MOVIE - Deadpool 2

R (1:59)

Wide release 5/18/18

Viewed 5/19/18
IMBd: 8.1/10

RT Critic:  82  Audience:  86
Critic's Consensus:  Though it threatens to buckle under the weight of its meta gags, Deadpool 2 is a gory, gleeful lampoon of the superhero genre buoyed by Ryan Reynolds' undeniable charm.

Cag:  4/ Liked it a lot

Directed by David Leitch

Twentieth Century Fox

Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin

My comments:  So many funny parts, I tried to ignore all the violence and mayhem because it's so tongue in cheek and laughable.  Some jokes went right over my head, mostly because I couldn't quite understand what was being said.  Ryan Reynolds is such a natural in the part and it was a real blast having Josh Brolin enter the mix.  Music choices were wonderful, and all the additions right up to the very end of the credits were great fun.  Totally packed movie, I got the last seat, but it was smack in the middle of the back row and perfect.  Fun watching it with so many others even if I didn't know any of them!

RT/ IMDb Summary: After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Miami's hottest bartender, while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor - finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover.

MOVIE - Criminal

R (1:53)

Wide Release 4/15/16

Viewed 5/13/16  - first day at cheapie Theater

RT Critic:  31  Audience:  58
Critic's Consensus:  Despite the valiant efforts of a game and talented cast, Criminal has little to offer beyond the bare minimum expected by the most undemanding of genre enthusiasts.

Cag:  4/ Liked it a lot

Directed by Ariel Vromen

Summit Entertainment

Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Tommy Lee Jones

My comments:  My last decadent Friday-after-school-movie.....ever! ? Only one week at THA left!  And this movie was a really good choice.  Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Costner?  Does it really matter what the movie's about?  It was a thriller, edge-of-your-seat-interesting with a (spoiler!) typical really good ending.  A little bloody/gory for me....torture and brain surgery-wise, but I really liked it a lot.  Probably because of the actors - including Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman as well as the afore-mentioned hotties!

INDb Summary:  In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

MOVIE - Deadpool

R (1:43)

Wide release Feb. 12, 2016

Viewed around 5/10/16 
IMBd: 8.1/10

RT Critic:  84  Audience: 90
Critic's Consensus:  

Cag:  4/Liked it a lot

Directed by Tim Miller

20th Century Fox

Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin

My comments:  Though NOT for kids, this was an entertaining, crass, funny, violent movie, full of sexual jokes and innuendos.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the "R" level  stuff.  However, if some of those jokes were changed to just-as-funny PG-13 rated, a whole lot of kids would get a chance to see it.  (Probably wouldn't be as good, though, to tell the truth).

RT/ IMDb Summary: Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life. 

MOVIE - Safe House

Released 2-10-12
R (1:55)
RT Critics 54 Audience 69
My rating:  2.5 (It was decent)
Director:  Daniel Espinosa
Universal Pictures

Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington

Matt Weston (Reynolds) sits day after day in a Safe House in Cape Town, South Africa, in an in-between CIA position, waiting for something to happen before he is fully employed in the manner that he wants.  Tobin Frost (Washington) is an ex-intelligence officer who's been "wanted" for over ten years.  There are mercenaries after Frost, as well as the government, as the two have to become reluctant partners...with Frost always seeming to be devilishly untrustable.

MOVIE - The Proposal

Charming and really, really funny - a feel good movie!
PG-13
108 minutes
Released June 19, 09 (Dede and I tried to see it in LA on opening night, but all had were first row seats, so we declined.)
7/6/09 at El Con by myself
RT: 46% cag 90%
EW: B+
Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Betty White, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen

Lots of good, loud laughs go along with this movie. You can't take it too seriously, and you can certainly enjoy Bullock and Reynolds sparring with one another. Great timing, perfect smirks, incredible bodies, and Betty White is.....hysterical!

Sandra Bullock is the executive editor of a high powered publishing firm in NYC, Reynolds has been her executive assistant for three years. She's one scary boss- sort of like Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada, but toned down a tiny bit. The whole company is afraid of her. Reynolds loathes her. But when she discovers that she's about to be deported to Canada, she instantly comes up with an idea to marry him so that she can stay in the US and keep her job. Enter the Immigration service with all their questions, send the couple to Alaska for "Granna's" 90th birthday, and you more or less have the major premise of the storyline. Bullock in her high heels and tight ass are a little over-the-top when they arrive in Sitka, but I guess they really want the audience to see her mellow out, so there has to be a big difference. These two actors really "work" together.

Alaska, for this film, was actually Bearskin Neck, Rockport; a mansion near Singing Beach in Manchester, and Gloucester - all in Massachusetts. What fun it must have been for the residents to watch the film. The set/setting was great.

Totally enjoyable, I didn't want it to end. The "interviews" at the end during the credits were really fun, too, but I ended up not reading the credits because of listening and laughing through them. Full audience (smallish theater, but it was Monday night...), very noisy before the film started. Loads of laughs and no squriming or talking during the 108 minutes. Everyone seemed to enjoy it.