Deadpool

Deadpool's success accelerates the inevitable: total geek domination

   Ryan Reynolds’s sexually-fluid superhero is set to clean up at the
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   guaranteed. But Deadpool doesn’t just offer up a hero it thinks the
   fanbase will love, it offers up an entire world. It is one of the best
   articulations of “geek culture” to reach the big screen. And if it can
   pull off big numbers at the cinema with an exclusively adult audience,
   it will presage not only more movies like it but bring geeks one step
   closer to what they truly want; control of the entire world.

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   Here are a few of the ways in which Deadpool mirrors geek taste. Its
   hero is a young white male who’s also the ultimate outsider. It’s built
   on layer upon layer of cultural reference, where the fun comes not from
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   Basically Deadpool is Reddit: the movie. It’s highly enjoyable, and
   very well made, but it’s also a marker, a moment where a massive
   multi-million dollar bet has been made on geek culture being not only a
   mainstream proposition but an adult one too. I’m not saying it’s bad
   for that. Even if I did despair for our common humanity, it’s delivered
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   willingness to feel the burn will get you. If the box office
   predictions prove correct and Deadpool is just a sign of things to
   come, I for one welcome our geek overlords.

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