3/8/16 Deadpool Was A Different Hero Story?

    We went and saw Deadpool on Saturday night.  I wasn't sure what to expect, with all the hoopla about it being a rated R movie and not for children.  I mostly agree now, but it wasn't really filled with gratuitous sex, it just had very specific things that made you cringe.  In the opening battle scene which was done in slow motion and through it we heard most his origin story as he continuously broke the 4th wall and talked to the audience, something he supposedly did in the comics, he gets shot right in the asshole, which they show a hole in his costume.  He kills a lot of "bad guys" by cutting off their heads, by almost splitting them in two with his swords, by any means possible.  To show his special power of healing, he gets shot in the arm and shows the camera where the hole is immediately filled.  After he has killed most of the bad guys, he has the one he is after stabbed through the chest and a concrete wall when a couple of B class X-Men show up.  They have been trying to recruit him to join the good guys.  The big silver metallic hero is a generic Arnold Schwarzenegger who just beats you, and the smaller girl heats up like a sun and explodes on people.  They talk so much, the bad guy escapes, and they cuff him to bring him in, and again to show his healing powers, he cuts off his hand.  In the next scene they show him already growing a baby hand and he uses it for some more comedy, messing around with his blind old lady roommate, he tickles her chin lovingly, she says that feels oddly like a baby arm, he says he needs to try jerking  off, he is going to feel giant in that baby hand.
    What makes it funny is Deapool played very comfortably by Ryan Reynolds constantly talking, mostly like a smart ass and directing the comedy to us.  At one point he goes to the X-Men castle and only the same two X-Men answer the door.  He says I'll wait outside and says "just you two again, like the studio didn't want to spend more money and show any other X-Men."  He doesn't make mention of it, but it is funny that he uses the same cab driver to drive him to his battle scenes.  He doesn't have a cool vehicle yet, like Wolverine and his motorcycle or the X-Men jet.
    Since it is his origin story, we see that although he never coughs or shows signs of being sick, he has cancer in his lungs, and all over his chest.  A mysterious man offers to heal him, in a shady way because he was a hero in the military with 41 confirmed kills.  He blows him off, but then he looks at his girlfriend and feels bad she will be heartbroken if he doesn't try something.  He goes to the shady character, and he does save him from the cancer but it is for their own devices.  They have been turning people into mutants by forcing their genes to activate.  They never know what exactly will happen, but something useful usually does.  The catch is that they are implanted with something to make them slaves, Deadpool manages to escape, and the bad guy he is trying to kill in the opening scene is this guy.
    It will be fun to see him inserted into the X-Men world as those dudes take themselves a bit too seriously, except for Wolverine who cracks the occasional joke.