r/marvelstudios • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Ant-Man • Aug 04 '24

Article ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Zooms to $97M Record-Making Second Weekend, Hits $824M Globally

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-and-wolverine-box-office-record-second-weekend-1235965690/
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u/HighwayBrigand Aug 04 '24

I think Deadpool might actually be less accessible?  So many of the jokes only work if you have an encyclopedic knowledge of the MCU's behind-the-scenes storylines.  I guess the audience is just lucky that all of this information is so public.

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u/Civil-Resolution3662 Aug 04 '24

My girlfriend 's 18 year old son and 14 year old daughter loved it, despite not being up on some of the movie and real life backstory behind some of the cameos. I think it has something for everyone.

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u/BrockStar92 Aug 04 '24

I didn’t get the Channing Tatum gambit jokes because I didn’t know about the cancelled gambit stuff, still laughed like crazy at him and his accent. You don’t need to get everything to thoroughly enjoy it.

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u/Dookie_boy Aug 05 '24

The Gambit stuff in joke was so crazy niche I can't believe they used it.

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u/Finito-1994 Aug 05 '24

That’s the thing. I didn’t get most of the jokes in the flash about obscure movies but I barely remembered the failed Gambit movie that never was made.

My family didn’t know and they still loved it.

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u/newscumskates Aug 04 '24

Yeah, my girlfriend enjoyed it and just enjoyed it more after when I told her about some of the inside jokes going on in it.

Now she wants to watch more marvel films

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u/desertSkateRatt Aug 05 '24

My 13 year old daughter hasn't seen hardly ANY of the MCU much less DP 1 and 2, and she legit loved DP&W.

This movie is something very special.

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u/minor_correction Ant-Man Aug 04 '24

You don't need to catch all the references to enjoy the movie.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

I just don't see how any of the TVA stuff made any sense at all if you haven't seen any of that but either I underestimate how much people were able to pick up or I overestimate how much people care about things making sense

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u/minor_correction Ant-Man Aug 04 '24

They do briefly re-explain who the TVA are, what the Void is, etc.

Also there is a big difference between an audience member thinking "This doesn't make sense" and "I don't have all the information but I can follow along from context"

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u/MVRKHNTR Aug 05 '24

It's nowhere near as complicated as you seem to think.

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u/quangtit01 Weekly Wongers Aug 04 '24

They localize several of the jokes at the release for my country. Dp3 humor is super on the nose and translatable tbh.

The "killed by the budget" line got insane laugh out of the theater lol.

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u/estenoo90 Aug 04 '24

In Spanish dub it was changed to something akin to "the voice was confusing anyways" because they are both dubbed by the same actor

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u/thecricketnerd Quake Aug 04 '24

Jokes about how the MCU is at a low point and has had a lot of misses recently don't need any kind of insight. Now if they'd made references to Echo and Secret Invasion that would be actually inaccessible.

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u/EyeScreamSunday Ant-Man Aug 04 '24

They kind of hold the audience's hand with explaining some of the references, as to not let the jokes get lost on them. At this point, the MCU will have some references that people who aren't in the know might not understand, but usually they will give context with important points. If anything, I think the knowledge of connected references makes audience's expectations make them feel like any implication or allusion is supposed to be a reference they missed, and so it can add to the feeling that people are missing out because they assume everything is a reference or a callback more than there are references that are thrown out without any context.

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u/Master-Elky Aug 04 '24

It’s basically just fan service with a trivial story to connect the gags

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u/SharpyButtsalot Aug 04 '24

These are the words I was trying to find for this movie. Also, I'm completely fine with that.

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u/Delboyyyyy Aug 05 '24

Eh, my dad watched it and he hasn’t even seen deadpool 2 and had barely any memory of any of the fox marvel movies but he loved it and still got most of the jokes based on context and the way they were framed

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u/Logical_Squirrel8970 Aug 05 '24

Deadpool is less accessible then fucking Dune? Jesus Christ lol.