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Which is a big "duh" considering the content thus far in this post...
Saw this on Saturday. I was terribly disappointed in how they did Deadpool, considering the actual story of Wade Wilson. I expected there to be at least some authenticity to his story due to the rumors of a solo spinoff. Aside from him inheriting Wolverine's mutant regeneration/healing through the Weapon X program, everything else was just pushed together for this film. There was no "Weapon XI" and/or super combination of mutant powers like that with Deadpool (in fact he didn't even get the abilities until much later). The program was to imbue Wolverines mutant ability to other mutant/mercs and the rejects of the program (ie. Deadpool, Slayback, Sluggo, Wildchild, Ajax, etc.) were sent to a seperate facility to test and find out why.
The real disappointment is that Deadpool has such a dark, rich backstory that would have made an absolutely awesome movie (if handled right and rated R), and it would have been great to see the relationship/turmoil between himself and Death post-Weapon X program in the reject facility, and the actualy "Dead Pool" events.
Instead they just turned him into fodder for Wolvy to kill in the movie. Yippee...
Jackman was definately born to play Wolverine, though. And Liev Schreiber was a terrific Sabertooth. Agent Zero was, blah. Gambit...well...I think even people that simply saw the trailer know that he was terribly cast, so you don't even need to see the movie to know his representation sucked.
Ah well, hopefully Origins: Magneto will be better. Plenty to look forward to this summer with the new Transformers movie, G.I. Joe, and future Marvel movies on the later horizon.
Edited, May 4th 2009 9:42am by Ryneguy