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Marvel's ANT-MAN Trailer #1
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Pretty bad trailer but then again Marvel movies have never had good first trailers, except arguably Iron Man 3.
Hell I remember when Avengers' first trailer came out and it was the most generic trailer ever. Tons of people were ready to call doom on that and look where we ended up. I'm still pretty optimistic about it.
Hell I remember when Avengers' first trailer came out and it was the most generic trailer ever. Tons of people were ready to call doom on that and look where we ended up. I'm still pretty optimistic about it.
pulga
Banned
The "Huh?" would've been great if accompanied by a change of music/pace.
Winter Solider teaser was great, Guardians teaser was great. And Avengers teaser had the iconic 360 pan in NYC in it. That part of the trailer was iconic and got people hyped.
The idea that Marvel teasers are bad is crazy, I haven't heard this spin before prior to the Ant-Man disappointing trailer. The only previous meh one was Thor: The Dark World and that movie turned out pretty badly.
This is probably the worst Marvel trailer ever.
Douglas dialog is what someone would come up with if asked to write the longest paragraph using only cliche phrases.
The timing of the comedy was terrible and instead of being funny to contrast with all the overt seriousness (maybe intentional, it's not clear to me) before it, it is just err what? That's the punch line?
More imoortantly, there was no clever allegory to or use of the shrinking like Marvel themselves has done so far, or even a culmination process to the transformation. They just show him shrinking randomly.
Will see it anyways.
llol perfect.
Not part of the Wright's ball licking group, but that's exactly my reaction.
Douglas dialog is what someone would come up with if asked to write the longest paragraph using only cliche phrases.
The timing of the comedy was terrible and instead of being funny to contrast with all the overt seriousness (maybe intentional, it's not clear to me) before it, it is just err what? That's the punch line?
More imoortantly, there was no clever allegory to or use of the shrinking like Marvel themselves has done so far, or even a culmination process to the transformation. They just show him shrinking randomly.
Will see it anyways.
llol perfect.
Not part of the Wright's ball licking group, but that's exactly my reaction.
Exterminieren
Banned
Poorly cut, visually bland, tonally mismatched. Awful, awful trailer.
I can't speak for the others, but there's a very clear difference between the Marvel movies and the Nolan Batman movies. There's a reason why we all refer to them as 'the Nolan Batman movies' and that's because, despite the movies being about a superhero within a big franchise, the movies are very much classic Nolan in form and execution. WB basically gave Nolan free reign to tell his own story his own way with those movies and it worked fantastically.
Now, let's look at the MCU, where the last few years you have a lot of directors and actors in Marvel movies complaining about how Marvel is cutting them short, how they are adding stuff to or removing stuff from the movies without the director's or actor's consent, etc. It's completely different than WB's approach to the Norton Batman films.
Hell, the whole ordeal with Edward Norton should speak for itself. Norton got rights to a final cut from Marvel for The Incredible Hulk, which he used to better tell the story of Bruce Banner in the pretty great first half of the movie. Then when The Avengers came around Marvel clearly didn't want stuff like this anymore and wanted to do the coming movies their own way. And instead of communicating about this towards Norton's agent, they just went ahead and put out a new casting call for an actor for Bruce Banner.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Not an impressive trailer at all.
Then again, I wasn't as impressed with Guardians' first trailer as most people were.
Then again, I wasn't as impressed with Guardians' first trailer as most people were.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
I don't know guys, a̶ ̶t̶a̶l̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶r̶a̶c̶c̶o̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶r̶e̶e̶ a man who can shrink? How will they explain that to the audience? They're scraping the bottom of the barrel here. I just can't see that appealing to the mass audience. This Marvel movie looks like a Marvel movie. Everything they've released before has been a safe bet. I conclude this movie will bomb based off the first teaser Marvel has released.
Trailer could have been better, but its tells us who Scott is, some dude's been watching him and wants him to become Ant-Man, for a teaser, it's pretty much done its job.
/sarcasm
Trailer could have been better, but its tells us who Scott is, some dude's been watching him and wants him to become Ant-Man, for a teaser, it's pretty much done its job.
Haloid1177
Banned
Can't be worse than Thor 2, right?
DoctorFling
Member
Lot of negativity here, the bit where he shrunk was awesome.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
As I expected, breezing past Hank and Jan fun adventure times to get to "reformed criminal with daughter to tie him down" was a fucking terrible concept back when Wright was forcing it, and even worse now theyre stuck with it and having to soldier on.
Scott Lang is not interesting. Especially not when he starts out. Hank Pym is a fucking lynch pin of the Marvel universe, but now he's relegated to a grumpy old man that cant speak too often because the actor theyve chosen had a tragic shitload of throat/tongue cancer. Who seemingly wont have much to do with Ultron, bring Giant Man into the fold, or any of that.
Marvels first huge misstep and honestly its not entirely their fault. Their early faith in Edgar Wright before they actually had their own success has come back to haunt them in the worst way.
Scott Lang is not interesting. Especially not when he starts out. Hank Pym is a fucking lynch pin of the Marvel universe, but now he's relegated to a grumpy old man that cant speak too often because the actor theyve chosen had a tragic shitload of throat/tongue cancer. Who seemingly wont have much to do with Ultron, bring Giant Man into the fold, or any of that.
Marvels first huge misstep and honestly its not entirely their fault. Their early faith in Edgar Wright before they actually had their own success has come back to haunt them in the worst way.
Haha perfect.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
lol there is some bullshit of the highest order being spewed.
hoping the movie bombs for "wasting Wright's time?" Really?
hoping the movie bombs for "wasting Wright's time?" Really?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Ladies love it!
Skinny Pete
Banned
Didn't really do much for me unfortunately. Hoping for the best but I don't think this is going to end up being anything special.
Yup. This is why I don't get the comparisons with Guardians of the Galaxy. That teaser was one of the more memorable ones they've ever produced, and it was well-made, but people simply expected the movie to be shit regardless (mostly because of its weird concept).
This is the polar opposite. People trust Marvel and expect Ant-Man to be good despite this teaser, which is, let's be honest here, generic shit. If this wasn't a Marvel movie it wouldn't have gotten anyone excited. The editing, the tone, the music, all of it feels off. Almost looks like something Marvel would've released before they changed comic book movies forever with their cinematic universe.
The most disappointing part was the 'huh' joke. I'm sure that totally worked on paper, yet the timing and way it was cut make it fall completely flat. Sorry to sound like a Wright fanboy, but if there is anything he nails as a director it is comedy and he would've made that part work even in a teaser. It makes me seriously doubt if Peyton Reed can pull this off because most of the teaser seems poorly directed. I mean, what else has this guy done, Yes Man? I don't exactly have much reason to trust him based on his filmography. James Gunn had to prove himself as well but at least he showed he had potential with his GotG teaser.
Don't get me wrong, I trust Marvel to deliver and I'm not going to judge an entire movie based on a two minute teaser, but there is no need to defend this teaser just because it is a Marvel movie. It was poor filmmaking and I hope the first 'real' trailer is better.
There's also some odd comic logic going on with him retaining his normal strength when he shrinks and therefore making him stronger somehow. I don't know exactly, but I do know it's weird and defies the law of physics.
http://collider.com/ant-man-script-credits-paul-rudd-edgar-wright/
Adam McKay and Paul Rudd get screenplay credits according to trailer; Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish get "story by" credit.
Adam McKay and Paul Rudd get screenplay credits according to trailer; Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish get "story by" credit.
What, this trailer? No it didn't. If you want to go even further back, the first actual teaser for The Avengers which aired after Cap was just a 5 second clip show ending with Thor tossing a hammer. There really wasn't a lot to The Avengers trailers until the later ones.
I'll give you The Winter Soldier though. As for Guardians, the first teaser shown at Comic Con was pretty run of the mill. Ant-Man doesn't look like anything above what a lot of previous Marvel trailers have done; bunch of action scenes spliced between two or so jokes as part of a punchline to show it's still light at heart.
Not to say it's necessarily going to be better because it doesn't look that good right now.
Wafflecakes
Member
Looked horrible.
Who knows.... Marvel has surprised me in the past.
Who knows.... Marvel has surprised me in the past.
DragonSworne
Banned
Why is Marvel making a movie out of Ant-Man?
Pai Pai Master
Banned
cuz he's an important and cool character?
Ant-Man may be relatively obscure to the non-comic reading masses but within the Marvel universe he is a lynchpin with just as much history as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and The Hulk.
Scott Lang in particular brings something unique to the table with his criminal history and father/daughter relationship.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
they may as well call the movie Green Lantern 2: Elektra vs. Batman & Robin
clay_ghost
Member
Its a Marvel movie .
Violence Jack
Member
I was underwhelmed, but I also thought GotG looked pretty "meh" with its trailers as well.
I love that Michael Douglas is in this though.
I love that Michael Douglas is in this though.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Nothing can be worse then Thor 2.
The Incredible Hulk was worse than Thor 2, but I'm not sure that counts
I think they did a really good job translating the classic suit into something tangible.
As for the rest of it, it's pretty generic trailer setup stuff. Since I'm not going to see it until other people part with their money and tell me about it after opening I'm not really concerned either way.
DragonSworne
Banned
The suit is the worst part of the trailer. It looks pretty bad.
Hell no, the first half of that movie is better than anything Thor-related. I do think the first Thor is considerably worse than Thor 2 though.
I think Hulk's first act, with fugitive Banner on the run in Brazil, is pretty cool. Movie goes way downhill after he gets back to America, but I'd say I enjoyed that part a lot more than anything in Thor 2.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
I think it's perfect, but that's just me.
Wiktor
Member
Yeah..lol. To me it was the best part of this trailer. Looks fun and you can clealry see Rudd's eyes through the gogles.
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