Here are my Ant-Man thoughts when I watched it apparently very early this year.
I’ll spoiler (also Winter Soldier spoilers I guess)
Much as I like Rudd it seemed very very uninspiring plotwise, mostly just an exercise in enjoying seeing Rudd on screen and I like Michael Douglas a lot too. But the jokes felt pretty flat and you could tell they were coming a mile off. Having Cross as the really obvious bad guy is a bit much but then the flipside is that I felt like they were a bit too obvious with Robert Redford’s character in Winter Soldier, so there’s something to be said for going ‘zero pretence’ and just telegraphing it fully.
I wasn’t absolutely sold on him getting out of the Quantum Zone which I don’t think helped matters.
The only sour note for me was when he showed them his suit and the computer tech guy in the gang with the Eastern European sounding accent said “Gypsies” or maybe “Gypsy magic”. Highly dubious to characterise Romany people like that and also it seems a bit, “Oh what can this character say to make it clear he’s from Eastern Europe?!”
So it’s apparently set between Civil War and Infinity War
But I still think they’ll be more to it long term. Would be weird to launch a new phase with a totally standalone flashback film. Plus Marvel are all about franchises, they don’t really do one-offs.
yeah this is the thing isnt it, its the first film of the next phase so its got to have summat to do with where they go in the future right? so for it to be set in the past is a bit weird? i mean everyone knows theres been pressure to make a black widow film for years but to only get round to it post-endgame is weird
Maybe it’s a set up for Florence Pugh’s character to replace Scarlett Johansson’s in the next team-up.
In the comics her character is a different morally questionable Black Widow. I could see a Thunderbolts film down the line or the next Avengers film having a Masters of Evil storyline.
His Captain America run is pretty renowned it does get broken up a bit by events. I think the only other Marvel thing I read by him was his X-Men run, which didn’t really suit him.
Loved Fatale and I’ve got ‘Kill or be Killed’ lined up. I’d check out the earlier stuff he did with Phillips, Sleeper, Criminal and Incognito if you haven’t.
Kill or Be Killed is great. I got a random volume of Criminal in an Oxfam a while back, thought it was great. Just read the first volume of Fatale and enjoyed it a lot.
Eyeing up the full collection of The Fade Out cos I love me a bit of golden era Hollywood noir.
Generally stay away from Marvel events but i really enjoyed Infinity (despite struggling to follow bits of it). He managed to keep so many plates spinning with it, I was really impressed.
Definitely, he came back into the fold after doing independent stuff. He kind of makes it hard to follow up for the next writer but I love how he comes in with these giant bombastic ideas. Would like him to take over all the various Marvel space stories and get pretty out there with it.
Sheeran is a part that De Niro has reportedly wanted to play since Brandt’s book came to his attention over a decade ago. The actor has been nursing it along ever since, finally getting Netflix to put up a reported $160 million. This will be Scorsese’s most expensive film ever, in part because of the extensive digital manipulation required to allow De Niro, who turns 76 this month, to play Sheeran from his prime hoodlum years until his death at age 83.
And I thought to myself, Marty, Marty, Marty…do you think they developed and honed digital tech like that on the back of gangster movies?
