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This is not intended to harsh anyone's squee, but please be aware I am about to be very mean indeed about the Deadpool film.
I was against it from the start, because it's unlikely that any film is going to be able to do the cleverly reflexive stuff that the comic does. I don't doubt that they'll be able to do reflexive, but clever I suspect may be lacking.
And then they cast Ryan Reynolds. Who is my least favourite actor. As in, he has been known to cause the following conversation for more than one role:
Friend: Well who else would you cast?
Me: Anyone!
He is literally always the worst possible option.
This is already not looking good.
I see the trailerettes that everyone else seems to like and I'm pretty much entirely 'bored now!' instead.
And then I see the actual trailer, and I am unimpressed, because they've screwed up his face, which I knew they'd do the minute they cast a "name" actor as Deadpool. Because his face isn't just supposed to look like my PhD supervisor's on a bad acne day, it's supposed to be filled with suppurating, oozing, fulminating wounds. It's not supposed to be sore to look at, it's supposed to put you off your dinner. Wade Wilson doesn't wear the mask to hide his identity, he wears it because his face makes people throw up.
I also worry that they're going to be too busy making him look cool to make him fun.
(I also want to know what my beloved Piotr Rasputin, who has already appeared with name and powers in the X-Men is doing in Deadpool. Marvel, can you keep your hands off the mutants, especially as I want Colossus to be safe and sound in Age of Apocalypse.)
I was against it from the start, because it's unlikely that any film is going to be able to do the cleverly reflexive stuff that the comic does. I don't doubt that they'll be able to do reflexive, but clever I suspect may be lacking.
And then they cast Ryan Reynolds. Who is my least favourite actor. As in, he has been known to cause the following conversation for more than one role:
Friend: Well who else would you cast?
Me: Anyone!
He is literally always the worst possible option.
This is already not looking good.
I see the trailerettes that everyone else seems to like and I'm pretty much entirely 'bored now!' instead.
And then I see the actual trailer, and I am unimpressed, because they've screwed up his face, which I knew they'd do the minute they cast a "name" actor as Deadpool. Because his face isn't just supposed to look like my PhD supervisor's on a bad acne day, it's supposed to be filled with suppurating, oozing, fulminating wounds. It's not supposed to be sore to look at, it's supposed to put you off your dinner. Wade Wilson doesn't wear the mask to hide his identity, he wears it because his face makes people throw up.
I also worry that they're going to be too busy making him look cool to make him fun.
(I also want to know what my beloved Piotr Rasputin, who has already appeared with name and powers in the X-Men is doing in Deadpool. Marvel, can you keep your hands off the mutants, especially as I want Colossus to be safe and sound in Age of Apocalypse.)
