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Marvel's Ant-Man
LudwigVonDrake
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Teaser for the teaser trailer.
This one is full screen, not like the 'ant' sized one from yesterday.
http://youtu.be/ddcIabcfwTM
This one is full screen, not like the 'ant' sized one from yesterday.
http://youtu.be/ddcIabcfwTM
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Foot-Man
Doctor Pesticide
The Vinegar Monster
The Trail Destroyer
Bleach Boy
and the Mighty Magnifying Glass
I'd be quite happy seeing any of these turn up, providing they are true to the source material.
Wait until Tuesday when we can see the full length trailer for Ant-Man.
Why is it when a movie is made about the less well-know Marvel characters, some people start to cry 'flop' even before any of the movie has been seen?
We have not seen a proper trailer yet, and there is no way to make a judgement on the popularity of the movie. You can only guess, at best.
And I will remind you an awful lot of people did that with Guardians Of The Galaxy...
They said this about Guardian's of the Galaxy.
But they seem to have a way of making these films work.
You might be right in this case though. Because this film appears to have had some troubles getting to screen.
Its only a teaser on Wednesday, but given that how long teasers are now, it'll feel like a full length trailer.
I don't think he's one of the lesser known characters being one of the founding members of the Avengers and the actual creator of Ultron!
I meant lesser-known in the sense that a lot of the non comic-reading general public would not be aware of the character.
Most people would only be aware of the morepopular comic characters...Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Hulk etc (Yes, I know some of them are DC, but a lot of people would not know that either).
Marvel have released properties close to each other before, notably 1st Thor & 1st Cap, but they're a bigger deal now, so expectations for Ant-Man could be high. It's got a lot to prove, and Marvel are in for some intense scrutiny.
They're obviously going to follow this up and put Ant Man in Avengers 3 (and maybe the Civil War stuff too) though I can't see an Ant Man 2 getting the green light. I have hopes that I'll be wrong, but I've looked forward to all the other films (even Guardians, which was a huge hit) - Ant Man just isn't sounding all that appealing to me.
I think, maybe they'd have been better off simply introducing the character in one of the other films, but whatever.
You mean like a walking tree and a talking raccoon?;-)
You've got Ironman - essentially a tech genius
Black Widow & Hawkeye - special ops / skilled soldiers
Captain America - a super soldier serum (I wouldn't have a hard time believing this would be something various nations could/would work toward one day)
Hulk - Granted a little unlikely here, but someone with a split personality who had an accident in a lab that deformed him.
My point was though, that with our Earth heroes, you could imagine (yes?) them existing in some respects - they're credible and not overly farfetched, whereas Ant Man (to me) is. Rocket (the talking Racoon) is actually the result of genetic and technological mutation and experimentation - we're experimenting on Chimps today - what's to say someone didn't work on a Raccoon at some point? So not, not implausible.
And Groot? Well he's a true alien - and with that, anything goes really as we've nothing to base a theory on.
Or as opposed to shrinking, a bloke who turns green and grows to about 15 foot.
Or even more extreme, a guy who's actually a Norse God.:D
Guardians is a valid was a perfectly valid example of a Marvel movie where a lot of people assumed it would flop, because the characters were not that well known outside of the comic reading fraternity.
And I still maintain that as we have not yet heard any word on this movie, seen any significant footage etc any so-called 'predictions' about it being a flop are pure guesswork.
Green Lantern? Possibly a bit too obscure a character, but also was a rather pedestrian movie anyway...it could have worked with a better script.
Green Hornet? Since when was that a Marvel/DC superhero movie? It started life on radio and is best known as a TV show, and though it was serialised in comics it's not part of the same franchises we are discussing here
I do wonder whether Ant-Man will address the aftermath of AoU or leave that for Captain America: Civil War. It's interesting they went for Scott Lang rather than Hank Pym but I imagine it'll explained in the film.
None of which means that Ant-Man is a guaranteed hit, but I think Marvel have bought themselves enough goodwill for us to give them the benefit of the doubt , at least 'til we see a real trailer!
At least part of Wright's problem with Marvel was his unwillingness to have the story tie-in to the events of the rest of the universe, so you would have to assume that there will be some references.
When I first heard of Ant Man I assumed he was something similar to Jeff Goldblum in the Fly, might that put a lot of people off?