It does seem a little weird that the Deadpool movies can be so hugely popular, and generate billions in dollar in revenue, without anybody really having much interesting to say about them. They're a lot of fun, with the fourth wall breaking, the incredible carnage, and the absolutely non-stop snark, but there's nothing much to add.
While the latest one has some added Wolverine, it really is just like all the rest, even with a staggering number of cameos. Like every single Marvel film, it's fine. Just fine.
It's easy to think the fact that the new one is now the highest-earning R-rated film in US movie history is a sign of the end of modern cinema, but they are just fast food, and there's tonnes of other gourmet options out there.
I've eaten at a couple of the most well-regarded restaurants on the planet, and I'll never forget those meals and will probably never stop talking about them, but I've also had the most disposable burgers and fried chicken on the planet, and while those meals can be extraordinarily satisfying, I have nothing to say about them.
You can have both kinds of dining experiences - if your diet was solely filet-o-fish and KFC buckets, that could be a concern, and everything would taste like nothing. (I'm sincerely not judging anybody who does live like this, some people are fine with this kind of diet, and god bless you, good sirs.) But life is better when you have a taste of low and high.
So yeah, I went to Deadpool with my best mate Kyle and we had a bloody good time and that's all there is to it. Then I come home and watch some Jodorowsky or Lynch or something, and can feel all the different ways movies can move me. You can have both of these experiences.
One of them is disposable, and one might leave you with a wonderful taste of cinema that you'll remember forever, and never stop talking about. Both are valid.
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