They did a lot with a small budget. You can see several places where they cut corners to make this thing happen. Huge success story. I think the movie benefited from the small budget in that they didn't cram a bunch of characters in and could focus on the ones that mattered.
We'll do spoilers tomorrow. For now, Ryan Reynolds was obviously perfect for the role. I'm happy he got to make this thing happen. The villains were good. Marvel could learn something about how to get the most out of villains with little time. Morena Baccarin almost made me want to watch Gotham again. She was great. I love how the studios are casting hot lady micro olds like Baccarin, Evangeline Lilly, Judy Greer, Zoe Saldana, Gwyneth Paltrow instead of just going for young starlets.
Got to the movie theater at 10 to see the 10:30 showing and it was sold out and there was already a line for the 11:00. The 11:00 showing was in a packed small theater that filled up well before the previews started. I was shocked at how much of an audience there was even knowing about how well it did last night.
Forgot to mention how great it was to see a legit Colossus. Great decision to bring him out of the X-Universe.