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I promised you guys four movie reviews this week and I plan to stick to that. I have run into a problem today. Last night I had trouble sleeping, and it’s not just one factor to blame. Short version is I ended up sleeping most of the day. I do not want to give you guys a crap article, especially with this one due to various factors. I’ll be moving it to maybe Friday and I’ll do a special installment of Finally Watched on Saturday (probably in place of the Scooby-Doo Team-Up review) and the planned Finally Watched edition of Saturday Night Showcase.
Sorry for the situation but it seems like somebody down there doesn’t want me to empty the Finally Watched list.
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I was getting tired of the foreshadowing, too.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #14
Marvel/Paramount Comics (January, 1998)
“T’Prell Revealed” part 1: “Betrayal”
WRITER: Chris Cooper
PENCILER: Chris Renaud
INKER: Andy Lanning
COLORIST: Kevin Somers
LETTERER: Jim Novak
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
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For the Marvel day of Finally Watched Week (to match the daily comic review) I had planned on Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse, but with a glitch in the DVR recording (a recurring issue that my cable company has to deal with but we’ve had other priorities so we haven’t called with this latest one) I only got half-way through the movie. I have thoughts but I’ll save them for when I finally get to do a proper review. Lucky for me the other Marvel movie I had on the DVR was just fine.
Ant-Man And The Wasp is the 2018 sequel to Ant-Man and part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking place just before Avengers: Infinity War. The post-credit teaser even includes the Thanos snap, or at least the result. The movie itself has no lead-up, instead continuing the lives of Scott Lang, Hope Pym, and Hank Pym after Captain America: Civil War, a movie I won’t watch because the comic it was inspired by has pushed me off of the concept no matter how good you tell me the movie is. I’ll consume the movies I want, thank you very much, and after Endgame there’s nothing else in the MCU that interests me. What doesn’t feature characters I didn’t care about in the comics are so altered that they aren’t the same characters I love, so again, I don’t care. There are a couple more MCU movies I’m interested in, and then they’ll have to work to impress me, kind of like the Marvel comics at this point. At least this one is off the list and off the DVR, so all that remains is to review it. Note that I’m going with the TBS airing.
RELEASE DATE: 2018
RELEASED BY: Marvel Studios & Walt Disney Pictures
RUNTIME: 1 hour 58 minutes
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Abby Ryder Forston, Michael Douglas, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, Walton Goggins, and Michael Peña
SCREENWRITERS: Chris McKenna, Erik Somers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, & Gabriel Ferrari
DIRECTOR: Peyton Reed
BOX OFFICE: $622,674,139 worldwide, $75,812,205 domestic according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $162,000,000 according to IMDB
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“I’ll get you once I’m done with this fourth wall!”
Spider-Man: The Manga #9
Marvel Comics (April, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda & C.B. Cebulski
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
COVER DESIGN: Jeffrey Huang
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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