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DEADPOOL 2 (2018) - A better X-Men movie than the X-Men movies

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Deadpool 2  is a satirical black comedy superhero movie from the studio that killed Wolverine. The movie is directed by David Leitch, and stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, Brianna Hildebrand, and Stefan Kapičić. In the movie, Deadpool must overcome a personal tragedy, which he tries to cope with by protecting a young mutant using the newly formed X-Force team from the time-traveling soldier Cable. If you liked the first Deadpool , you'll like this movie as well. You won't love it, but you'll like it. It's a wild avalanche of snarky fourth wall-breaking humor and comic violence that seeks to please the comic book nerds as well as the regular movie-going audience. There are a lot of great jokes in here and the movie stays consistently funny from beginning to end, especially with every time it pokes fun at the superhero movie industry which has only grown since its last debut in 2016. Of all the new characters in ...

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018) - A balance of strengths and flaws

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Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 superhero movie that celebrates the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 10th anniversary. The movie is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, stars literally everybody, and follows the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy as they attempt to stop the mad titan Thanos from obtaining the all-powerful Infinity Stones. While it is a sequel to 2012's Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron , the movie is a culmination of all eighteen movies that have come before it, bringing together characters and plot threads from the preceding movies and providing the first of a two-part story that will conclude in next year's yet untitled Avengers 4 . I think the most important thing to consider when it comes to this movie is to understand what it is and what it achieves at doing. This is a movie that is a culmination of all its previous films, and while I'd argue it's more of a sequel to about three films ( Civil War, Guardians 2, and ...