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Ever since Disney bought everything and every film studio there ever was everyone is obsessed with multiverses and sure, it could be quite awesome to see many of your favorite characters cross over with each other but it could just as easily get quickly ridiculous and before you know it movies become a mess of so many different characters doing cameos instead of moving the narrative forward and actually having to matter at all in the context of a movie itself. Since when has a moving picture become a theme park?

I always liked Deadpool and his unconventional self-centered and mocking, uncensored and fourth-wall breaking humor and Deadpool & Wolverine has got that over the edge and more but what else is this Poolverse of madness besides a big cash grab and a huge fan service comic book geek fest? Yeah, that about sums up the whole movie but boy it is fun to watch though.

In the credits there are five guys behind the script to Deadpool & Wolverine including the maestro Ryan Reynolds himself and you can't help but seeing it in almost every frame (the first Deadpool was written by just two people) as so many characters appear per second you can blink and miss some big reveal. Naturally when there are a lot of people involved into one project they each bring their ideas and by mixing them together they can either get a disastrous mish-mash of a movie or a masterpiece and I believe in this case they did a bit of both.

My biggest and probably the only issue with this movie is that it tries to please every single soul on the planet starting with Kevin Feige (and he sure is pleased by the box office results) but it fails as a cohesive body of work with its almost non-existent plot. Those bits of authentic script when the characters factually talk and communicate with each other and share their moments with one another are so rare and scattered they make you miss classic human interaction but they do make up for the many brainless fight scenes instead. When Deadpool or Wolverine break down their characters the movie shines brightest. Sure if we're off to see a superhero bloody gore fun time of a movie we're not looking for some real emotions, we're just in it for the sheer entertainment of it, to switch our own respective realities for a bit and just enjoy the big names party hosted by Ryan and Hugh Jackman.

I'm no fan of superhero movies, in fact my only exception to the rule was Deadpool (and in the world of TV it's obviously The Boys) - he embodied my attitude toward superhero movies and expressed it loudly to the screen with a middle finger but with this entry he somewhat succumbed to the whole thing that he himself was so against of as if saying "okey doke if I'm doing this at least let me do it my way". Considering this I can't give Deadpool & Wolverine a better rating than of the two previous films but overall I liked it a lot - multiverse-wise it works ten thousand percent and is easily an A+ but narrative-wise it's pretty mediocre and is a C so a strong B is in order then.

I got this movie during covid but couldn't get around to it until now; the only thing I remembered about it was that it was science fiction and I love it with all my heart and now, having finally seen it I'm speechless.

I liked Theo James in The time traveler's wife so I was pleasantly surprised to see him in the main role here as well (as I said I remembered almost nothing about the contents of the movie). In Archive he plays a widowed scientist who tries to replicate his wife based on the source code of the machine (the titular 'Archive') that has the memories of her. An interesting concept that's been tossed around a couple of times in sci-fi movies and I can totally see it happening somewhere in the future.

Is it a good idea to keep a person semi-alive after they died? They will live in you anyway and trying bringing them back to life, especially by using some scientific mumbo jumbo is a healthy scenario for a psychological breakdown, in my opinion. Letting go is, after all, a part of life also, something you have to deal with, otherwise you would be fixated on one thing for the rest of your (so called) life and I'm sure none would want that.

Archive is well-balanced in that matter, it gives you plenty of food for thoughts without being specifically insistent on the main character's dilemma: he created a thing he believed was real but how long until you realize you're living a dream? Theo's George is a character easy to empathize even with his obsession, and through his eyes we learn most of the salt and pepper we eat the world of Archive with. And that ending...

I rarely am surprised while watching a new movie but boy this one has got me scratching my head for a long time. I can't say that it was a perfect ending, a bit too far-fetched for sure, but it's definitely inches from being one of the best endings of all. Both Theo and Stacy Martin have given their roles a life of their own and the screenwriter Gavin Rothery in his directorial debut has made a low budget sci-fi movie into a near masterpiece of human emotions that would still be relevant in hundreds of years to come.

I watched this movie for the first time a long time ago, the last being some 12 years ago but it still resonates in me as one of the sweetest love stories ever put on film.

Everything in this movie is perfect, from the casting of a newcomer Audrey Hepburn (it was her big Hollywood debut role and already she won an Oscar for it, quite deservedly I must say) to one of the most enchanting and picturesque film locations ever, in the eternal city of Rome. Roman Holiday has plenty to offer to a viewer even after more than 70 years since its premiere; that's what truly great movies usually do, they have no time constraints and barriers, relevant topics and a big heart that speaks to so many generations of people all over time and the world.

Once in a while we all need to take a little vacation, a holiday, when we can forget about the life we were living up to that point, of all of the affairs, troubles and responsibilities we owe to ourselves and people around us and just be our true selves, even if it's for just a day. Most of us would call it a day off but it becomes a holy day when we're surrounded by those we love, in the place we too love as much. Not many of us can allow that kind of day to ever happen - it doesn't mean we shouldn't try and get it. Even a royal princess can and she has much more to give up than us, the common folk.

Roman Holiday is a masterpiece, period. It's one of a kind, it's funny, it's sad, it's all there is you seek in a good motion picture - one miss Hepburn would be a reason enough to put this on the shelf with other greats, but when you add fantastic performances by Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, crafty cinematography, gorgeous musical score, masterful direction by William Wyler and a superb script by maestro Dalton Trumbo you'll get a movie that you will always remember.