CB-Musings Episode 103: Ants Rule

Going back to the beginning 

Of the MCU!

Ant-Man is a stark contrast to Infinity War

Movie #20  = Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
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Episode Transcript

Microphone (USB Audio CODE (00:02):
Wait to tell you.
Something very, very important.
Something controversial.
Something epic.
Welcome to another episode ofsavvy cakes.
I'm your host, mark savvy.
You ready to hear it?
At man and the wasp rules.
It rules.
It's so good.
Yeah.

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I sing because when I talk onthe podcast and I sing horribly,
my dogs love it.
I have two puppies Parker, Nmiles named after the, can you
guess what to Spider-Man.
The last episode was no intromusic, no outro music.
Uh, we covered and game was soepic.
Let me know if you liked it likethat with no music, please.

(00:45):
In the comments.
Or if you, you like having alittle bit of sounds in there,
I'm sure it doesn't make much ofa difference for most of you
anyways.
I've been gone for a whilebecause I burnt myself out,
watching too much Marvel.
I needed a break.
So I didn't put on an episodefor a month.
I didn't go on YouTube for amonth.
I was a little depressed becauseI've been trying to apply for a

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job.
And you know what it's like whenyou, you.
You don't even get a call backfor an interview.
You know how it feels you feellike a loser.
That like you're worth nothing.
You know what I mean?
So it was tough, but I'm back atit.
I'm excited.
I I've gotten my mojo back.
I wrote an, I wrote an epicarticle to work at screen rent.

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I did a sample article.
They immediately rejected it,but it does not break my spirit
this time.
Cause I'm good.
I'm feeling good.
And I'm excited to talk to youabout Ant-Man and the wasp.
That movie, that movie had abudget of almost$200 million.
$200 million.

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That's a lot.
It's actually.
Sorry, I hit my mic there.
It's actually a little bitsurprising that it had such a
high budget.
Well, what may be even moresurprising is how much money it
made.
On a$200 million budget.
Ant-Man and the wasp made 622.
Million dollars.

(02:11):
That's wild.
I just want you all to know thatI'm, I'm going to be recording.
My, what you see from myperspective.
Um, for my IgG story, you'll seeit a day before the episode
comes out.
Just so you can see, like what Isee, my cute dog is just lucky
at me as I'm recording.
Let me move my gross feet.
Look at that.
You have to go to my stories.

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You have to see it.
It's adorable.
High miles, high Parker.
Daddy's recording an episodenow.
Love you guys.
Back to Ant-Man and the waspthough.
This movie was on real.
It came out 2018, which is aboutthe same year.
Um, infinity war came out notabout it's literally the same
year.

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I couldn't remember.
Y it, cause when I was goingthrough the MCU movies in order,
I couldn't remember why thismovie came out.
Before infinity war.
I was like, I honestlycompletely forgot.
It's been a while since I saw.
Oh, sorry.
Came up.
Before end games want.
I mean, it's been a while sinceI saw ant man and the wasp.
And so I didn't really remember,but now I do at the end of the

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movie, he gets stuck in thequantum realm and that's what
they use to.
Save everybody in end game.
This was a great film for whatant man is supposed to be.
I know they took a step backwith Quanta mania, but in this
one, I think it's the best antman movie.
And it shows.
The entire cast crew directors,writing everyone is at their
best out of the three movies.

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Another unimportant characterthat was introduced in this film
was ghost who's played byHannah, John common hope.
Ava stars, her characters name.
I hope I got that.
Right.
I apologize if I didn't.
She's going to be in thethunderbolts, which looked so
good.
I posted a YouTube short aboutthe trailer.
On real loved it.

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And in this film, she was such agood villain.
There wasn't really.
Like a main antagonist is likebad guy that they fight and
defeat at the end, which I kindof like, there's like, um,
different assortment of peopleat different times in the movie
where the bad guy.
So she stood out for me.
I want to talk about the sidecharacters a bit that stood out
for me.

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Uh, Luis is always amazing.
Another person who I absolutelyloved is most people know him as
Asian gym, but he's going to beknown to the MCU as Jimmy.
Woo.
Played by Randall park.
He was so funny at the end.
There's this little bit theyhave with Scott Lang or he has

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with Scott Lang in.
I mean where he just kinda talksabout I'll see you again.
It's got it's like, what do youmean.
He's like, no, I just, this isawkward exchange.
He was like, I don't know.
I thought maybe you were askingme for dinner and then Jimmy was
like, wait, do you want to gofor dinner?
It's kind of like, it's like,no, I was like, yeah, I didn't
think so.

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Some shame.
So good.
What a great.
Funny cast.
At Manhattan and all the three.
You know what, even in quantummania, The secondary cast is
always so good.
And what I mean by secondary isyou have, you know, you're
Louise you're bill foster.
You're Jimmy.
Woo.
These kind of second.

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They're like a little bit belowthe main guys in T in terms of
screen time and importance tothe film, then you have your
main cast, which is Scott Langhope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne
and Hank pimp.
Jonathan diamonds played byMichelle Pfeiffer.
Who's.
I guess most known for Catwoman.
Let me know.
I don't know.
I don't really follow hercareer, but I think of her as

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cat woman.
If she's not Catwoman.
Oops.
Michael Douglas is Hank.
Pym always really, really good.
Hope van Dyne was such a goodlove interest to Scott Lang and
all the movies, which makes meso sad that Evangeline Lilly is
retired from acting becauseshe's one of my.
Favorite actors on the planet.

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Everything she is.
I love I'm looking at a signedposter of lost by her right now.
At the very top leading the filmand just.
I know I keep using the sameword, but it's just accurate.
It's an accurate word to use.
Crushing it.
He absolutely crushed it.
And that's Paul Rudd as ScottLang the Titular character.

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I actually just saw a movie.
Uh, with Paul Rudd in it calledfriendship.
Wasn't a huge fan, but he's sogood in this one.
He's funny, he's charismatic.
He's sympathetic.
No missteps by Scott Lang.
This movie didn't have like.
This like.
Uh, what, what we're doing.
I want to use.
Elevated acting, you know what Imean?

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What I mean by that is like, no,one's going to win an Oscar in
this movie.
And that's okay.
It was so much fun.
That's what these movies are.
That's what ant man is supposedto be.
He's the funny one out of thegroup, his moves are always
been, I've always been thefunniest.
It did really well.
And rotten tomatoes to thismovie got 87% on rotten
tomatoes.

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That's good.
Cause it was funny.
It was fun, you know?
Ah, I use it.
I use words a lot when I feelpassionately about them.
Well, let's talk about the MCUpower rankings.
And where at man lands.
I'm going to put admin the wasp.
Above ant man, one.
At number 15 in our MCU powerrankings.

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That means it's above ant man,armed men to dark world in iron
man.
Three.
We have another.
I don't know, like 13 movies togo.
So I'm going to start, I reallywant to finish my, I was going
to do it.
Oh.
An episode a week, but I reallywant to finish it this year if I
can.
So I'm going to try and.
Pump out as many apps as I can.
I feel better now.
I know I burnt myself out, butI'm almost done.

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So I might as well powerthrough, you know what I mean?
And I love this is the bestphase, but I would just find why
did I get burnt out?
But it's just.
It's too much Marvel.
I needed a break.
Now I'm back.
Oh man.
The next movie is captainMarvel.
I thought it was going to be endgame.
That's okay.
Yeah, I actually, you know what,I take that back.
I'm very interested in captainMarvel because.

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I always thought it was one ofthe weaker MCU movies.
And I'm curious to see if thatstill holds up or if maybe.
It's just not, maybe I justcaught, got caught up in the
negative hype around it.
We'll find out next week.
In another episode of savvyGaetz.
I'm your host.
Mark savvy can wait to see youagain.