Marvel's "Ant-Man"

[JD10367]

Can't find a thread and the new useless Google search function sucks donkey balls.

Just watched it in IMAX. I enjoyed it. Good origin story, had humor, human interest, decent action, decent effects, left it open to bring him right into the new movie canon. Wasn't stupid or silly as I feared. It won't make a ton of money but will be on par with some of the "Captain America" and "Thor" box office takes.

[Deberg_1990]

oh, they should just go ahead and give the Oscar to the effects guys who de-aged Michael Douglas 30 years. That was incredible.

[BWillie]

Just going to see it cuz I like Paul Rudd, previews looked pretty lame, but we'll see. Looks to have been getting rather good reviews.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

oh, they should just go ahead and give the Oscar to the effects guys who de-aged Michael Douglas 30 years. That was incredible.

I assumed they just used pictures of him from thirty years ago.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Going to see it tonight. How good were the "hidden credits" scenes?

The mid-credits scene was neat but predictable. The end-credits scene was short but good and very set-up-py.

[Silock]

Good movie!

[RobBlake]

i give it a solid B. Much better than I expect from such a character tbh. I also feel it would be better if i had a better audience and i didn't go alone lol

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

i give it a solid B. Much better than I expect from such a character tbh. I also feel it would be better if i had a better audience and i didn't go alone lol

Same here, my group hardly laughed while I was busting a gut.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

[SPOILER]They being who?

Spoiler!

Cap and Sam

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

i give it a solid B. Much better than I expect from such a character tbh. I also feel it would be better if i had a better audience and i didn't go alone lol

I agree. I thought Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd carried it.

More, for those of you who've seen it ...

Spoiler!

I also liked Bobby Canavalle, who added humanity to what could have been a two-dimensional douchebag character. Corey Stoll seemed underused - he's really good at playing the guy who's breaking down, like he did in House of Cards, and they didn't seem to let him off his leash. Evangeline Lilly seemed a little too on-the-nose girl-power-y for me, and Ant-Man's ex-con friends just annoyed me.

I loved the way they envisioned the sub-universe, how they made him seem non-ridiculous, and the effects of rapidly growing and shrinking. There were plenty of one-liners to keep us old soldiers happy ("Tales to Astonish!") and the fight between him and Falcon especially was perfectly done.

Considering who she ends up as in the comics, I was totally expecting a super-sized six-year-old by the end, but maybe they're saving that for the sequel.

[Gravedigger]

It was formulaic as hell. But The casting and writing put it above a good movie for me.

[thabear04]

Great movie

[Buehler445]

****ing Marvel. Those guys shit gold.

10 years ago, if you told me I would thoroughly enjoy a movie about a shrinking dude that communicates with ants, I would have laughed your ass out of the room. But by god they did it. And they did it within the universe with demigods, huge overreaching government agencies, super soldiers, and a guy with a bow and arrow that whips the **** out of dudes with automatic weapons and robots. Oh and don't forget the giant green rage monster. It's mind boggling when you think about it.

There were a couple times where I had to shut my skeptics brain off, but all in all, it was really well done. I didn't have a whole lot of trouble believing it all.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by RobBlake

i give it a solid B. Much better than I expect from such a character tbh. I also feel it would be better if i had a better audience and i didn't go alone lol

Again Marvel takes a B list property and makes a very enjoyable movie.

A nice tip of the hat to the Avengers without distracting from the flick and a good after-credits glimpse of future MCU events.

Also like how they made Pym kind of a d!ck without making him a wife beater.

All in all good performances, only a few inconsistencies (his mass should be the same when he shrinks or is regular size and at times they clearly forget that,) and solid mix of action and comedy like in GOTG...

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Again Marvel takes a B list property and makes a very enjoyable movie.

A nice tip of the hat to the Avengers without distracting from the flick and a good after-credits glimpse of future MCU events.

Also like how they made Pym kind of a d!ck without making him a wife beater.

All in all good performances, only a few inconsistencies (his mass should be the same when he shrinks or is regular size and at times they clearly forget that,) and solid mix of action and comedy like in GOTG...

The mass thing was one thing I had to shut my mind off. They should not have mentioned it.

[ragedogg69]

I also liked how they have a reason why not to have the Avengers fix this. Every Marvel film since the Avengers could easily been like "let have the avengers fix this."

Originally Posted by Rausch

All in all good performances, only a few inconsistencies (his mass should be the same when he shrinks or is regular size and at times they clearly forget that,)