EDIT: OK folks, it's happened the ceremony is complete, the winners are announced and the fun has been had for another year. Sadly due to my real job I didn't get to sit and watch the ceremony live as I have been able to in the past, one of the saddest parts of no longer working in the film industry, however I have sat myself down with a cup a while I update this post for some serious Oscars binge viewing (much to the disgust of my man friend who would rather be watching the cricket or some such form of sportsball).
I've thrown into my original post of my faves and my predictions the winners. How did you fare with your predictions?
Here are my predictions for the 2016 Academy Awards, what I think will win and what I hope will win. In some cases they are one and the same, but not always. There are also some that I have based just on trailers and reviews because the films aren't out yet in Australia or are hard to come by when they do make it to our shores.
So, here we go...
Friday, 26 February 2016
Sunday, 21 February 2016
DEADPOOL - review
DEADPOOL
Director: Tim Miller
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Karan Soni, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand, Gina Carano
Synopsis: This is the origin story of a former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humour, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Well, well, well, I finally got to a session of DEADPOOL and in the words of my BFFs teenager "it was everything the DEADPOOL story should be and more". Now I trust this kid because he knows what's what when it comes to the superhero world, I just like to watch them so I don't know much about the accuracy, but he does, so when he says it's good, you know it's good. The stars aligned this week and my BF and I managed to wrangle a morning off together, so I bundled up my crochet and we toddled off to catch the early morning session at his local cinema. After I came to terms with the fact that 2 tickets and two bottles of water was over $50 (that doesn't happen at my local independent cinema), we settled in to catch the latest instalment in the ever growing Marvel Universe.
DEADPOOL had a rocky start, but thankfully some leaked studio footage, it became a much talked about film at the 2014 Comi-con and from what I've heard, fans are pretty darn happy with the end result. DEADPOOL is a renegade, foul-mouthed, anti-hero, but he sure delivers a lot of heart with a huge side of sarcasm.
Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is an ex-Special Forces operative with a dishonourable discharge, turned mercenary, who lives a shady life, but manages to find his match in Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Unfortunately he is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and in a bid to protect her from seeing him decimated by the asshat that cancer is, he takes up some shady characters on their offer to help him kick his cancer to the curb by unlocking his dormant mutant genes. After undergoing some special kinds of torture at the hands of Ajax (Ed Skrein) and Angel Dust (Gina Carano), he is left with rapid self healing powers, but he is no longer his super beautiful self. He sets out on a mission to hunt down Ajax to get him to reverse the damage to his looks, or watch the malevolent douchecanoe die a slow and painful death.
I'd probably want to kill the person that made me look lie that too
Image via Marvel
His sidekicks are apparently well known in the DEADPOOL storyline, Weasel (T.J. Miller) and Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), but they don't feature too strongly in the film, they leave plenty of room for the development of Vanessa, and her relationship with Wade. What I found with DEADPOOL was that the characters in the film were all there for a purpose rather than a bunch of fodder characters. It was as refreshing as seeing Wade continuously breakdown the fourth wall during the film. I appreciated the fact that the film took the piss from the opening credits all the way through to the end, it shows that studios are moving away from the stock standard formula of making a superhero movie and bringing something different to the screen. Well played script writers, well played. Heavy credit given to the writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, they have done an amazing job with this script, fast paced, witty, dark, and heartfelt, they have given their actors a solid platform from which to jump into the Marvel Universe, and DEADPOOL has skyrocketed to the top of my faves list for the superhero genre.
I love an action film with a love story - it's got everything going for it
Image via Marvel
4 out of 5
Xoxo
The Blonde Bombshell
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