ANT-MAN Thread v.2 (Dragonlord's Review)

[Frank23]

It was an entertaining movie. Ant-Man's suit was cool.

 

[Ehrmantraut]

It was an entertaining movie.

What did you vote

 

[Frank23]

what did you vote

7/10.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: July 19, 2015

ANT-MAN No. 1 With $58 Million; 2nd Lowest Marvel Studios Debut

The North American box office was a mixed bag this weekend. While Amy Schumer's female-fueled R-rated comedy Trainwreck overperformed, Disney and Marvel's Ant-Man came in somewhat behind expectations with $58 million. While that's certainly not a shabby number, it marks the second-lowest debut for Marvel Studios since it went solo and launched its cinematic universe, beginning with Iron Man ($98.6 million) in May 2008. Only The Incredible Hulk opened lower ($55.4 million).

The opposite was true overseas, where Ant-Man earned $56.4 million from its first 37 markets, well ahead of the first Captain America and Thor. That puts Ant-Man's global bow at $114.4 million.

Costing $130 million to produce, Ant-Man easily claimed the top spot in North America ahead of holdover Minions, which took in $50.2 million in its second weekend for a domestic total of $216.7 million. Ant-Man, earning a promising A CinemaScore, is by the far the most comedic and family-friendly superhero film to to hit the big screen, vying with Illumination Entertainment and Universal's Minions for family love (indeed, Minions fell a hefty 57 percent).

Heading into the weekend, Ant-Man was expected to debut to $60 million-$65 million. As a way of comparison, the first Thor and Captain America installments both opened to roughly $65 million as Marvel went about launching new franchises featuring lesser-known superheroes. And last summer, Guardians of the Galaxy stunned in launching to $94.3 million domestically.

Box Office: 'Ant-Man' No. 1 With $58 Million; 'Trainwreck' Laughs to $30.2 Million

 

[Mondo Freaks]

Solid movie. 6/10

Still think Blade is the best Marvel comic made into a movie.

 

[JBSchroeds]

Anything over $150mil. would be a triumph considering how much people have ridiculed the very concept of this movie.

I'm not sure I'd agree. GotG was thought by many (myself included) to potentially be the MCU's first bomb. Talking Raccoon, tree person, introducing an entirely new aspect of the universe in addition to an all new ensemble cast: that was a lot to ask from audiences. Comparatively Ant-Man is just a shrinking dude. Conceptually GotG is a much harder sell IMO and it ended up doing extremely well. I wouldn't expect a repeat of the lightning-in-a-bottle that was GotG, but this is their worst financial performance in seven years despite what should be a high following Avengers 2.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

You mean 2 & 3...right?

Oops, yes 2 & 3

 

[Tebowned]

I'm not sure I'd agree. GotG was thought by many (myself included) to potentially be the MCU's first bomb. Talking Raccoon, tree person, introducing an entirely new aspect of the universe in addition to an all new ensemble cast: that was a lot to ask from audiences. Comparatively Ant-Man is just a shrinking dude. Conceptually GotG is a much harder sell IMO and it ended up doing extremely well. I wouldn't expect a repeat of the lightning-in-a-bottle that was GotG, but this is their worst financial performance in seven years despite what should be a high following Avengers 2.

I was on the boat that GOTG was gonna bomb bad.
Disney Marketing Machine and good word of mouth helped tremendously.

 

[FyrFytr998]

I was on the boat that GOTG was gonna bomb bad.
Disney Marketing Machine and good word of mouth helped tremendously.

GotG also had an amazing soundtrack going for it that hit people in my age group right in the nostalgias.

 

[JBSchroeds]

I was on the boat that GOTG was gonna bomb bad.
Disney Marketing Machine and good word of mouth helped tremendously.

Yeah, the first GotG trailer killed it:
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Compare that to the first look at Ant-Man:
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One is unique and really grabs you, the other is generic and completely lacks impact.

 

[armbarforhire]

Where does it depart from continuity? And the fox men films at this point have no continuity that's just a fact. Plus the fox men films cant really be considered x men films if you have read the comics. X1 and 2 are prolly the closest to resembling the comics. Still would call those wolverine men though.

Hank Pym not being younger, the wasp characthe, being founder avengers, Hope Pym being a MC2 charcather, etc just like people complained Wolverine/Storm were not the original X-men and Iceman being younger than them as they were portrait in the movie.

 

[armbarforhire]

Did they also explained why Ant man had super speed???


They said he kept his same normal size human strenght, but didnt hear nothing about teh fact he could cover the same space as a normal big legged human, unless his tiny legs mere moving with all the torque of those of a 160 pund man.

It just bothered me for the whole movie.

That and his heist buddys that reminded me of the crew from need for speed movie.

 

[DsO]

Hank Pym not being younger, the wasp characthe, being founder avengers, Hope Pym being a MC2 charcather, etc just like people complained Wolverine/Storm were not the original X-men and Iceman being younger than them as they were portrait in the movie.

That wouldn't be considered continuity, that's just them not following the comics. Continuity would be like sabertooth not knowing who wolverine is in x1 but in origins wolverine they are half brothers who have fought in wars together, also I don't think beasts age adds when you compare x3 and first class/dofp, wolverine's brain can heal itself in dofp but cant heal itself from the events of origins, where the f were the sentinels to begin with in the original trilogy, mystique's age when she loses her powers in x3, when prof x and magneto first meet(in the original trilogy prof says they met when he was seventeen but in first class he's in his 20's), emma frost's age in first class and origins, wolverine having adamantium claws in dofp future even though he lost them in the wolverine film, moira mactaggert's age, prof x doesn't know how magneto is blocking his telepathy in x1 but we see magneto has the helmet in first class, wolverine remembering what happened in ww2 in the wolverine but he's an amnesiac in x1 who can't remember anything before 1979, Cyclops's age from origins to x1, etc. There's more, a lot more.

Also hank and janet may have helped create the avengers initiative. I think it was im1 or 2 when nick fury is talking about it to tony. Like there was already a team before or what not

Edit: Meant movie continuity, not comic continuity. People get mad at the x men because the movies don't resemble the comics at all imo. They still haven't even given us the original team and apocalypse doesn't even remotely resemble his comic book counterpart imo.

 

[DsO]

Did they also explained why Ant man had super speed???


They said he kept his same normal size human strenght, but didnt hear nothing about teh fact he could cover the same space as a normal big legged human, unless his tiny legs mere moving with all the torque of those of a 160 pund man.

It just bothered me for the whole movie.

That and his heist buddys that reminded me of the crew from need for speed movie.

He can jump super high to if you don't remember so ya. Its like the ants if you made them bigger, like say 100 pounds, they can lift 50 times that so 5000 pounds.

 

[Adamant]

Saw it. Thought it was a very lackluster, by-the-numbers movie. At this point, it seems as if Marvel is just going through the motions. No effort.

4/10

 

[armbarforhire]

He can jump super high to if you don't remember so ya. Its like the ants if you made them bigger, like say 100 pounds, they can lift 50 times that so 5000 pounds.

But ants are actually strong for theirsize, he was just retaining his human strenght from what I undesrtand (wich will make Giant Man really weak, but of couse they will add a twaek in the formula so he is strong ).

 

[DsO]

But ants are actually strong for theirsize, he was just retaining his human strenght from what I undesrtand (wich will make Giant Man really weak, but of couse they will add a twaek in the formula so he is strong ).

He retained his human strength but now he is in a body that weighs how much? Like less than a pound? I think when he goes big it will be relative to his size how strong he is. They said in the movie that the Pym particles make the space between atoms smaller(I think, you get the gist though) but still retain their mass and strength. I assume when he goes big his mass and strength will grow with the change. Actually ya it makes sense since the ant and toy train gained in mass when they got bigger.

 

[Adamant]

Like less than a pound?

More like less than a gram. Which in relative terms might very well make him stronger than the Hulk.

 

[DsO]

More like less than a gram. Which in relative terms might very well make him stronger than the Hulk.

Didn't even think about it like that lol.

 

[Mike]

It's hard to spin something like Ant man debuting at number 1 into anything other than a great success imo. GOTG and Ant Man are there first real attempts at doing something a bit different than the normal superhero film. Both movies being successful will only encourage more innovation inin character selection, which is just great.