies was Wade being actually intelligent. Yes, he talks shit, he says jokes in tense situations, but we see him act like an actually smart person, headbutting Angel Dust to steal her matchstick, counting all the bullets a person used up from their magazine, and just fighting like he knows how to do that. I kept rewatching those fight scenes. And I know it's just not normal in popular media to see a character talk shit and still be intelligent and competent but boy was it nice to see in Deadpool 1 and 2. Wade isn't intelligent in this new movie. We see no moment of him figuring things out, or act clever in a fight. I missed that. Felt like a one-dimensional character in this one.

Also, while I am at it, his regenerative abilities were actually part of the fights in the second movie. He used the fact he will just heal to do some wild stuff, like let a gun shoot through his hand, then use the whole to grab the gun. I didn't feel that let's say "creativity" in this movie.

4. Story start

Wade apparently wants to be an Avenger because his ex Vanessa wants him to think of someone other than himself. That... that kind of ignores the past 2 movies. In 1 he literally talks about how one of the bad things about cancer is what it does to the people he loves, meaning her. In the second he spends so much time to save Russel, with the big emotional moment being when he tells him that he really did care about him. Now we might say because of time travel bullshit this never happened and he never met Russel, but his connection to Colossus/the X-Men absolutely did change across the movie and Wade would remember that when going back in time. He fucking calles the group at the end a family! But who cares (me).

5. Story points

It really felt like the characters went to point A, then someone told them to go to B, went to B, someone told them to go to C, go to C, etc. There wasn't much thought put into it, no figuring out, no big planning. It felt like I was watching someone play a walking simulator. This goes with the Wade's intelligence point and the next one.

6. Setup and payoff

The previous movies took care to put down a setup for everything that happens in the future. If a character has a motivation it's mentioned, later shown in action. If we see a character make a conclusion it's one we could have made ourself with things shown previously. Not in this movie! Where are we? This guy tells you. Why is she doing that? She tells you. How do we stop the machine? This guy tells you. Talk talk talk, no work from the characters, no thought needed.

7. The action scenes

Boring. Simple boring. Sometimes feeling really unneccessary. The first two took care that you actually saw the action and were able to follow it. Here were these big fights that were just chaotic (even if not as bad as some other action films). The moment at the end of the second movie when Cable and Deadpool fight together felt like an actually interesting character moment. When Wolverine and Deadpool fought together at the end it felt just kind of bland. Unimportant. I don't know, the fight with Cable looked like they synchronized, the fight with Wolverine looked like two guys fighting. I know this doen't have to be what it's like for everyone, but it felt so good in the other movie, and told such a nice story, I am disappointed.

I could keep going. It was a bad movie, but it was a terrible Deadpool movie. I loved 1&2, and it really ignored all of the things I loved. It felt less like they were shitting on Logan, and more like they were shitting on Deadpool 1&2.