Deadpool Proves The Art of the Movie Gunfight is Dead. Or Does It? [Video NSFW]

By Robert Farago

I’m not familiar with the Marvelous character Deadpool. Apparently, DP [sic] is known for breaking the so-called “fourth wall,” addressing snarky comments directly to the viewer. In this clip, the self-aware superhero tells the audience that a gory bad guy massacre has left him feeling onanistic. Talk about TMI. Actually, let’s talk about cinematic gun fights. I haven’t seen a good one in a long time. In most recent action movies (e.g., the latest Mission Impossible) the heroes exchange gunfire with the baddies to no real effect, with the occasional flesh wound (I’m OK!). The real fight has to be . . .

mano-a-mano with fists. Or, in the case of Deadpool, ninja swords. I blame Indiana Jones. The infamous scene where Indy shoots a sword-wielding baddie without a second glance almost seemed to say gunfights, meh. Time to move on. And boy has Marvel raised the weaponry game, to the point where bad guys use an entire city (albeit an Eastern European one) as a ballistic device. In short, the great cinematic gunfights have disappeared. The lever gun stupidity of Jurassic World has to be seen to be …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns