At some point, I must accept that this is what general audiences want now. They do not see this medium as an art form, but rather a content delivery system — something to indulge their unimaginative fantasies while not making them think too hard. To most people, movies are a mindless way to kill a couple of hours. That’s incredibly depressing.
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is one of the most bleak, soulless pieces of popular culture in recent memory. There is not one redeeming quality in the entire film. The story is a mess, it’s completely emotionless (though not for lack of trying), and it is not only completely aesthetically risk-averse but actively incompetent with no sense of how a film should be blocked, lit, or cut. It is not even the film equivalent of a McDonald’s hamburger, at least those taste good. No, this is the film equivalent of a mass-packaged frozen hamburger you get at the grocery store that you left in the freezer past its expiration date. You pull it out because it’s the only available option to eat, it looks a bit gray and sludgey, but you think “How bad could it be?” Two hours later, you’re on the floor of the bathroom, sick from food poisoning.
I refuse to talk in-depth about this movie. If its creators put so little thought and effort into it while getting hundreds of millions of dollars to do so, why should I give it any for free? Not that there’s much to remark on anyway unless you care deeply about cameos from characters from awful movies that nobody likes — though I’m happy for the one dweeb who will probably be very excited to see Jennifer Garner plucked from the limbo of Capital One commercials to reprise her role of Elektra from the 2005 box office and critical bomb. This movie is everything wrong with modern mainstream filmmaking, and I’m furious that audiences still eat it up without question.
