Yes both are on Sky movies (which means it gets pulled from everywhere else).

In the US avengers IW is on Netflix, so a trial and a VPN should help?

Ant Man And Wasp.

A film I went into for the plot and some understanding of the quantum stuff and left feeling like it was largely trivial guff. Fortunately there’s a fair few visual gags and Paul Rudd being Paul Rudd that the film itself hangs together. In terms of being an action flick that is based on comics I love how they use the inherent flexibility and scope afforded by comics to actually make something more interesting on a visual and action level.

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Starting watching aquaman. 20 mins in and there are loads of what the fuck moments. Not in a good way either.

Oh boy, are you in for some fun.

Aquaman was tiring. Theres all this CG epic shit going on and I'm sat there yawning.

There was so much cgi. Some of the scenes just thrown in so that we could have more cgi. And jesus DC films, all your villains are shit. Did you learn nothing from the batman movies ?

I was thinking about this recently, and how bonkers it is that Marvel films of all things are making such ungodly sums of cash, yet still keeping the quality up as high as it is. I mean, I’ve seen transformers and a fast/furious film, and I have no idea how they got away with it as long as they did.

I think it actually comes down to the fact that Disney bought Marvel. They have the writers, they have the people there who know what they would want to see with these characters, and Kevin Feige steering the ship.

They also have these great directors, well known for cult classics in horror (James Gunn) or Science Fiction (Joss Whedon) or straight up comedy (Taika Waititi) who are obviously given quite a bit of freedom to make their films.

The only time it looked like it was going to fall apart was Age Of Ultron, and Whedon said repeatedly he had lost loads of creative control to Disney, and it was too stressful to balance everything they wanted, so he left swiftly after. I think they actually learnt from that, and after seeing what the Russos did with Cap2 (the fucking Russos! The Arrested Development guys!) they then have them 3 of the biggest Marvel films to date.

The trust they place in the entire crew is probably a massive part of why it works I think. Also makes each different enough that they don’t get too boring. Like with the comics, really!

Very good point livdiv. Agree with you cosmic.

The whole justice league is a mess. If we stick to Man of Steel as the launch point. Then I think they probably should have done a stand alone batman movie (no appearance of superman). Then a flash or cyborg movie. Again other than superman, normal humans who become superheroes. Then you could have gone more mystical with wonder woman and aquaman. Finish off with Martian manhunter. Then a JLA movie. I would have a Bats v Sup movie further down the line. Building the tense up between the two over a course of movies.

Because DC looked at it and went "what's our biggest sellers for comics? What's the most likely thing to drive ticket sales?" And that is Superman, batman, Harley Quinn/suicide squad etc.

They didn't look to build up a franchise over ten years. They wanted ticket sales now. That's how I see it anyway.

Iron Man was not *that* well known to the wider world, if at all. And I know marvel had sold off a bunch of its more famous characters like Spider-Man and Fantastic 4, but they started small and grew large. DC just wanted to go big.

Pretty much on the button there. I must admit, I never thought if iron man as a big marvel name before the movies but maybe not having spidey, fantastic four and the x men meant marvel had to make do with previously underexposed characters. Superman and batman in particular had a lot to live up to.

Ah i think the marvel films are good but only because they don’t try to be too interesting.

Watch how the praise fro the last avengers film (and I suspect the next one) will relate to the logistics of getting the film to merely work. This is the bar they’re aiming for and the one they need to cross to make a billion because they’ve got enough divs on the hook.

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I watched it 2 days ago again. Great fun, again. Was on DVD though (came free with Sky digital purchase) and it looked like dogshit even on my bog standard 32” HDTV. Boy was watching it downstairs on Sky on our (standard) 43” and it looked so much nicer. Bloody DVDs, eh? No wonder they are given away. 

ReWatched 5 or 6 Marvel films on flights back from holiday a few days back just to refresh. Wanna try and get kids to watch Ant Man 2.

Loved thors arrival in wakanda. Awesome superhero stuff.

Was watching a vid about improvisations. “Why is Gamora?” was a great improv!