To put things into perspective, Deadpool, which made 13 times its budget, is more profitable than The Avengers which pulled a revenue six times its budget. This movie showed studios that people will go out in droves to watch a movie, so long as it’s of quality and marketed well. And it did so with a mere US$ 58 million dollars budget. Yet on top of being a smash hit among critics, it also managed to rake in more than US$ 783 million at the global box office. It’s an R-rated comic book comedy about a superhero that had as much mainstream appeal as Coldplay (pre-hipster era). But considering they made jack shit at the box office, they do more to reinforce conventional wisdom than stand up against it.ĭeadpool is a different beast altogether. There’s also the likes of Dredd and Watchmen, both very unique comic book adaptations. But seeing as how The Dark Knight is helmed by Christopher Nolan - who can walk into a studio, pitch a movie about starring at wet paint, and probably walk out with $US 200 million and seven blowjobs - I argue that it’s an exception to the rule, not the rule.

Deadpool is a 100-minute long middle finger to conventional studio wisdom, a wisdom that for the longest time suggested that comic book movies should always be PG-13, made to appeal to the widest possible audience that comic book movies should be big budgeted extravaganzas That comic book is a specific genre with specific parameters. Fu*k it, I’ll do one better: This Ryan Reynolds comedy is a revolution. I just compared Deadpool to love juices and rainbows and then claimed that it’s a vital piece of art. I know I sound like I’m coked out of my mind. It is also one of the most important pieces of cinema this generation has to offer.

Two years ago, I described Deadpoolas such: If Quentin Tarantino, George Miller, and Edgar Wright had a threesome for eight hours and for whatever reason one of them gets pregnant, has a kid that grows up to be a supermodel and that supermodel masturbates on a rainbow, the mixture of the supermodel’s love juices and the rainbow’s residue would be this Deadpool movie.

Juvenile ass like misses incredible