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Just saw the trailer for "Deadpool & Wolverine" on Facebook yesterday. Posted by Hugh Jackman and I am actually stoked to see a Deadpool movie. I just loves me some Wolvie.

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Yes, Trap looks good.


Next week is Fall Guy. I likely won't be able to see it until Sunday. Having nothing to do with May The Fourth Be With You.

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So far 'Fall Guy' is at 90% on RT

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So far 'Fall Guy' is at 90% on RT

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Is that good? or really good? I don't really follow, or interpret.

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Next week is Fall Guy. I likely won't be able to see it until Sunday. Having nothing to do with May The Fourth Be With You.

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So far 'Fall Guy' is at 90% on RT

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That's hard to say, and with the current state of culture you probably need to take it all on a case by case basis.

There is no audience score yet, so it is the Critics that gave it 90%. That's been a red-flag that the movie is chock full of the agenda and they approve of the message since around 2015 or 2016. But since the back half of 2023 with all the box office failures and tons of news sites shutting down and these people realizing they need their jobs, they appear to have straightened out whatever demons they were wrestling and/or all the activists have been laid off, and they've gone back to giving actual legitimate movie reviews. At least for the most part that appears to be what they're doing.



So I looked at the reviews on RT and kind of skimmed over them. I like what I see there. I don't see one damn mention of anything even remotely political. I see the terms "fun" and "popcorn movie" thrown in there quite a bit.



Ever since the Critics started giving real movie reviews again, I actually pay even less attention to them than I used to. A year ago I knew if they liked a movie I wouldn't enjoy it and vice/versa.

I think the Audience score is much more important on RT than the Critic score is.

I'm not seeing anything that should dissuade you from seeing this or giving me any reason to believe you're not going to enjoy it. I know you've been looking forward to this one. Hope it's great.

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Just saw the trailer for "Deadpool & Wolverine" on Facebook yesterday. Posted by Hugh Jackman and I am actually stoked to see a Deadpool movie. I just loves me some Wolvie.

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I have to say that Deadpool 3 with Hugh Jackaman as Wolverine is about the most excited that Hollywood could ever make me about a comic book movie these days.


This is probably the last one I will ever see unless they take some real time off of the genre and get actual talented people back behind these projects and put out some real, interesting movies again instead of the same movie over and over and over and over again but just wrapped up with a different colored bow.

That is, after all, one of the greatest things about Deadpool as a character. Deadpool movies are going to be different than everything else out there by nature. The fact that Ryan Reynolds is such a superfan of Deadpool that he actually spent many, many years playing a HUGE role in making that first movie happen means the world here too. Ryan REALLY understands Deadpool.

Nobody wanted to take a chance on this character, because everybody thought that an R-Rated Comic Book movie would flop, and there was no possible way you could ever make a PG rated Deadpool movie that anybody would have liked. But when Ryan finally got 20th Century FOX to take a $58 Million gamble on it, they were repaid with a worldwide box office of over $780 Million.

Ryan simply won't allow a bad Deadpool movie to be made. He's got all the pull now when it comes to they way Deadpool is betrayed because he IS Deadpool.




But too many of the actors in all of these movies know nothing about the characters they're portraying. I'd guess that number at 90% or more. They either look at them as a huge payday or in the case of lessor known actors it's just their way to finally break out and make it big. And that's fine, as long as you have people in charge of these projects who understand the characters and have passion in the work they're doing.


Hell... Rachel Zeglier (aka Snow White 2025) was asked on the red carpet at some event what drew her to the character she played as one of Shazam's super-powered siblings and she had the nerve to say "I needed a job. I'm being so serious. The reality was we were in the middle of a pandemic and I was not working, and I couldn't get a job for the life of me because West Side Story hadn't come out yet and it was really hard to book work for me."


Really, Rachel? Really...

I appreciate the honesty, but that's not your mom you're talking to and this isn't your living room. A few MILLION people ended up hearing the little rich girl whining about how she couldn't find a job during the pandemic. The same pandemic where almost 20 million people had been deemed non-essential and they were all out of work. The same pandemic where a good portion of the people you look down on every day were basically stuck inside their cracker-box apartments while you got to spend Isolation putting out TikTok videos from one of the couple dozen rooms you've got in that mansion of yours.


And hey... that's fine. I certainly don't expect any good looking young 20-something woman to know anything about comics.

But at least pretend like you give a shit for the fans, huh?

Is it really that hard to do? You're an actress. You literally lie to people for a living. How about you just keep doing that whenever a camera is pointed in your direction.


And I don't even blame her. It's the fault of the Directors and any of the Executives responsible for these failures. The entire modern Hollywood Culture they've had going on since somewhere in the 2010s, really.

They don't have some Magical Hollywood School where up-and-coming actors and actresses learn Charisma 101 and how to sell a movie to your potential audience, or more importantly "WHAT NOT TO SAY". Nobody in charge there was coaching her and telling her the do's and don'ts when being interviewed. But more than that, she was brought of age in a Hollywood culture that actively taught all of its talent to berate and abuse their potential audience.

Brie Larson exclaiming with all of her conviction to a whole bunch of rich people as she accepted some dumb award only those same rich people care about, that "A Wrinkle In Time wasn't made for 40 year old white men" was a teaching moment. But not the kind of teaching moment that Hollywood had been using it as for the last 10 years. It was a lesson in how NOT to behave when you're in public as a celebrity.

I'm sure, without any guidance to advise her to the contrary, Rachel saw Brie accept the award that night and said, "That's it! That's exactly who I want to be like!".

And be just like her she did...



So yeah...

Ryan Reynolds is awesome and Deadpool 3 should be a treat.



And after that, I hope they take 10 years off of the Comic Book movies and not even attempt to start them up again until they can find people who actually care about the subject matter to put in charge.

Maybe that's a future job for Ryan Reynolds? Maybe he could direct and star in the movie where one day Deadpool passes the torch off to the next Deadpool. I don't even know how that would work, but I bet Ryan could even write that himself and it would be a lot better than anything they've put out since Avengers: End Game.



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According to Variety 'The Fall Guy' is looking at a $30 million plus opening, that may be why the critics like it?

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Breakdown of Earnings: A Starring Role’s Worth

Unpacking an actor’s earnings for a major motion picture involves several components. Here’s a peek behind the curtain:

Base Salary: A-listers like Gosling typically command a hefty upfront payment, regardless of the film’s box office performance. This base salary can range from a cool $5 million to a staggering $20 million, depending on the actor’s star power and the project’s budget. “The Fall Guy,” with its reported $125 million budget, suggests Gosling likely landed on the higher end of this spectrum.

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Bonuses: Performance-based incentives can significantly inflate an actor’s overall earnings. These bonuses often kick in after the film reaches certain box office milestones. Since “The Fall Guy” is shaping up to be a summer blockbuster, Gosling could potentially see additional millions added to his paycheck if the film performs well.

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I think I may have said this before the only thing I really know about Deadpool is that he knows how to push Wolvie's buttons and drive him even crazier than a lot of people think Wolvie is already. So Wolvie threatening to let the air out of Deadpool will be good for a laugh. :)

I'm glad to see 2 actors in a project that actually care about their characters.

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I think I may have said this before the only thing I really know about Deadpool is that he knows how to push Wolvie's buttons and drive him even crazier than a lot of people think Wolvie is already. So Wolvie threatening to let the air out of Deadpool will be good for a laugh. :)

I'm glad to see 2 actors in a project that actually care about their characters.

So, yeah I am stoked for it.

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I never read Deadpool comics. I know he was out sometime in the mid 80's after I was born, but he was never on my radar. But my brother who was into comics a lot more than I was was a huge Deadpool fan and was super pissed when they released Wolverine: Origins and how they treated Deadpool in that movie.

Me, not knowing anything about Deadpool at all when I saw it on cable didn't hate the movie as I guess most folk did.

However much my brother hated that movie, Ryan Reynolds hated it even more and he spent the next 7 years making sure a legitimate representation of Deadpool made it to the screen.

So I do think it's really cool that he got Hugh Jackman on board to reprise his role as Wolverine so they can make the movie Ryan would have wanted to make back before he had any pull in Hollywood.

And I'm sure they're going to roast Wolverine: Origins plenty in this movie.





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All I saw of Deadpool in the comics was from references in the Wolverine and X-Men comics. Wolverine and X-Men were and still are my jam when it comes to comics. :)

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You probably have WAY more knowledge of comics than I do, TBH. I only really got into them when I was a kid because my dad had collected when he was younger and had quite an impressive collection. I read a few comics with superheros as a kid that I bought, but mostly they just ended up bagged and borded because I thought I was going to be rich one day off of them. To this day, none of them are worth the paper they were printed on. I've got comics my old man gave me for Chirstmas as a kid that weren't worth much back then but now are worth easily 10 to 20 times what any of the junk I collected in the 80's and 90's is worth.

Hell... I even have Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in near mint condition and it's only worth like $30 bucks. They were just printing too many comics by the time I was growing up, and everybody else had the same idea as I did too, so there's probably 5,000 copies of Guardians of the Galaxy #1 out there that are in even better shape than mine and nobody want's to pay more than 2 movie tickets for any of them.



The only comics I really read in earnest were the Weird Science reprints my dad was getting around the same time. I liked Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror too, but Weird Science was my jam. Those EC comics reprints in the 80s were awesome.

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I don't remember much of it at all, TBH. I remember being kind of bored, but then I also remember that I did like the lighting in the movie for some odd reason. There was a bit of intrigue there in the lore of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws, but you'd know so much better than I would if any of that was even in the comics or they just made it up for the movie.

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Yup. Played by Ryan Reynolds himself!

That dude has always been Deadpool.

From what I remember, he was a normal dude in the beginning that didn't wear the mask. At that point he was basically Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds in 90% of Deadpool's costume. Witty guy, this alternate reality Deadpool, but over-talkative to the point that I think it would get grating after a while in real life.

And if memory serves, his big mouth is why he got his mouth entirely removed when the "operations" were done to turn him into a super soldier or something. And I think it was by the same guy that put the adamantium inside Logan too. At that point is was angry Ryan Reyonlds that couldn't quip and just had angry eyebrows against Wolverine in the final showdown. I think maybe he was being completely mind controlled at this point too and didn't even have a personality anymore, so the guy removing his mouth was just really being a dick for no reason there.



So I'm actually really glad we had this conversation now so I could remind you of that. This ain't Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynold's first rodeo together.

This is going to be a 15 Year Reunion for both of them playing the same characters they did back then.

Hell... I think I'm probably going to watch Wolverine: Origins again before I watch Deadpool 3 just to see how different they are. Kind of a study on what happens when Corporate Suits have all the control over a movie VS. when a superfan actor does.

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All I saw of Deadpool in the comics was from references in the Wolverine and X-Men comics. Wolverine and X-Men were and still are my jam when it comes to comics. :)

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You probably have WAY more knowledge of comics than I do, TBH. I only really got into them when I was a kid because my dad had collected when he was younger and had quite an impressive collection. I read a few comics with superheros as a kid that I bought, but mostly they just ended up bagged and borded because I thought I was going to be rich one day off of them. To this day, none of them are worth the paper they were printed on. I've got comics my old man gave me for Chirstmas as a kid that weren't worth much back then but now are worth easily 10 to 20 times what any of the junk I collected in the 80's and 90's is worth.

Hell... I even have Guardians of the Galaxy #1 in near mint condition and it's only worth like $30 bucks. They were just printing too many comics by the time I was growing up, and everybody else had the same idea as I did too, so there's probably 5,000 copies of Guardians of the Galaxy #1 out there that are in even better shape than mine and nobody want's to pay more than 2 movie tickets for any of them.



The only comics I really read in earnest were the Weird Science reprints my dad was getting around the same time. I liked Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror too, but Weird Science was my jam. Those EC comics reprints in the 80s were awesome.

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I don't remember much of it at all, TBH. I remember being kind of bored, but then I also remember that I did like the lighting in the movie for some odd reason. There was a bit of intrigue there in the lore of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton and claws, but you'd know so much better than I would if any of that was even in the comics or they just made it up for the movie.

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Funny, I don't remember Deadpool in Wolverine: Origins so he never made much of an impression on me.

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Yup. Played by Ryan Reynolds himself!

That dude has always been Deadpool.

From what I remember, he was a normal dude in the beginning that didn't wear the mask. At that point he was basically Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds in 90% of Deadpool's costume. Witty guy, this alternate reality Deadpool, but over-talkative to the point that I think it would get grating after a while in real life.

And if memory serves, his big mouth is why he got his mouth entirely removed when the "operations" were done to turn him into a super soldier or something. And I think it was by the same guy that put the adamantium inside Logan too. At that point is was angry Ryan Reyonlds that couldn't quip and just had angry eyebrows against Wolverine in the final showdown. I think maybe he was being completely mind controlled at this point too and didn't even have a personality anymore, so the guy removing his mouth was just really being a dick for no reason there.



So I'm actually really glad we had this conversation now so I could remind you of that. This ain't Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynold's first rodeo together.

This is going to be a 15 Year Reunion for both of them playing the same characters they did back then.

Hell... I think I'm probably going to watch Wolverine: Origins again before I watch Deadpool 3 just to see how different they are. Kind of a study on what happens when Corporate Suits have all the control over a movie VS. when a superfan actor does.

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I would hope that he loved that job. I'm just about the furthest thing from a comic book movie fan there is, but even I've got a soft-spot for Hugh as Logan. I really got a kick out of seeing those teaser videos he did with Ryan a year or two back that we saw. Not going to lie, I am actually looking forward to seeing this one. So much that I might even finally get around to seeing Deadpool 2 before I watch it.

I hope it is as good as we think it might be.



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This weekend I saw some films. Reagan was playing. I had planned to see it, but there were no seats available. It was in a very small screen, few seats total.
But the people going into this theaters were all carrying armloads of concessions. Makes me wonder if theaters can track this - which films make the most profit through concessions vs. ticket sales. Those who use their movie rewards card likely got linked in the data, but how would this work otherwise?
I have to believe that if cinema owner knew about this, this film would be in cinema for quite some time - and with more seats, instead of being Sold Out all the time.

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The Soda Pop Club was a teenage Hollywood hotspot where child stars could party without supervision. Often seen there were Alyssa Milano, Tori Spelling, the Coreys, their friend Scott Grimes and Christina Applegate.

Before his death, Haim recounted fond, surreal memories of the Soda Pop Club, including the famous tale of Randy, an eccentric who ran the club, jumping down 11 storeys with a soda pop in his hand, landing on his feet.

The stunt, which sounds unreal, was turned into a commercial for fizzy drink. Haim watched it while holding one of Randy's pet tigers. "It was pretty trippy," he said.

Haim also told a story about driving around in a limousine with one of Randy's jaguars, which had to be tranquillised mid journey when it roared.

He said his time at the Soda Club was before he got into drugs, saying it just wasn't his style then.

"I got really sick and tired of Alphy Hoffman, to be honest with you," he said.

"I don't think he's a good human being, and you can print that sh** too!" he told Vice. He later tried to recant his statements.

Years after Haim's death, Feldman would say he and Haim were raped and intimidated by a number of men in a high-level ring of Hollywood paedophiles, who frequented the Soda Pop Club.

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