I waited a long time for both of these things and I was glad they finally arrived. I started the day by rolling into the café by the bus station for scrambled egg, bacon and toast. I wasn't planning on that, but the signs and menu were pretty inviting.
The food wasn't bad at all and it came with little serving dishes of butter and ketchup without even having to ask them for it.
After this I went to visit Argos. I'm not sure if this'll be my last visit to the place, but I'm gonna miss it. I won't miss being asked for my e-mail address, but I'll miss being asked if I'm over 12 or 16 when buying games, which is funny.
McDonald's wasn't busy when I passed on the way to Argos, but it was hopping when I got back to it. I ordered a large Shamrock Shake with fries and a Grand Big Mac with bacon, minus the burger sauce, which is a nice thing about those kiosks. You can specify with the press of a button if you don't want something.
The Shamrock Shake is one of the nicest things about spring, along with spotting frogspawn and Pancake Tuesday. It's got a mild spearmint flavour and it only comes out for the run up to St. Patrick's Day, so it's worth going out for one now if you'd like one.
After that I went to the cinema. I got a ticket for the recliner screening and made sure it wasn't the 3D one because I don't like the glasses. The recliner seats are lovely where you can just press a button and it raises the foot rest and tilts the seat back. You can adjust it to your liking and there's a ton of leg room. I made sure not to sit in the front row this time. People walk in front of you when they're bringing their kids to the toilet and I get a bit self-conscious my legs in the air might be in their way. In the second row no one crossed in front of me.
I like to call this movie Ant-Man 3, because I don't like its whole title, "Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania". When you see it on a poster they have the Ant-Man part shrunk and the Quantumania part blown up.
Ant-Man is my favourite character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe(besides Spider-Man) because a lot of the time it's Paul Rudd walking around looking confused, which is how I feel most of the time when watching these films. I decided to get into them when I saw the first Ant-Man, which was great. Ant-Man 2 was pretty good too, much better than anyone said it was. For Ant-Man 3, I was gonna watch it even if people dumped on it because I just love Paul Rudd's characterisation as Scott Lang/Ant-Man so much.
I love the big/small gags, though there aren't many here. The pizza enlargement bit was pretty awesome and makes great food for thought as well. Scott's got a new book out called "Look Out For The Little Guy" which is a great title.
Scott's daughter now has a backstory of getting into trouble with the law like her dad and into science like his predecessor. The family get sucked into the quantum realm because of one of the things she was studying.
This quantum realm is where the vast majority of the movie takes place. There are some cool weird things about it, but most of it feels like something out of Star Wars. There's more alien stuff than there is microscopic cellular stuff, it's presented more like a different planet than it is about something really tiny. I kind of wish it was much weirder than it actually was.
The bad guy from the first film is here and I was really weirded out by the sight of him. He got turned into some kind of Humpty Dumpty figure with tiny arms and legs. His head is gigantic and his face looks like an image stretched sideways. After that initial shock I just kind of accepted it as one of the weird things about this setting.
Ant-Man is here with his family, but I always find myself wanting to see more of him. Everyone else has their role and they're all very important but most of them are narrative devices rather than thinking feeling beings.
I just took a look at the Ant-Man Twitter and it's only now I see the word "quANTuMANia" has "Ant" and "Man" in it. That flew right over my head. Wow.
Anyway, the bad guy is Kang and he's a pretty decent character! In fact all of the bad guys in recent MCU movies have been good. Kang is a powerful but soft spoken and menacing character. He's been destroying other incarnations of himself like Jet Li in The One and he's been banished to the quantum realm, looking for a way out through Ant-Man's abilities and access to technology.
Bill Murray plays one of the characters they meet. Normally I'm thrilled to see him in anything but he's just okay here. He drinks a weird drink with a creature in it.
Michael Douglas' character is as charming as ever and that army of ants that show up at his command was pretty cool.
Another cool thing is where Ant-Man gets to go all kaiju-big again, stomping around Kang's drab empirical city yelling for him. That was awesome.
There's also that bit where Ant-Man turns into an Ant-Man colony which is fun to watch.
The movie rolls along and has a happy ending, or does it? Scott pauses to think about possible consequences during his happy walk. He gets all serious before going back into happy mode. Charming fellow!
At the end of the movie, most of the people in the cinema left and the lights even came on before the credits ended. I always wonder if people know there's going to be post credit scenes for a Marvel movie. They really should know at this stage.
There are two post credit scenes and I was happy to see them, even though the lights came on. One of the scenes I later learned was a direct adaptation of a comic panel, which was cool.
After the movie I headed home. The movie met my expectations. Setting wasn't my favourite but I got to see more of Paul Rudd's Ant-Man, and the odd big/small joke kept me happy.
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