Day: February 15, 2016

A lazy monday while I wait for my back to heal. It isn’t healing nearly fast enough and the pain is debilitating. I can handle it, but my range of motion is stupidly small. Surprisingly, stairs are the easiest part of my walking routine. That may be because I’m not expecting to walk fast or move my legs and hips too much in that process.

The best thing about this is that I’m healthy enough today to settle into work mode and get some writing done. Right after…

 

Some Thoughts:

1. Now that the warm glow of Deadpool has faded, I can see one very clear crack in the storyline. So, the love interest is the mutant Copycat. Her history and name are the same, but she seems to possess no powers whatsoever. What’s up with that? Also, Angel Dust is actually Arclight. Just saying.. Finally, if you go then you MUST stay for the after credits scene. Worth it.
2. My back is still in bad enough shape that I am going to move my classes around on tuesday to limit the amount of walking I need to do. At least I’m trying to hold classes. That is a goal this semester: no absences. NONE.
3. Another goal is to get myself on track both physically (because reasons) and fiscally.
4. The Michael Brown shooting was found to be a just shooting, which many are touting now as proof that bias doesn’t exist in the police. Now that is just ignorant or easy. The thing is, if this were an isolated incident, it wouldn’t be a big deal. See, the straw that broke the camel’s back isn’t important on its own–even if it wasn’t a straw at all. The straw only matters because of the others that got the camel so weighed down in the first place.
5. I’m watching my son’s cat stalk every shadow, paperclip, and ball in her sightline. She bored.

I love movies. I especially dig comic book movies. The problem I always encounter is that once the origin story happens the movies tend to fall apart. They can’t hold the story together because the characters are all the same and lack any deep appeal. There are two basic character archtypes–Supermen and Batmen. The supers have these powers and want to be moral upstanding people. The bats want to get stuff done. Now as a comic book reader I am well aware of the nuance and the multitude of micro shifts along the scale between those two opposing forces.

Deadpool exists on an entirely different scale.

Wade Wilson, obvious play on Deathstroke’s Slade Wilson, is a merc with a mouth; a sharpshooting, wisecracking, a-hole who has a score to settle. The film digs into his backstory, telling a tale of a Deadpool we wanted while simultaneously erasing the one everyone hated. Both things happened, and without giving away anything I can say that both marvel universes were finally joined. There are obvious element from the Avengers world and as for the X-men world, two of them are in the cast. All of this adds up to a movie that had a lot to deliver and not a lot of minutes to make that a reality.

The film was everything I expected. I cannot find a lot of negative words to share about it. There were so many references to both marvel movie chains that I had to stop counting. To be honest, I had to stop counting because it was distracting me from loving the dialogue. His quips were so perfectly timed and so telling that he could’ve spent the movie rowing across the Bering strait and I would’ve loved that journey.

Deadpool is worth the admission price. In fact, buy popcorn. You’ll want it.