We got third Ant-Man movie

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