Review 772: Deadpool & Wolverine
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"I'm the man I got the plan when it hits the fan do all I can do all I can" Hello everybody and welcome to the Spore the Warning Podcast. This is review number 772 with a review of Deadpool and Wolverine. I'm Christopher Shlazy and I'm Stephen Miller. And if you're joining us for the first time, the Spore the Warning Podcast is a weekly film review program. Each week in the show we're going to dive into a bit, discuss and argue over the latest films coming to a theater near you. This week we are back at theaters for another action-packed Deadpool film. This time Deadpool's teaming up with the Wolverine, a little hero that is known to a lot of people, crowd favorite. What have you thought about the marketing for this film? I honestly have mostly avoided marketing for this film once I knew that it existed. I mean, there's long-stand marketing before this was even announced for years of a supposed romance/rivalry between Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. So everyone knew this has been drummed up for a while and then when it was announced, the world got very excited. And I feel like I honestly never watched a trailer for this movie. I don't know if that's possible, but I don't think I knew any of the beats that were going to be in this movie at all going into it. Yeah, the only trailer I had seen that teaser because when I hit the internet, people are passing around and I watched it then. But what I have only been seeing in theaters are these adjacent marketing materials like Deadpool and Wolverine telling you to shut your phone off before the film and all these other things that are the actors and/or the characters talking about the movie. But I haven't seen a real legitimate trailer in theaters. I think, ever maybe, which seems wild. I feel the same. I feel like I haven't seen anything at all getting people excited about this movie except for a buzz that this is happening and presumably it's the biggest movie of the summer. Yeah. And when I was downloading trailers getting ready for this episode, I was watching through a bunch of the trailers that I hadn't seen. And I was like, "Huh, I mean, these trailers show a lot, but I kind of like these trailers." So, it's interesting that they weren't shoved in front of me. Maybe it's cheap. I'm excited to hear one when we do this episode because it'll be my first one to my knowledge. Nice. Yeah, so trailers and marketing aside, Stephen, were you excited to get yourself out to the theater to see this film? Excited is the strong word. I feel mixed. I think I enjoyed the first Deadpool well enough. We probably even reviewed the second Deadpool and I probably was favorable about it in some capacity. So, I was searching the site, the spoilerworry.com, trying to find what we rated the previous two films. And I don't think we did a review of Deadpool 2 somehow. Okay, okay. Well, that justifies my belief that I was heavily intoxicated when I watched Deadpool 2, which is the only thing that I feel. That is my main memory of that movie. But like, you know, when the first Deadpool came out, it was kind of refreshing because the MCU had been so kind of squeaky clean and boring. Like, it was doing that goofy reference thing that felt kind of boring. And it was fun to see someone come in and just kind of take a sledgehammer to it and give a very R rated treatment. I feel like the novelty wore off for me by Deadpool 2. And at some point in the intervening years, by the time this came out, like the idea of another Deadpool movie didn't really excite me that much anymore. I think I'm just, I hit Ryan Reynolds saturation at some point over the last like many years of movies that were kind of hit or miss with his kind of signature smarmy style. You know, I was interested in the idea of this finally being the bridge that brings the X-Men into the MCU. Because to me, that is another franchise that I'm very familiar with. And most other random comic beings that they would bring in, including the Fantastic Four, are people that I just don't have the relationship with at all, you know? So like, the idea of the X-Men joining the universe was one of the first exciting things I'd heard in quite a while. So I was interested in seeing what this movie did. We'll probably get into it more in spoilers, I guess. But suffice to say, this is not quite the bridge movie that I thought it was going to be. But like, the idea of it being a bridge between phases and stuff was something that I was interested in. But the idea of sitting through a packed screening of a Deadpool
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In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen David Miller bring you a review of Deadpool & Wolverine.