Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:23 pm**

I only say that because I saw Ant-Man in the recent CA trailer.

Posted: **Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:08 am**

Well fudge...

Posted: **Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:34 am**

Menolly wrote:Oh. One does?

this side of the Marvel universe is all interconnected. lacking only the Fantastic Four and the X-Men.

Doctor Strange and Black Panther are getting movies.

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2016 3:54 pm**

sgt.null wrote: Doctor Strange and Black Panther are getting movies.

It is Marvel Studios' shame that Black Widow is not, though. She should already have had a solo movie by now.

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:03 am**

Kind of odd that she doesn't. Big star who has done a great job of a beloved character. Can't imagine what the problem is.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:03 am**

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainmen ... 25814.html

that explains Marvel's reasoning. but I will say it is idiotic. why would we need a Black Widow origin movie? do the origin during the opening credits.

as I have stated elsewhere, no one is demanding a James Bond origin story.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:33 pm**

That is idiotic reasoning. We already know Widow's origin--she was inducted into the Black Widow training program at a very young age, lasted through the training, graduated, went solo for a while, then signed on with SHIELD before it fell apart.

For a short while after Captain America I had the weird thought "what if Peggy Carter is Natasha's grandmother?" but it didn't work out that way. Dottie could be, though--fans of Agent Carter will know of whom I speak.

Also, we wouldn't need to rehash Bruce's origin story. Just move on with a plot line involving The Leader and make it a good story.

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2016 7:19 pm**

Finally watched this - it was OK, not really impressive. I'm surprised they made a film from this character, to be quite honest, and will be even more surprised if the writers find a really good way to fit AM into the rest of the MCU.

I'm really confused as to why AM had to be anyone other than Hank Pym

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2016 8:48 pm**

They needed a way to be able to incorporate both Hope van Dyne and the daughter (Cassie? I think that was her name) into the film; the best way to do that would be to have an older Henry Pym (whose superhero career spanned the 70s and 80s) be the mentor to the younger Scott Lang. Although he kept his distance from them, disliking both SHIELD as an agency and Howard Stark personally, Henry Pym is centrally placed in the MCU since he knew both Peggy Carter and Howard Stark on a personal level.

This movie tangentially ties in with Doctor Strange--the extreme microverse into which he shrinks is basically the quantum field, the same place that gives rise to what will be called "magic" in Doctor Strange. We already saw a scientist describing the multiverses that Strange will encounter back in Dark World--Dr. Selvig drew a diagram of it on a chalkboard in the insane asylum. The other 8 realms of the Asgardian system are actually located in our dimension, just as different planets linked by the Bifrost. (Incidentally, the Bifrost could be calibrated to point to any planet in this universe, allowing for instantaneous travel anywhere; this is to be expected since the Bifrost is nothing more than the Asgardians being able to approximate the effects of the Tesseract via science.)

Posted: **Mon May 02, 2016 11:53 pm**

Hashi Lebwohl wrote: Henry Pym (whose superhero career spanned the 70s and 80s)t

Actually, he started in Tales to Astonish #27 (January 1962).

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2016 5:53 pm**

In the movies, I meant.

Posted: **Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:03 am**

looking forward to the Wasp appearing in the next Ant-Man. Evangeline Lilly is a favorite. will we see any appearance of Giant Man or Goliath?