Is Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool just Jim Carrey in The Mask?
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I don't think the characters are that similar beyond an absurd slapstick humor and brash, vulgar quippiness, but I haven't seen the mask in a long time
Ryan seems like a legit nice dude and I'm not trying to shit talk him as a person… but I really honestly can't stand his Deadpool.
People say he nailed it and I'm glad it exists; but it just feels like easy joke after easy joke of Reynolds playing himself.
It's Van Wilder or Waiting guy in a superhero suit and… I dunno, I can see the jokes coming from a mile away.
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People say he nailed it and I'm glad it exists; but it just feels like easy joke after easy joke of Reynolds playing himself.
It's Van Wilder or Waiting guy in a superhero suit and… I dunno, I can see the jokes coming from a mile away.
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I recently rewatched The Mask after not seeing it for probably 15 years. It was much stranger than I had remembered it.
Yeah I enjoyed it. But in a little different way than I had remembered. I'm Carey fan though. I can see how it would be a bit much for some people.
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I'm just getting to the end and I think it holds up. It's really solid.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZi3PhRQw00
I love it how at 1:07 the actor tries not to laugh 😂
Both are comic characters, except comic Mask is wildly difference. If they had adapted it straight it would have been a horror-thriller
its just Ryan Reynolds playing himself in make up. Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool is like a sentient Family Guy joke.
Nah, Jim Carrey is a cartoon character and Ryan Reynolds is….Ryan Reynolds.
Dude is comedy gold in a very strait laced way.
Where Jim Carrey to me will always be fire marshal bill / Ace Ventura to me. Straight cartoon character.
Dude is comedy gold in a very strait laced way.
Where Jim Carrey to me will always be fire marshal bill / Ace Ventura to me. Straight cartoon character.
I think they're very different. I watched The Mask not too long ago, not having seen it since I was a kid. I wasn't a fan of it in the 90's even though I loved Ace Ventura and In Living Color. I really appreciated it this time and felt like a live action cartoon.
Deadpool just feels like most of the characters Ryan Reynolds already plays.
Deadpool just feels like most of the characters Ryan Reynolds already plays.
That formula of actor playing a role they've played before that already somewhat embodies the character seems to work out well for the Superhero genre with both Reynolds' Deadpool and Downey's Iron Man being huge hits.
It works for me as I like those old comedy movies Ryan did, and theres nothing Deadpool has been in that I've found all that funny besides the movies. At least with the movies, it's a chance to see a R rated comedy movie which are just never made anymore and in the theater no less (I don't usually love the theater but both movies were funnier with an audience).
And I agree with others saying Carry's The Mask is a literal cartoon character compared to the Deadpool movies. They don't feel the same at all to me. As an aside, I loved The Mask as a kid, and I tried for years to be allowed to do a figure skating routine to the song "Hey Pachuco" but they never let me.
It works for me as I like those old comedy movies Ryan did, and theres nothing Deadpool has been in that I've found all that funny besides the movies. At least with the movies, it's a chance to see a R rated comedy movie which are just never made anymore and in the theater no less (I don't usually love the theater but both movies were funnier with an audience).
And I agree with others saying Carry's The Mask is a literal cartoon character compared to the Deadpool movies. They don't feel the same at all to me. As an aside, I loved The Mask as a kid, and I tried for years to be allowed to do a figure skating routine to the song "Hey Pachuco" but they never let me.
People who haven't, and have seen the mask, do a second watch with director commentary if possible. Incredibly insightful about all the little animation details they put into it and the chuck jones inspirations they took for them. Very fun and informative, and the director genuinely sounds like that had a great time.
That movie is full of my favorite gags, but the "I think he wants to communicate" with the toy horn that blares so loud it breaks the glass is one of my favorites.
That movie is full of my favorite gags, but the "I think he wants to communicate" with the toy horn that blares so loud it breaks the glass is one of my favorites.
They are both comedic characters that can break the 4th wall and that's about where the similarities end IMO.
I saw The Mask when it came out, I would have been 14 years old. I thought it was fucking stupid and Jim Carrey insufferable.
Didn't like anything with Carrey until The Truman Show which I thought was awesome.
But yeah there are similarities. Carrey is more talented at being annoying though, Reynolds at being smug.
Didn't like anything with Carrey until The Truman Show which I thought was awesome.
But yeah there are similarities. Carrey is more talented at being annoying though, Reynolds at being smug.
The movie version of The Mask makes the two characters feel closer than they really are in style, but their source material is wildly different. Deadpool is... well, Deadpool, while the comic book version of the Mask is more of a horror comedy about power, easy solutions, and the cost of falling for those temptations. The movie Mask is more of a Hero's journey while the comic version clearly presents the Mask itself as a villain, and an incredibly dangerous one at that.
I'd love to see a comic-accurate version of The Mask.
I'd love to see a comic-accurate version of The Mask.
Carrey is an all time great.
Reynolds failed upward & was married on a plantation.
I hate Ryan Reynolds and his high voice ass Deadpool.
Reynolds failed upward & was married on a plantation.
I hate Ryan Reynolds and his high voice ass Deadpool.
