Ant-Man: The Movie is official!

[attom44]

Just came home from this we LOVED this it was awesome... wait for both extra scenes at the end credit.. was awesome in 3D IMAX!!!

 

[The Batman Professor]

The tabloids had written Michael Douglas off just a couple of years ago, and he comes back with a career-capping turn in Ant-Man. Best thing he's done since BLACK RAIN.

 

[jye4ever]

I didn't know this about his career.

 

[attom44]

Thant's why they are Tabloids..LOL He's had a very long career and I've liked almost all of it.. His dad is no slouch either.. Douglas was great !

 

[RIDDICK]

Best thing he's done since BLACK RAIN.

Wow, this statement is too bold to take it seriously.
Freaking tabloids, man! He was incredible in "Falling Down" and "The Game".

 

[Victοr]

Wow, this statement is too bold to take it seriously.
Freaking tabloids, man! He was incredible in "Falling Down" and "The Game".

He was pretty good in "Solitary Man" as well, as far as "modern" roles are concerned.

 

[jye4ever]

Funny that

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Lang and Hope become an item like Pym and Van Dyne

 

[JonWes]

Well said, I agree.

But more than likely you and I would be instantly removed from a Wall Street board room with that kind of statement.

Ha! No, it makes sense in boardrooms, too. Record-breaking is good for a marketing bump, of course, but it's not actually necessary for a movie to do well or to extend a brand. Even just in cold hard business logic, all that needs to happen is to launch the franchise extension successfully. Which Ant-Man, so far, seems to be doing quite well. It's why the only people who are going to be calling this a failure are people who need some clicks for their website or are too eager to say Marvel failed. It'll come some day. It just doesn't seem like it's today.

 

[jye4ever]

For some Marvel went bankrupt with AOU.

 

[jedibear]

I don't know about "bankrupt"....I'll say this...i appreciate Whedon knowing when he's had enough and it's time to move on. He over-stuffed that movie til it burst like Hurt's chest in "Alien"...and now it's up to others to mop up the mess and keep the Marvel ship going....

"Ant-Man" is a good step after that big burst of...well, you get it.

 

[Jack D]

My girlfriend and I just got back from seeing it. Thought it was pretty good, very entertaining and didn't feel like it dragged. Comedy was good and I enjoy the action/heist bits. I definitely agree with Iron Man 1 comparisons. For anyone saying it sucked, I'm likely to believe they are just haters.

 

[batfan08]

What did you think about that part:

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Where he went subatomic? That's some Interstellar ****, I loved it, I like it that when he went smaller than everything we know the screen just went black maybe implying the brain can't comprehend what's going on.

I love it when comicbooks go twilight zone to explore far regions of the imagination, fantasy and science, I hope DC does something like that with Flash, hell with Superman and Mr. Mxyzptlk.

I felt like that sequence left me a little bit disappointed.

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I feel like, after that whole "red makes you small, blue makes you big" spiel that Pym gave, it would've been an amazing opportunity to bring in Giant Man.

 

[batfan08]

December 2015 to June 2016 will be hard to beat.

In my mind, it starts in November with SPECTRE.

 

[guy66657]

I felt like that sequence left me a little bit disappointed.

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I feel like, after that whole "red makes you small, blue makes you big" spiel that Pym gave, it would've been an amazing opportunity to bring in Giant Man.

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And I feel like that was a huge missed opportunity to seed Stature.

 

[jye4ever]

In my mind, it starts in November with SPECTRE.

You are correct, can't forget Spectre!

 

[Rorywan]

Anyone else see the Cruise MI preview before Ant-Man?

That was some impressive motorbike action.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I can't wait to see the new MI.

 

[batfan08]

Yeah, I'm really excited for it. I loved Ghost Protocol, so, hopefully, this next one is just as good. As far as Ant-Man goes, though, I loved it. I thought the training stuff dragged on just a little too long, but, other than that, I was glued to the screen the entire time. Paul Rudd is ridiculously charismatic, though. The guy elevates everything he's in because he just seems so...likeable. With that being said, I think those qualities made him perfect for the role of Scott Lang. You really get the sense that this is a good guy who messed up and got in over his head, and you want to root for him.

I thought Michael Douglas was an awesome Hank Pym, though.

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I'll reiterate what everyone else said, when I say "holy **** was the 1989 stuff impressive." One of the things that really impressed me in The Winter Soldier was how convincingly they turned Hayley Atwell into an old woman, but this was just a completely different level. I feel like that officially passed the point of the uncanny valley, in that it was totally believable and nothing seemed "off" about it. I loved seeing Slattery return as Howard Stark, as well. It's nice that they didn't put him out to pasture once they got Dominic Cooper for his younger self (as we've seen, that they're more than capable of believable age progression effects, when they want to use them).

I can't really find fault with any of the cast. I like Cory Stoll on House of Cards and The Strain, but I will say that he was the weak link, here. I thought, as far as his performance goes, he did a decent job, but I think that his character was about as generic as they come (his suit was pretty badass, though). Scott's cohorts were great, and Michael Peña's stuff was fantastic. There were so many recognizable faces, and it's kind of cool to see Marvel dipping into that, sort of, untapped talent pool.

Honestly, it was just an awesome movie filled with awesome stuff. I'd easily put it in my top 5 Marvel movies, in all honesty. There is a part of me that wonders how different Edgar Wright's version would've been, though. I'd love to be able to read that script. The craziest thing, for me, though, is that I'm taking about an Ant-Man movie right now. That's insane, and it really reflects just how far we've come, in terms of all these films. Guardians, Ant-Man; hell, if you'd have said we'd be getting a Suicide Squad movie 10 years ago, I would've laughed in your face. It's a great time to be a comic book fan; that's for damn sure.

Also...

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The Avengers stuff. The Falcon scene was pure, unadulterated fun, and the payoff was terrific, as well. The fact that it led directly to both a Stan Lee cameo and the first ever reference to Spider-Man in the MCU cements it even further as one of the coolest moments in the film. As if it wasn't before, the wait for Civil War will be that much more difficult, now that it's the next one in sight.

 

[choopie]

Saw it yesterday. I liked it. I thought it was a fun and entertaining movie.

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I loved the 1989 scene. But one thing confused me. At one point does Howard Stark die? I remember the scene in Winter Soldier when it was mentioned that Hydra was part of Howard's accident. Yet they showed the young Howard in the footage, which I assumed meant he died a long time ago. But then he is still alive in 1989.

 

[jye4ever]

I think he got killed the day after that footage lol