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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:19 am
by Leisher
Simon Pegg?
I hope so.
Ant Man is a Marvel hero that has the ability to shrink and communicate/control ants.
He was originally Hank Pym who is the top scientist in the Marvel universe. However, Hank eventually gave it to Scott Lang or something like that. Hank, meanwhile, continued on as Giant Man and created Ultron.
Anyway, Scott died at the hands of the Scarlet Witch in the big Avengers Disassembled story line.
The Ant Man helmet and equipment was eventually found by a shitty S.H.I.E.L.D. agent by the name of Eric O'Grady who donned the outfit and used it to do things like spy on Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel) in the shower.
If Simon Pegg is getting into the helmet, I'm betting he'll be the Eric O'Grady version.
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:37 am
by Leisher
I thought we had an Ant-Man thread, but fuck the search on this forum.
Anyway, here's the first trailer:
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:53 am
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:I thought we had an Ant-Man thread, but fuck the search on this forum.
I literally searched "ant and man" and it was about 4 pages down because it wasn't a very specific search.
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:00 am
by Leisher
I search for Ant-Man, antman, and just the word ant. It never found that thread.
It found the Aunt May thread each time though!
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:08 am
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:I search for Ant-Man, antman, and just the word ant. It never found that thread.
"ant and man" covers all the things you tried to search because I think it hits on partial words. The things you tried to search were too specific and wouldn't have had any hits.
edit - except for "ant." That was too general.
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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:17 pm
by Leisher
I hope they inject some of Eric O'Grady into Paul Rudd's Scott Lang.
Eric was the third Ant-Man and stole the technology. He wasn't evil, but was a very reluctant hero. He once shrunk down in size to watch Ms. Marvel shower. I want that scene in the movie. :p
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:11 pm
by Vince
Was he the one with the sick daughter or something that he'd broken in to steal something to sell for her surgery (or something). I had a few issues of the relaunch of the series with the new Ant-Man and I'm wanting to say Pym (or whoever) ended up giving him the tech as long as he was doing good with it. Kind of fuzzy on the story, as it was something like 30 years ago when I read them.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:23 pm
by Leisher
Scott Lang, who Rudd is portraying, is the one with the daughter. Eric is single and without kids.
I don't even know who is the current Ant-Man in the comics these days. I believe all three are alive. (Lang died at one point at the hands of the Scarlet Witch.)
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 6:19 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:13 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:59 am
by GORDON
James Gunn (writer and director of Guardians of the Galaxy) is giving this movie a glowing review.
He could be just selling cars, but this could be a good sign.
http://tinyurl.com/qxlrh9t
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:48 pm
by GORDON
And really I guess it is gender normative of us to refer to him as Ant MAN, because we don't yet know how that character self identifies. Until then I will be referring to this movie as Ant Person.
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:01 pm
by TPRJones
Why ant? All because he's small doesn't mean he has to be an ant. He could be a flea, or a mite. Don't force him into your entomological stereotypes!
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:03 pm
by GORDON
We also don't know how the character race-identifies so really this could be a blacksploitation movie, and you are a bad person for financially supporting it.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:14 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:We also don't know how the character race-identifies so really this could be a blacksploitation movie, and you are a bad person for financially supporting it.
You're trying to get us not to see a movie with a black character? Racist.
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:41 pm
by GORDON
This is all terribly problematic.
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:48 pm
by GORDON
It opens in 4 days. She's in bed now (I'm banging her) but tomorrow I will check with my social secretary to see what my Friday ---> Sunday plans are, and maybe we can try to plan on seeing this?
Difficulty level: my kid will attend because he is awesome and likes good movies.
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:47 pm
by TheCatt
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 11:53 pm
by Leisher
Really strong movie. IMHO, the funniest Marvel movie to date.
I was very confused that Edgar Wright's name was all over the credits. I thought he walked from the movie, but apparently they used a lot of his stuff.
This film is FIRMLY in the Marvel universe.
Stick around for the mid and post credits scenes.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:38 am
by GORDON
I saw it twice today. No big deal.
