WEBVTT - Episode 15: 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' Review ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.640 Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to Nerdificent. I am one 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.120 of your hosts, Danny Fernandez, and sitting across from me 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.640 as always coming in live and direct across from Danny. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.480 But we have a guest today. Let's talk about her? 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.880 Do we have pop culture critic Joel Money. Hey, how's 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.720 it going. It's good. I'm really glad to be here. Guys, 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.120 I'm glad to have you here. We all actually saw 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.200 the same film last night, but we were in different 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.360 theaters and you got stuck in the theater. I guess 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.920 that notoriously, people don't want to be in it's a theater. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.400 Film critics don't want to be critics don't like three D. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.320 They're like, why are we doing this? There's always seats 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.400 left over. But I'm cool with it. But I feel 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:49.880 like we've gotten to a level of three D where 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.559 it's like, I don't really see a difference. Classes is that? Like? 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.680 I know, so last night when you so, when you 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.680 when you get invited to media screening, sometimes they'll ask 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:58.800 you if you want to be in two D or 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.960 three D? And so I was there picking up our 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.280 tickets and I was like, oh, I guess who who's 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.120 going in a what I was like kind of asking 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.080 my friends, and I know notoriously in the film critic 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.560 community that they don't like going into three D. So 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.640 I almost wanted to go in there, but I didn't. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.360 I caved and I went with the rest of the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.559 nerds in a two D. I'm gonna let the nerdive 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.520 crowd know that unless you like just love three D, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.160 don't don't spend your money on this one. It's it's 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.040 not like dr strange or like seeing three D was 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.440 like a legitimate experience, true, that is the special effect 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.840 for a wild This one was like there's a couple 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.320 of moments with him when he gets soups tiny where 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.440 you're like, oh, this is really cool. It's shiny and 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.720 like fun. Three D is good here. Otherwise it's just 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.520 kind of like almost flubber silly, Like there's the moment 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.760 where dudes leaning out the door to say goodbye to 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.760 his daughter, and that's like in a wonky three D, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.920 you're like too much three D. I love when Harold 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.520 and Kumar did their three D movie because they kept 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.160 making fun of three D technology, like they would just 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.840 point out like their fingers would go out, like just 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.480 and that's why we have this this, you know that 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.160 type of technology. But I'm gonna, you know, next time, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.359 I'm gonna I'm gonna go against the grain. I will 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.920 be in there with you, rebel. And also because you 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.359 can show up later, you can you don't have to 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.680 be there an hour before the movie started. Yeah. Okay, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.880 So the movie that we're talking about is aunt Man 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.960 in the Wasp, which is dropping this weekend, so when 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:29.960 everyone's listening, this is if we haven't said a spoiler review, Yeah, really, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.680 not too much to spoil in my opinion. I mean, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.880 there's there's a few key things. I think there's It's 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.160 not like Infinity War. Yeah, but definitely you probably should 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.800 have seen Infinity War by this point because we will 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.399 be trying to there will be like light connections that 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.600 bring up. I went with somebody who hadn't seen Infinity 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.359 Wars and trying to explain everything to them like yeah, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.440 like I'd be like, okay, so don't worry about that, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.280 and uh, okay, so this is aunt Man. I mean 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.560 that that post credits thing must have been so wait, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.880 so we're gonna let people in case this is auto 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.680 plane on your for some reason, and we don't want 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.079 you to write us this is your spoiler warning. Moving forward, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.960 we will be talking about spoilers, not only with Marvel 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.960 Films with Infinity War, but with ant Man in the Wasps. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.320 So turn us off and bring us back if you 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.720 haven't seen it yet, yes, okay continue Sorry? Yeah, so, yeah, no, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.160 there was a post credit scene that definitely has to 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.480 do with Infinity War. Um as a young aunt man 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.920 going back into the I guess subatomic h the quantum 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.120 level of shrinkage to get the health because it seems 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.160 like at the end they're they're working with ghosts and 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.440 uh and they're basically healing her with the sub atomic stuff. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.160 But while he's in there, they they poof, they turned 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.720 in the dust. So he's stuck in there for now. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.160 if you haven't seen Infinity any Wars, someone will have 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.800 to spoil all of Infinity Wars. I just I straight 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.600 up to him, like, so, here's who's gone at the 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.200 end of Infinity War. I just try to catch you up. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:08.640 You don't even watch the movie. I'm just gonna give 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.720 the oral history of it. But yeah, I know, Danny, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.720 we were talking before and he said that you, like 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.719 everyone knew that this ending was coming, and I wanted 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.680 to ask if he felt the same, did you feel 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.400 like because I was kind of like no. My theater 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.480 was also kind of like no, I something would happen 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.159 with the snap, That's just what makes sense. We're trying 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.080 to catch up in the timeline. But for all three 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.479 of them to be gone and for him to be 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.720 stuck there, I was a little shocked. I know, I 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.560 like the way they did it, because I almost did 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.200 forget about like Infinity War. I was like in ant 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:40.440 man Land. I was good and I and I write 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.920 when he was calling to them and they weren't responding. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.840 Because when I was like, oh, yeah, this is when 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.200 it's going to happen, I thought it was going to 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.640 happen towards the end of the movie. But then I 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.480 knew that it must be in the postcard. I knew 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.720 that it was going to happen at some point. So 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.160 that's what I will say. I thought that it was 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.760 going to happen to him, though I honestly thought we 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.680 would get in the middle of the movie with like 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.400 maybe either him or another character, and then we have 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.839 to figure out how to get to the end um 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.200 So I thought leaving it to the end was maybe 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.800 almost a little bit of a cop out, but also 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.000 I understand they have to make their entire film. Yeah, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.320 That's what I like about it is I would love 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.160 because I feel like the post credit scene used to 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.080 have like a through line. I feel like with the 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.960 older ones, like in Phase one, it was basically Samuel L. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:31.240 Jackson recruiting everyone, and I felt like in Phase two 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.320 and three we kind of lost that because there was 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.000 no reason for there. So now it's going to be 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.840 fun that there is this through line of like at 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.159 the end of these new movies, we'll see who poofs 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.720 and then it makes the second cheese are not almost 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.360 worth it? Like this one, I was like, well, let's 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.560 just stay because sometimes there's the end. I was like, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.600 I think they were just doing it. Care about this, Yeah, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.440 but I am pro make the important one earlier because 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.919 I did, because because I would love if that's the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.680 trend and I can finally be like, all right, I'm 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.680 not going to stay all the way until the end 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.040 of the credits. Even though my mother in law, for 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.440 she went to like film school, so sheps like, we 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.719 got to look at all the credits, so yeah, inside 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.479 Leewin Davis doesn't have a post credit scene if you 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.240 were wondering, because I definitely watched it with her and 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.479 had to sit there to respect to all the people 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.880 who bring you semmah. Yeah, So let's talk about the 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.800 film itself. We did have an introduction to a new character, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.240 Ghost Yeah, which is played by Hannah John came in. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.960 I believe that's her last name. She you would recognize 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.760 her from Game of Throne. She was also in Ready 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.800 Player one kill Joys, and I recognized her from Black Mirror. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:52.000 She's in uh fifteen million merits. Yes, well that's like 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:56.839 the first season. Remember it has Daniel Kalua. Oh yes, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.720 where we first meet Daniel. For many of us are 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.000 there and everyone from Black Mirror. Why wouldn't you. The 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.440 Brits know what they're doing, they acting, and they're they're 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.360 so much better than we How American American access sounds 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.320 so good a ship. I can barely tell the diffience 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.280 British and on Australian accident, let alone pull off either. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.000 So I don't know if I could do one, but 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.840 I don't want to offend any Australian people, so I 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.760 am not going to. But um, yeah, they they're so 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.600 much better than we are in every way. Anyways. Yeah, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.960 so she she was also in tomb Rader, oh, in 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.720 the Force Awakens. Yeah, and so yeah, she's been in 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.440 a lot. Just in case anybody was wondering, Ghost is 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.120 a actual Marvel character. It actually the Ghost was actually 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.520 a male in the comic books. They swapped it to 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.360 a female. But in the comic books it was like 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.280 this character with like kind of an unknown origin who 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.640 has the same abilities, can be intangible, can go through things, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.080 and actually was in the Thunderbolts, which would be cool 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.200 if they do do a Thunderbolts movie franchise, which so 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:08.960 deep cut Marvel truly. Yeah. So so that was so 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.280 just so you know, that is based off of a character, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.120 and she was really cool. I liked her story. I 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.800 liked the kind of like you can see their side 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.400 of it, like they weren't just straight up bad, and 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.640 like in the end, you know, being able to kind 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.640 of redeem herself because she never you know, I feel 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.840 like sometimes when you have villains, they have to go 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.160 O D on how evil they are, so they make 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.440 them do some irredeemable steps and then you have to 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.360 kill them at the end. I love that she threatened 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.800 to do some irredeemable and then Lawrence was like, Madam Neo, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.760 can't be doing that. Take it up. I don't know 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.280 if I've ever told either of you, but like Laurence 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.400 Fisherman is like my number one crush. Like when I 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.640 saw him at Infinity Wars, I was like, and he's 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.200 talking to Angela Bath, like this is so sexy and 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.160 I don't know what to do with I didn't know 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.120 why he was there, Like I realized that it was 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.959 because he's now in Marvel's Crazy. I was like, whoa, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.400 Just like it's funny when you go to the premieres 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.960 and you're like, oh, like it's so fascinating who gets 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.480 invited to these things? You know, but it's it's wilde. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.160 I saw Lawrence Fishburn when I worked at the Improv. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.440 He was going Brendan Small had a show and he 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.520 showed up to it, like he was outside and he 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.520 was like just smoking a cigarette and I was just 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.640 staring at him the whole time, and I like, but 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.040 like you know that where that thing where like you 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.559 stare but like when they look at you, you you kind 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.480 of look away. And then when he walked back in 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.040 he winked at me. I was like okay, I was like, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.199 all right, you knew I was staring. That's so great 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.720 And this is such a perfect role for him, like 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:42.400 this kind of fatherly but also like arrogant scientists like him, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.720 like the fighting between him and um, oh my gosh, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.720 why am I blinking on names? Hang him? Yeah, like 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.599 that whole office like back and forth about who was 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.120 writing how do things go down? Like you wanted to 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.080 do like a whole twenty year revert of just them 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.439 in the lab. I'd watch it. Yeah. But also they 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.520 like dropped the nugget that he's goliathe like they are 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:05.200 like and Goliath, which means he lives past Civil War 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.199 because in the Marvel comic books, Goliath dies in Civil War. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.160 The Thor robot that Tony makes shoots Goliath with lyone 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.440 in the heart, and that's kind of where people just 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.800 kind of were like forgets used Tony Stark. Um. But yeah, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.880 so like that's a fun thing that I wonder if 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:26.080 they'll revisit you to him this Yeah, because they're gonna 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.559 have like fifty people in their poster next time. They 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.000 had like forty. So yeah, so this um aunt Man. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.920 The Wasp takes place two years after the events of 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.000 Captain America's Civil War and before the events of Avengers 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.720 Infinity War. So Scott Lang aunt Man now is under 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.920 house arrest after the events of Civil War, tries to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.040 about which they bring up a lot how he fought 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.719 in Germany. Um tries to balance his home life as 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.760 a father with his responsibilities as aunt Man. Um and 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.439 then Hope Van Die and Hank Pim present him and 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.680 she is the Wasp present and with a new haircut, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.760 very so good. Um presents him with a new mission 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.720 to bring to light secrets from their past and also 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.360 bring back her mom, played by Michelle Peiffer. Yeah, that 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.160 was that was That was pretty much a fun through 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.320 line because I was, you know, when I approached this movie, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.120 I was very I had many thoughts. One first thought 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.199 obviously was where was he an Infinity War? But then 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.000 also the movie starts off with him being so angry 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.120 at him, to the point where I thought this was 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.480 going to be a fault for the movie for me, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.280 because it's like they seem so angry, but it's like 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.679 a huge chunk of plot they're not really explaining. But 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.160 they ended up touching on it where I Hope is 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.600 mad at aunt Man because he didn't come to her, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.520 basically didn't trust her enough to invite her to go 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.840 help him out in Germany, and Hanks just mad because 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.839 he went to Germany with the suit and kind of 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.520 basically made them made them criminal. His actions made them criminals. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.320 So and then you kind of revisit it towards the 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.880 end when like once again the FBI is onto a 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.640 because he was telling Louise and it was kind of 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.680 a newish take on that classic balance in your real 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.440 life and your superhero life. That was real fun. He 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.120 was trying to he he knew that if he did 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.360 not stay home, he would go to jail again and 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.080 he'd not see his daughter. But then he also knew 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.800 that he wanted to help Hank and Hope bring back 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.199 her mother and his wife. So I thought that was 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.560 a pretty fun motivation because I feel like we're finally 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.400 starting to get to this place where superhero movies aren't 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.120 just bad guys versus good guys. And you know, this 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.200 one was a little more gray, you know, there was 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.559 you know, you kind of were rooting for Ghosts when 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.560 you found out that her motivations were pure and she 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.680 was just trying to save her own life, and he 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.360 just it was kind of the thing where it's like, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.000 I wish you would go about it differently, but I 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.880 understand why this is so important to you totally. And 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.000 the thing I like about this arc is that the 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.959 idea of the two year gap, the fact that he's 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.840 been on house arrest, gives us like three really cool things. First, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.040 Randall Park gets introduced to the series of an FBI agent. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.560 He's so freaking fun, but on top of that, just 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.160 so damn charming, like show me close up magic. I 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.680 was like, ran, I really would like him to do 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.320 more like through the m c U. I hope they 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.040 bring this character back and we get more into like 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.040 FBI shield stuff. His line when it was what you 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.040 want to go to dinner? I love him. He's here. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.120 I agree, he's so precious to the reason I love 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.440 and stand real hard for the ant Man series. It's 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.560 I feel like it's the only superhero movies currently out 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.920 other than maybe Spider Man, but even the Spider Man 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.480 is so geared toward making sure adults feel included in 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.680 the conversation. I feel like comics are four kids like 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.960 you obviously have adult named comics and comics that are 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.240 reaching out to an older audience, and those are also great, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.600 love them. But I feel like we should be able 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.400 to take kids to these movies and they should be like, yes, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.679 beyond just like here's a giant gun kids like you know, 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.000 and so like the whole Hot Wheels that you can 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.240 just expand, like me and my friends are freaking out 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.280 because like what kid wouldn't want that? Like you take 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.439 a little hot wheel suitcase in just any car, now 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.880 you can drive it. That's amazing. And finally, I just 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.000 really like the fact that we get to see Wasp 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.640 kicks so much ass, like the whole car chase scene 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.439 where she's like chumping in and out of windows and 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.880 flying around dope. I know, I did kind of like 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.959 that aspect that you get to see that Wasp is 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.400 actually more capable than ant Man, you know, like she's 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.840 like she's hand yeah, and she's flying and she's doing 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.960 like she's her you know for the most part. When 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.240 when Paul read as Aunt Man has to fight, he's 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.480 more just running away and kind of fun, where she's 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.720 just like straight up like doing kicks. And that that 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.480 was a real cute and fun moment when he gets 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.480 the suit back when he kicks and he was like, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.360 I learned that from you, and she's like, yeah, good form. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.320 I was like, oh, yeah she is. Yeah, she is 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.760 better than him at this. And I feel like they're 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.960 always sometimes seems to be just an air of like 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.320 we have to, you know, let people know the man's 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.840 the man, you know, and that kind of weird uh machismo, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.480 not even chimo, but almost gender politics where it's like 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.120 if if you have a man and woman they're dating 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.200 or partners, the man has to be the way. Yeah. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.640 I would say that Paul rud for me, does a 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.920 lot of the same things that I feel Chris Pine does, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.080 where he can be alongside a powerful woman without feeling 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.200 threatened or needing to take away any of her spotlight. Yeah, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.720 there's never like a pool of attention. Yeah, and I 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.200 think they're both men that would be like, no, she 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.640 can kick my ass like that truly is how they are. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.640 That is that is how Scott Lang is and that 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.720 is how Steve Trevor is to me, where they're like, oh, ship, no, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.720 this is what I need her, I need her. Um 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.240 not saying that Steve Trevor is a superhero. But just 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.240 I feel like those actors are perfectly cast and that 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.800 they're they're comedic and they're able to yeah, they don't 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.080 feel threatened, and and the woman can really also shine 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.560 alongside them. I feel like that comes from the comedy background, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.520 because I feel like in comedy, you know, you're you're 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.440 as good as you make your scene partners look and 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.000 you kind of kind of boost them up, and that 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.840 makes you look good because has comedy is all about 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.960 almost like a game of tennis where you bat it 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.360 and everyone gets a turn to swing. Where do you 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.480 feel like we're acting acting and you know, it's all 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.720 about having your moment and stepping out, and that's what 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.200 can kind of lead to, like, you know, kind of 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.640 pushing people to the side, unless it's like to powerhouses 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.640 like Denzel and Viola and Fences and it's just like 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:26.200 tennis of spit and dramatics, an all star home run game. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.880 Just like, I'm great, Yeah, that's a perfect I didn't 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.080 want to read this quote from Entertainment Weekly. It said 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.560 the writers were so excited about now being able to 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.800 show Hope fully formed and what she is as a superhero. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.200 Her power set, how she fights, and what are the 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.680 injustices that matter to her that she wants to write. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.840 That's part of the really fun thing of the film. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.840 And Lily felt by van Day becoming the Wasp. There 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.600 was this incredible satisfaction and hope, something that she has 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.640 been waiting for her whole life, which is essentially an 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.800 affirmation from her father has come. Um. Also just yeah, 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:01.960 I mean watching The First aunt Man, which I watched 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.360 again before we went to the screening, I don't know, like, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.800 I'm really glad that she got that she got this film. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.679 I'm really glad that she got this film because it 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.520 was I understand that wasn't necessarily her point in the 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.520 First aunt Man, but um, it was so funny forgot. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.040 I was talking to Kim Horser from The Young Turks, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.879 were sitting next to each other. We were kind of 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.160 talking about like even her new haircut, which doesn't seem 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.520 like a big deal, but like the way that they 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.720 had made her in the first film was really unapproachable, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.480 kind of like an un you know, like she was zy, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.320 she she was icy. She reminds me of like Soma 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.080 Blair's characters. You know what, I mean where it's like 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.800 this really like businesswoman, like you know, and and I 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.040 was excited that she could down the suit and and 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:51.280 be a superhero. Um yeah, I feel like yeah, because 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.600 they were trying to build that like she's professional and 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.600 this guy's a slacker, and they were kind of leaning 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.840 on that. And yeah, when you do roles like that, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.600 it does kind of box, you know, her into the 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.800 corner of being like no fund zone, you know, whereas 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:05.679 like this time she got to be all funds. And 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.359 I feel like this movie really took kind of some 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.440 of the you know, the fridging of you know, Hank 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.760 Pim's wife almost immediately and all that stuff. But like 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.280 now you can like almost remove that tag because it 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.680 led into something. But lots of times the movie it 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.560 just ends right there, that's just the motivation, and we 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.240 never see the wife again. But now we get the 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.480 wife to come back, and then they work together to 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.399 bring her back from this well. And we have another 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.840 smart woman in the room who's like way ahead of 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:40.199 everyone else, actually scientists putting antenna's in people's heads, like 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.760 you know, showing them. She's like, oh guys, you did 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.480 so like in the most mom way too. She was like, oh, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.119 you guys did really good and you came so close. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.840 You need a little adjustment, and that's where I am 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.159 come get me. Um. I loved her character and I 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.040 almost fel thought that we didn't get enough of her, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.960 like so on the outskirts of this story, and she 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.840 kind of brought her before the final battle with like 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:08.760 the crime mob guys. Very funny. Interesting. Yeah, that they 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.560 decided to also have that storyline in there, like see 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.160 you storyline, um, which I do want to get into. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:28.000 And we will write after this break and we're back 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.399 and uh. I also wanted to talk about some of 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:37.919 the external characters because for me, Louise stole the show 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:44.399 so good, so stupidly good. When is Michael pa going 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.800 to get his anser? When is he going to get 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.199 his outfit? I honestly was like, to give us our 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.399 Latino superhero. He needs to suit up. He even hinted 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.120 at it. He was like, we're gonna get it. He's 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:57.840 going to get an outfit. He even said like, oh, 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:02.320 it doesn't even need superpowers. Let's the same. Yes, it 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.680 wouldn't have made any sense, that's not what was happening, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.320 But I really wish that he had at least gotten 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.800