Okay, so I knew Deadpool 2 would be sexist and fridge-stuffy. And if my brain were less foggy, I’d have remembered that Ryan Reynolds would spend at best 5% of the movie being pretty instead of masked. So that’s all on me and my choice to watch it…
But having a character repeatedly point out bad, lazy writing doesn’t actually make the writing not lazy and bad. Sure, you can pull that off once or twice as a joke maybe… but if that’s basically all you’ve got? Get a better script before starting production.
Birds of Prey does a better job establishing stakes regarding a sandwich in the first fifteen minutes than Deadpool 2 did regarding the main character’s true love spanning across two movies.