ANT-MAN is Way Better Than We Remember! (2016) Movie Reaction | First Time Watching
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Forced out of his own company by former protégé Darren Cross, Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) recruits the talents of Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), a master thief just released from prison. Lang becomes Ant-Man, trained by Pym and armed with a suit that allows him to shrink in size, possess superhuman strength and control an army of ants. The miniature hero must use his new skills to prevent Cross, also known as Yellowjacket, from perfecting the same technology and using it as a weapon for evil.
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Wakanda Forever started phase 5.
@@knighthawk3749 *Ended Phase 4
@@HeroesReforged You are right, but Quantumania is still phase 5.
Best thing from these Ant Man movies is still the "Ants Ants Antman" promo
Hard Agree.
[Michael Douglas voice] *ANTS!*
Best MCU promo ever.
The first Ant-Man was always the most underrated of the MCU movies. It's pure entertainment, and with some solid performances and heart filled moments as well
I love the journey from "That's how you punch" to Ant-Man punching a Chitauri Leviathan
As far as the weight/density issue, we only know how Darren's particle worked and the heaviest thing he shrank was himself. We have no idea how different Pim's particle was.
The fingerprint thing does work. You take a bottle cap, but some super glue into it, and put it over the fingerprint. The gases from the glue react with the fat in the fingerprint and form a white paste. Take a photo in front of a black background, invert the colors and print it on foil with a laser printer and you have a 3d structure. Spread a thin layer of wood glue over it, let it dry and peel off. Glue it to one of your fingers and you have someone else‘s fingerprint that will fool most scanners.
This is definitely one of those movies I rewatch every once in a while to have a fun time. Love all the little character interactions and moments and it made me love Scott Lang. can’t wait to rewatch it with you guys.
Michael Peña played a serious role in Crash. One of his big break out roles.
He’s also great in End of Watch
And in Narcos Mexico !
And he was good in Shooter
and he was great in World Trade Center too.
And on The Shield
I’ve said for years that Michael Peña is one of the most underrated actors in the industry. Man can do dramatic roles and comedic roles not only good but GREAT! Crash, Fury, End of Watch, 30 Mins or Less, Antman, Observe and Report! Soo many more too
That scream from Darren Cross in the bug zapper always gives me chills.
Agree with Hector. I think Ant-Man is suupper underrated and always gets undermined. Been hearing not so great things about Quantumania but I could honestly care less. Just glad to see Scott again and Kang
Here's the comic book explanation regarding the size/density issue.
Pym Particles originally come from an alternate dimension called Kosmos. When a subject is affected by Pym Particles, they connect with Kosmosian mist in a metaphysical way. The technical term for this connection is hyperphasing. When a subject shrinks past a certain point, excess mass is shunted off into the otherdimensional mists allowing the subject to retain its shape without an impossible increase in density. This results in a decrease in overall weight but living subjects still typically observe an increase in proportional strength.
Conversely, using Pym Particles to grow causes one to draw in additional mass from the mist to maintain relative density. While there is a strength increase to go along with this, it gets proportionally smaller the more a subject grows.
Hector moment: In the comics the explain that pym particles can affect apparent mass and density as well as size. I don't think they wanted to get that expository in the movie.
Even in the movie, when an ant grows to human-size, it doesn't have the same mass as a regular ant.
So either there is a control in the regulator to change mass/density, or the effects are different for shrinking versus enlarging.
If necessary, Pym actually had miniature tanks and cars built to scale, so that they would work normally when enlarged.
(Which is insane, but he had money and comic book physics on his side.)
you know those movies where you can come in at anytime during it playing and you just sit an watch to the end and it never gets old? this is one of those movies for me.
i LOVE this movie.
51:06 SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME, I thought there's an ant in my headphones...
I thought my headphone were broken LUL
I would love If they had Luis tell the WHOLE story of the MCU/MCM. If I could have someone tell the story of my life, it would have to be either Morgan Freeman or Michael Pena. 😏
Michael Peña is a great dramatic actor. End of Watch, in Narcos, Crash. He's got a lot of dramatic roles as well as comedic. He's great. But some Disney+ shorts all about Luis recapping events in the MCU, while also adding some insider type of info he got from a friend of a friend of a friend would be awesome.
He’s great in Narcos Mexico
@@camchagnon Agh, yes. Narcos Mexico. I keep forgetting to distinguish it from the first one.
The Creed actor is Wood Harris guys, Avon Barksdale from The Wire, and Julius Campbell from Remember the Titans. Acting heritage!
Ant-Man and Ant-Man & the Wasp are both in my MCU top 10, always have been. I don't even care that others hate them, they're my thing. 🥰
I rewatched this a few weeks ago as well. It’s so good. I agree it’s underrated. I have the posters to the films too.
I loved rewatching this with you guys! 😂💀
That's Wood Harris! He was also Julius in "Remember the Titans" and Avon Barksdale in "The Wire".
He's a great actor.
There's so many little parts of this movie that didn't have to be embellished but they really polished every part, performance, and action bit. It's so underrated.
I’ve always loved this movie. What impressed me was the fact that they changed directors RIGHT before shooting the movie and it was still a great movie!
Also wait Hector….wait. You put She Hulk ABOVE Winter Soldier and Ragnarok? I mean to each their own but….wow. That was unexpected. I also never thought I word hear the words “Moonknight” and “Far From Home” in the same sentence.
My thing is my rankings are sperated by movies and tv shows. I can’t incorporate the shows into the movies.
Garrett A Morris played Ant Man on a SNL skit too. Also that actor is Wood Harris and he is so underrated. Need to watch his work in The Wire
I very fondly remember planting my butt in my computer chair for 2 days watching The Road to Civil with you guys and the rest of the Geek n Sundry gang. Since then whenever I marathon the MCU films I always pull those old videos up and have you guys on as my commentary track. It was a great event and I love seein you fellas revisit these movies and doing a new version of those watch alongs. I look forward to seeing you revisit the rest of the MCU at some point in the future time permitting, I know you guys are super busy these days. Much Love
The two Ant-Man movies are probably my most rewatched MCU films. They are just comfort films for me. I love the humour, I love how they capture the powers, the cinematography in general, the family dynamic, the cast, the scale of the problem. I also totally agree with Agustin, that I miss them doing ant stuff. It's THE special thing about him, his power. And especially in Quantumania felt like we were mostly at regular size as an audience and missed a lot of the action.
Got to say, it's really weird to se Darren again after watching Quantumania.
Agreed (with the title) and the uncut on Patreon is gold.
6:25 Just in case if anybody wondering what song is that playing the background? The song is called Hot Poppin Popcorn. Which is from The Wiggles that Marvel just used in this movie BTW LOL. And I can't believe they really did that. That's awesome
After hearing Adam @ 1:01:07, I now cannot wait for when Sam (Captain America) calls him (Scott/Ant-Man) tic-tac in the heat of battle against Kang. It'll be like a little pay-off similar to when T'Challa calls Hawkeye Clint or Cap saying Queens when throwing Mjolnir to Spider-Man.
Even in watching this, I was like I need to move Ant-Man higher up on my list. LOL. I had it at about 16-17...at a point I got tired of remember with every project, so yeah. 😂 I was just looking at my list and thinking, this isn't right. I started moving things around and gave up. I want to do a full rewatch of all the movies, but who has the time for that!! 😭😭😭 One day.
You guys gotta sit Agustin and force him to make a physical list! 😂😂😂
12:30-13:10 I think the main issue is they keep the general pattern of red, greys, and black the same and don’t really change much of where they go/how much. The most major difference, outside of the helmets, is from this to Civil War, but after that and kinda like Iron Man after AOU for me, they kinda seem the same with some minor changes. Maybe if they changed to Hank made it predominantly black and grey with red highlights when he wore it to stay stealthy and as Scott got more personal input, it gets more much brighter red on it and maybe even some blue here and there like the comic one. But eh, guess they like the design so much they didn’t feel the need to deviate far from it, the hell do I know?
Just rewatched them and they are so much better than I remembered.
I have always gotten the feeling that the "shrinking atomic distance" isnt quite how the pym particles actually work, because if that was the case how could you go sub-atomic? you can't shrink the distance so far that it goes into the negatives- theres gotta be something else at play there
Awesome re-watch, homies. I enjoyed this so much! BTW, Michael Peña was on the Oscar-winning movie, "Crash" (2004) playing a dramatic role. His climactic scene with his daughter and the "bullet proof cape" teared me up back then--but I definitely agree, Peña is soooo underrated as an actor! On another note, I also think Corey Stoll, Billy Zane AND Timothy Olyphant are of the same "type" of actor that ooze good/bad guy at the same time.
Michael Peña was really good in "The Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg.
Did an MCU rewatch in 2020 and both Ant-mans shot up to being my favorites. Can't wait to see you do the next one.
Totally agree on the theme too. His, Dr. Strange's and of course the Avengers themes are the only MCU themes I can hum off the top of my head without hearing them before hand.
Recently, I did a Scott Lang focused watch with Ant Man, Civil War, Ant Man 2 and/or infinity war (I can't remember the order right now), and then endgame..... and Y'all.
10:30 there's a MythBusters episode about finger prints, and yes it may work. lol
The train bit gets me every time
Michael Pena was amazing in Narcos-Mexico.
As many have mentioned Michael Peña has been in a lot of dramatic roles. One role that really stands out for me is Will Jimeno in the film World Trade Center where he plays a firefighter alongside Nicolas Cage. He does such a great job with that role. Definitely checked that film out.
Also you guys mentioned the actor that is from Creed 1 and 2, Wood Harris. He has a long career and is a phenomenal actor. If you don't recall, he was one of the main actors in Remember the Titans.
Also that actor that you recognize from Creed is Wood Harris. From The Wire, Remember the Titans, and Paid in Full just to name a few
He was still snarky, but Peña had a pretty good dramatic turn in The Martian. He could definitely get meatier stuff.
6:01 🎆
Honestly one of my favorite things about watching 'first time reactions' of people just getting into Marvel is just how UNBELIEVABLY well they all hold up over the years. Iron man is still incredible at 15 years old...
14:08 How dare you! "The trainer from Creed"?? Wood Harris is a national treasure! You guys never watched The Wire, Dredd, or Above the Rim?
There are a lot of actors names to remember.
Also love the Dumb & Dumber reference from Hector at around 45 minutes.
for what it's worth, having a Quest 2 and some 3d bluray rips on your PC allows for nice 3D experiences for many films.
40:56 "it prolly messed them up more jumping out of a building in a tank" its not even just a tank. It's a WW2 tank which means it was made of 80% asbestos, lead paint, and whatever they used to be able to put into bug spray in the 80s.
the cop was also in Remember the Titans
10:57 I have to talk about this I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS. The Star Wars movies canonically exist in the MCU, meaning that Sam Jackson and Natalie Portman as Mace Windu and Padmé exist, which also means Nick Fury and Jane Foster just uncannily resemble them.
So Leo could theoretically be in the MCU. 😭🙃
Edgar's fingerprints are all over this fiolm AND I LOVE IT!!! Great reaction can't wait tro hear you thoughts on Quantumania!!
I love heist movies and Ant-Man is a heist movie at it's core. It is one of my top 5 solo MCU movies.
I think I need to pay for the patreon. One of the funniest responses Paul Rudd gives after he get sucker punched by hope. 🤣 we’re you even aiming for my hand?
Ant-Man isn’t the biggest hero but goddamn does Paul Rudd makes me love this character and want to see what he’s up to.
i think the shrunken objects not weighing the same could be explained away as “the closer to the quantum realm, the more it interferes with the laws of space”
I haven't seen Quantumania yet, and I'm not a scientist, but my take on the weight/density/smaller-than-atom issue is that:
1: It doesn't make sense as presented, the writers got some of the science wrong. The in-universe reason is that the characters explaining Pym tech don't actually understand it themselves, and are either succeeding despite flawed theories, or making stuff up to hide how little they know.
2: Obviously, there is some kind of mechanism that's also changing mass, and it doesn't really work by pushing your atoms closer together. Scott can choose to be light enough to carry or super-dense with other controls in the suit that just weren't mentioned, (he's consistently heavy throughout the initial shrinking scene before he learns to use it) and the disks are designed to always adjust the mass (light keychain, heavy Thomas and ant.)
3: There is no plausible scientific explanation for what Pym Particles are actually doing, and I think it will be revealed to be a form of magic. I don't think it's likely but I would love a surprise cameo from Dr. Strange or Wanda to reveal this... "What are you doing in the Quantum Realm?!" "What are YOU doing in a magic realm?!" "...whoa!" lol
Watched first two movies again last week. Yes the first one was like Honey I Shrunk The Kids meets MCU. Enjoyed first more then second but they also gave us Michelle Pfeiffer. Off to theatre today to see newest.
I agree Luis The Ant-Man sidekick Chronicles on Disney Plus. now thats a show i would watch..
I'm wondering if their in-house explanation is that Pym Particles only let organic things retain their strength/weight. That's how it makes sense in my head at least.
My favorite part of these Ant Man movies is that they didn’t fall into the trope of making the ex wife and new step-parent bad people in order to make Scott look good. Maggie is fair and kind and a good mom, and Paxton genuinely cares about Maggie and Cassie and is a good stepfather. These movies allowing them to become a supportive blended family is honestly amazing.
Also, in regards to child support, just because Scott is in prison doesn’t mean he can’t pay. It’s possible he may have filed with the courts to change how much he has to pay given his situation. The court may have allowed him to not pay or only pay a small amount until he gets out of prison. So it’s entirely fair that Maggie is asking him for child support given it’s likely that she and Paxton are the ones primarily been paying for Cassie’s care. Also I think it’s important to note that Cassie being 6 and Scott having a 3 year prison sentence means that Scott knowingly risked himself possibly get sent to prison despite having parental responsibilities AND knowing the pressures it would place on Maggie if he got caught. So really, as good hearted as Scott is, what he did was really unfair to Maggie.
Loved Michael Pena in "The Martian", a movie that I never in a million years expected to love.
You guys should do a reaction to Night At The Museum, a lot of great small-sized shots in that movie!!
Since y’all love Pena so much, yall should check out his role in “Fury,” its a dramatic role and he KILLS it
Yoooo! I watched both Ant-man movies yesterday in preparation. They were so much better than I remembered that I had to do some rearranging of my movie rankings last night.
There's definitely inconsistencies in how the film deals with mass during shrinking (how do you shrink a tank and have it not be as heavy as a tank?), but I think that's just a consequence of having shrinking tech and wanting it to be cool. Like he runs along a gun without it putting any strain on the guy holding it, but still has the force behind his punches as if he weighs the same. It's just one of those things where for any cool sci fi tech you need to break some science rules, unfortunately we all have a common sense understanding of how light/heavy things behave, so it makes our brains go "wait how does THAT work?" I think with things like this we just need to accept the 'rule of cool' of it all and let it slide because the more you look at it the more you notice little things that "wouldn't work".
The big one that always bugs me is when the original wasp has to shrink to pass straight through the titanium plating, which we're told will put her in the quantum realm, yet she goes through it THEN breaks the wires inside the missile.
Oh and Scott does the exact same thing at the end right? "I have to shrink between the molecules to get in there" then suddenly is bigger than the wires again once he's inside.
to answer the tank keychain, it's probably a toy sized tank really, bigger than keychain size so it's functional, but not life size so it's too heavy to lift.
😯😯😯😯
I always get choked up hearing his daughter calling out to him while he’s in the quantum realm
I think in the MCU at least... as far as weight VS mass VS size. Mass is the amount of particles (and is the same regardless of size), but they seem to interact as far as weight depending on object size range. Leads me to think the source of gravity / weight in MCU (and maybe real world) is based on electrical resistance and the resistance is based on overlap of an objects size / 3D cross-section with the underlying grid / matrix / aether of the universe which is steady / not shrank along with suit / object. So they still have weight... but proportional to the overlap with 'normal' matter / grid / aether.
Michael Peña for President! I love him so much, he’ll definitely be missed 😢
After seeing anything small, Hector: "I'd buy that."
It’s true! 😂
Agustin is a low key entomologist at 30:50 😄😄
Perfect timing, hoping to see Quantumania today 😁
46:50 That Scream tho Lmao. So relatable dude hahaha 🤣😂
Glad to see Ant Man getting more love; I've always enjoyed it and could never understand why it wasn't more highly rated.
You mentioned Pena would be a great serious actor if given the material, he was quite good in The Martian. Hilarious amount of Marvel people in that one, we got him, Mordo, Wong, Bucky, Matt Damon if you count his Ragnarok cameo lol.
Top 3 MCU for me. But I'm also not big on characters like Ironman and Cap
7:47-8:00 I KINDA FORGOT THIS HAS ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC DEATHS FOR A PG-13 MOVIE!
I will always maintain the fact that this film is so good because Edgar Wrights influence looms over this scipt heavily
Absolutely yes! Hope one day he can come back.
I had no idea but now that you say that I can feel his style all over it
this movie honestly always reminds me that Scott is actually...pretty smart. Like everyone was saying that there's no way Kang should've been an enemy to ant man because he's not nearly powerful enough and Kang would just destroy him - I mean, number one that was a weakened Kang but number two Scott might not be super powerful but he's more than just goofy, he's pretty resourceful and smart so Idk I think people underestimate this character a lot.
I think people ‘react’ to the older movies better after seeing the evolution of the characters and stories 20+ movies out due to how much the newer stories continue to build upon the details of the original films.
The summer the Dora movie came out, my kids and I (teen & preteen at the time) had a choice between that and Lion King remake. We chose Dora and it was fantastic, no regrets. And I still haven't watched the Lion King remake.
Oh also, regarding how PYM Particles work. Darren Cross, Doesn't know exactly what's needed to create the red PYM particles. I like to believe Hank purposely doesn't explain how it actually works to anyone, on how objects get smaller, their weight will change depending on their size.
Agustin: "I know so much sh!t about a lot of different thing but I'm no expert on anything". Literally a jack of all trades but a master of none. Still, oftentimes better than a master of one.
I like how hectors mic just finish adams elbow ? 😂 trippy
Luis is my favorite mcu character, guy is hilarious lmao
Both Patty Guggenheim’s Madisynn and Michael Peña’s Luis are in California right? Someone somewhere can write them an out & out sitcom (One each?) , set in the MCU, surely?
If you wanna see Peña tackle a dramatic role, watch Narcos: Mexico. He and Diego Luna are phenomenal.
loving these throwback mcu reactions
Yes !! Probably still one of my / if not my favorite MCU movie
One of the reasons the first AntMan is the best one is because it still has a Edgar Wright esque feel to it
since you guys worked on Winter Soldier, would love to see you guys rewatch/react to that movie. Just giving us insight on what you guys worked on. Especially when Augustin said "I spent way too much time on that movie" I wanna know why! lol.
Remember, the sequel had that INSANE post-credit scene. For the sake of that lone person on the planet who hasn't yet succumbed to the MCU (lol), I won't spoil it.
Keep up the great work!
I cried. Rewatching it
Corey Stoll was great in Midnight in Paris. Really charming and fun Woody allen movie, which also pairs Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston years before Loki. Stoll also happens to be in the really awesome, under-seen movie, Lucky Number Slevin. Amazing cast in it.
32:34 - I recall Steve-O performing that ritual on Wildboyz, though not for the full time. But I remember the female ritual being way worse (if I happen to be remembering it right), involving every hair from their body being plucked by hand one at a time while they have to stand and endure it for however long it takes.
Ant man seems to get the tiniest roles. 🤓
He didn't just fight an avenger, he beat captain america in his first real super fight. I mean, they weren't trying to murder each other as hard as they could, but still. Ant man is an OG superhero.
I like A.M. in the MCU's narrative. It fits a cinema storytelling format. I say this as a fan of the old comics too.
when i started getting into the mcu this was one of my favorites
In my Phase 2 ranking Ant-Man is 3rd, in my ranking of all the phases it ranks 15th