Deadpool 2

If you saw the first Deadpool film and liked that you're going to like this one. I'm not really sure how it works on its own because I, for one, was happy I had saw the first one again just a few days prior. There were a lot of references to the first movie as well as pop culture references in general. At times I felt it got a bit overboard, but honestly I'm not one of those people who minds them. In fact I usually like them. I felt that at times they just repeated the same joke from the first film and that did feel a bit...old.

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Otherwise it's a fun film. As in the first film it has the same crude, rude, yet creative and fun humour that really fits into this film's general tone. I'm not the one for gross comedy and swearing and sex jokes, but the ones in this film are creative. Also, Marvel has done enough death scenes recently that Deadpool's had me wonder if he was actually going to die. And even if he would have - it would have still been a fun scene and it's hard to make death scenes not feel too heavy. Shrek has done the comically slow death joke before, but it was still funny. I'm not saying it was completely void of clichés, but I am saying it was fun to watch and I laughed a lot and some of the humour was very creative and it was all very true to the way Deadpool is.

Basically it comes down to this - if you like Deadpool you'll like this and if not then I don't think you will? But I did. If you don't know if you like Deadpool yet, give it a go! Maybe you will.

Avengers: Infinity War

Was it a great movie? I wouldn't say it was some grand masterpiece. It had so many plot-lines going and and loads of characters and you could sort of feel that they tried to cram as many of them in there as physically possible. Also it seemed they tried to film this around actors and their schedules. There are so many famous and great actors in this film and they can't possibly all be in the same place at the same time so it seemed that they were trying to keep that in mind while filming. That might not have even been the case, but it certainly felt and seemed that way.

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The storyline wasn't anything amazingly unique either, but the story was comprehensible despite the many plot-lines and characters. Some things, such as Thanos killing his daughter were so utterly predictable he might have as well carelessly thrown her off the cliff for comedic effect. Yes, they wanted to show he did really love her, but we sort of get that from what we're shown before and we all knew he was going to do it.

I loved the ending. It was totally unexpected for me. I doubt Marvel will actually kill off half of its characters in the MCU, so the stakes aren't as high as they may seem, but it was a good, bold ending and I liked it. I've longed for a film where the villain wins plenty of times. Honestly, I really loved the film too. These are the characters I know (well, most of them at least, I haven't seen all of the previous films) and some of whom, I love. I felt good coming out of the cinema. I thought about this film days later and really, what more could you ask for?