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6 Reasons That Deadpool Is Better Than Any Marvel Movie

Deadpool may be a Marvel creation, but director Tim Miller and producer/star Ryan Reynolds' movie version is about as distant as a super-character can get from the usual Marvel Studios hero. Through 20th Century Fox - the studio having the cinematic rights to the character after introducing him in X-Men Origins - Deadpool has been allowed to become very much the anti-Marvel crusader.

4) It’s Refreshingly Radical

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If you know anything about the film’s background, you know that 20th Century Fox never really had much faith in Deadpool. For years the studio wouldn’t give a green light, then when it finally did, it handed a paltry (for a superhero movie) budget over to a first-time director and a C-list cast (Reynolds excepted). Then, to add insult to injury, Fox dropped the film in the February doldrums, way out of typical summer blockbuster season.

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What all this lack of giving a shit by Fox evidently meant was that Tim Miller, Reynolds and co. could go off and make the film they wanted. And so, the Deadpool movie we have is more intimate and character-driven than your usual superhero film (likely forced to be more ‘intimate’ with the low budget), while the fourth wall-breaking, real world-referencing and ironic use of pop music all seem like radical decisions. No Marvel film has ever felt this revolutionary.