Monday, February 15, 2016

Watching Deadpool Opening Weekend

My boyfriend is obsessed with Deadpool. He is so obsessed that he didn't want any kind of spoilers before he saw the movie. Literally every time we went to see a movie and there was a trailer for Deadpool, he would cover his eyes and ears, and proceed to leave the theater. I kid you not. 

Being a good girlfriend, I thought it would be a great early Valentines day gift to buy him tickets to see the new movie on the first Friday night. I would have done Thursday, the very first day with showings, but he had a midterm the next morning.

This was my experience (and review) of watching Deadpool the Friday night of opening weekend. 

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One thing I was quite astonished about was that there was a line queuing up more than an hour before the movie started. My boyfriend and I got there 45 minutes early and we were about half way down the line. A guy in our dorm seeing the movie in the same theater as us said he got there about 15 minutes earlier than us and he STILL wasn't at the front of the line. 

These are some dedicated people willing to wait an hour plus to get seats to watch Deadpool. When the floodgates were finally released, people were literally RUNNING to the good seats. It was chaos. 

Then twenty minutes later, the movie started. 

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From the very beginning of the movie I was laughing my ass off. I LOVED IT. You could tell just from the opening credits that everyone involved with the creative process had a sense of humor and thoroughly enjoyed working on the film.

I have found that typically it is hard for a movie to be genuinely funny from beginning to end, especially one that has so much action in it. But I give credit to the writers and to Ryan Reynolds for bringing such a sarcastic asshole to the big screen. 


Not only was the humor good, but the plot line was decent and the characters were all present. There was not one "throw away character" in my opinion. Each character had something important to do and the actors brought that drive to life. 

One of my personal favorite characters was the Blind Lady, aptly named Blind Al, who Wade stays with while on his revenge crusade. She is played by Leslie Uggams, and she is amazing.


I highly recommend seeing Deadpool sometime. Every single person that I have talked to, no matter what their taste in movies, has only had good things to say. 

It was definitely worth showing up 45 minutes early in order to wait in a line and then rush to good seats just to see a move that is a little under two hours long. I don't regret a single minute of my Deadpool experience.

-Shawnee Smith

*I do not own any of the photos on this blog post.

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