Episode #716: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Added 2024-01-09 05:00:04 +0000 UTC“If I was Blipped and came back, I’d rather be dead at that point!” - Eric
On this episode, we’re doing our best to make our way through what could possibly be the nadir of the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania! How did they release this thing as-is with all the poorly rendered CGI? Did any of these actors actually want to be in this movie? Were they trying to wedge in a bad TV series with all these Quantum realm rebel characters? And who’s excited for all these Tiny Toon Avengers to get their own movie (probably)? PLUS: Eric gets Pet Sematary’d by The Blip!
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Bill Murray, Katy O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, David Dastmalchian, and Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K. for some reason; directed by Peyton Reed.
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Comments
To be accurate with Evangeline Lilly, I think she was only anti-mandate, not anti-vax. It's still foolish sure HOWEVER I think accuracy is important.
ROCCO
2024-02-01 16:38:40 +0000 UTCWithout Majors as Kang. The villain of the next movie will have be Kodos.
Michael Patrick
2024-01-15 06:26:22 +0000 UTClol -- that's a real "nobody bothered to look it up" situation - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-01-14 14:11:06 +0000 UTCAdmittedly I haven’t actually seen the movie, but I have watched some Modok clips and I kind of love it
Craig
2024-01-11 07:08:51 +0000 UTCYou boys have caused me to throw on the first Ant-Man. Bless it.
Richard Buttry
2024-01-11 02:35:59 +0000 UTCI think it was Steve who said something about MODOK being "in name only"- they couldn't even manage that. For some ungodly reason they changed the original "Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing" to "Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing".
Felix Forrester
2024-01-11 01:07:34 +0000 UTCSteve getting upset they aren't out of big characters, they just absolutely suck at using anyone makes me feel SEEN
Matt
2024-01-10 18:31:23 +0000 UTCThe reason dc is resetting is because the last phase failed miserably
J HEASLEY
2024-01-10 15:05:20 +0000 UTCI will however seek out Stoll clips because that shit sounds too awful to look away
Darcy
2024-01-10 07:04:50 +0000 UTCFamiliarity with the characters + the sheer banality of new ones + an obviously ridiculous/paint-by-numbers plot = this episode being a sterling example of why I will now officially never watch this movie but have nonetheless been thoroughly entertained by its existence at the expense of WHM doing the Lord's work so I don't have to
Darcy
2024-01-10 07:03:37 +0000 UTCAs someone who isn’t a Marvel fan but is a huge fan of *giant woman* humor, this episode slaps
Brendan Kneeland
2024-01-10 06:28:05 +0000 UTCAnt-Girl Giant Woman scene, automatic star for that?
Tristan
2024-01-10 04:56:49 +0000 UTCI originally thought that the Disney+ shows were going to fill in the gaps between movies. Want to know what Thor was up to between avengers 2 and Ragnarok? Here's an adventure that culminates in a season finale movie. Spend some more time with the characters (always the strongest part of marvel) and stop rushing the plot along (always the weakest part). But nope! Besides Wandavision, Loki, and Hawkeye it's all throw shit at the wall mentality. Oh and Steve would like The Good Place.
Alexander Farr
2024-01-10 04:16:03 +0000 UTCHark, a MODOK!
Bumblepuppy
2024-01-10 02:34:37 +0000 UTCI've decided this year to use my Big Daddy Dispatch as a syllabus of sorts, to watch all WHM selections prior to their podcasts. So, I sat down the other night to do my homework, and I was expecting, based on previous commentary from you fine folks, to see the worst fucking movie ever made. Indeed, the opposite occurred. I was fully entertained for a couple hours. The setting was out of a Van Gogh, the lead was a likable fella, good supporters throughout. Having listened to the BVS nerdlinger's castration of Steve in the mailbag, might I suggest a theory: Those who consume comics and Marvel movies like they are breathing air are a smidge too close to the material, and that your disproportioned hatred of such content isn't in lockstep with the actual level of shittiness coming from the film. Let me suggest that maybe you fellas stop treating comic book content like its capstone, and take it more on a pass/fail scale. The Ant flick passes. So does Sly and his endless brigade of backstory-less cohorts later in the month. I haven't finished my SawX final, but I can almost guarantee, the failing grade this month belongs to Wahlburgers and Apple+. Leave Sex Panther alone, it is OK for you schmucks to like a movie too.
Brandon
2024-01-10 02:20:27 +0000 UTCThe flying head Modock's face looked like when you paste a picture in microsoft paint then try to make it bigger
RJ Cunningham
2024-01-09 23:19:32 +0000 UTCI really liked this movie.
Mark D Myers
2024-01-09 21:32:39 +0000 UTCAnd Disney is such trash for how they are still handling the Majors situation. They own ABC and he's allowed a televised interview?
Tala Hobballah
2024-01-09 20:10:50 +0000 UTCDidn't know about the Bill Murray cameo. That adds a cursed duo of abusers to this movie. Majors and Murray Still not as cursed as Baby Driver.
Tala Hobballah
2024-01-09 19:58:35 +0000 UTCI do like him doing those! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-01-09 18:31:19 +0000 UTCYou remind me of Something Wicked This Way Comes..."The crescent moon on the bullet is not a crescent moon. It is my smell."
MarkNM
2024-01-09 17:27:51 +0000 UTCI am sure as shit that was the original ending. The epilogue in San Francisco reeks of the most obvious last minute reshoots in film history.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-01-09 16:32:53 +0000 UTCThe thing that bugged me is that the sci-fi gobbledygook world removed all the fun from the big/small gags. While watching the film, I felt like Leo-as-Howard-Hughes in Aviator yelling about how the lack of clouds in the sky ruined the scale and speed of the planes.
Jason
2024-01-09 14:55:59 +0000 UTC54:16 begins the funniest realization!
Adrian Joseph
2024-01-09 14:46:10 +0000 UTCI feel like I dodged a smelly bullet with this one. So glad I didn't see this one.
TDB
2024-01-09 14:05:53 +0000 UTCBetween Afterlife and now this, I’m starting to actively dislike seeing Bill Murray show up in things
Chris Rose
2024-01-09 13:30:17 +0000 UTCI'm dead at tiny toons avengers...also can we nominate 2024 worst of yet? Cause I nominate Night Swim. I think it'd be good episode fodder.
Frank Grimes
2024-01-09 12:35:45 +0000 UTCWow, someone complaining on Reddit? That’s UNHEARD OF. lol - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-01-09 12:21:37 +0000 UTCI haven’t finished the episode yet but I did enjoy the comment on Reddit from someone complaining that it’s “baffling” the guys cover these Marvel movies when they don’t like them … seemingly forgetting what the name of the podcast is.
Craig
2024-01-09 11:08:34 +0000 UTCNice, another crappy MCU film I don’t have to watch. Thanks guys
TheRottenAgenda
2024-01-09 10:10:45 +0000 UTCthe biggest disappointment was the ending. Antman should've stayed in the Q-realm, after that big speech about Kang not winning. Then they could've done another version of that joke from the beginning, when he's walking down the street. Just do it in the Q-Realm.
Frank Grimes
2024-01-09 09:40:53 +0000 UTC16:30 Delighted to hear about Kate Beaton's move from comics to archery based super heroics. (It's Kate Bishop) Read a webcomic guys. Great episode. Really gave this one the going over it deserves
Lono's Oboe
2024-01-09 09:40:12 +0000 UTC"Canon-headed man" is an incredible advance-level dad joke.
John Edwards
2024-01-09 08:07:14 +0000 UTCI know Murray has basically embraced his "bitter, unreliable @$$hole" rep a long time ago (except for Anderson, because what white person doesn't love him?), but compared with everything else going on behind the scenes, I wouldn't care if Murray somehow scammed Disney out of tens of thousands of dollars on "comped" drinks during production, and still wrecked the place just for the fun of it. If he deigned to show up in a lower-tier Disney film as a glorified cameo, I hope he not only had fun with the real old-school actors, I hope he screwed them over in some way. They deserve it. They courted him for THIS? Give it to 'em, Bill.
Sarah Montgomery
2024-01-09 05:59:51 +0000 UTCThis movie was last year's Argyle, i.e., its trailer was legally required to be attached to every movie playing in theatres.
Z
2024-01-09 05:52:06 +0000 UTCBill Murray's cameo was definitely a "The Emperor Has No Clothes" moment for me.
MarkNM
2024-01-09 05:48:43 +0000 UTCThis movie was as bad as Jo Koy’s Golden Globes monologue—hey yo!
Paul
2024-01-09 05:22:37 +0000 UTCReady for a great episode, needed it right now
Nicholas Knecht
2024-01-09 05:07:50 +0000 UTCDouglas gives more nuance and effort in his voice overs for episodes of What If? than he does in Quantumania. Says everything right there.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-01-09 05:06:20 +0000 UTC
