Dear Mr Macdonald,

I can tell from your writing that while you sat in the theater to watch deadpool you were probably wishing you were somewhere else.

And maybe you should of been.

You didn’t enjoy the film and that is perfectly fine. It is clearly not for everyone.

I’m not much of a fan of deadpool or the marvel universe in general myself, and that’s not why I’m here.

I’m here because I found your comments on graphic novels to be laughably ignorant and a little insulting.

But I’m not going to get into a debate about why comics should be considered a legitimate art form like any other medium because, whats the point? Those that know, know. As far as I’m concerned, that argument has already been won. And the nay sayers like you are a dying breed.

I read your “review” (which i give 1 star) and I read comics.

regards

As a fan of film, be it high brow Oscar Bait movies or low brow action brawlers, I enjoy well thought out well written reviews be them negative or positive.Your job is not to pass judgement on the on the medium of comics nor the people reading them. Your job, plan and simple is to review the film and offer an opinion based on your observations. So allow me to offer you a few pointers. You should point out what aspects of the film you didn’t like. Examples being cinematography, acting, musical score, story structure and flow. It also doesn’t hurt to mention items you liked you can even mention the above subjects in this respect as well. Put shortly, your review is the worst I have ever read in my life, you used it as a vehicle to attack people that you think are intellectually lower then you. At best you are uniformed, at worst you are a cyber bully. If you were working for me I would have fired you on the spot for handing in such garbage and your editor.

Mr McDonald,

Overall I’d have to give your review half a star out of five.

Your review seemed to be incredibly short on anything that could be considered a review. This was made very apparent when you resorted to insulting people for their reading choices. I could resort to a similar tactic but unfortunately I possess morals and find it particularly unsavoury.

The impression gathered by your “review” is that you walked into the cinema already hating it and searched throughout the duration for things to hate. No longer can your “review” be counted as fair or unbiased.

The lack of research and understanding of the movie is in itself, laughable. You failed to mention the plot, you mentioned only the lead actors name and seemed to have completely missed the point of Deadpool as a character. He is a drastic juxtaposition to the more mainstream (and kid-friendly) heroes we celebrate, whose purpose is to point out and demonstrate the absurdity of the super hero world.

Furthermore, you seemed to have paid no regard to the cinematography or the script writing which contributes largely to the movie as a finished product.

For the reasons above I give your review the score of half a star out of five.

In future, please address these criticisms and learn from your mistakes.

Caitlin Pengilly

Showing your age mate… and you write for a dying medium… oh well.

I can’t believe someone actually agreed to publish this ‘review’ from Dougal McDonald, in which he describes an abstract version of the plot that does little more than reach a word count. It provides absolutely no help to someone wanting to know whether the film is worth seeing. I guess that’s what you get for reading stuff on the Internet.

Whatever happened to the days when a review would actually look at what the film was trying to achieve, the themes it addresses, how it succeeds and where it fails? Instead of a reasoned article that addresses the worth of the film, we get 190 words of someone being a jerk.

Having seen this film, I can say it won’t be to everyone’s taste. It has a weird, dark sense of humour, and that humour is rampant throughout. The main character knows he is in a film and frequently breaks the ‘fourth wall’ to talk to the audience. The movie pokes fun at itself and the superhero genre as a whole (something that I would think Mr. McDonald would have appreciated, as he evidently loathe graphic novels. The reason, then, to review a movie adaptation of a graphic novel defies the capacity of a sentient being). The action sequences are over the top. Most of the humour is crass. But at the same time, we see our anti-hero struggling to come to terms with the hand life has dealt him, and his quest for revenge. There’s some really touching moments, which the director does a great job of weaving in and showing us a human side to our anti-hero. I also thought the pacing was well done, jumping between action and flashbacks in a way that was engaging and provided backstory without getting bogged down.

Unfortunately, Dougal McDonald missed all of that. But if you can read his review… then you already realised you wasted your time.

The best thing about this review is the comments. Regardless of your opinion on Deadpool, this is an extremely lazy, tragically written review. Even forgiving the juvenile attack on graphic novels, the substance (or lack thereof) of the review in a critical sense is not worthy of publishing.

Thankfulky the comments save an amateur piece of journalism and gave me something entertaining to read.

Wait – are we ignoring the bit where the only fact the reviewer included is wrong?

‘Acquired special powers during post-trauma recovery.’ It was cancer, wasn’t it? Not ‘trauma’?

I haven’t seen the film – yet – but I’m pretty sure it was cancer.

My husband and I are off to see it as soon as we can. At last count we had seven degrees between us, including a PhD from Cambridge. Fortunately we’re in the majority who don’t find their intellect threatened by fun – especially not whip-smart fun like Deadpool.

Hi, sorry as there were no pictures in your story I didn’t understand it. Certainly couldn’t find a review but a mans bias opinion. Certainly the best work of fiction I’ve ever read. Though I might be slow or something. Oh well, back to enjoying my incredible life.

Dear Mr. MacDonald,

You really did not have to start by being uncivil. But in keep with that tone of being disrespectful let me blast my load.

If you are going to review a damn movie then….

DO
YOUR
JOB

You DONT have to like all the movies. The fact you can not get very simple plot points right, makes me think you were either a sleep (maybe just didnt go?) or you were so dumb your brain can not compute simple things, like, right or left.

Attacking things (like your view ship and graphic novels) because you dont understand something makes you a Richard Cranium. Not a Reviewer. There are several “Graphic novels” on the New York Times best sellers and best written lists. Are they lowbrow?

There are also really people, who love films and want to share that experience with others! local talent of artist who dont like everything and would be happy to review it.

And yes. I know it’s a free mag, Citynews should fire you and ask for their money back because “they understand the intellectual level of that audience.” And know when someone insults there viewership it’s never good business.