Deadpool: Justice gets a new face, and a hit movie

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Around two weeks ago, Deadpool hit the theater's and it was a smash hit. Deadpool, known for his eccentric personality, witty wordplay and his frequent fourth wall breaks, was able to get a movie about him. Fans such as myself got really excited knowing that a Deadpool movie was happening back in 2014.

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I was able to watch the movie with some friends a week ago and I must say, the movie was just alright. Back in 2014 I was a huge fan of Deadpool. I read his comic books and even played a video game that is also about Deadpool. I was able to enjoy him as a young teenager but currently, his whole appeal of being a quirky "merc with a mouth" got old to me. Maybe I just got older or maybe he wasn't really that great in the first place, but I still enjoyed the movie. The movie was just right. Nothing too grand and its also not too bland. Though the movie was still enjoyable, not too many people are happy with the setting being small scaled unlike what you see in Marvel movies. In Marvel movies you get to see large scaled fights that involves entire cities and you also get to see different locations and settings. What many people don't understand is that Deadpool isn't like that. He is a character that doesn't involve himself with huge tasks that require saving the world or something like that, plus he isn't even a superhero. I think the directors made the smart decision of keeping Deadpool a "low-key" character because if he were to go around and involve himself with other superheroes it would contradict his personality of being the lone anti-hero. It would be nice to see him around the X-men squad though. The movie tells the story of how Deadpool came to be Deadpool. Comparing it with the comics, there are differences that can be seen but I don't really mind them. What most people don't understand is that if someone is gonna make a movie adaptation from another work then expect there to be changes.

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In the movie Wade (pre-deadpool) leaves his girlfriend, Vanessa, to go find a cure for cancer. Take note that Vanessa does know about his condition. In the comics however, When Wade was diagnosed with cancer, Vanessa didn't know about it. So Wade just leaves her out of the blue. Not much story of Vanessa and Wade were given in the comics but in the movie they had a whole romance thing going on. This is just one of the differences the movie had with the comics and I am okay with that.

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Despite the movie budget being only roughly $58 million, its box office is about $520 million! You can expect that with all that money a sequel is being planned out. Deadpool even said so himself at the after-credits of the movie. Cable, Deadpools big buff time-traveling partner, is to be featured in the next movie. Even though I may not be as big of a fan of Deadpool like I was a few years ago, I am still looking forward to the sequel
Author: Darryl Ventura

Civil War: Who's side are you on?

So a few day's ago the trailer for Captain America Civil War was released and it was frikin beautiful. After a series of Marvel movies one after the other the idea of superheroes started to become too bland for my taste. But this movie in particular got me interested because it isn't a movie about a supervillain thinking of taking over the world or some cliche stuff like that. This is about heroes with different ideologies battling it out with each other. Judging from the trailer, I'm guessing the story is about Cap's friend Bucky and how he is being hunted by S.H.I.E.L.D for being a bad guy. Now Captain America, being a good friend and all, decides to help his friend out to clear his name or just help him get away. Because of this Captain America is seen as an enemy and S.H.I.E.L.D goes on an all-out manhunt for Cap. Tony Stark(Iron Man), a good friend of Cap, has to go hunt him down. Because of Captain America's good principle, He does not want his friend Bucky to be pursued. So this means that one of them will have to go down. This will bring emotional tension between the two and I think this is just heartbreaking.

 I like this type of setting made because there is no good or bad in this situation, it will all depend on how you interpret it. Watch the trailer here: Civil War Trailer. I have not read the comics about this but apparently Spider-man is supposed to be in this. He isn't seen in the trailer but I am confident that he will be in the movie. According to the Comics Spidey will be a major plot point in determining who will come out victorious between Team Captain America and Team Iron Man. We may not have seen Spidey in the trailer but at least we got to see Black Panther and if you look closely, in one frame you can see Ant-mans helmet which indicates that he will be in the movie too?? maybe. probably.hopefully. I'm not sure I don't read the comics. I'm going for Team Cap simply because what he's doing is for the
sake of his very close friend Bucky. Even with his own former colleagues coming after him he is willing to risk it all for Bucky. Geez why don't they get married too while they're at it. But I can't help but feel bad for Iron Man because he himself lost Captain America. I give this upcoming movie a Spider/10 because no spidey.
Author: Darryl Ventura

GO TEAM CAP'!!