Watching a movie about an escaped convict on July 14 seems thematically appropiate
So, I was Ant-Man! France apparently gets it very first of all the nations in the world, which is nice.
I saw it in VOSTFR 2D. Can't speak for other versions, etc.
Short version: I enjoyed it! It's funny, it's heisty, Evangeline Lilly wears a suit magnificiently, Paul Rudd takes his shirt off and there was more Cassie than I expected (she is the cutest omg <3).
THER WAS SO MUCH CASSIE OMG As she was the main reason I went to see the movie I was so happy with that! And she got my favourite line in the whole movie!
She's asking her step-father, who is a cop, if he's looking for her father, he says yes and she says "I hope you don't catch him".
But really, all of Cassie's lines were gold. OMG OMG CASSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE
(For the curious, the movie passes the Bechdel test when Cassie and her mother Maggie have a discussion about her plushy.)
I wasn't expecting to like Maggie, because of how she is in the comics, but she came across as likeable here.
I wish there had been more Peggy, but what we got was AMAZING. Just amazing. (How is Hayley Atwell so beautiful and siuch a good actress, I swear.)
OKAY MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SERIOUS THESE ARE SPOILERS ABOUT WASP I AM NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE SPOILERS Janet's not dead. She's trapped in the "quantum realm". She sacrificed herself to prevent a worldwide nuclear war (by stopping a highjackedt Russian nuke from hitting the US in 1987) and having to go subatomic to go through the titanium plaing on the nuke. During/after the big climatic fight scene, Scott goes subatomic to go through titanium and then he comes back. This leads Hank to decide to start trying to get Janet back again (he tried for ten years previously, then gave up). Intersetingly enough, it's mentionned several times that in the quantum realm time and space have no meaning. What I'm saying is that it's not so much an open door for Janet's return as a fucking boulevard. Also, the first post-credit scene is about Hank giving Hope an unfinished prototype Wasp suit and the way her face lights up (unsurprisingly, given how much she's been insisting to wear the suit the whole movie), I will bet dollars to donuts that she's going to be wearing that suit sometime very soon. Somebody better write the fic where she rescues her mom from the quantum realm. (Scott has tech Janet didn't (the disks), btw, which is why he came back and she didn't.) (Also, I get the feeling they haven't cast Janet at all, because we never see her face.) END SPOILERS I GUESS
I loved Hope so so much, omg. I love how much she didn't trust Scott and how complicated her relationship with her dad was and how the events of the movie don't fix all of that, even though they do help.
I was surprised by how many characters of colour there were in the movie. All the leads are white, but a lot of the other characters are not. There's two of Scott's crew of criminals, Cassie's step-dad's partner, Luis' various family members, the people at the BBQ, the writer at the end and of course FALCON!
Falcon was great. I really enjoyed seeing the way him and Scott interacted.
Speaking of which, Scott was such a giant dork. "Hi, I'm Scott." (Elsewhere, "Did he just say 'Hi, I'm Scott'?") And in general giant dork all around.
I loved loved loved how much importance was placed on father-daughter relationships. If anything that's the emotional core of the movie. There's Scott explaining to Hope that "[Hank] would rather lose this fight than lose you" about why she doesn't get to wear the Ant-Man suit and there's at least two instances of people urging Scott to become "the hero [Cassie] already things you are".
I liked that everyone got to be competent, even the villain! (Tbh, it's a good thing he was bald, because if he'd had hair, I would have never been able to keep him straight with Scott.)
Also, I called it that Hank's keychain wasn't just a keychain. And I greatly appreciated his dedication to talking shit about the Starks at every opportunity.
There's even a visual gag that harkens back to Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.
Then there's the ants. The ants were adressed as male in the English dialogue ("guys", "he", "Antony") but as female in the French subtitles ("girl", "she", "Antoinette"). As it makes more sense to refer to worker ants as female, that's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Spoiler: I teared up when Antoinette died /Spoiler
But seriously, there was so much more Cassie than I expected!
And she was SO ADORABLE!
In conclusion: it's a good heist movie, Cassie is the cutest and there are two post-credits scenes.
If anyone has questions about the movie, ask away.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/89863.html and has
comments over there.
I saw it in VOSTFR 2D. Can't speak for other versions, etc.
Short version: I enjoyed it! It's funny, it's heisty, Evangeline Lilly wears a suit magnificiently, Paul Rudd takes his shirt off and there was more Cassie than I expected (she is the cutest omg <3).
THER WAS SO MUCH CASSIE OMG As she was the main reason I went to see the movie I was so happy with that! And she got my favourite line in the whole movie!
She's asking her step-father, who is a cop, if he's looking for her father, he says yes and she says "I hope you don't catch him".
But really, all of Cassie's lines were gold. OMG OMG CASSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE
(For the curious, the movie passes the Bechdel test when Cassie and her mother Maggie have a discussion about her plushy.)
I wasn't expecting to like Maggie, because of how she is in the comics, but she came across as likeable here.
I wish there had been more Peggy, but what we got was AMAZING. Just amazing. (How is Hayley Atwell so beautiful and siuch a good actress, I swear.)
OKAY MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SERIOUS THESE ARE SPOILERS ABOUT WASP I AM NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE SPOILERS Janet's not dead. She's trapped in the "quantum realm". She sacrificed herself to prevent a worldwide nuclear war (by stopping a highjackedt Russian nuke from hitting the US in 1987) and having to go subatomic to go through the titanium plaing on the nuke. During/after the big climatic fight scene, Scott goes subatomic to go through titanium and then he comes back. This leads Hank to decide to start trying to get Janet back again (he tried for ten years previously, then gave up). Intersetingly enough, it's mentionned several times that in the quantum realm time and space have no meaning. What I'm saying is that it's not so much an open door for Janet's return as a fucking boulevard. Also, the first post-credit scene is about Hank giving Hope an unfinished prototype Wasp suit and the way her face lights up (unsurprisingly, given how much she's been insisting to wear the suit the whole movie), I will bet dollars to donuts that she's going to be wearing that suit sometime very soon. Somebody better write the fic where she rescues her mom from the quantum realm. (Scott has tech Janet didn't (the disks), btw, which is why he came back and she didn't.) (Also, I get the feeling they haven't cast Janet at all, because we never see her face.) END SPOILERS I GUESS
I loved Hope so so much, omg. I love how much she didn't trust Scott and how complicated her relationship with her dad was and how the events of the movie don't fix all of that, even though they do help.
I was surprised by how many characters of colour there were in the movie. All the leads are white, but a lot of the other characters are not. There's two of Scott's crew of criminals, Cassie's step-dad's partner, Luis' various family members, the people at the BBQ, the writer at the end and of course FALCON!
Falcon was great. I really enjoyed seeing the way him and Scott interacted.
Speaking of which, Scott was such a giant dork. "Hi, I'm Scott." (Elsewhere, "Did he just say 'Hi, I'm Scott'?") And in general giant dork all around.
I loved loved loved how much importance was placed on father-daughter relationships. If anything that's the emotional core of the movie. There's Scott explaining to Hope that "[Hank] would rather lose this fight than lose you" about why she doesn't get to wear the Ant-Man suit and there's at least two instances of people urging Scott to become "the hero [Cassie] already things you are".
I liked that everyone got to be competent, even the villain! (Tbh, it's a good thing he was bald, because if he'd had hair, I would have never been able to keep him straight with Scott.)
Also, I called it that Hank's keychain wasn't just a keychain. And I greatly appreciated his dedication to talking shit about the Starks at every opportunity.
There's even a visual gag that harkens back to Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.
Then there's the ants. The ants were adressed as male in the English dialogue ("guys", "he", "Antony") but as female in the French subtitles ("girl", "she", "Antoinette"). As it makes more sense to refer to worker ants as female, that's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Spoiler: I teared up when Antoinette died /Spoiler
But seriously, there was so much more Cassie than I expected!
And she was SO ADORABLE!
In conclusion: it's a good heist movie, Cassie is the cutest and there are two post-credits scenes.
If anyone has questions about the movie, ask away.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/89863.html and has
comments over there.