I’d buy that. Rock on!
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Thus Thanos’ sad last-ditch attempt to win her over by spending half of Avengers 4 making crude jokes and talking directly to the camera.
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I’d buy that for a dollar.
The whole Milestone universe was in the mid 90s in DC and features predominately African American super heroes. Static X is probably the most well known of the bunch. IIRC Christopher Priest was one of the main creators.
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Blue doesn’t really count as dark.
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I am not much of a Deadpool fan, but these trailers and the entire concept of the new film make me grin, from the brilliant marketing to the fact that they’re going to raise tons of money for cancer research. And the fact that my Deadpool-obsessed 8-year-old nephew is going to finally get to watch a Deadpool movie.
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It’s still PG-13 and it’s still Deadpool, so I think I’m gonna have to check it out before I let my 8-year-olds watch it.
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People seem sort of bent out of shape about it. Assuming it’s a floater for an MCU appropriate Deadpool, and saying that’s some how a betrayal of the character. But the Deadpool flicks aren’t exactly hard R, the sense of humor is certainly pg13 level. And there’s little to nothing R rated in the comics outside of the type of violence.
And honestly why wouldn’t this creative team come up with this idea? They marketed the first one as a Valentine’s ready romcom. They’re obviously deeply into goofy seasonal movie genres, and like using them as marketing gimmicks. Family Holiday movie is pretty funny way to go.
Also I was watching the Alien movies on regular rotation by the time I was 8. So this whole “kids can finally see it” thing is totally lost on me. People talk like these ratings are hard law. But no movie theater in the country is going to refuse entry to sub 17 year olds attending an R rated flick when accompanied by an adult. And many will go ahead an let teens in unattended provided a parent buys the tickets. Most don’t seem to give two shits, I had no trouble getting in to R rated movies as a kid. And I regularly see kids in their early teens at R flicks and kids under 12 at pg13.
As @Brainspore says it’s more about parents judging their own kids ability to deal with the contents of a film.
They are in the UK, and other countries too.
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Exactly; there’s nothing saying that the character needs to be portrayed in the raunchiest, most blood-splatteringly violent way possible. Ryan Reynolds gets what Deadpool is all about and it isn’t simply a stream of curse words. But family-friendly is all relative, so I’m sure my brother in law will vet the film before showing it to my nephew. I mean, for some people like yourself, they already seem PG-13, but we’re talking about movies with constant dick jokes, masturbation and sex scenes, body parts flying in all directions, and swear words a-plenty, so for my family, it may as well be NC-17.
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Yeah even most of the violence is cartoonish enough that it would pass pg13 if you gave up on the blood spatter. A side from specific words language wise (have to limit the fucks). There wouldn’t be all that much toning down going on if the series did go PG13.
Honestly 8 years old is pushing it for this specific movie. It would have to be a very specific 8 year old who would get enough of what’s going on without a lot of explanation. And the more adult elements are a little too front and center for them to go unnoticed. Which is usually what happens when younger kids watch movies with stuff like that.
I was more pushing on the general discussion the subject. Where it seems like people are assuming is physically impossible for 16 year olds to view these movies even at home.
Pretty sure Hancock is just what happens when you get lazy writers.
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“Hey Thanos, your shtick about saving the universe through mass murder is a load of horse hockey!”
“It was necessary, there was no other way.”
“Like using your new-found omnipotence to double the resources?”
“I…damn, okay, screw it, I’m just really into Death.”
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Instantaneous voluntary birth control; only the beings who actively want to get preggers and have sufficient resources to support their offspring are capable of doing so.
*waits
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Or just handing Thanos one of the fifty scholarly books debunking the two hundred year old pseudoscience of the Malthusian catastrophe. Admittedly, that would have been a very different movie, but still a more satisfying ending to watch the Avengers stage an intervention and have a teach-in with Thanos.
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I’m sure that in the UK the police are going to kick down your door because your 14 year old put in a DVD with a rating above their age. For the most part those stricter standards regulate sales. I personally viewed material rated higher than my own age in The Republic of Ireland. No one stormed my cousin’s house for letting 15 year olds watch such things.
Beyond that most of the discussion I’ve seen on this subject is Americans discussing America. But in both cases its not as if noone under the age of 18 has been able to view Deadpool. So finally it’s possible for younger people with access to torrents, streaming services, and cool cousins with excellent taste in movies to see this thing which was practically impossible to view but they all seem intimately familiar with for some reason.
Hancock was like an ancient god or something.
I kept hitting fast foreward. Worst 10 minute movie evar!
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That’s an…imaginative view of the UK you have there.
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