*SPOILERS*
If you haven't seen the movie don't read this.
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Just got out from seeing the newest X-men movie to hit theaters. Now, first let me say that I loved it. Sure their were a lot of problems with it, that I can understand. But none the less, it was a very well done movie that had what people wanted - action, backstory, mutants, violence, revenge, love, wit, and Hugh Jackman naked.
I will reiterate. I really enjoyed the movie.
None the less, I'm going to rip it to pieces on a single account.
Deadpool.
So, as most of you know from a previous post, I'm a Deadpool fan. I love the 'Merc with a Mouth', because he's just such a damn brilliant character.
And at the start of the movie, as Wade Willson, he was freakin' awesome. I was literally jumping out of my seat. He's got the wit, the charm, and the skills that we'd expect from Deadpool. Which, in a way, didn't make sense. In the comics, Wade Wilson was rather on the silent side of things. Only after he becomes Deadpool does he start jabbering away.
A.K.A. - The movie had it backwards.
In this version, Wade Wilson is yakking away and his future self, Deadpool, has his mouth sewn closed.
This, in retrospect, is a pretty small detail considering everything else they did to Deadpool.
I'm not going to rant on about all the powers they gave him, and how we have to assume that he loses all of them except his healing ability. Whatever.
It's just...his character design made me pretty mad. Sure, he had scars on his eyes that kinda looked like the black markings on his mask. Sure. But what was with the weird patterns on his body? They could have made him look a little more...well...like Deadpool. In the comics, Weapon XI and Deadpool are two entirely different characters, and they desided to amalgimate them into one for the movie. So let me get this strait...they chose to name the character Deadpool, but made him appear like Weapon XI? Riiiight...
I'm just going to say that this 'Deadpool' is an alternate reality version, made specifically for the movies. Kinda in the same way that this movie has an awesome Sabertooth, but in the other X-men movies, he's a bloody idiot that has no relevance to this plot.
Now, it's secret ending time.
Only when I got back home did I learn that they were actually showing different secret endings in different theaters. I thought it was a rumor - and apparently is not.
The ending I saw at the end of the credits was the Deadpool one, thank goodness, and apparently has the most relevance to the plot. Deadpool lives. Huzzah! But...if they ever create a Deadpool movie spin-off, how the hell are they going to fix all this? How will they turn him from a villain back into our beloved, talkative mercenary?
The other ending (which I saw later on Youtube) had no relevance to the plot. It was just Wolverine drinking and talking in Japanese...pointless.
HOWEVER. There have been rumors. I believe them to be just that - Rumors. I have heard that one secret ending is that the real Wade Wilson picks up Deadpool's head and says 'Who the hell is that?'. This, basically, would fix everything. The Deadpool that we saw was, in fact, not really Deadpool but a clone of Wade. That would work perfectly! The awesome-Wade from the beginning would go on to turn into the Deadpool we know and love, and this Deadpool-clone would just be an experiment gone wrong. However, this rumored ending conflicts with the one I saw, making it even more unlikely.
In any case, I haven't been able to find that rumored version anywhere on the Internet.
Also, Wikipedia states that their are only two endings.
So, to conclude, this wasn't a bad movie debut for Deadpool. Though casting him as the 'silent villain' later on may have ended up being a poor choice, I still feel that it worked out in the end. If the audience loves Deadpool enough, maybe he'll get his own Origins movie in which Marvel can set things right.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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Striker controls the mutants with his "special serum" which he puts on the back of their neck. When deadpool "dies" Striker could have left him, and the serum wore off, and he becomes normal again, that could be where they take it, and this sounds totally different from the version that was leaked on the internet months before...I still need to see the one in theatres...
ReplyDeleteI totally agree about deadpool though, and I love the fact that they casted Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson. (in the credits, deadpool was casted as someone else, not Ryan Reynolds. So in fact that third theory could be true...)
Striker and his mutant serum isn't event invented yet in this movie. Deapool is controlled by implants in his eyes/mind (or something like that) that allows Striker to type in different comands.
ReplyDeleteDeadpool being credited as someone else in the credits may have been his stunt double (considering that when Wade becomes Deadpool, he barely looks like himself anymore).
I'm still hoping that the rumor is true, but at this point it seems unlikely...
well, I tried sir ran....I tried
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