We got third Ant-Man movie

Which, of course, but anyway:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ant-man-3-peyton-reed-returning-direct-1251732

No other details, don't fix what isn't broken etc.

Ant Man and The Wasp was a good laugh.

maybe this time they’ll finally have the courage to show him fucking those ants

An ant? Maaaaaaaan ....

brutal ant-man news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNpzpqJlU0

We got first trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlNFpri-Y40

watched it just to see if Gregg Turkington was gonna appear and he was in the first 10 seconds

lol me too

Y’know, I’m kinda done with the MCU … but will always have time for these movies at the very least.

I like the idea that with the press of a button they could change the virtual soundstage, plug in a few different actors, and then just call it a different movie. Like, somewhere they have Brie Larson locked up, reciting endless lines of dialogue for scenes that may or may not ever show up in movies or TV. Just in case.

Haven't seen the others and don't care about this one, but Reed coming on to The Best Show to break the news to Tom that he was cut from the film live on the air was intensely shitty.

I haven't heard the episode but I would bet dollars to donuts that they'd actually discussed it before they were on air. Tom and Peyton go back a very long way (Peyton was on TBS as the Star Wars insider back in like 2001).

Tom seemed pretty stunned on the air, and though I don't remember for sure, I think he explicitly said that he had no foreknowledge of the news.

I was under the impression it was a running joke across all three films that he was cut.

oh my god he admit it!

wait until cryptosicko listens to a few of the callers to The Best Show and notices that some of their voices sound similar 😬

We got MODOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WfTEZJnv_8

SCHARPLING JUSTICE!

And he does appear. In the end credits at least.

Quick c/p from FB:

* Entertaining! As per expected. It's the usual MCU vibe and if you're in you're in, and Reed and everyone have these films down.

* Given Jonathan Majors made his debut there, it doesn't hurt to have watched Loki beforehand. You don't NEED to but it doesn't hurt. And if you have watched it already, maybe rewatch the last episode beforehand -- I did that today and that was helpful. Especially at the very VERY end of the movie, shall we say.

* Weird but true to say that it almost felt like a art design complement to Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films given visual weirdness, non-human species, vast sf/fantasy landscapes etc. etc. -- especially weird since that's what we're getting in two months with an actual one of these films.

* So the general Alamo pre-film 'please be quiet' message is from Paul Rudd but I guess we in SF got a special extra starting one from Gregg Turkington. If you had told me about thirty years back "Hey that guy who did that Neil Hamburger thing your friend played a single of at you will one day be introducing a third live action Ant-Man movie that he has a role in and is pretending he's the costar of" I presumably would have said you were high but there we are.

* Oh and Scharpling is in the credits too. As ever.

This was ... fine. At its best. It was kind of stiff and charmless, especially the handful of attempts at humor; going all-in on M.O.D.O.K. didn't cut it for me. Further, after so much wheel-spinning, I feel the MCU needs a little *more* gravitas. Also, if I wanted a "Star Wars" movie I would have watched one, but I didn't want one, not even with Ant-Man in it.

Another issue, when it was done my teen turned to me and said all these movies are starting to feel like those Universal Studio-type rides, where you sit in a moving chair and some celebrity is in front of you on-screen, cheering or shouting things at you ("duck!") in front of a series of green-screen backdrops or set pieces. There's only so much I can look at brightly lit actors standing on a fraction of tactile set while all sorts of CGI stuff floats around in the background, at least as it looked here.

Quite disappointed with this one… What happened to the humor? And I didn’t like the quantum/multiverse setting.

Didn't hate this, but for as fundamentally bizarre as so many elements are, it's weird that it just feels bland to me. The character stuff is all so flat, and, yeah, I came in wanting people to make stuff shrink and grow in wack ways. Douglas was good. Murray was awful. Lilly had almost nothing to do. Residual Rudd affection went a long way. Majors offered a convincingly menacing presence but wasn't interesting enough to carry me through this film, let alone leave me clamoring for him to return in two more. I dunno. I might be about done with this whole racket.

Quite disappointed with this one… What happened to the humor?

Written by the guy hired to write Avengers vs Kang, not by people who have had decades-long comedy careers, at a guess.

Ooooof

https://www.vulture.com/article/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-movie-review-marvel.html

this is the first Marvel movie since like....Ragnarok that I didn't see opening weekend (that time cos I wrecked my car the day before).

just in no hurry to see it.

this was better than I'd been led to believe though yes, it is another one of these (like the last Thor film and the Guardians movies) that has 100% CGI sets that frankly get a little tiresome. I liked the CGI character designs a lot though, particularly the Ooze dude obsessed with holes and the broccoli headed dude.

Jonathan Majors was great, Rudd is Rudd. Hope/Wasp utterly pointless in this, and Evangeline Lily is charmless, frankly I hope the daughter continues to have a bigger role going forward.

Did they digitally smooth out Michelle Pfieffer or does her skin really look that incredibly amazing?

Yeah, this was better than I expected, but still not great.

I was wondering about Pfieffer, especially since she somehow looked younger than Evangeline Lilly for most of the film! Made sense during that one flashback, but all of the quantum realm scenes she looked much younger.

The CGI was exhausting, but I thought the first half was pretty cool in how they envisioned the quantum realm.

Pfeiffer's every scene kept making me think of this line from Ebert, on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: "His biggest disciplinary problem is a young hothead (Christian Slater), who is so obviously bursting with a secret he desires to share that it's amazing Robin is able to wait almost until the end of the movie before learning it."

I've seen worse movies, but it's a weird line where if it was better I'd be less distracted by how much it all cost - it's not a metric I apply much to these sorts of things, but there is so much on the screen, and so much of it is worthless.

We saw it in Screen X, which is the one where they'll also project onto the walls on either side. Notably the scenes in San Francisco are in regular, it's the ones where it's made up where they'll make up an extra 40%, sure why not? It's not a terrible metaphor for the film, it could do with trimming by about 28%, Majors has great presence, but his "I'm ... sad ... that you've made these ... choices" is just terrible. All of the film's well cast though (I mean, I have no affection for Rudd, but he Rudds Ruddingly along), and I like that they brought back David Dastmalchian (I think as the holes guy?). Even Corey Stoll isn't miscast, it's just that every second with Daryll is a second that you're not getting back.

The trailers before were:

• The Flash, both very serious and some wisecracking because two Flashes
• Fast X, with Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, very grim all the way through, despite the fact that they've surely got some time for Tyrese and Ludacris? Though not maybe a lot of time, they seem to have brought back every actor who isn't Dwayne Johnson, including Helen Mirren, and added Jason Momoa
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods, with The Flash and Jason Momoa (I suspect only the few seconds from the trailer if that), where the unlikeable hero specifically mentions the Fast films while talking to Helen Mirren's character. He generally makes a lot of jokes that fall to the floor
• the Dungeons and Dragons film, with a blonde Chris & Michelle Rodriguez - this might be the opposite problem to Fast X, where there doesn't appear to be anything except jokes, a lot of which a delivered 'zingily' by Justice Smith that end up on the floor again (I was going to make a joke about this film having the ghost of Vin Diesel's 2000 Dungeons and Dragons movie, but it turns out Vin Diesel wasn't even in that movie, which I have no idea how that's possible)
• Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 with a blonde Chris & Vin Diesel which like Fast X is about family and the end of the road and again seems fairly grim

Vin is a huge D&D nerd, I believe he wrote the forward to a D&D history book or something

Oh yeah I know, I think he has a podcast about it as well? That's why I hallucinated he was in it - though looking at it, the timing was wrong, Pitch Black was his breakthrough, the same year.

surprisingly quite enjoyed Shazam one... just about the only time where DC trying to do a funny Marvel style film rather than a deeply serious misery DC film worked out well