Deadpool

Stone Deaf 4evr

Mr Freeze wrote: »

With a budget of $58 million and a take so far of $513 million, does this make it one of the most profitable film ever?

Or are there loads like this already?

Either way, Fox weren't expecting this.

I think that might belong to the blair witch project, but Im not sure.

Just wondering if WB are kicking themselves for a PG13 Suicide Squad now.
Im stoked for that film but would have loved to see 18s Joker and Killer Croc, never mind a truly mental Quinn.

Hell Enchantress going full on would have been great and Deadshot actually shooting someone with correct effects would have been nice

ps3lover

I think the marketing for Deadpool was more creative rather than expensive. A lot of it was just Ryan Reynolds in a single room talking to a camera.

AnonoBoy

ps3lover wrote: »

I think the marketing for Deadpool was more creative rather than expensive. A lot of it was just Ryan Reynolds in a single room talking to a camera.

The expense in marketing isn't making the promo spot or cutting the trailer, it's buying the TV time to run the spot, paying for promoted posts on social media and renting billboards/sides of buses.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Just wondering if WB are kicking themselves for a PG13 Suicide Squad now.
Im stoked for that film but would have loved to see 18s Joker and Killer Croc, never mind a truly mental Quinn.

Hell Enchantress going full on would have been great and Deadshot actually shooting someone with correct effects would have been nice

Interesting commentary on that here. The Dark Knight was also PG-13, but Heath Ledger's performance of The Joker was magnificent nonetheless.

http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/suicide-squad-why-the-pg-13-rating-isnt-a-big-deal.html/?a=viewall

Bacchus

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The expense in marketing isn't making the promo spot or cutting the trailer, it's buying the TV time to run the spot, paying for promoted posts on social media and renting billboards/sides of buses.

I think I saw 2 ads for Deadpool on TV in total. Everything else has been YouTube viral stuff. Has Deadpool had any significant billboard/signage marketing? Moreso than any other action/Marvel movie? I'm not doubting there was a marketing budget in the millions of dollars but I'd be surprised if it was anything above average.

1 emoji billboard is all that I can think of

AnonoBoy

Bacchus wrote: »

I think I saw 2 ads for Deadpool on TV in total. Everything else has been YouTube viral stuff. Has Deadpool had any significant billboard/signage marketing? Moreso than any other action/Marvel movie? I'm not doubting there was a marketing budget in the millions of dollars but I'd be surprised if it was anything above average.

Huge bus coverage in Dublin at the moment. But yeah, no larger than any other one I'd say.

Oafley Jones

AnonoBoy wrote: »

The expense in marketing isn't making the promo spot or cutting the trailer, it's buying the TV time to run the spot, paying for promoted posts on social media and renting billboards/sides of buses.

Nobody is spending hundreds of millions on marketing on a 50 million dollar movie though. The extremely rough rule of thumb is double production. Deadpool seems to have run a very efficienct campaign as well utilising an awful lot of viral marketing.

dreamers75

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Nobody is spending hundreds of millions on marketing on a 50 million dollar movie though. The extremely rough rule of thumb is double production. Deadpool seems to have run a very efficienct campaign as well utilising an awful lot of viral marketing.

And it was better for it, my concern is they get 150 million and make an arse of the 2nd one.

Brief_Lives

I avoided this thread for weeks because I couldn´t see the movie...

I realise I am adding nothingto this thread..

but i loved it... cracked me up.. a little bit of pee came out..

ps3lover

It bypassed the $600 million mark this weekend.
I wonder if Terminator Genisys or Robocop would have done much better had they gone the R rated route.

FunLover18

ps3lover wrote:

It bypassed the $600 million mark this weekend. I wonder if Terminator Genisys or Robocop would have done much better had they gone the R rated route.

I haven't seen Robocop but Terminator did poorly because it was ****, I don't think more blood or cussing would've helped

Boo Radley

Bacchus wrote: »

Has Deadpool had any significant billboard/signage marketing?

I'm not sure as to the specifics but while sitting on a bus coming into London a few weeks ago there were 3 enormous LED billboards looping Deadpool promos.

limerickgirl16

I haven't seen it yet but heard that it ought to have been an 18?

pixelburp

ps3lover wrote: »

It bypassed the $600 million mark this weekend.
I wonder if Terminator Genisys or Robocop would have done much better had they gone the R rated route.

Terminator and Robocop were flaccid, cynical, soulless films; extra blood and cussing would not have solved their myriad of problems. They did poorly because they were poor films, and even the most casual cinemagoer isn't that big a mug.

pixelburp

pixelburp wrote: »

Terminator and Robocop were flaccid, cynical, soulless films; extra blood and cussing would not have solved their myriad of problems. They did poorly because they were poor films, and even the most casual cinemagoer isn't that big a mug.

Robocop was no where near as bad as Terminator. In fact I would say that it was not even a "bad" film.

TerrorFirmer

Deleted User wrote: »

Robocop was no where near as bad as Terminator. In fact I would say that it was not even a "bad" film.

I'm a massive Robocop fan and as much as I wanted to hate the reboot, upon actually seeing it I had to admit that it was a pretty good effort, despite the neutered rating it actually managed to be pretty dark and captured the agony of Murphy's situation very well.

I also enjoyed Genesis as a popcorn flick but it was nowhere near as good an actual film as Robocop was.

pixelburp

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Robocop was no where near as bad as Terminator. In fact I would say that it was not even a "bad" film.

Degrees of badness really, but no, Robocop wasn't as bad as terminator. Still found it utterly pointless, and commercially fairly cynical, trading on the name while paying lip service to the ideas. Could have been a great update of 1987 angst to 2014 era concerns, but it never followed through on any of them and just 'was'. 2 hour distraction, but then so is the ironing

Theboinkmaster

Crossblade wrote: »

Fingers crossed that Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad can deliver too.

Batman v superman won't as the film looks like an absolute turd so I think after a strong opening it will dwindle and pretty much be a huge flop.

ps3lover

It would le be hilarious if Deadpool managed to outgross Batman V Superman.

Theboinkmaster

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

Batman v superman won't as the film looks like an absolute turd so I think after a strong opening it will dwindle and pretty much be a huge flop.

You've seen it?

OwaynOTT

Deleted User wrote: »

You've seen it?

I think we've all seen with those ads they've released.

ps3lover

Deleted User wrote: »

You've seen it?

In fairness, he said it LOOKS like a turd, not that it IS a turd.

gandalf

Finally saw this yesterday and loved it. Great nod to Ferris Buellers Day off as well!!

ancapailldorcha

Awful, derivative tripe. I've no idea how people can rate this thing highly as it couldn't possibly have been more generic and less inspired.

tunguska

gandalf wrote: »

Finally saw this yesterday and loved it. Great nod to Ferris Buellers Day off as well!!

Cant believe I missed this. Now I know why everyone in the theatre stayed in their seats at the end.

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Awful, derivative tripe. I've no idea how people can rate this thing highly as it couldn't possibly have been more generic and less inspired.

Horses for courses I suppose, not everyone is gonna be into the same thing.

ancapailldorcha

tunguska wrote: »

Horses for courses I suppose, not everyone is gonna be into the same thing.

I've a fairly dark, puerile sense of humour but this did nothing at all for me. A few funny bits sure but it was just as formulaic and dull as any other Marvel film.

ps3lover

Deadpool has now crossed the $300 million mark in America, it's also out grossed all the other Xmen movies, even accounting for inflation.

What a great movie

Some genuinely hilarious moments too, Ryan Reynolds was born to play this character

ps3lover

ps3lover wrote: »

Deadpool has now crossed the $300 million mark in America, it's also out grossed all the other Xmen movies, even accounting for inflation.

Awaiting sly / funny dig at the other Xmen movies in the inevitable Deadpool sequel :pac:

FortuneChip

Finally got around to seeing this.

Maybe my expectations had been raised a little too high; this fell well below them.
It's just a lot of juvenile humour behind a very formulaic revenge/rescue story. It's got some funny lines/scenes (the better ones being the references to other franchises), and it's a decent origin story.
I don't think it's nearly as funny as some people have made it out to be - not that it should be synonymous with Super Hero movies, but I found Guardians Of The Galaxy to be a lot funnier.

ps3lover

Deadpool has now officially out grossed all the other Xmen movies, both domestically and internationally. Not bad considering everyone says R rated movies don't make money.
It may even outgross Batman Vs Superman domestically, that would be very embarrassing for WB.

Wedwood

Just saw this last night and I reckon it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Ok I get it, the makers said let's make a superhero movie with loads of ultra violence and swearing. An R rated superhero movie for adults. That doesn't make it a good movie, it just makes it a nasty curiosity that made it a once off novelty to audiences. Expect to see the sequel bomb as the novelty wears thin.

When they start churning out bottom of the barrel stuff like this, you know the current superhero genre fad is nearly over.

Sirsok

Wedwood wrote: »

Just saw this last night and I reckon it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Ok I get it, the makers said let's make a superhero movie with loads of ultra violence and swearing. An R rated superhero movie for adults. That doesn't make it a good movie, it just makes it a nasty curiosity that made it a once off novelty to audiences. Expect to see the sequel bomb as the novelty wears thin.

When they start churning out bottom of the barrel stuff like this, you know the current superhero genre fad is nearly over.

Dear god that is atrocious thinking all together...simply a terrible opinion

Tigger

Sirsok wrote: »

Dear god that is atrocious thinking all together...simply a terrible opinion

It's just Francis

MilesMorales1

So because of Deadpool, Marvel are gonna cancel all their films, and DC is gonna stop with their DCCU plans, and Fox aren't gonna make anything else with their properties? Yeah, alright.


I mean I didn't like Deadpool myself, but the superhero train doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon.

Wedwood

Look, if you liked Deadpool then fine, I thought it was awful.

Nervous Wreck

Tetchy...

Fysh

Wedwood wrote: »

Look, if you liked Deadpool then fine, I thought it was awful.

I think it's more that while not liking the film is fair enough, your description of it is...unfair.

I've read very little in the way of Deadpool comics, but I had a lot of fun with Deadpool (as did my OH, and she has a significantly lower interest in/tolerance for superheroes than I do). I found the humour a lot funnier than a lot of recent superhero or action films, and I thought the action was more inventive than many (though films like The Raid set an unforgiving standard).

And yes, like any other approach, if the sequel or other Fox films try to mindlessly ape the same structure or narrative (as I feel the MCU films seem to be doing) it'll get boring and audiences will tire of it. But, to be honest, I'd prefer to have at least a few different approaches to superhero stories rather than a uniform tone and narrative structure across the board. So in that sense I'm glad Deadpool has been successful.

I still wish that films like Special or Super were more widely appreciated, but that's perhaps down to the difference between a superhero story and a story about someone who decides to be a costumed vigilante (certain plot elements may be the same, but they're fundamentally different types of story).

ps3lover

Deadpool is the fastest selling superhero movie of all time on the digital format. It's also Foxes fastest selling title of all time on that format.

Cantona's Collars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYazotcgjg

"And if you experience an erection lasting longer than four hours, you're welcome." :pac:

Hans Bricks

We watched it last night. I can't believe some of the laughs I got from it. The scene with

Ryan Reynolds stroking his deformed child's hand along the blind woman's chin had me in stitches. Your man's limp corpse being needlessly dragged with the car during the chase on the freeway scene too.

Great change of scene for the comic book genre.

AnonoBoy

Finally got around to watching this and found it pretty enjoyable.

I'm not a big comic book guy (I've barely seen any of the Marvel series that's running) but it was pretty funny alright. Some of the jokes didn't land and I can see why some people would hate it but I think I caught it at the right mood and I quite like Ryan Reynolds anyways so thumbs up.

Jester252

Is it out on DVD today?

paul68

I watched deadpool recently, i must say as person not too familiar with all the comic book films i hugely enjoyed it.

TitianGerm

I'm not into Superheroe movies at all and have never read the comics.

I absolutely loved Deadpool though. Couldn't stop laughing when he breaks his arms and leg and they go all floppy

lawred2

Thought Deadpool was fantastic

And I can't stand stuff like the Avengers et al

Snake Plisken

Jester252 wrote: »

Is it out on DVD today?

It is in the US I think it's next month for here

Snake Plisken

Deadpool does his own Honest Trailer:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qIRtFE6aIc