Saw it last night. Greatest opening credits ever?
Terrific fun -- nothing groundbreaking here but hugely self-deprecating, with shots fired at all kinds of targets. You'd never see this from a Disney produced Marvel film. Music stinks but a litany of '80s classics will make you forget all about "JunkieXL"'s underscore. Baccarin is topless, Reynolds is hilarious, even the gore is so cartoonish that it's really not as "out there" as I anticipated. The 4th wall-breaking served it well, and the audience seemed to devour all of it.
It feels like the right comic book movie at the right time -- we've seen so many of the deadly serious super-hero films that here's one that was satirizing most of the cliche conventions of these films while still delivering the basic action entertainment you'd expect.
Monster opening ahead -- I don't think you'll have to worry about this hitting $100 mil MJ (though I have to warn you, lots of '80s film riffs throughout, much to the delight of the audience I saw the film with).
Monster $12.7M THU pre-show debut for #Deadpool - biggest ever for R-rated film.
Aud scores thru the roof. Massive 4day wknd ahead.
By comparison, Zoolander 2 took in $750,000. lol