I did it! I finally managed to go watch Ant-Man (last week)!!! 😀
I was a bit skeptical when the movie started (and sometime in the middle), but somehow the movie works. When I can get over the creepiness of all those ants, it is pretty spectacular. The fact that the first scene has Peggy Carter and Howard Stark, as well as a much younger Hank Pym, really warmed my heart! (Peggy Carter just has to be in all Marvel things now, right? It’s in her contract?)
The fact that the storyline wasn’t about saving the world, but was a heist, was ingenious and ultimately made the movie better, it stayed grounded, it showed that although Ant-Man has the potential, he’s not yet up to par with the Avengers. That’s “realistic” and it made the movie thoroughly enjoyable. Speaking of the Avengers, that scene with the Falcon was pure genius!
Paul Rudd is amazing! He’s so lovable and funny (but a kind of cute funny). Evangeline Lilly was alright as Hope, I look forward to see more of her as the Wasp 😉 ! I thought the “romance” was super well done, because it never takes from and center screen, actually, we don’t actually see the kiss, it totally blindsided me, though I had thought it would be obvious if they got together at some point.
Michael Douglas is pretty great as well as Hank Pym, and I loved his chemistry with Paul Rudd. Again, Paul Rudd is already a Marvel superhero!
If I had to pick a favorite scene, it would be that last part when Michael Peña’s Luis is telling Scott how Falcon’s looking for him… I cracked out laughing! He has some pretty amazing moments within the movie – I think some people in the theatre wasn’t really happy by my laughing sound – but that last scene stole it for me.
All in all, not my favorite Marvel movie, but definitely entertaining and worth the watch. And probably the one where I laughed the most (seriously, I think I was snorting at some point).
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Pena definitely steals his scenes… he has said in interviews that he basically copied one of his friends who actually tells stories like that!
they were hilarious. The first one I took a bit to get really into it. But that second? ad lippin the falcon? I laughed so hard… people in the cinema thought I was totaly crazy
Brilliant!
Pena was amazing! And yeah I agree the movie was pretty good:)
At first i wasn’t totally convinced by Pena’s character, but then I couldn’t stop laughing
I’m so glad you liked this. I can’t wait for it to come out on dvd. 😊
🙂 it was pretty awesome. So far MARVEL studios has not let me down.
They’ve definitely been having a successful run on film and TV. Fingers crossed it continues!
fingers crossed 😉
I swear, Luis was my favourite character in the movie. Just couldn’t stop laughing. Did you ever see the interview with Michael Peña on Jimmy Fallon? He based his character on someone he actually knows. It’s hilarious!
no, i didn’t, I’ll have to go look for that. He was amazing, the second story “retelling” was off the hook, specially the Falcon part (I really like the Falcon)
Me too 🙂 and here you go:
he’s so funny! And it’s such an 180 from his role on Gracepoint (which was the last thing I saw with him)
I just tagged you for the Read This? Watch This! Tag 🙂
https://theimpossiblegirlblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/read-this-watch-this-tag/
yay!!! 😉