"Deadpool" Continues to Demolish Box Office Records

[obatalla]

That is the thing I'm hopping for, more comic movies resembling the source material, instead of this x-men garbage with no costumes.

It's funny that Flash, which immediately accepted it's source material and ran with it, was a much quicker hit than Arrow, and that Arrow/Flash/Supergirl are all destroying Agents of Shield, which is afraid to accept it's comic book roots.

People don't love or hate comic book stories, they like stories that feel true to whatever they are representing. You can't tell a good war movie, without exploring the war experience, you can't do a good cop movie without feeling like a cop movie, and you can't do superheroes by ignoring the concept of super heroes.

I question your judgement if you think wolverine with blue underwear looks good on screen.

[Aegrus]

im confused do cmb fans (all handful of them) really wanna see wolverine in yellow tights and blue underwear over them?
do these guys really wanna see Cyke in blue tights and yellow underpants? im confused

Yes, please.

I question your judgement if you think wolverine with blue underwear looks good on screen.

Hmm, so Batman and Superman can successfully wear a contemporary version of their costumes but the X-Men can't?

[Aegrus]

Also, Deadpool was perfectly executed and if you haven't seen it you should!

[MythicBrawn]

Absolutely loved every minute of it. And, it earned every bit of its R rating. Not a bad thing, just an observation.

[Luke Cage]

That is the thing I'm hopping for, more comic movies resembling the source material, instead of this x-men garbage with no costumes.

It's funny that Flash, which immediately accepted it's source material and ran with it, was a much quicker hit than Arrow, and that Arrow/Flash/Supergirl are all destroying Agents of Shield, which is afraid to accept it's comic book roots.

People don't love or hate comic book stories, they like stories that feel true to whatever they are representing. You can't tell a good war movie, without exploring the war experience, you can't do a good cop movie without feeling like a cop movie, and you can't do superheroes by ignoring the concept of super heroes.

The CW shows aren't destroying Agents of Shield. Not in the ratings or story telling. Agents of Shield is what it is supposed to be. It's not the Avengers. It's about a spy agency. Not superheroes. The only show with better ratings than AoS is Supergirl. If you're tuning in each week to see superheroes flying around and blasting things then you have no idea what shield is about. You have characters like Mockingbird and Quake who are part of the canon, as well as appearances from powered heroes and villains, but they are not the focus.

As for dead pool it was an entertaining film. I hate Deadpool in the comics but the movie was good.

[Arfguy]

It is even more astounding when you take into consideration that Deadpool is the biggest opening weekend for a solo superhero debut. Obviously, that excludes movies like Iron Man 3, The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3. That is really impressive. Basically, Deadpool's opening weekend is miles ahead of Iron Man, Batman Begins, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine and Superman Returns or MoS (I use SR & MoS, because I can't find comparable numbers for Donner's Superman).

WOW!

[obatalla]

Yes, please.



Hmm, so Batman and Superman can successfully wear a contemporary version of their costumes but the X-Men can't?

Sorry some suits don't work on the big screens...no matter the budget if the suit is too comic booky is comes off looking like cos play...a bright yellow costume with blue underpants...no.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Sorry some suits don't work on the big screens...no matter the budget if the suit is too comic booky is comes off looking like cos play...a bright yellow costume with blue underpants...no.

Exactly. The decision should be on a case by case basis, and some costumes work on the big screen, some don't.

[capt usa]

What is peoples obsessions with costumes?
Do you really judge a movie on how good a costume is rather than story/acting, etc?

It's the escapism of the story. Part of the appeal of comic books was a person imagining themselves as that character. It's not required of course, but if you are copying a story, you should copy the big pieces of the story. By doing a Wolverine movie without the costume, is like doing a Hercules movie without gods. The X-men movie did leather, so they did acknowledge the costume concept, but they played it off, acting as if wearing skin tight leather was somehow better than wearing a costume. Both are ridiculous on the surface, but one is a slap in the face of the source material, while the other is acknowledging the fantastic universe that the source material came from. You aren't going to lose viewers/ticket buyers by putting a person in a costume, if the story is good.

This is why people are upset with people removing costumes, the dumbass assumption that studio execs put out there, thinking it will cost them money by having a costume, when history has shown time, and time again, that this type of thing doesn't stop the spending public from buying tickets. When you have people in charge who are stupid enough to think that costumes is going to cost them money, then it means you are dealing with idiots in charge, and when you have idiots in charge, you increase the likelihood of a bad movie. The lack of costumes in X-men didn't mean they were going to make a bad movie, it meant that the people in charge were focusing on the wrong things. (You have the opposite happening with the Schumaker Batman, where they thought let's go big and flashy and overly embrace the absurdity, instead of rationalizing every decision you make..... Spiderman worked with organic webshooters, because the writers took the decision seriously. )

I question your judgement if you think wolverine with blue underwear looks good on screen.

Well I'm partial to the brown costume myself.

Exactly. The decision should be on a case by case basis, and some costumes work on the big screen, some don't.

And I don't have a problem with it done on a case by case basis. Wolverine is not a character who needs a costume, he's a lurking background character who isn't supposed to be the face of anything....but Cyclops is supposed to be the face of Mutants, he's supposed to be a hero that inspires people, a black leather outfit, and giving him the same skulking role of hiding in the background goes against the source material and the concept of the X-men, which was supposed to be a team designed to show what good mutants can do, and yet somehow the entire series has completely missed the point of the first 20 or so years of X-men comics.

[Ken Ashcroft]

Sorry some suits don't work on the big screens...no matter the budget if the suit is too comic booky is comes off looking like cos play...a bright yellow costume with blue underpants...no.

If it's just the Color scheme that doesn't work, what about Wolverine's brown costume with the dark brown underpants?

[Greywolf]

Sorry some suits don't work on the big screens...no matter the budget if the suit is too comic booky is comes off looking like cos play...a bright yellow costume with blue underpants...no.

Or it is YOUR criteria that they wouldn't work. Take for instance Captain Americas suit. While its avengers version looked awful, the rest onscreen suits have been quite remarkable and convincing, which is to say a lot when your source material is a guy on blue and red pajamas and wings on his head. Same goes for Thor, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch....They do not need to be a literal translation to the screen, but a revision and adaptation of their uniforms is not only welcome, but the way it should be.

At least it would be loads better than the biker suits from the Xmen movies. Which suck serious ass, really.