The first Ant-Man is a good film. Immediately following Avengers: Age of Ultron is was light, funny, full of great performances, and had refreshingly small, personal stakes. Ant-Man & The Wasp continues these traditions: it’s a light, funny movie with some great performances, smaller, more personal stakes, and it immediately followed Avengers: Infinity War which had literal end-of-the-entire-universe stakes. Is this new entry in the Marvel experiment good though? Yes, yes it is! Is it better than the last one? Well… maybe?
Ant-Man
Posted by Matthew
on July 08, 2018
Movies, Reviews / Comments Off on Review: ‘Ant-Man & The Wasp’ delivers big with small stakes
Movies, Reviews / Comments Off on Review: ‘Ant-Man & The Wasp’ delivers big with small stakes
We’re continuing to shake off the dust around here at Awesome Friday HQ, and one easy way to do that is to update the Marvel Fanboy Marvel Cinematic Universe Rankings. Last year there were two additions to the canon of films, Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange. Each were good, but where do they fit? Let’s take a look.
Last time I did this I grouped the films into three categories, this time I’m doing a straight up ranking. Feel free to agree or disagree with me. In fact, I encourage it.
Now let’s get to it.
Posted by Matthew
on October 08, 2015
News / Comments Off on Marvel Announced Ant-Man Sequel, ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’, for 2018 + 3 New Movies for 2020
News / Comments Off on Marvel Announced Ant-Man Sequel, ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’, for 2018 + 3 New Movies for 2020
Holy crap, Marvel has updated their film schedule again with a sequel to Ant-Man titled Ant-Man and The Wasp. This will be the second film with a heroine’s name in the title (Captain Marvel has been rescheduled, more on that in a moment) which is a good thing. This also makes 2017, 18, 19, and 20 all 3 Marvel movie years, which is nuts.
Posted by Matthew
on August 10, 2015
Editorial / Comments Off on The Films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ranked, Ant-Man Edition
Editorial / Comments Off on The Films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ranked, Ant-Man Edition
It’s been a while since I made one of these lists! There have been two new Marvel films since last time so it’s time to see where they fit into the mix. I rewatched all the Marvel films in the lead up to Avengers: Age of Ultron so the films are still pretty fresh in the mind.
While the movies here are ranked from worst to best, I’m also grouping them into three categories: The ok ones, the good ones, and the great ones. If you’re wondering why there’s no “bad” category it’s both because I still enjoy the “ok” ones and because I can still appreciate the bad ones for the development of characters, story, and themes that run through the entire MCU (even if they’re pretty thin at times). Also also, it’s an exercise in being less negative.
Anyway, let’s get on with this.
Posted by Matthew
on April 13, 2015
Trailers / Comments Off on Hooray! Ant-Man Trailer Looks Legitimately Good!
Trailers / Comments Off on Hooray! Ant-Man Trailer Looks Legitimately Good!
There’s a shiny new full trailer for Ant-Man and it looks really good!
Fair warning, this trailer feels like it gives away from plot details. That being said so do most Marvel trailers and they’ve basically all been pretty misleading about what the real story is. You call. Don’t say I never warned you.
Posted by Matthew
on November 03, 2014
News / Comments Off on Marvel Catch Up: Entire Phase Three Line Up Revealed!
News / Comments Off on Marvel Catch Up: Entire Phase Three Line Up Revealed!
Marvel had a special press event while I was on hiatus. Let’s take a look the films they HOLY SHIT THEY ANNOUNCED ALL OF THE MOVIES??
Posted by Matthew
on August 19, 2014
News / Comments Off on Ant-Man Is Officially In Production, More Cast Members Revealed
News / Comments Off on Ant-Man Is Officially In Production, More Cast Members Revealed
Good news everyone! Marvel’s Ant-Man is officially in production and they’ve announced a bunch of people to the cast!
Posted by Matthew
on July 29, 2014
Posters / Comments Off on Awesome: Comic Con Concept Art Posters for ‘Avengers: Ag of Ultron’ and ‘Ant-Man’
Posters / Comments Off on Awesome: Comic Con Concept Art Posters for ‘Avengers: Ag of Ultron’ and ‘Ant-Man’
This past weekend at San Diego Comic Con Marvel released concept art posters (which form one big poster, like a poster transformer!) for Avengers: Age of Ultron and for Ant-Man. Let’s take a look!
A May release date in 2018 brings the total to a dozen films between now and May 2019!
Posted by Matthew
on June 07, 2014
News / Comments Off on Peyton Reed Is The New Director of Ant-Man; Adam McKay Joins As Writer
News / Comments Off on Peyton Reed Is The New Director of Ant-Man; Adam McKay Joins As Writer
No, I’m not going to do a joke about the director of Yes Man being brought onto be Marvel’s Yes Man.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Marvel Cinematic Universe lately. There has been nine feature films to date as well as five short films and sixteen episodes (out of twenty-two) of the television series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. That’s a lot of storytelling right there so as much for my own benefit as for yours I’m going to run down the current state of the universe as it stands right now, immediately post Captain America: The Winter Soldier and after episode 16 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., as I see it and offer some speculation as to where things are going.
This is obviously going to contain spoilers for, well, everything in the MCU so far so my recommendation is to get caught up before you read this. Either that or no complaining. I’m also making predictions about what I think is going to happen moving forward so if I’m right, and I all but know that I am about one thing in particular, then consider this your spoiler warning.
Also go get yourself a cup of coffee or something because this is going to take a while.
Ok? Ok. Let’s do this.
Posted by Matthew
on January 13, 2014
News / Comments Off on Michael Douglas Is Hank Pym in Marvels Ant-Man
News / Comments Off on Michael Douglas Is Hank Pym in Marvels Ant-Man
So the Marvel Cinematic Universe is basically the US Harry Potter, in which everyone who is an actor will have a part.
This is not a complaint as they’ve just added Michael Douglas to the mix.
This is amazing: Paul Rudd has been cast as Hank Pym in Marvel’s Ant-Man, the first film in their third phase of films.
