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live with fruit posted:The main character in two movies having less than two hours of total screen time is more surprising. Ant-Man was 117 minutes. Ant-Man and the Wasp was 118 minutes. Neither of them was the MCU version of Castaway with Tom Hanks spending most of the movie onscreen making friends with a volleyball. I think overall I enjoy the Ant-man movies more than any of the other characters' movies. The other characters have a tendency (like with Tony Stark) to have the main character at the center and the other secondary character that are in his orbit. With Scott Lang it's not about orbits so much as relationships and the occasional collision. It's also pretty cool (and I hope this survives into the next movie) that Scott Lang does his "crime fighting" for money, in his "civilian ID" by selling security systems to people.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s also impossible to hate Paul Rudd, and Michael Peña is hilarious. I want some kind of ironclad law that instead of any "Previouslys" all MCU recaps should be done via Michael Peña telling convoluted stories.
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Michael Peña's character should be a cringe-y West Coast stereotype but he basically brute forces Luis into being fantastic. I'm actually really shocked they didn't go much harder on his stories in Ant Man & The Wasp or drag Michael Peña out to tell story recaps for other movies.
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mind the walrus posted:Michael Peña's character should be a cringe-y West Coast stereotype but he basically brute forces Luis into being fantastic. I'm actually really shocked they didn't go much harder on his stories in Ant Man & The Wasp or drag Michael Peña out to tell story recaps for other movies. I didn't think the second one was quite as good, it felt pretty forced. He would work well though for recaps, like "Marvel Phase 1 recap by Luis from Ant-Man" would be hilarious.
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seaborgium posted:I didn't think the second one was quite as good, it felt pretty forced. He would work well though for recaps, like "Marvel Phase 1 recap by Luis from Ant-Man" would be hilarious. Do it in the context of him meeting Deadpool
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Ant-man works because they get the stakes-to-character ratio just perfect. Lang is talented but not ridiculously so and lives a recognisably ordinary life where the universe doesn't just hand him everything on a plate. His stories aren't about saving the planet (apart from Endgame, which is also endearing because you can see the character is pushing the boundaries of what they think they are capable of because of the stakes), they're just about trying to get a little bit of justice. The dynamic with Peña is tapping into the thing that made the Ghostbusters likeable as well.
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This is a bit obscure but if you like Michael Peña, he voiced a character in the short-lived Chozen TV show, which wasn't particularly great but had some funny moments (also Hannibal Burress)
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s also impossible to hate Paul Rudd, and Michael Peña is hilarious. I wish they'd trimmed maybe five minutes from the CGI slogfest at the end to give us a scene with Tony and Scott bonding over their daughters. In my headcanon I think Scott's "time heist" came together for reasons a little less obvious than one might think. I think if that rat had danced over the portal keys and popped Scott out five days after The Snap (which felt like five seconds) he'd have mourned Hank, Hope and Janet but concentrated on caring for his daughter and his friends/family instead of hauling rear end to find the Avengers and sell them on a time heist. I think the difference is that loving Thanos and his bullshit stole another five years of Scott being with his daughter as she grew up.
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It should've been Monkey Joe that freed Scott Lang instead of the universe's most important rat.
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Everyone posted:I wish they'd trimmed maybe five minutes from the CGI slogfest at the end to give us a scene with Tony and Scott bonding over their daughters. My daughter just turned three in May and I’ve missed in total about 15 months of her life because of the Navy and I would do anything to have that time back or even come after a Titan if I found he had anything to do with my deployment schedule. I legit cried in the theatre when Scott found his daughter because it just hit so hard to home.
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Anita Dickinme posted:My daughter just turned three in May and I’ve missed in total about 15 months of her life because of the Navy and I would do anything to have that time back or even come after a Titan if I found he had anything to do with my deployment schedule. I legit cried in the theatre when Scott found his daughter because it just hit so hard to home. Absolutely lost it as well when Scott found his daughter. I want a huge fan of how endgame turned out, but that particular scene hit me hard.
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mutata posted:It should've been Monkey Joe that freed Scott Lang instead of the universe's most important rat. https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth/status/1131557540880363520 This is canon.
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There was supposed to be a Squirrel Girl show with the lady from the AT&T commercials, but it got canned when they killed all the non-Disney+ shows.
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Edmund Lava posted:There was supposed to be a Squirrel Girl show with the lady from the AT&T commercials, but it got canned when they killed all the non-Disney+ shows. I thought Freeform passed on it before that happened?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I thought Freeform passed on it before that happened? Correct.
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Haha, gently caress it, just replace the rat and rerender the scene. Full retcon. That's cool though, I'm all for it.
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Edmund Lava posted:There was supposed to be a Squirrel Girl show with the lady from the AT&T commercials, but it got canned when they killed all the non-Disney+ shows. At least we'll always have that time Milana Vayntrub showed up at SDCC in squirrel girl cosplay with a BLM tshirt.
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She did voice her in the animated Marvel Rising thingies.
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Lang's Postulate for Ecoline Squeezing: lim(t -> ∞) of p(rat steps on button) = 1
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howe_sam posted:At least we'll always have that time Milana Vayntrub showed up at SDCC in squirrel girl cosplay with a BLM tshirt. PICTURES NOW!!! Please?
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Okee-dokee, very tall Canadian included for scale. https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth/status/1020899430449344512
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mind the walrus posted:Michael Peña's character should be a cringe-y West Coast stereotype but he basically brute forces Luis into being fantastic. I'm actually really shocked they didn't go much harder on his stories in Ant Man & The Wasp or drag Michael Peña out to tell story recaps for other movies. shame about the scientology
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Alan Smithee posted:shame about the scientology Goddamn it still has people? But Leah Remini worked so hard on her show 
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TheWorldsaStage posted:Goddamn it still has people? But Leah Remini worked so hard on her show Peña's been in it since like 2000.
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The_Doctor posted:https://twitter.com/preterniadotcom/status/1419650645192286208 Had they even teased Spider-Sorcerer before now?
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The_Doctor posted:https://twitter.com/preterniadotcom/status/1419650645192286208 I see we're getting "What If Wanda Maximoff didn't fall in love with Vision and instead bought a couple of jelly dildos?" as a scenario.
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Jedit posted:I see we're getting "What If Wanda Maximoff didn't fall in love with Vision and instead bought a couple of jelly dildos?" as a scenario. Finally we'll have answers!
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Maaaann that lineup sucks. Why are they making two separate Captain Peggy minifigs? Why is it half remixed What If minifigs instead of new characters? Where's Kang?
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Mameluke posted:Maaaann that lineup sucks. Why are they making two separate Captain Peggy minifigs?? They aren't? I only see one in the lineup. As for why there aren't any new characters, I assume it's because Lego wasn't told about them. I've noticed that Lego doesn't seem to get told much about the movies in advance and only tends to put out one or two generic sets around the movie's release, sometimes going back a year or two later to make some based off specific scenes. Probably trying to avoid another Mandarin's Battle Car set or something. Like they've only been putting out scene specific Endgame sets this year I think, the ones that came out before the movie were generic stuff like "Thanos gets captured by the Avengers and breaks out of his cell at the compound!"
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Technowolf posted:Had they even teased Spider-Sorcerer before now? In Into the Spider-Verse Miles points at a Spider-Sorcerer costume in the “Spider Cave”
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Kwanzaa Quickie posted:In Into the Spider-Verse Miles points at a Spider-Sorcerer costume in the “Spider Cave” That's actually from a What If? where Peter stops the burglar because he figures it'd be good publicity and becomes a Hollywood douchebag.
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The_Doctor posted:https://twitter.com/preterniadotcom/status/1419650645192286208 But there is a Frog-Thor!
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seaborgium posted:But there is a Frog-Thor! His name is Throg.
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