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― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Sunday, 19 July 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
Garrett Morris cameo was a deep, deep in-joke. Can't imagine more than 5% of the audience got that.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Sunday, 19 July 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
xp right, but he surely had some communication or negotiation with the MCU, it wasn't a letter left on the sofa, there'd have been some "I'm uncomfortable with this" / "Well we'd rather you got comfortable with this".
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 19 July 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
??? There's a huge difference between walking away from a job and being fired from it!
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Sunday, 19 July 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
This was totally fun and funny. Y'all crazy. My gf said this might've been her favorite of the Marvel movies so far. Absent the MCU tie-in scenes (which are nowhere near as incongruous as you guys are suggesting), this is a movie that I'm sure would appeal to a broad audience that might otherwise be unfamiliar with the MCU. And that might be disinclined to see a movie called Ant-Man.
A little boilerplate around the edges, but Rudd and Peña were great and most of the rest of the cast and bit players (Neil Hamburger! Avon Barksdale!) were solid, and most of the size changing set pieces were a blast and occasionally straight-up amazing. The audience I saw it with was way into it. I hope it gets some decent word of mouth.
― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 19 July 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
i stand with old lunch
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:34 (eight years ago) link
really enjoyed this, certainly more enjoyable than the last avengers film and more in line with the first Thor and Captain America films that stuck to a story and saw it through to the end without spending 75% of the time blowing the shit out of cities or something.
― akm, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
I liked this a lot! much more fun to have a low-key, less OTT superhero flick, that wasn't completely drenched in pathos for 140 minutes (yeah there were a few moments obv). MIchael Pena was hilarious (as was T.I.).
Bobby Cannavale "I did it for you" line at the end kinda comes from nowhere and is unintentionally funny given the way he's treated Lang for the first two hours but hey - I'm glad the final fight, instead of destroying all of a downtown metropolitan area, just destroyed the inside of a couple's house.
holy lols at the gigantic Tank Engine and spider too.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Monday, 27 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
it was an ant, man
― Number None, Monday, 27 July 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
xpost were you high when you viewed Y/N bc there is no spider
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 27 July 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
Freudian slip.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
This movie was fine. Didn't seem like there was a lot of thought/effort put into it, though. I was more blown away by the fact that this is the third mom Judy Greer has played this summer. Yeah, she's 40, but she must feel like Meryl Streep said she felt when one year every offer she got was for a witch role.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
or like how Paul Giamatti feels when every offer he's gotten this year is a hated white music figure
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
not too badly done, though the guy's vocal impression is pretty poorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhuvfJPx0Mk
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
i loled!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
yeah but how do you go to all that trouble and still get the voice so wrong
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
true of so many internet videos, sadly. It's like those (fantastic) "recut" trailers for the Shining ("Shining") and Jaws ("Must Love Jaws"). They're fucking brilliant in the edits, the music cues and the script, but the latter has a convincing "trailer voice" and the former sounds like someone doing an impression of a trailer voice. I figure it's just some goofball like me who hit on the idea and got excited and made it happen, can't ever really hold it against them for not also being a really talented voice actor.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah but phone a friend!
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
The voice clearly seemed a bit parodic and not necessarily meant to be a direct impression. Pretty good!
― Those Jorts Are Upsetting (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
We got Ant-Man sequel. Via Marvel itself:
Following our hero’s debut adventure in this summer’s “Ant-Man,” Scott Lang will return alongside Hope Van Dyne on July 6, 2018 with Marvel’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” The sequel will mark the first Marvel Studios film named after its heroine.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
can't help reading 'ant-man and the wasp' to the tune of 'bennie and the jets'
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 9 October 2015 08:05 (eight years ago) link
Loved this. Hilarious and fun Saturday afternoon flick.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 7 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Enjoyable enough, in a not really very funny way.
But Marvel really don't have any plot for their solo character movies than 'hero fights evil version of self', do they?
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 12 November 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed this quite a bit, and thought it was pretty funny. Suspect all the flashes of invention (of which there were plenty) were hangovers from Wright.
I liked how all it took for Scott's ex and her boyfriend to forgive him and reinstate him as a parent was for him to bring an armoured laser toting maniac and a giant ant into their daughter's bedroom.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 November 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Bobby Cannevale's "I did it for *you*" to Rudd a little on the homoerotic side in delivery
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 20 November 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
y did nobody mention martin donovan in this?!
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Saturday, 21 November 2015 04:41 (eight years ago) link
Didnt recognise him Until the end credits, felt a bit silly
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 November 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
Michael Douglas, John Slatterly, and Martin Donovan together at last!
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
This was fine but it didnt earn any of its attempted emotional beats
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 5 August 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Peña's closing monologue is insufficiently celebrated.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 03:53 (seven years ago) link
not by me. i want him to get his own movie tbqh
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Peña stated that he modeled Luis' vocal style and positive outlook on life "on a friend of a friend", saying, "That's just the way he talks and the cadence. He's got this grin on the entire time and he doesn't care. He's the kind of guy where you're like 'Hey, what'd you do this weekend?' and he's like 'I went to jail, dawg,' with a smile on his face. Not a lot of people do that.
I love this
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
<3 pena is the best
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link