Where is that streaming? Looks like it’s worth a look.
I see this is the only thread where Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is being commented on (don’t Marvel movies generally generate their own dedicated threads, starting with the first trailer release?). I saw it on Monday, and I have to say I loved it. I thought it had heart, humor, twists, great action and fantastic effects - well worth going to see on the big screen rather than wait for the Disney+ release.
The MCU seems to abound with teenaged girl super-geniuses.
It seems like a real waste to have gotten Bill Murray for that minor cameo.
Modok was pretty good when he was menacing and vengeful, but it was really weird when later he seemed like a goofy lost soul. And without the metal mask, he looked like the Annoying Orange. Ultimately, I think the movie would have been perfectly fine without his inclusion. Was anyone really looking for a redemption arc for Darren Cross?
When the jelly alien who was obsessed with holes got shot up, I totally expecting him (it?) to be excited to have holes (he reminded me of Olaf from Frozen), but I also expected him to die from them, so that was surprising. I also expected Scott and Hope to be ironically trapped in the Quantum Realm at the end of the movie, their rescue was a twist I was happy to see.
Post-credits scene - I recognize Rama-Tut and Immortus, but that third “main” Kang in the scene didn’t look like Scarlet Centurion, which is the other major identity of Kang in the comics that I’m familiar with. Any readers of more recent comics recognize him?
It had been recorded off TCM when they showed it last October, I think. It might be streaming somewhere, but probably not in a lot of places.
I’ve got TCM on HBO Max. I’ll look for it there. Thanks!
We have a show at our local civic center called Our Planet Live in Concert (notice the similar name), with an 18-piece orchestra and video projections of the Netflix show. It’s narrated by Attenborough along with William Shatner.
Victor Timely?
The Whale
Yeah, so this was pretty good, but hardly the most incredible movie. I do think Brendan Fraser is really excellent, but I’m not sure this part was Oscar worthy. I have no issue with him winning an Oscar, of course, but I don’t think this role was particularly compelling or impressive.
Anyway, nice movie, kind of depressing, hardly adds up to much more than a simple story.
Worth it, but no huge impact. I think the comeback-kid cheering for Brendan is moving this movie forward. I love him too, but this was just a “good to ok” movie.
Sorry, I know about Victor Timely, who was in the final scene. I meant the one who was in the mid-credits scene with Immortus and Rama-Tut. he wore a black bodysuit with some glowing (blue? purple?) lines along the vertical of his body.
That looks like a great (and fun) show. I wish it was playing where I live. I’m jealous.
Attenborough is pretty amazing—well into his 90s and still an impassioned conservationist and creator of many of the finest nature documentaries we’ve been privileged to watch.
I got hooked on nature documentaries as a kid in the 60s, watching oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (co-inventor of the world’s first successful aqualung) shows. He, along with well-credentialed folks like Jane Goodall, Carl Sagan, and David Attenborough have enriched our lives by clearly documenting how our world works, for the benefit of the lay public and scientists alike.
what were they ? and even mgm had stinkers …
Yes, a favorite tear jerker.
I remember really not wanting to like that one but I was unsuccessful.
If it helps, I hated it.
A couple of nights ago I watched Sneakers (1992) - Redford, Poitier, Ben Kngsley, River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd. Hackers for smart people. Good movie.
I really liked that movie. And it’s a little sad that River Phoenix was the youngest cast member and yet the rest outlived him, some by a lot.
Definitely.
Haven’t seen it since it first came out, and I still remember the scene with Poitier giving Redford long, complicated instructions by phone. You can only hear Redford’s side of the conversation, which is mostly “Uh huhs.” Redford finally says, “OK, got it”… and just kicks open the door.
The Gunman, Sean Penn as a retired covert ops guy. He really is not good in that sort of role. And what the hell was Mark Rylance doing in this thing? He’s probably the greatest British stage actor of our time; was that too boring? Pretty sure Javier Bardem and Idris Elba both fired their agents, also.
We Have a Ghost on Netflix. Very funny and very touching. David Harbour’s performance is great.
The original 1967 version of Point Blank. That is really an incredible film. Its overlaying stories, which are not in sequential time, is just genius. Every one of the actors are at the top of their game, especially Lee Marvin. Even though Carroll O’Connor is only in the film a short while at the very end, he damn near steals the show.
I always liked that film. But that loooong repetitive instrumental “psychedelic” tune ( or whatever producers thought that psychedelic music sounded like circa 1967 ) in that club scene that just goes on and in the same repetitive 14 bar loop just ear worms me to death.
I have a question this time instead of posting my latest movie viewing.
There is a Creed III that is coming out soon or is out now. I didn’t see Creed 2, but it looks to me like Jonathan Majors is the bad guy in Creed III, like the other boxer Michael Jordan has to beat?
Majors was Kang, the bad guy, in Ant-Man 3. Is he making a career out of bad guys now? Also, if he is the villian of Creed 3, has an actor ever been the antagonist in two movies opening 1 or 2 weeks apart? It’s kind of incredible.