We got Ant-Man and the Wasp movie

These movies have their flaws but are always a good time.

yeah thats fair

pena so so good

How was Ghost “awful”?

not gonna lie to you, its been a few hours and i already dont remember enough, but-

overwrought performance during the dramatic justification was imo out of kilter with movie

justification itself was hideously rushed and piecemeal and despite efforts to make her sympathetic i think they undercooked any efforts by having her so gung-ho to succubus pfeiffer with little to no reason to expect success

when offered efforts to attempt cure in a more reasonable way she said fuckit nah

yes i know traumatic childhood, trained for death, agonised existence, disappointed that fishburne pulled away from commitments (as noted above, the relationship/dynamic here really didnt get very far if in any way examined) but - and this is obv gonna be subjective- i dont think that worked even slightly in a movie where the closest thing it has to a saving grace was avoiding the grim-unto-death tone of most MCUs

nb british accent ah cmon

i could just about buy the science hokiness as a direct tribute to well comic book, rapid-exposition science hokiness

gonna try to not overthink it any more because fuckit i liked it

i liked the performance but agree that the character's got great material that goes undercooked, and the villainy hard to buy. i would've preferred the techno-anarchist Ghost from the comics but if they were gonna do this one, it needed a little more space to work (would have had to cut the goggins stuff prob) and then yeah you end up losing the zippy, silly tone.

fishburne did really well with the time and swerves he was given, otoh

good movie! Rudd is a great and likable superhero and Michael Pena is awesome. Evangeline Lilly is outstanding, i think some of my favorite bits involve her cackling at ant man as he shifts around in sizes. She also is completely believable when she's striding in and beating the hell out of people, like in that first scene w/Goggins and his crew. I liked Ghost tbh, the performance worked a lot w/r/t her past and insane trauma.

Pfeiffer seemed to be psychologically very sound considering her situation for the previous several decades...

what the fuck did she eat for all that time

unstable molecules

Broasted tardigrades.

Wishful thinking, but thought watching the first one (and not frame-by-frame pausing) that as he shrunk, he passed through a world with building structures. I was hoping that was an easter egg for Jarella's world, from the Hulk comics. Googled for Jarella "Ant-Man", but nothing came up. Would be cool to have a Hulk / Ant-Man buddy pic, maybe with some Micronauts thrown in.

lol at the idea that Marvel secured a non-exclusive holdback on film rights to Micronauts and held onto it for forty years through bankruptcy and line after line of non-Marvel Micronauts comics, waiting until they became a film production company, then film megastudio, just biding their time for the riiiiiiight moment to bust out a cameo in the third (!) hit (!!) Ant-Man movie

(like, not mocking you, a genuine cheerful amusement at the notion)

phase iv baby, built in the rock-solid foundations of the micronauts

hey if you told me a decade ago there'd be a third ant-man movie i'd have scoffed

Speaking of, the Micronauts series from IDW starting in 2016 is really good, as is the ROM: Space Knight series!