{"id":82699,"date":"2024-08-01T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/deadpool-wolverines-credits-are-better-than-the-entire-movie\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:03:19","slug":"deadpool-wolverines-credits-are-better-than-the-entire-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/deadpool-wolverines-credits-are-better-than-the-entire-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadpool & Wolverine\u2019s Credits Are Better Than The Entire Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em><\/a><\/span> is meant to be both a beginning and an end. The third of the Ryan Reynolds films about Marvel\u2019s merc with a mouth is the character\u2019s MCU<\/a><\/span> debut, but it also shuts the book on the Fox era<\/a><\/span> of superhero films. It doesn\u2019t do either particularly well, instead mostly acting as a receptacle for endless cameos and progressively tired meta-jokes. But in the very last minutes of the movie, literally during the credits, Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> gives the Fox era the send-off it deserves.<\/p>\n

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When the long-awaited team-up of Reynolds\u2019 Deadpool and Jackman\u2019s Wolverine (okay, they were both in X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em><\/a><\/span> but we don\u2019t talk about that film) comes to a close the credits begin to roll, and they contain a surprise for fans. Next to the endless scroll of names of those who worked on this movie is a montage. It\u2019s not a gag reel for Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> or a jokey end-credit sting (the movie does still have one of those at the very end, however). Instead, it\u2019s a montage of iconics moments and behind-the-scenes footage spanning the entire catalog of Fox\u2019s Marvel movies. If you grew up watching them, it will<\/em> make you cry.<\/p>\n

Set to Green Day\u2019s \u201cGood Riddance (Time of Your Life),\u201d the credit montage is a loving send-off to the non-MCU Marvel films. Over the course of a few minutes, we see clips from the X-Men <\/em>movies, the Fantastic Four<\/em> (both iterations), the Deadpool<\/em> films, and more. This is all intercut with behind-the-scenes footage of the actors who gave life to these beloved characters, smiling and having fun in the midst of making these movies that would become so iconic. Seeing Ian McKellen do a costume test for the Magneto helmet hits hard. Seeing Reynolds talk so excitedly about portraying Deadpool even back in Origins<\/em> is equally meaningful, showing how long he has been invested in this character. <\/p>\n

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What makes it special is that it doesn\u2019t just focus on the good. Sure, there\u2019s a lot of space in the montage given to the 2000 X-Men<\/em> movie and X-Men: First Class<\/em>, but you also see clips from what are widely considered the worst parts of the Fox catalog, such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em>, Josh Trank\u2019s Fantastic Four<\/em>, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix<\/em>. It\u2019s a celebration of everything good and bad from an era that brought superheroes into the modern age through trial and error. As Ryan Reynolds put it in an Instagram post<\/a><\/span> to celebrate Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>\u2019s release, it was a \u201cfun, weird, uneven, and risky world\u201d that 20th Century Fox created.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just disappointing that Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> itself can\u2019t be that heartfelt goodbye. The movie retains the constant meta-jokes, violence, and easter eggs found in the first two Deadpool<\/em> movies but lacks the same heart. Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> forgoes the emotional core beneath Deadpool\u2019s humor in favor of appealing purely to the most tired part of fandom culture. It constantly uses cameos and references to other Fox and MCU projects as a crutch rather than building a compelling story of its own. Blade<\/a><\/span> shows up and it\u2019s cool, he says that one line you laughed at in 1998! His character, however, means nothing for Deadpool & Wolverine <\/em>as a story of its own. That is true of most every cameo that shows up.<\/p>\n

Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em> fails to give the films that came before the goodbye they deserve, so the movie throws a montage at the end of it all to do the job. It\u2019s a wonderful montage, and It does make me reminisce about how important the Fox era was, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that that emotion comes solely from footage of those movies, not from Deadpool & Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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