Domino

I fell asleep during the first Deadpool. Combination of weed, pizza, and the kind of exhaustion that hits without warning. I remember the opening being solid, then I woke up at the credits. Not the kind of experience that makes you clamor for more.

Wasn’t planning to see the sequel. I’ve got a backlog of actual important things to watch before I run out of time. But then the Deadpool 2 trailer hit and something shifted. One character. One person. Domino.

Zazie Beetz as Domino absolutely captured me in a way that was almost stupid. I could feel myself getting into it and not really caring who knew. Ryan Reynolds is doing his whole hot-guy-with-jokes thing and fine, sure, I see it, whatever—he’s doing his job. But Domino. That’s the character that made me think, yeah, I’m going to sit in a theater for two hours and watch this.

So I went because of her. That was the entire motivation. That was the whole reason I bought a ticket. And I’m completely fine with that being the story. No apologies, no pretense. I wanted to watch Domino and so I did.