In some ways I thought it was more in the spirit of the comics by Mike Mignola than the Del Toro movies were, though with a whole bunch of different stories crammed into one movie, so it feels pretty hectic. In the U. Can you believe they finally really did it?
And now they did it. And they released it. The people I hear from online are, to put it mildly, not eager to welcome this new little birdy into the world. When a real life friend brought up the remake a while back and I mentioned people being up in arms about it she was completely baffled.
But now the reviews are out and critics too are acting like a pile of rotting garbage crawled out of a dumpster, rang their doorbell and asked if it could wear their favorite shirt.
A movie as rejected and disreputable as its hero. There are chuckles. There are smiles. There are funny ideas. I had a pretty fun time. But he kept pushing to turn it into something and after seven years of doubts he managed to get this R-rated, wise-cracky meta movie made. Deadpool is an overdog, his movie correctly predicted to make giant loads of cash in a summer when actual great movies did not. I may not have ever known about it if not for it somehow premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a firmly worded letter from Warner Brothers.
July 1st, THE SHADOW is another weird would-be blockbuster that I previously wrote about in my series Summer Flings , and I will point you to that review for a more thorough accounting of its plot, merchandising and promotion. You know, when I look at it now the math kinda makes sense. Times were rolling on, guards were changing. That same day Miramax, an indie studio recently purchased by Disney, had their biggest opening ever with a bitter R-rated comic book adaptation.
