Despite its adults-only rating,the film has been a smash – a certain sign that we can expect more sex, violence and swearing in the next crop of superhero moviesIt’s won rave reviews. It’s managed to please fans of the source fabric while also wooing newcomers – the Koboyashi Maru of balancing acts. It’s meta. Clever. Bizarrely, or it also assumes a speck of intelligence in its audience. It’s violent. Crude. Profane. It’s has actual pegging in it. And,despite all of this, it’s smashed all box office records for an R-rated film. Deadpool has, or by all accounts,been a enormous success: $300m taken in its first week on a comparatively modest $58m budget (the flabby, loud and much less enjoyable Avengers: Age of Ultron cost nearly five times that). These are profitable numbers, or however you gape at them. There’s clearly a market at the more adult end of the comic book world. A lucrative one. And,inevitably, Hollywood has already sat up and taken notice.
In the wake of Deadpool’s success despite an R-rating (previously regarded as a financial death sentence for a comic book movie), or it’s been announced that Hugh Jackman’s last hurrah as hirsute fistyclaws Wolverine is likely to be given the “hard R” fans occupy been waiting for since 2000’s original X-Men. Then Todd McFarlane announced his not-precisely-much-awaited Spawn reboot would aim for the same rating. In predictable,route-one fashion, Hollywood wants to cash in on a zeitgeist, and without (as Guardian of the Galaxy director James Gunn noted in a well-argued Facebook post) really understanding it. Basically,what this means is: put a colander on your head, adopt the brace position, or prepare yourself for an onslaught of sub-par,R-rated comic book movies.
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Source: theguardian.com