Yes because a pg-13 deadpool would have been lame AF. Part of the appeal of deadpool is his cursing and violence. It is true that R rated movies have a more limited audience but that's really the market it's best for in this case. Especially since under no condition should a 13 year old be watching deadpool. I would say the release day and the budget were the biggest sabotage efforts by FOX. Because most people don't want to see a "superhero" movie with tons of violence around valentine's day. Deadpool simply managed to be the exception to all of the rules the studio tried to use to kill it.
When I see folks didn’t like Deadpool, I’m like whatever. People like different things. I don’t even like Deadpool as a character but the movie was dope. Anyway, if you didn’t like it because it was short or it felt cheap and underdeveloped, that’s because it was. It was kinda set up to fail. They were given the greenlight the way an impatient parent says ‘fine you can have a dog but if it pisses on the rug, I’m gonna shoot it.’ They had less than a year to complete the movie and were given a budget of 58 million when the average superhero movie budget is between $150-250 million. AND Fox had the nerve to take money out of the budget so they had to write around the money. So Deadpool only having a few bullets? Budget. Forgetting his guns in the car so he can’t use them in the final fight? Budget. Only 2 low profile X-men around, one of which had never been seen before? Budget. And they still managed to make crazy amounts of money and break all kinds of records. I just feel like it’s worth knowing whether you like it or not because I ended up liking the movie a lot more after knowing what they were working against. Deadpool is like the indie movie of this superhero shit
It's not a perfect analogy but I've started to think of mental illness like a breakout. At least for my anxiety this is what I've found to be true. It can be treated but never really cured and sometimes it flares up and you don't know why. Sometimes you can feel it lurking just under the surface of your skin before it flares.It varies in it's severity both within groups of people and in individuals. It can get better or worse as you get older and a treatment that worked for someone else or that worked for you in the past may not work for you presently. Sometimes you know what causes it and you try to stay away from that thing but sometimes it's sudden and painful and you don't know what to do about it. We try and conceal pimples and other types of breakout because while it's fairly common or normal even it's not nice to look at and it can make you self-concious. And in the same way we hide and cover up mental illness. Sometimes what you use to cover it up makes it look better for a while but long-term covering it up rather than treating it can make the problems worse. I hope that someday both breakouts and mental illnesses will be better understood and treated with more care and empathy.
I hope all of yall find $20 on the ground tomorrow.
And I mean that.
me: I know I’m not emotionally prepared for a serious relationship and I have a lot to focus on and accomplish before that can be a priority for me and that’s okay!
me after watching to all the boys i’ve loved before:
I think aiming for policy change and for the government to fine or otherwise punish companies that do bad things is generally the most effective way of getting companies to change.
I am so deeply overwhelmed by the information in this. I don't know whether I'm more shocked by his name or that he changed from a rat to a mouse sometime during my childhood and I didn't notice
Can you imagine going to chuck e cheese as a kid around 1977-1983 and some robot rodent comes alone and just goes
‘You like that fucking pizza you dumb fatass? That’s right go eat that shit up and then play in the ball pit where I piss.’
This is the venice beach that I love. Skating and muscle men and art and graffiti. People selling things and an old man who walks on glass. A perfect mix of relaxed and eccentric.
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