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[–] [email protected] 125 points 2 months ago

Perfect execution, no notes.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Amen! Audiences today are such snowflakes that this movie would be immediately cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Yeah! Imagine how poorly it would do!

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm boycotting streaming the movie by watching it in theatres.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm boycotting watching the movie by seeding several torrents of it to show other people how much I disapprove

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The thing that makes me cackle about this movie, as a Fandom!Old, is that it's basically written as the crackiest crack-ship you could ever find on AO3.

And yet...it's had one of the biggest box-offices ever.

This brings me no end of glee.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fandom!Old = one who has been in a certain fandom for a long time.

Crack-ship = Shipping is a romantic and/or sexual pairing of two fictional characters. A crack-ship is a ship that makes no logical sense, as if it was conceived with heavy drug use, or made "on crack".

AO3 = Archive of Our Own, a website for fanfictions, fan art, fan videos, and other fan-produced content for various different fandoms. One may find many crack-ships here.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Thank you kind internet passerby.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think a ship between deadpool and Wolverine makes a lot of sense though. At least from the perspective of it being a piece of entertainment media. They have experiences they share exclusively, as well as personal, natural ones. They have a lot in common, in terms of interest, history, social circles. They also have very divergent personalities. It is perfect ship material.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also have the same superpower

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not exactly.

Deadpool doesn't have the claws, or the heightened senses, and he seems to “heal” somewhat faster (though that's probably due to Wolverine's heavy metal poisoning due to the adamantium skeleton; he heals faster if he doesn't have it, but also becomes more animalistic).

Also, Wolverine's healing factor would probably be able to deal with the cancer (he's been alive for over two hundred years without developing a single tumour), while Deadpool's barely manages to keep the cancer from killing him, because it also sort of makes it super cancer; he exists in a constant balancing act between the cancer and a runaway healing factor killing him. If he were to be cured of the cancer without also removing the healing factor, it wouldn't be pretty:

Super Cancer Skrulls

SPLORCH!

And, of course, as much trauma as he has, Wolverine isn't insane enough to break the fourth wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Just watch rhe movie.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

you should bottle up whatever you just said and sell it to the kids as new slang.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's already old slang, the kiddos wouldn't buy it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

just say it's post-ironic meta humor they'll lap it up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Don't sell kids crack!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What is a fandom!old, crackiest crack-ship ao3?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure AO3 is a fan fiction site. And they are saying that Deadpool and wolverine are just an absurd ship you would find in the craziest fanfic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Fandom!old means he is saying this as an elder member of the fandom

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I immediately recognized “ship” and “ao3” but I still have no idea what the rest of it means

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some weird Zoomer lingo, I assume. \s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has an extra layer of amusement for anyone who knows where your name came from.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It is pitch black in here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cringe as fuck, that’s what

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I’m with the other dude. I got no idea what this means. Lmao

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the thumbnail and I thought it was going to be a weird AI homoerotic photo of the two. Nope just a homoerotic photo of the two from the movie.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Took me a while to figure out what Weird Al has to do with this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You know he put out a press release admitting that his entire last album was Al generated?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Bragging even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I missed that and can't find anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well it was just a joke based on the fact that Al and AI look identical in most fonts, and difficult distinguish in most others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah of course!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

So, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ will have to be kept safe in the vault with other classics like “Blazing Saddles,”

Funny that the article mentions that as the theater I went to had an ad for an event screening of Blazing Saddles before Deadpool & Wolverine started

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I thought you were retired

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This took me a second to process.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Movies definetly successful but I tend to rapidly lose interest in these multiple timeline/dimension plots. I switched off completely when Loki, Spiderman, Dr Strange and now Deadpool have used the same plot.

I can't argue with success though so maybe it's a me thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I mean the movie was basically a satire of the multi-dimensional thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure they even say in the movie that they should stop with the multiverse stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't get the downvotes, you just stated your opinion. I personally can't get enough of multiuniverse time line shenanigans. It's great we live in a world where we both can find the type of media we love at relatively high quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The movie was fantastic. If you didn't see it, I highly recommend it. It's not really about multiple timelines, even tho that's a plot point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Coppola in shambles. Can't even get a trailer out without getting canceled. What a loser