aylwin13 Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Agent Carter looks awesome; too bad I don't have time to watch TV. Somebody watch it for me, thanks. I gotcha covered, OM. Reporting what I see to you, well that will cost extra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 The trailer for Ant-Man will be shown on ABC accompanying the Agent Carter miniseries. Unless comedy is your aim I still don't see the point of making an Ant-Man movie. What kind of script do you need to have to get people interested in a guy who shrinks to insect siz and rides a flying ant. What will he be fighting -- tarantulas? Of course, I was also a bit of a nay-sayer on Guardians of the Galaxy and that turned out fantastic, so you never know with Marvel movies. Seems like a really weird thing to say if you know anything at all about comics. Couldn't what you just said about the movie apply to the character in general? You know he doesn't just fight spiders in the comics, right? Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Two words for what an Ant-Man can fight: Growth momentum. Plus, the movie version actually gets stronger as he gets smaller, according to one article I read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 “Ant-Man” releases a trailer for its trailer: Why this is the most annoying phenomenon of our franchise-obsessed age http://www.salon.com/2015/01/05/against_trailer_previews_the_most_annoying_phenomenon_of_our_franchise_obsessed_age/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Meh, a whole lot of whining about nothing there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 I'm inclined to agree PG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 Hollywood has been doing super early teasers for a long, long time. The problem with most of them is, I've forgotten the movie by the time the full trailers come out, and they don't show nearly as many. It's like huge hype for a few months, then nothing for a year or more, then just a few trailers that aren't that visible just prior to release. I end up just plain missing movies that way. The difference with Marvel is that they just do a better job of maintaining the hype than the norm, and a better job of living up to the hype overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 You can avoid most of the hype by not watching ABC, ESPN, or the Disney Channel. If you can't avoid them, well, at least the hype machine so heavily pushes this stuff on such a tight repeat cycle that after a while it just becomes so much white noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 I like the hype. The more trailers the merrier IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I've always felt that the heavier the hype, the more likely it will suck. BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I gotcha covered, OM. Reporting what I see to you, well that will cost extra. Thanks. Forward the invoices to Log, he's good for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I like the hype. The more trailers the merrier IMO. Trailers are almost my favorite part of going to the movies. I get what you're saying about the timing, though. Sometimes I think it's a result of issues with postproduction or with scheduling. Other times it's just that someone in marketing needs to be sacked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 IMHO that actually looks pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Looks pretty Super Sentai to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Trailer #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 I've always felt that the heavier the hype, the more likely it will suck. Truer words have never been spoken. Trailer #1 Oooh! Shiny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Looks pretty Super Sentai to me. Looks pretty Super Sentai to me. More Kamen Rider I think. All he needs is a scarf and a motercycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Rudd's final line had me ROFL. "Is it too late to change the name?" Does that mean that he's not Hank Pym? (I don't know Marvel history *that* well, so I could be completely off base. Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Michael Douglas is playing Hank Pym. Scott Lang was the 2nd(?) Ant Man, and he was indeed a thief who stole the Ant Man suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinanju Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I will confess to being a nay-sayer prior to Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy. Having seen Chris Evans as Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four movie (in which I thought he was really, really good and he captured the character perfectly), I couldn't envision him at Captain America. I was wrong. He's a superb Captain America, and anyone who takes his place is going to have some big shoes to fill. I was dubious about Guardians of the Galaxy too. And, again, I was wrong. The story wasn't particularly novel or riveting, but the characters were fascinating and fun to watch. That being said, I cannot express a) how little I wanted an Ant-Man movie from day one, and how utterly unmoved my opinion is after seeing the trailer. It tells nothing except that a) it's ANOTHER. ORIGIN. STORY. (Really, Hollywood?) And it does nothing to make me care about Pym OR Lang. If it's supposed to have a lot of humor, that trailer doesn't indicate it--the music is full-on "dramatic action story" music. Now, maybe I'm wrong, and it'll be great. Clearly Marvel knows more about what they're doing than I do--they've been right and I've been wrong twice. But this time, I don't think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Evans didn't bother me with being cast as Cap after playing Storm. I've seen enough of his work to realize that he is a damned good actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Seems like a really weird thing to say if you know anything at all about comics. Couldn't what you just said about the movie apply to the character in general? You know he doesn't just fight spiders in the comics, right? Actually I, like most American moviegoers, know nothing about the comic and barely knew the character existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Actually I, like most American moviegoers, know nothing about the comic and barely knew the character existed. So you actually thought he fought insects in the comics? That's what you're saying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 23, 2015 Report Share Posted January 23, 2015 Actually I, like most American moviegoers, know nothing about the comic and barely knew the character existed. So you actually thought he fought insects in the comics? That's what you're saying? I'm saying I can't think of very many situations where turning into the size of a small bug is at all useful or heroic -- assuming you don't get accidentally squashed by the people you're trying to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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