Well, it passed budget this weekend - week three - and is solidly at twice budget when international is factored in. I know Ant-Man will be featured in Civil War but I’m hoping this is enough to get the sequel greenlighted for 2020 or so. I just don’t see a means to fit it in before that. Marvel has ten movies slated through 2019 already.
And it doesn’t even hit theaters in China or Japan until next month!
Yeah, for the weakest of the Marvel movies it’s really doing fine.
God, this thing is a juggernaut. How will they react when they finally get a dud?
What will be interesting is if the postive of all the MCU stuff will help the F4 movie this coming weekend -
Huh. According to BOX OFFICE MOJO, Ant-Man has already earned more in the UK at this point than Captain America: The First Avenger did during its entire run; and it’s already earned eight-million-and-change in Russia, just like Cap eventually did; and so it’s now less than eighty million away from outperforming Cap, and on a smaller budget.
Which would be nuts, right?
Nah, I don’t think so.
When the first Cap came out this superhero movie stuff was only in its infancy, people weren’t yet going “This movie looks kinda dumb…wait, it’s a Marvel movie? Oh, in that case I’ll see it”
I think you need to place the starting point of these movies for an honest comparison at…oh…Thor? Iron Man 3?
I’m thinking back to the murder Darren Cross commits with the shrink ray. I’d love to see Columbo investigate.
My husband points out that the shrink ray is something Hydra might want just as a weapon.
They could use it to steal the moon!
Well, Nick Fury tells Stark at the end of Iron Man that’s he’s not the only one with superpowers out there. And in Agents of SHIELD they showed they were investigate superpowers prior to Iron Man.
Cap’s movie came out after THOR, which came out after IRON MAN 2.
But that’s where I keep all my stuff!
-Uatu the Watcher
Something I’m unclear on - if when he shrinks he still keeps all his mass (and can somehow punch out other still-full-sized men), then how does he use a flying ant as a steed?
Regarding Janet, I was kind of hoping Pym would rescue her at the end, and she’d be played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, and that her character wouldn’t have aged during her time in quantum space or whatever:
Pym: You haven’t aged at all, you look 25 years younger than me!
Janet: I always did, dear.
They did a pretty good job of rendering 1980s Michael Douglas, incidentally.
I actually got my wife to go with me, on the basis of the TV-trailer that showed them fighting on railroad tracks of Thomas the Tank Engine. She hates superhero movies in general. She agreed to go grudgingly and she enjoyed it. It’s different from standard superhero.
No way she’ll see Fantastic Four.
Regarding the toy train, they’re hurling these rail cars at each other, but since each man retains his full strength/mass, it’s not really any more impressive than if they were at full size, picking up toys and throwing them.
Of course, when full size men do this sort of thing, it looks kind of, well, silly.
That was LOLA FX, the same tech used to de-age Patric Stewart and Ian McKellen in X Men: The Last Stand. It has improved quite a bit since that time.
How good were the bad guy’s eyes, to spot Ant-Man riding a flying bug, in a swarm, from 50 feet away, at night, on a helicopter, AND manage to shoot that specific one?
I can imagine him just firing (and incidentally causing permanent deafness to himself and everyone in the helicopter with him) and getting lucky, though it’s not clear how he managed to kill Antony and not Lang. The bullet should not have seemed like that precise an instrument, at that scale. It would be like performing surgery with a golf club.
Incidentally, even the malfunctioning yellowjacket effect is pretty impressive and would be of interest to HYDRA or any other shadowy murderous-ish organization - zap a person and instantly reduce them to a few grams of pink slime? There are dictatorial regimes the world over who would love something like that - no corpses to hide.
Great minds think alike. I also saw that “twist” coming. It was so obvious, that I wondered if that had filmed it and then decided not to use it.
Maybe he (or she?) is one of the “gifted”–since they don’t say “mutants” in this version of the Marvel Universe.
That’s an issue with any film involving super-tech.
Aww, poor guy can only shrink inorganic matter - so you make billions licencing that tech to freight companies across the world, doofus.