Deadpool 2 Review

Hey, this is Greg Berger and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

to episode 173 of The Cinema Geeks. I am one

of your Cinema Geeks Optimus Solo and joining

me for today's episode is Lady's First Hard Candy

Mini. Hey, I miss Matt. Move your wall, Dan.

Hello. Hi, I'm not Matt. Sorry. And we are down

one Fridley Cent today, because during his vacation

week, he saw Solo four times and Deadpool zero

times. So he is not here to talk about Deadpool,

but we are. We're talking about Deadpool 2. But

don't worry, Matt, we'll be back to give you

his extensive and well -thought -out thoughts

on Solo, a Star Wars story at some point in the

very near future. As someone who picked Solo

as the number one draft pick in our box office

draft way back when, I appreciate Matt trying

to give you some love for me and trying to build

it up. I just reviewed the... the part where

we did our actual picks to see because I couldn't

remember who was on whose team as far as movies

go and yeah I am a little disappointed at a couple

of my picks already so it's not looking like

I thought it was going to when we did that episode

that's pretty sure the certain animated film

I picked did not do well another sci -fi film

I picked did not do well so Amanda picked a film

that we're gonna have to insert special rules

for because it then decided to flip the script

and release directly to Netflix, so that didn't

make any money. So, uh... I mean, no money! I

mean, no theater money, so it's gonna be interesting

when we get all said and done, but yeah, the

Star Wars love is not, at least not right away,

happening for Solo in the box office, according

to Star Wars standards, I should say. It's doing

fine as far as movie standards. Wouldn't you

say, Dan? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's, you know, I mean...

Little disappointing for me personally just because

you know I was hoping and I kind of regret Again

on Earth to made a Deadpool, but I saw that Incredibles.

It was my number two. So I still think you got

a very solid team Dan You got a lot of you don't

have a miss in there I don't think whereas I

clearly had two with ready player one and Sherlock

gnomes. So that was not pretty. Um, and Matt

so far has done the lead pick with his Black

Panther, which is still at this point I believe

still ahead of Avengers by Substantial amount.

I mean Avengers could catch it, but it would

have its work cut out for it So we'll have to

wait and see how the rest of the films that have

yet to be released Which is most of Amanda's

picks outside of you had another miss to those

super troopers to did not make any money so But

we are not here to talk about all those films

We are here to talk about Deadpool 2 and we're

gonna start ladies first with this one Amanda.

Why don't you first? Relive the the hate that

you sent the original chapter in this film Franchise

and then let everybody know what your thoughts

were on the original Deadpool and then Transition

into you what your thoughts were at Deadpool

2 in comparison. Well, I was not prepared for

a memory section of today's podcast Specifics,

I don't know what the hell I said except I didn't

like the strip club scene and it was way too

much like Don't know they I don't think they

use rated R and you know it to its full potential

it was too I Don't know chauvinistic maybe we'll

say that but I Still went to see the second one.

So what did you think of Deadpool 2? I liked

it a lot better than the first one. I think it

had a lot more heart. Some of the original jokes

were back, but they kind of, you know, up the

ante a little bit. Instead of tiny hands, it

was tiny something else. And, you know, Doppinder

decided to go full on a... rogue badass in this,

and I think that the new story surrounding him

being more of the anti -hero, not just saving

something with his own interests, but, you know,

reaching out to somebody else and making a different

connection and helping them in a way to become

that, you know, anti -hero, to make you say,

all right, well, he's not so bad. So overall,

more positive on this one? I would say I like...

Yeah, I think that... you know, all around it

was quite a bit of the same, but it did have

its improvements. Dan, we were a little bit more

positive on the initial chapter in this franchise.

So what were your thoughts of Deadpool 2 in comparison?

Did you think it was a lot of the same, an improvement

or diminishing returns? I think it was a good

mixture of old and new. I think it's tough doing

a comedy sequel. Deadpool is in a weird situation

when it comes to be a comic book sequel in the

sense of It also is a comedy, probably comedy

first, and we all know that comedy sequels don't

tend to work because you're trying to relive

or recapture that same magic, and it's a little

bit difficult. So I don't think it's probably

as fresh and as exciting as the first Deadpool

because it just couldn't be. It's a case of submission

returns, but I think they maybe realized that.

They realized, okay, we're not gonna be able

to kind of rest on our comedic chops. We're gonna

have to add into a little bit something new.

And I think it's a little bit more ambitious.

As Amanda mentioned, I think they tried to add

a little bit more heart. And I'm coming into

this, I am a big fan of both Deadpool and the

character of Cable, the comic Cable and Deadpool

is a big comic that got me back into the world

of comics. So I was very excited for this and

I thought they really got both of those characters

pretty right and smartly did. who Cable is because

it's super convoluted, but I thought overall,

and I thought there were some really good surprises

and still found ways to subvert the typical expectations

of a comic book movie. There were some jokes

that didn't land. I don't think for me it was

as funny as the first one, or at least there

were some misses, but I thought it might have

in a way been a better movie, or at least a more

complete movie. I agree with a lot of what you

said there. I think you're right where this one

is obviously not gonna feel as fresh or maybe

as inventive when it comes to the style and the

tone because it is gonna be a lot of what you

got in Deadpool 1 but I don't know how they would

have not done that so it would have been weird

if we would have like all got to Deadpool 2 and

it was a totally different type of humor or style

like that would have just been jarring and I

so I don't get you know a few of the complaints

that I've heard as far as being don't know what

people were expecting if they weren't expecting

the same type of humor and style because that

doesn't make any sense to expect something different

from Deadpool as it's been set up so I think

it's expected so maybe not quite as fresh and

inventive but I still think it had you know funny

moments it still had a lot of clever jabs and

writing and stuff like that but I think you're

right I think even though it might not have been

Fresh from a comedic standpoint or a style standpoint.

I think it's a better overall story Has more

intriguing characters and probably is a better

Complete movie than than Deadpool 1 at least

in my initial viewing of this film so I think

you know there might be some cases of diminishing

returns, but I think overall the The sum is a

better product for me. I think then Than Deadpool

1 just structurally from that standpoint Amanda

When you break down some of the characters that

are presented in here, do you have any favorites?

Obviously, like Dan mentioned, we have the addition

of Cable, as played by Josh Brolin. You do have

some return characters, and you already mentioned

one of them. We also get some small parts from

Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Vanessa is obviously

back. I can't remember the name of his... Landlord?

Landlord, right off the top of my head. Karen...something.

I think they call her Blind Al though, right?

And then we have also some other additions. We've

got Julian Dennison from Hunt for the Wilder

people coming in as Firefist. We have Zazie Beats

as Domino and a few other characters as well.

Which ones worked? Didn't work? How did you like

the characters and the actors? I really, really

liked Firefist, the kid from Hunt for the Wilder

people. I loved him in that. I think that was

a great movie. And I think a lot of his humor

is a bit the same in this. And I think it works

so well for him. Kinda like the thug life didn't

choose him, you know, or he didn't choose the

thug life, the thug life chose him. I feel like

that's his plight in life. You know what I mean?

Like he's not cool enough to be a gangster, but

sometimes he does pretty gangster stuff, and

he has a super gangster mouth. So I think it

made for some funny moments with him, especially,

you know, in the lockup situation. And I felt

for the kid, you know what I mean? And I think

I really loved, uh, was it Domino? I really loved

her. She was cool. And I like that we got to

see some more of the X -Men with the girlfriend.

What's the girlfriend's name? Dan, do you remember

the Megasonic Teenage Warhead and her friend's

name? Yuriko? Yuriko. Yeah, yeah. I just don't

ever feel like we get enough of their powers,

but we did get some cool stuff with um... The

metal dude, what's that guy's name? Sugar Nut?

No. Colossus? Colossus. Colossus, yeah. Spoiler.

Yeah, Kevin, dang. Not bad. I'm trying not to

do spoilers here. Speaking of spoilers, I won't

give it away, but there's a really cool moment

in the X -Men mansion that I really liked. Super

brief, but I enjoyed it. There was a couple surprise

new... Mutants are people with powers Like the

scars guard popping up like I did not expect

to see that dude talking about the X -Force yeah,

so I wanted to see more of them and more like

Show of powers, but that's just because I love

mutants and stuff so Dan what do you did anybody

not work from you from a character? Or what were

the standouts from a positive standpoint for

you? I don't think anyone didn't work for me,

but I did like Josh Brolin's take on Cable because

he was ultra serious. He's not the most complex

character in the world, but he had a good take

on him because he works well with being the straight

man to a character like Deadpool. And in a way,

it felt like Deadpool and him are in two different

movies, but it works because Deadpool's aware

of that. So I thought having them together was

a good approach to it. Yeah, I agree. I really

love Josh Brolin as Cable in this. Like Amanda

said, Julian Dennison so far for me is two for

two in the two films I've seen him in. I've really

liked him in both. I thought they did a slight

improvement with Colossus. I thought that was

slightly better than what we got in the first

film. I think the only one for me that might

have been less effective was Doe Pinder. Liked

him a lot better in the first film than I did

in this one So if there was like one letdown

or one that I thought was less effective, it

would probably be that character But that's such

a minor part that doesn't have he's becoming

unlikeable because he's coming becoming evil

One character that didn't work I didn't think

he's not it was TG's Miller Miller character

I don't know if it's because of everything happening

to him with in real life where I just thought

his you know, he had a lot of the Best lines

in the first Deadpool movie and I felt like that

he was one character felt they were trying to

rehash a lot of the same stuff You know with

all this weird comparisons and it just didn't

work as well and it's like, you know Relationship

with dohinder. I don't know like every time like

he went for a joke It my crowd is pretty silent.

So yeah, what's happening with him in real life?

It's a long story, but at one time he falsely

accused someone for I think Saying that they

were gonna blow up a train or something of that

nature And he did it on purpose and there's other

Accusations against him. I think he if I'm not

I don't want to speak out of turn because I think

he was part of the Me too stuff if I'm not mistaken,

but I could be wrong, but I know there's been

a lot of things Accusations, I know he was arrested

for that. But yeah, there's been some You're

talking about the guy that runs the bar or whatever,

right? Weasel, yeah. We got from Silicon Valley

and stuff like that. Yeah, it seems like a lot

of the characters that appeared in the first

one were not... Maybe it's more of a broad thing,

like they shifted the focus away from them in

a way or didn't quite use them as effective and

kind of did much better with the characters that

were new. Not 100 % of that, it's not like...

That doesn't work for every single character

in the movie, but I definitely think there's

a few that were less effective this time around,

and newer characters kind of took more of that

spotlight. Dan, what did you think of the X -Force

overall? That's funny, because part of me was

disappointed, but part of me thought it was kind

of brilliant and the best scene in the entire

movie. Yeah, I guess without spoiling too much,

Amanda, did you like the variety of characters

we got in the X -Force and kind of how they all

roll called in? Yeah, I wanted more. Okay. You

know what I mean? I think a lot of the displays

of power and the fight scenes and stuff, I'm

like, well, I kind of want more. Except for maybe

one, where it was just too much CG. Gotcha. But

everything else, I'm like, we get to see two

seconds of this person's power. And that looked

legit, so why do we only get two seconds? Speaking

of CG, Dan, what did you think of the film from

a visual standpoint and effects? Did it work?

It was weird about, I think, Deadpool is that.

It kind of works when the visuals don't look

all that great, like how Colossus and certain

characters look very CGI. It feels very schlocky,

which is, I think, appropriate for Deadpool.

So even though some of the CGI may not be as

high level as some other comic book movies, it

feels like it's fitting. There was a really great

moment with Domino that's a very CGI -heavy scene,

and I think it still generally works. Even though

I know this was like a much higher budget than

the last one, it still felt like overall special

effects were, I think they did the job, but they

weren't, I think all that much more improved

compared to the last one, which in a way I think

makes sense because it feels, it feeling cheap

is part of the joke. Right, right. Yeah, I agree

with that. I think, yeah, it gets a pass for

some of that because it seems like it's somewhat

intentional or somewhat fits the stylized. version

of what we're going for. Another question I have

for both of you guys, I know you touched on it

a little bit already, but Amanda, what did you

think of the humor overall in this one? I know

you thought the first one was maybe a little

bit more chauvinistic, I think you said, so what

do you think of the humor in Deadpool 2? I mean,

I already touched on how similar it was. I think

some of the, like... I guess since you've already

dropped the juggernaut bomb like I think some

of the stuff with him didn't really work like

it was like too vulgar But that's the movie you

know what I mean, so it kind of made sense I

just don't think everything between like him

and Colossus like landed What do you have any

highlights that you thought were? Overly funny

that you can remember or was just kind of just

some more of a general um I think something that

I Should have thought was really hilarious that

I didn't think was all that funny was the the

baby legs thing. I don't think that I... I mean

it was funny but I don't think it was as funny

as like as drawn out as they made it. Gotcha.

What about Dan? Did you think there was any highlights

from a comedic standpoint that really stood out

or was it just more of a general tone that was

funny like the first one or what do you think

the humor as far as what landed and what didn't?

I thought the interaction between Cable and Deadpool,

like I mentioned, I thought that worked well

even Cable and The kid, I can't think of his

name. Yeah, as I mentioned, the X -Force scene.

And Peter, he was to me a comedic standout. He

had some really good moments. And I thought,

too, in the final moments, the use of, there's

a score. I'll just say that. It was pretty ridiculous.

juvenile but it is a very juvenile type of sense

of humor and that may not be everyone's cup of

tea and i get it and it usually isn't mine but

in this context for some reason it works for

me what did you guys think of because i heard

a couple complaints of people as far as the opening

credits and and some of the things like that

that we got from the first one with the you know

the comedic style of who's doing what and that

was that did that come across as already been

done so it shouldn't be done again or did you

find it humorous with the way they handled the

opening credits, Amanda. I don't know. It wasn't

as awesome because it wasn't as fresh. It wasn't

the first one. But I think that if you're going

to do it in the first one, it might as well do

it in the second one. What about you, Dan? I

liked it. I thought it stayed in the spirit of

the last one. I thought doing a James Bond parody

and instead of it being you know, just random

jokes, like, just, it, like, there was more of,

it was more of a writing gag, uh, that, it was

like, wait, what just happened? So, uh, I, I

thought that, that commentary worked well enough.

Yeah, I mean, I felt like they were, they wrote

themselves in the corner and said stuff, if they

didn't do it, people, like, why wasn't there

a credit thing? And I thought at least it, it

tried to do something new. And I thought the,

the parody of the, of the John, uh, John John

Bond, the James Bond opening credit scene worked

well and especially with that and Celine Dion.

Yeah, I didn't have a problem with it. I kind

of expected it to, so it wasn't something that

was eye -rolling for me either. I think most

of the comedy worked in the same vein that it

did in the original film. I think the only times

where I had a slight problem was where I had

a slight problem with the fact that I felt like

throughout the movie characters that were not

Deadpool were taking on his comedic style and

and joke you know humor where I get that that

might be somewhat of the point but at times for

me it felt out of place from a few characters

where they were making I get where you're gonna

be funny and have a sense of humor but I wasn't

expecting as many characters to be as I guess

crass or crude, I guess, with some of the jokes.

So that kind of threw me off a little bit. Maybe

it was just that the jokes didn't land for me

or that I wasn't expecting it out of those individuals.

I know there was one specifically that makes

a joke about a cock ring, I'll say, and that

one didn't land for me at all because I'm like,

this seems weird coming out of this character's

mouth. Like, that doesn't... that wasn't Deadpool

so that didn't work for me. I don't know if any

of you guys felt like that or is that just kind

of what you're expecting from a Deadpool movie

in general or do you think it should be more

contained to certain characters that are that

it's their character to do that or is it just

okay for the whole movie to be like that Dan?

I don't know it's a good question it I feel like

Don't know even even when some of the other characters

told jokes like a cable or something like that

It was still it was done in a way that was even

if the words didn't really Correspond with what

you expect for them the character at least the

delivery did So there there was one moment that

that felt really odd to me It was like there

is a situation where they all told a joke at

the same time and it felt weird because at that

moment in time like I think Domino was in that

scene, and she didn't seem like a character that

was really quippy or anything like that. So it

seemed like that was one of the moments where

I felt like they were really forcing it in there

because she was funny -ish, but she wasn't someone

that was telling jokes here and there. It does

feel like it is of one voice at a time, which

is not always great when it comes to a movie

where it feels like all the characters are written

by the same person. I don't disagree that that

was problematic on occasion. Amanda, what did

you think overall? Just anything you didn't get

to talk about, anything from the story standpoint,

you know, the plot or kind of where, how this

movie played out that you liked, didn't like,

or kind of just like your final overall thoughts

of the movie in general. What kind of grade would

you give it? I didn't like that the tragedy that

happens, happens so soon. Um, and I wanted to

see more of like their normalcy as like a couple.

with him being in the, you know, uh, dude -killing

business. And I get that it would have made the

movie longer. Maybe that's where they wanted

to cut something out as far as time goes, but

I would have liked to see that. I mean, it was

intriguing to me, and they had a cool relationship,

so that would have been fun to see. Also, when

are we doing spoilers? We'll come, we'll take

a quick break and come back with just some final

spoiler talk, but... Just kind of overall, I

know you said you liked it better than the first

one. What kind of grade would you give this one?

Like number score? Just a good idea. I would

give it like a seven and a half. And also, side

his timeline. Yeah, I would agree with that as

well. Dan, anything you get to talk about from

as far as the storytelling or plot or any highlights

or lowlights? Something to be in my mind. It's

a pretty straightforward movie overall, without

getting into some of the more spoiler difficulty.

I did like how to incorporate the X -Men more.

I do wish we almost got more of them, but I kind

of can't get why they can't do that. I did think

it was quite funny just... some of the running

jokes about cable being racist that to me was

one of the one of the one of the better jokes

because it's like uh just the commitment towards

it but uh yeah plot watch i thought it made sense

in the sense of i i did like that they're like

okay like what can we do you know to you know

add some not levity because this is all levity

but element of seriousness and how it does tie

into the f word of family which It's difficult.

I think that, like I said, that's ambitious.

Maybe it didn't always work as well as I was

hoping, but I think it added a little bit more

to the character of Deadpool. And there was some

of that in the first one with his relationship,

but this one, it felt a little bit even more

real. And I do think that they, I can see what

Amanda's saying because this thing has actually,

weirdly enough, one of the better relationships

in comic book films and seeing it end as soon

as it does, or even though it does linger throughout

the film. what was a little bit surprising to

me I was like well that was that was not expected

I didn't think I was I was wondering because

she was not in the trailers at all so I thought

maybe she just like wasn't gonna be in this movie

but not realizing where I was going. What about

a score for you Dan? To me it's eight out of

ten you know like I said about that's about where

i'd rank the first one so i i don't know where

i would say the which one's better than that

rest like i said i thought this one's a little

ambitious maybe but the other one to me was a

little bit more fresh and funnier uh so i don't

know it's i'll just watch it again to really

determine them but on initial viewing i think

i'd still rank the first one up a little bit

higher but there it's very close i think if you

like the first one i don't see why you wouldn't

enjoy this one Yeah, I think that's a main thing

like if someone was trying to ask like what your

opinion was of Deadpool 2 or if they should watch

it You know, whatever you thought of the first

one or if you liked it or didn't like it I would

think it would be pretty similar I know Amanda

for you it went up a little bit more maybe than

then Some may expect but I think if you're a

fan of the first one, you're gonna be a fan of

the second one I think that's pretty fair to

say so I'd be right in that same ballpark, you

know in that seven eight range somewhere in there

I think there was a few very very minor issues

but overall it was what you should have expected

from a Deadpool film overall for me. We're gonna

take a very short break and then we're gonna

come back just to have a few minutes on spoilers

in case there's anything that people wanted to

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to the show. Do you see how your patience paid

off? All right. of first anything spoiler -rific

that you wanted to talk about that you liked,

didn't like, surprised, anything like that. Can

we talk about, is it the end credits scene? When

they fix Cable's time -traveling device and he

just goes back and undoes every single thing

that happened in the fucking movie? Yeah. What

did you think about that? Confused? What happened?

It had some pretty funny moments in that. Obviously

the green of it I thought was humorous, but you're

right, it did seem like, okay, you just undid

everything that you just did. Dan, what did you

think of that sequence? I thought it was funny.

First seeing him go back and kill the Deadpool

from the X -Men movie. I was actually thinking

they would go further with it and fixing all

the continuity weird stuff when it comes to the

X -Men movies because there's a lot of it that

doesn't explain. Certain certain things. I thought

he was kind of open that would go morbid and

I think it fits the line of Deadpool because

Deadpool is a character that weirdly enough never

really learns anything so But it's so even though

he kind of went to that journey He's like, yeah,

but I'm still gonna try to save her because that's

what I want to do So and then to me it's kind

of cool because it's like they can have their

cake and eat it too because now she came back

to the other movies So, uh, yeah, I thought you

know, it was unexpected but I thought, I don't

know if that's gonna be something that they go

with, or if it, you know, in a way, it doesn't

make sense, which kind of falls in line with

a lot of the X -Men after singer stuff, which

when you look back at it, it doesn't make sense,

especially starting like X -Men 3 The Last Stand,

where now Professor Xavier's alive because he's

in the body of another person, so it's just,

to me, it's like... going even another step further

with it, with how it fits into the X -Men movies.

Yeah, I thought it was very humorous. I wasn't

really sure if it was just being played for a

joke or if it was being serious as far as holding

some type of weight in future movies. But either

way, I thought it was humorous with what they

did with that. Dan, other things spoiler -wise

that you wanted to highlight that you either

liked or didn't like? Well, one, I think that

we kind of already talked about it, but judge

or not, I did really uh like that i thought it

was great seeing him in the movie and once they

hinted at like okay there's someone else some

other big bad or what have you like okay who

could that be i was like it could be the juggernaut

but they already did the juggernaut would they

do that again i'm like i'm not sure and i thought

i thought it was going to be like the blob uh

which is just due to just like gigantic and fat

because it would fit in line with Deadpool they

I certainly have a lot of jokes for it. And then

the Juggernaut, I think, I don't know if it's

his theme or it's Gloss's theme, but the ridiculous

take on their score with their fighting was kind

of funny. Did you think it ever got to a point

where they were trying to juggle too many antagonists

with, obviously you have Firefist kind of on

the fence there, you have Cable who's kind of

borderline good and bad at different times, you

have Juggernaut, then obviously you have all

the people at that institution which are... the

definition of evil. Did you think that it was

too much at every time or did you think they

kind of balanced everything well because a few

of them were kind of more back and forth? I never

felt like there was too much to me because it

all kind of fell in line. I assumed Cable and

Deadpool would get together for some other reason

eventually and so I never felt like there was

too much and once they I thought the progression

of it, I think, made sense. Some of those characters,

Juggernaut's not the most developed character

in the world. He's just big muscle. But yeah,

I never felt like... There's not a great villain

in this, unfortunately, but it's kind of the

way it goes. It's not really the focus. But yeah.

Amanda, what did you think of anything related

to X -Men or X -Force that you wanted to bring

up that would be spoiler -wise? Were you surprised

at some of the cameos in the X -Force? I know

you already mentioned one of them. Yeah, and,

uh, like I said, dude, that was pretty cool when

they showed that glimpse of all the other, um,

X -Men, like, in that room, and I - I'm - I'm

guessing that's as much of an interaction between

Deadpool and those characters as we're gonna

get. But it just shows that they're aware of

him and they're like actively avoiding him and

that's why you never see them in the house. Dan,

what about you for any X -Men moments or the

X -Force? Did you know everybody that was already

cast in the movie or were some of those people

who were in that scene surprising to you? Or

there was another cameo also in another part

of the movie. I don't know if you picked up on

that one. Yeah, there was a bunch of them. Like

I had no idea. I didn't know they were gonna

be in it. I didn't know Juggernaut was gonna

be in it, which apparently he was voiced by Ryan

Reynolds. I didn't know that... I'm thinking

of some of the other people that were in it.

Like Brad Pitt, his cameo, or Alan Tudyk, and

Matt Demon. Yeah, like which is now I guess Matt

Demon's just gonna show up in Marvel movies like

he did with Ragnarok and now this. No, I had

no idea that any of those were coming. uh...

so i have to finish her being prepped for that

was was quite quite legitimately surprising uh...

and yeah and terry cruz i knew terry cruz because

he was in that trailer i thought he'd because

it was terry cruz he would have a bigger role

than he did and now he was uh... he died rather

quickly but i think it all died was perfect And

speaking of going back in time, I think it's

really funny though that he went back in time

and saved Peter and no one else. I was like,

that was pretty good. Yeah, that was pretty good.

I think having Brad Pitt as an invisible person

in The Vanishing Man is just about as perfect

as it gets. That was Brad Pitt for real? Yeah.

They wanted him to be in the movie in a bigger

role, but they couldn't because of scheduling,

so he literally filmed his vanishing scenes,

it says in like... two hours he was in and out

and it was all post -production so he just like

showed up for two hours and they did the vanishing

man sequence where they show his face and that's

it I didn't see his face yeah they show it when

uh when he gets electrocuted and he falls well

I didn't know I didn't put two and two together

did you notice that it was Matt Damon and Alan

Tudyk the two rednecks sitting on the back of

the truck Drinking? No. Talking? No. So I thought

they did a clever job of disguising some of those

cameos pretty well. Amanda, Dan, anything else

spoiler -wise that you guys want to talk about,

or did we hit all the highlights there? I think

we did. Dan? I got nothing else. Alright, so

that is our take on Deadpool 2, overall positive

for us. Oh, I also, the other running joke that

I forgot to mention that I somewhat appreciated

was the Frozen song. I think that Deadpool kept

going away, so I thought some of that was pretty

clever too. I guess in final thoughts as far

as Deadpool goes as a franchise. Dan, where do

you want to see this go from here? Do you need

to see another Deadpool 3? Would you rather see

him kind of in conjunction with other groups,

or do you think this is enough of this character?

I don't know, Deadpool going through time. If

that's something they actually do, I think that

would be... That would be kind of fun. I don't

know, could you put Deadpool in an X -Men movie?

I don't think you could. I don't know where they

could go with it. My thought is where it's due

time or something like that. Or maybe more of

a team up with Cable and Deadpool. I don't know.

It's a good question. Do you think they could

expand on this whole X -Force thing and give

it another go? Possibly different group of people

that could be something they do. I don't It's

hard to see them going in you know obviously

we do have to deal also with the obviously the

deal between Fox and Disney and how that could

impact things too You know there's been some

speculation on if Disney would would do too much

with that rated -r Version it seems like they're

not afraid of that seems like they said that

they would do that as long as it was advertised

as rated -r They wouldn't have a problem with

making that film if everything else falls into

place, but I don't even know if that mergers

happen to 100 % or if it's in limbo or? It's

in limbo and possibly Comcast might step in which

would be awful in my opinion for a lot of different

reasons. I actually would love to see like a

Domino movie so if they do another X -Force that's

possible because there's a lot of characters

even though they killed off a lot. There's still

a lot from that world that they didn't really

bring in. X -Force is always... Kind of like

the X -Men that would kill they had a little

bit more 90s edge to them So it could possibly

work if they made it more of a team -up movie

in some way I think so too. As far as the box

office goes, I mean Deadpool did well. It was

the first film that dethroned Avengers Infinity

War as far as the top of the box office. So obviously

it's dealing with a lot of competition with Avengers

and Solo with Star Wars story, but you know,

it's definitely making its money. Critical response,

it's currently got 83 % on Rotten Tomato. Metacritic

has a score of 66, CinemaScore a grade of A.

A lot of... Critics given it a pretty high score.

Amanda, are you done with Deadpool or do you

need to see him again in some way shape or form?

I'm not necessarily clamoring for anything else,

but I know that he's not going away. All right,

so that's it for Deadpool 2. We'll have more

film discussion on Solo a Star Wars story as

well as our wrap -up of our video game spotlight.

Those are the next two episodes that you guys

will be hearing, so definitely stay tuned for

that. Dan, what do you have currently going on

over at the Comic Concierge? Recently, I spoke

with Matt Stewart. We're actually going over

a few comics. We're looking at Howard County

and a new book, Revival. I've also been putting

up some reviews and stuff on YouTube because

we're trying to get more YouTube content out

there. You can also listen to this podcast now

on YouTube because I know some people prefer

doing that. Keep checking along. I do want to

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trip down memory lane that we're going to kind

of highlight nine years of the GeekCast Radio

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people have done. There's going to be some interesting

content coming in that episode, so stay tuned

for that. But other than that, that does it for

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