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Deadpool 2 - (2018 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/deadpool-2

Deadpool learns that his murder-spree has a consequence, and when his coin and a teddy bear struggle, a time machine lights fists on fire or something. Also X-Force.

Fucking awful.



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Logan - (2017 movie) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/logan

Logan (Wolverine) gets tangled up with a girl fleeing a mutant research and breeding lab that is definitely nothing like that of Dark Angel – (2000 show).

Not recommended.

This is like a DC version of X-Men. It was passable at best, and a good way to put the whole series and concept of comic book movies to bed. I think I’ll end them all on this low note.




2018-02-23

  • 2:30 — The claw thing is a reference to drunk men having trouble achieving full erection.
  • 3:15 — Shooting him didn’t do anything, why would they fight him, let alone try to stab him?
  • 4:00 — Texas license plate WER 112

    • Is he in Texas?
  • 4:15 —

    • West 62 — Is that West Virginia Route 62?
    • El Paso is in Texas. So apparently there were Spanish-speaking gangsters in Texas for some reason. Is that a thing?
  • 4:45 — So apparently he can (or needs to) flex bullets out now.
  • 5:00 — The year 2029
  • 5:15 — He’s a professional limousine driver.
  • 9:00 — “South of the border” a reference to Mexico.

    Alkali | Transigen
    Donald Pierce
    Chief of Security
    Cell: 915 122-2425
    Office: (obscured)

  • 10:00 — He is presumably now in Mexico.
  • 12:15 — Taco Bell
  • 13:45 — So I thought he was dead. Wasn’t he disintegrated a couple of movies ago?
  • 14:00 — What are those pills, anyway?
  • 14:30 —

  • 15:00 — Statue of Liberty

  • 18:45 —

  • 20:45 — The tag on the glasses means he just bought them, and the previous “cannot read” comment was apparently near-sightedness.
  • 22:00 — Canada
  • 23:15 — That’s an X-Men comic book, and I’m certain there are nerds who know what specific one it is.
  • 24:15 — North Dakota
  • 30:15 — Why not shoot him?
  • 34:00 — Ageing:

    • Octogenarian = 80-89 years old
    • Nongenarian = 90-99 years old
  • 35:00 — Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
  • 38:00 — Casual misandry.
  • 42:15 — They could catch up with them.. pretty trivially actually.
  • 43:15 — That’s a reference to Dracula?
  • 43:45 — OH! Is that the super-kid from some earlier movie? Oh, wait.. no.. no I just don’t know the reference to him working for their team.
  • 48:30 — Pringles

    • 48:45 — .. and a drink I don’t recognize.
  • 49:30 —

  • 54:30 — I don’t know that movie offhand.
  • 56:00 — So they can implant titanium again?
  • 56:30 — Another X-Men comic book.
  • 56:45 — I don’t know if this is the same movie as earlier.

    • 57:30 — It’s possible to track down this movie based on these lines.
  • 59:30 — More comic book stuff.
  • 1:07:30 — It was already established that her adamantium was implanted.
  • 1:11:00 —

  • 1:17:30 — Corn syrup
  • 1:23:00 — Westchester, but I don’t know which one..
  • 1:46:45 — If they were all raised together, how can they have different accents?
  • 1:49:45 — Quadcopter
  • 1:56:30 — Why is any of that non-lethal? None of them were to be captured..
  • 1:58:00 — Why would they pause instead of shooting? Oh, more non-lethality for some reason.
  • 2:04:30 — How come he can’t just slash the cable?
  • 2:06:00 — It was already established that he can be stopped, so how come the vehicle didn’t temporarily-splat him?

X-Men - Apocalypse (2016) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3385516/
https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/x-men-apocalypse

An Old One is awakened, and renews his takeover of the world.. except we already know the good guys win because this takes place in the 80s and a past movie, set in the then-future, has an intact world with all characters accounted for.

A standard superhero movie, with nothing particularly interesting. Extremely confusing given that this is a sequel to a sequel to a prequel or some shit.

I would have done a few things different, and even a few subtle changes would have made this movie a hell of a lot better.

Definitely pass on this unless you’re really into this particular series.

  • Properly titled X-Men: Apocalypse


Deadpool (2006) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431045/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/deadpool

Dying of cancer, a dishonourably-discharged special forces soldier submits to experimentation to save his life, which was actually to enslave him and resulted in mutant powers with a scarring side effect, forcing him to hunt down his creator for both revenge and the cure.

An adequate movie on-par with the other adequate superhero movies. This has some significant laugh-out-loud moments, and with a lot of blood and cursing to make it an R-rated movie, it rides on the ho-hum samey-same superhero movie trend all the way to success.

Features nothing new or interesting in the expanded universe. In fact, involves nothing from any other movie whatsoever.

Recommended for those who are hipster for the “superhero genre” movie trend.



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X-Men - Days of Future Past (2014) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/
was https://web.archive.org/*/www.x-menmovies.com/

TODO – I’ll add notes when I get around to re-watching this.

  • Properly titled X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Trailer



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X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/
http://web.archive.org/web/20090512234425/http://www.x-menorigins.com/us/

to be re-watched

Pretty shitty writing.

  • Properly titled X-Men Origins: Wolverine



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