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THB #580: Deadpool, Wolverine & SPOILERS

THB #580: Deadpool, Wolverine & SPOILERS

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Jul 29, 2024
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THB #580: Deadpool, Wolverine & SPOILERS
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Linked here is the spoiler-free version of my Deadpool & Wolverine review. I suggest that you try that and avoid this one if you haven’t seen the movie.

The below is not only a review with spoilers, but I am writing it as though you are someone who has seen the movie and wants to discuss it.

SPOILERS!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!
SPOILERS!!!!

Subtle enough?

Let’s Fucking Go…

I really, really, really don’t mind people hating Deadpool & Wolverine. That is taste.

As it turned out, Spartacus was on TCM this weekend and I turned it on just as this infamous exchange was starting in the tub.

Crassus : Do you eat oysters?
Antoninus : When I have them, master.
Crassus : Do you eat snails?
Antoninus : No, master.
Crassus : Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?
Antoninus : No, master.
Crassus : Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
Antoninus : Yes, master.
Crassus : And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
Antoninus : I…

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