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How kid friendly is this movie? My 9 year old son loved the avengers, but found AOU to be a bit heavy with the witchcraft. Can I take him to see this one?
 
rrc1594 said:
I looked up Hank Pym. I now know why they used Scott Lang, Hank is a real POS isn't he wow.
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Not really, he is a troubled character but he was the first superhero to deal with legit mental illness. He is a deep character beyond the superhero angle. One of my favorite heroes.
 
Fun fun fun movie. I'd put this among my top 5 MCU movies.

Micheal Pena face in this poster makes sense once you watch the movie.
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His character is hilarious.
 
Just saw this, movie is a lot of fun and had lots of heart. Definitely enjoyed it more than Age Of Ultron, the action was easy to follow and the story of redemption was great. They did some really cool things with the differing sizes and whatnot.

Non-spoiler, but I absolutely loved the way Michael Peña's character would explain stuff to Paul Rudd... So good.
 
Posted in the spoiler thread but after thinking more about it, I changed my mind.
This is my favorite Marvel movie at the moment.

I'd take Ant-Man 2 over almost everything else they have coming combined.
 
How does Marvel do it? How do they just keep taking these nothing non big name characters and making amazing movies?

Is it because they don't go for dark and depressing and just go for fun?


This movie was a lot of fun
 
Saw it last night, really enjoyed it. Even my wife liked it, and she went in thinking it was going to be incredibly stupid.

devilsadvocat said:
How does Marvel do it? How do they just keep taking these nothing non big name characters and making amazing movies?

Is it because they don't go for dark and depressing and just go for fun?
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I think that's exactly it, yes.
 
devilsadvocat said:
How does Marvel do it? How do they just keep taking these nothing non big name characters and making amazing movies?

Is it because they don't go for dark and depressing and just go for fun?

This movie was a lot of fun
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The key word is balance, along with embracing all the good traits of what a good comic book story can accomplish. It's the reason why I still love the first 1970's Superman movie over the others that have come.
 
devilsadvocat said:
How does Marvel do it? How do they just keep taking these nothing non big name characters and making amazing movies?

Is it because they don't go for dark and depressing and just go for fun?


This movie was a lot of fun
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Its all about great casting. They find people who fit the role. They shape and build their own big names. Leave the whole 'cast existing big names to sell the movies' to the DC guys.
 
Blues1990 said:
The key word is balance, along with embracing all the good traits of what a good comic book story can accomplish. It's the reason why I still love the first 1970's Superman movie over the others that have come.
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Same here, the 70's superman movies, is the superman I grew up with, a good guy, boys out type guy. I don't recognize the new one at all.


But anyway, yeah, my favorite Marvel Movie this year for sure
 
Just got 4 tickets to see the movie tonight.I'm semi hyped for this movie.hopefully guys are right and movie is great. 7:30 can't come soon enough
 
Also they got better writers and they aren't trying too hard on the material unlike some other superhero movies.
 
Saw it yesterday. Thought it was pretty bad.
EDIT: I should say that comics-wise, I only read the newest Ant-Man series (which I loved) and seen him in various crossovers.

Paul Rudd was good, but he was given nothing to work with. The jokes fell flat, and those which did were quickly destroyed by making it overlong or outright explaining the joke.
For instance:
the whole "I just ruined the moment, didn't I?" would have been much funnier if they cut shortly after he said that rather than gone on to have the others reply.
Or
the Thomas jokes, which were good but they basically repeated the same joke three times. We get it.

The villain was horrible. Terribly cliche and incredibly shallow.
I get that hthere was the excuse that his brain chemistry was influenced by the suit, but at the time he did various things like kill that guy in the bathroom, he had never used it (heck, we're only left to assume he used it before we actually see him in it).

The obligatory relationship between the main characters was simply that-- obligatory. No real lead-up to it. No real chemistry.

One thing I saw some people complain over which I thought was fine is the whole MCU integration. A couple of mentions of the Avengers which made sense, and one scene very much involved with the MCU is not too much. The one scene was goofy but it not really deter from the movie-- they needed an action scene midmovie anyway and it produced a few laughs from the audience.

Lastly, one thing I liked that they didn't do is
make the new husband a TOTAL douche. I know him getting back together with his wife wasn't in the comic so luckily we avoided the horrible-stepdad-gets-dumped cliche.

Overall, not good. I think it had some potential, maybe Edgar Wright coulda realised it, maybe he couldn't.
As far as I see it, Civil War is Marvel's last chance to show that they can again produce something that's not some trite, off-the-assembly-line, pandering garbage.
 
Ristlager said:
How kid friendly is this movie? My 9 year old son loved the avengers, but found AOU to be a bit heavy with the witchcraft. Can I take him to see this one?
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I am curious, what in the world does witchcraft have to do with not being kid friendly? I mean Harry Potter (the early films at least) are pretty damn kid friendly and its full of witchcraft.
 
KimiNewt said:
Saw it yesterday. Thought it was pretty bad.
EDIT: I should say that comics-wise, I only read the newest Ant-Man series (which I loved) and seen him in various crossovers.

Paul Rudd was good, but he was given nothing to work with. The jokes fell flat, and those which did were quickly destroyed by making it overlong or outright explaining the joke.
For instance:
the whole "I just ruined the moment, didn't I?" would have been much funnier if they cut shortly after he said that rather than gone on to have the others reply.
Or
the Thomas jokes, which were good but they basically repeated the same joke three times. We get it.

The villain was horrible. Terribly cliche and incredibly shallow.
I get that hthere was the excuse that his brain chemistry was influenced by the suit, but at the time he did various things like kill that guy in the bathroom, he had never used it (heck, we're only left to assume he used it before we actually see him in it).

The obligatory relationship between the main characters was simply that-- obligatory. No real lead-up to it. No real chemistry.

One thing I saw some people complain over which I thought was fine is the whole MCU integration. A couple of mentions of the Avengers which made sense, and one scene very much involved with the MCU is not too much. The one scene was goofy but it not really deter from the movie-- they needed an action scene midmovie anyway and it produced a few laughs from the audience.

Lastly, one thing I liked that they didn't do is
make the new husband a TOTAL douche. I know him getting back together with his wife wasn't in the comic so luckily we avoided the horrible-stepdad-gets-dumped cliche.

Overall, not good. I think it had some potential, maybe Edgar Wright coulda realised it, maybe he couldn't.
As far as I see it, Civil War is Marvel's last chance to show that they can again produce something that's not some trite, off-the-assembly-line, pandering garbage.
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For reference, thoughts on Winter Soldier & Guardians?
 
Oh man this movie is cool as shit. Most I've enjoyed a MCU in the cinema since Iron Man. I was a bit salty about Scott getting lead before but I really liked what they did with Hank and Scott is just really fun to watch.

I'd like more smaller(lol) films like these please instead of huge cluster fucks like Age of Ultron.
 
On another note this movie was really good. A lot better than AOU. In phase 2 only Cap and GOTG were better.

Pretty disappointed it's falling short of expectations box office wise (on track to have the lowest opening of any MCU film falling short Incredible Hulk).
 
Neoxon said:
For reference, thoughts on Winter Soldier & Guardians?
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Guardians was pretty good. It doesn't hold THAT well on rewatches, but going out of the cinema I thought it was really good, almost Scott Pilgrim-level.

Winter Soldier was fine, maybe even good. The action was very good, and the overall story was good but it had some really dumb parts (namely the end with computerized whomever, and the whole Nick Fury chase-scene. The whole turning-on-Cap part was not wholly believable either but that one I can let slide).
 
Casting is on point as usual I'd love to shake hands with whoever had the brilliant idea to cast Michael Douglas he was a really great Hank. Total bitter about the situation Hank is in currently circa Rage of Ultron but this has totally done justice to one of my favourite superheroes.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Seriously guys, this is the best Marvel film to date. It was everything I was hoping it'd be. I need to watch it again. Absolutely loved it.
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It's top Mid-Tier for me (could always change after some time) but I'm glad you loved it as much as you did. I've mostly stayed lurking in threads for this but I know you were looking forward to it so I'm happy for you.
 
Razgriz-Specter said:
I have Ant-Man, Wasp, Giant Man and Yellow Jacket in Future Fight but I mean a full game designed around them.
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Unfortunately it's just not the kind of game Marvel/Disney makes anymore (I know they have console games coming apparently but I doubt it'd be this). Man just imagining a combat system where you could actually climb up enemies like Shadow of Colossus...
 
Razgriz-Specter said:
I have Ant-Man, Wasp, Giant Man and Yellow Jacket in Future Fight but I mean a full game designed around them.
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Oh I yeah I knew what you meant. Everytime I come out of the cinema I think wow this would be a cool game but all Marvel seem content to do is shitty mobile games and ugh a Telltale game. I don't really expect much from their future console games to be honest.
 
Hagi said:
Oh I yeah I knew what you meant. Everytime I come out of the cinema I think wow this would be a cool game but all Marvel seem content to do is shitty mobile games and ugh a Telltale game.
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Oh man the Telltale thing is probably what they meant about "Console games for next year". Then everyone else wants an MVC4 which I'm so fucking meh on.
 
ArtHands said:
Its all about great casting. They find people who fit the role. They shape and build their own big names. Leave the whole 'cast existing big names to sell the movies' to the DC guys.
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Exactly! Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Jai Courtney, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Gal Gadot...

It's like DC just raided the Blockbuster Superstar store! [/sarcasm]

Give DC props. They're imitating marvel as best they can with not going the superstar route.
 
whytemyke said:
Exactly! Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Jai Courtney, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Gal Gadot...

It's like DC just raided the Blockbuster Superstar store! [/sarcasm]

Give DC props. They're imitating marvel as best they can with not going the superstar route.
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But Henry Cavill wasn't good and we've yet to see how any of the other ones play out in actual films.
 
I thought it was a lot of fun. Can't help but think if Edgar Wright was still directing it could have achieved greatness, but it was still plenty enjoyable.
 
Just got back. Loved it from top to bottom. I was worried that so many clips and commercials were going to spoil half of it, but luckily there was a ton more movie left.

Planning on going to see it again soon. But if I was in a ranking mood, Ant-Man would be way up there right now.

WS > GotG > Ant-Man > Cap1 > Avengers > a bunch of others in a big pile
 
Cheebo said:
I am curious, what in the world does witchcraft have to do with not being kid friendly? I mean Harry Potter (the early films at least) are pretty damn kid friendly and its full of witchcraft.
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Hehe, seems like my post was written a bit hasty, my son thought the dark "witchcrafty" parts in AOU a bit scary. And he also finds the worst parts of Harry Potter scary.. But that's because we have not seen a lot of movies with him, mostly because he never asks. So it's usually been pixar movies.

So avengers was his first "adult" movie after couple of Harry Potter movies. He got one hour into LOTR before he wanted to go to sleep...

But English is not his first language, so adult language I couldn't care less about.
 
ArtHands said:
Its all about great casting. They find people who fit the role. They shape and build their own big names. Leave the whole 'cast existing big names to sell the movies' to the DC guys.
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yeah I never heard of this Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd guy before, what a catch Mahvel
 
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