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Post by takewithfood on Jan 30, 2018 9:57:41 GMT -5
Trailer:
July 6th 2018. I'm all over this. Can't wait.
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Post by Gris on Jan 30, 2018 10:56:50 GMT -5
The lack of Michael Peña is the only bad thing on it (Although I know he appears). Looking very good for a first, kinda hasty trailer.
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 30, 2018 20:22:35 GMT -5
I'm really digging the way they seem to be embracing the comic-book feel, even if that might only come out in the trailer, not the actual film.
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 31, 2018 15:55:15 GMT -5
I want to add that I really dig the new theme, but I don't think it's a coincidence that it has the same high-pitch, high-octane electric guitar sound as in Hans Zimmer's theme to Wonder Woman, which is hands-down the best theme in the DCEU and probably any modern super hero movie.
Marvel has long been criticized for not having memorable theme music (who here can hum the themes of Iron Man, Thor, or Captain America off the top of their head?) so it would not surprise me if they told Christophe Beck to "just make something that sounds like that super rad Wonder Woman shit."
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Post by Gris on Feb 1, 2018 4:50:37 GMT -5
Unsure about the music, it's true that (together with dull color correction, something that it's starting to disappear in recent movies) it's one problem that leads to "sameyness" in the MCU movies, so I like when somewhat different attempts are made like in Giacchino's Doctor Strange, but we don't have a specially memorable theme now (although I love the Marvel Fanfare). If you remove the crazy percussion from that bit of Ant-Man and the Wasp, I'd say that it sounds more of a riff on a Saturday Morning Cartoon theme than anything else, but of course, they love their texture and drums.
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Post by takewithfood on Feb 1, 2018 10:13:48 GMT -5
I totally didn't recognize it, but apparently the sick riff is an incredibly appropriate sample from Adam Ant's "Ants Invasion":
I just assumed it was something Christophe Beck came up with and didn't give it a second thought. Like I even remember thinking when the first one came out that they should have an Adam Ant song in there. I am so dumb.
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Post by Gris on Feb 5, 2018 8:04:47 GMT -5
Sick riff indeed, so nice!
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 15, 2018 15:58:24 GMT -5
Still holding a grudge that they skipped over Pym (yes I know he's in the thing, no it doesn't count because he's old and he's Michael Douglass). I enjoyed the first one, but like the Deadpool 2 trailer, when I watch this all I can think is "So they took all the same stuff from the first one, and added a character for the "funny guy" to bounce stuff off of during action sequences" It leaves me feeling very meh about the whole thing.
Honestly I think I'm running out of gas on the whole super hero movie genre. There's only so many times I can see a car flip end over end because someone did something cool in its general vicinity. Since EVERYONE is funny now, the characters all blend together.
It should be noted that I HATED Thor: Ragnarok with a passion, and I feel like that's the direction we're going now. HAHAHAHA ISN'T IT FUNNY THEY ALL REALIZE THE SITUATION THEY'RE IN IS RIDICULOUS AND HAVE TO COMMENT ON IT EVERY SECOND AND NOBODY EVER SHUTS UP AND JUST HEROES!
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Post by GPMC on Feb 15, 2018 18:05:42 GMT -5
Yeah, Thor "playing" the funny guy.. AND having the "brilliant" idea what lokiesque thing Loki could/should do to win the day. Sure, it wasn't "Loki: Ragnarök" still a bit low on "good" Loki moments. My favourite Norse God, though admitingly a poor lunatic sap in the marvelverse's most of the times.
I still hope they'll continue the "different genres" one MCU approach and expand on it. Maybe even a "horror" Marvel Movie, maybe with carnage ?
Moderate hopes for the new Antman movie here. Was hyped when they showed if wasp costume last thing in the first movie, but I'm starting to worry if it'll be "good enough". Still, fingers crossed.. there's still hope.
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Post by Savant on Feb 15, 2018 20:48:41 GMT -5
I believe it has some promise, but will just end up a hero comedy like the first one.
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 15, 2018 21:30:19 GMT -5
I still hope they'll continue the "different genres" one MCU approach and expand on it. I would love to see them do this well.
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Post by takewithfood on Feb 15, 2018 21:41:13 GMT -5
I was a bit troubled by the weird new feel (I say "new" for the Thor franchise; it was basically Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3), too. I prefer the faintly more Shakespearean vibe they had in the original Thor, but Ragnarok was still more enjoyable than The Dark World, at least. It might not be trending in the best direction, but it's preferable? It felt like a really fun parody that left me asking "Okay but seriously, where's the actual Thor movie?" I still hope they'll continue the "different genres" one MCU approach and expand on it. I would love to see them do this well.You mean aside from Logan, right?
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Post by GPMC on Feb 16, 2018 3:29:01 GMT -5
Yeah, that one was nice. But seriously, what genre WAS that movie ? It wasn't Western, or Postapocalyptic. "Coming of Age" also doesn't fit, nore the "typical" action...
Drama ?
Hmm, maybe Adventure ? Well, it was a nice movie anyhow.
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 16, 2018 6:22:50 GMT -5
I was a bit troubled by the weird new feel (I say "new" for the Thor franchise; it was basically Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3), too. I prefer the faintly more Shakespearean vibe they had in the original Thor, but Ragnarok was still more enjoyable than The Dark World, at least. It might not be trending in the best direction, but it's preferable? It felt like a really fun parody that left me asking "Okay but seriously, where's the actual Thor movie?" I would love to see them do this well.You mean aside from Logan, right? I personally did not find Rangarok "preferable" to Dark World. I haven't enjoyed any of the Thor movies, but Rangarok was unfunny. It was basically What We Do in the Shadows: Norse Mythology Edition. If you loved WWDitS, then I guess Ragnarok might be your jam, but I find that constant, droning "everybody is quipping all of the time" sort of "comedy" to get very tiresome, very quickly. Beyond that, self-aware, meta-humor is really getting played out, and combined with the fact that virtually every established character in the Franchise was suddenly acting completely different than we've always seen them in the past, it made the whole experience very annoying for me. There were ALSO tons of continuity problems with the established canon, but that's just becoming Marvel's new thing for the MCU at this point. I also didn't think Logan was the amazing piece that everyone else seemed to. It was fine, but honestly... it felt like they were more interested in getting the most out of their R rating than in telling a good story for the first half of the film, and the rest was predictable. I never cared about the villains at all, and in a lot of ways it felt like a setup for a New Mutants movie with the death of Wolverine tacked on then anything else. Suffice it to say; I went into the theater hoping for something more meaningful than a chance to watch Patrick Stewart drop F-bombs, and I don't think I ever really got that.
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Post by Kaimontfendo on Jul 12, 2018 16:36:54 GMT -5
Mark your calendars everybody, I agree with WK on something again. I hated Ragnarok, too. I'd say it's one of the worst films in the MCU, somewhere down there with Iron Man 3. I can understand being bothered by Hank Pym not getting his own movie, but I don't feel like it's worth being sore about. Personally, I like Scott, and having Hank as a mentor to him was good to see. (It reminds me of Bruce and Terry in Batman Beyond.)
I've already seen Ant-Man and the Wasp twice. I enjoyed it greatly both times, although the science-y techno-babble still makes just as little sense as ever. There are some problems with it, but I don't want to spoil anything.
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