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You’ll Be Here and I’ll Be With You by Levi Robinheart [lyrics]
Why don’t you take a break, dear from standin with your bones so dry? What good is all the pain if it only ends to let you ache?
Why don’t you take a break, dear from starin at your screens all day? I know it’s comin but if you’ll just stay your hands You’ll be here ‘nd I’ll be with you When the sirens reach our door Spare your spine, for as you sleep it grows more beautiful Your soul is far more restless when you steal it so I miss it, too, you know
come close In the morning you can feel the sun escape your breath or you could lose yourself tonight and wonder when you left And as it seems, there’s a ransom at the core of impossible routines
Why don’t you take a break, dear? Everybody goes some day I miss the way it felt to cryssal your eyes You’ll be here and I’ll be with you when the moment needs you most And I will hold your taken heart and weep so criminal You keep the pressure going ‘cause it’s what we do I know you miss it, too
stay close In the morning you can feel the sun within my chest And if you give me what you have I’ll give you what is left If we agree, I will miss you when we sleep but when we dream we will be queens again masters of the scene
Give you here, come to bed, rest your eyes and close your head as it rains, you’ll be here and I’ll be with you
Review: Ant-Man (2015)
Rating: 8.0 of 10
Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), a man with a shrinking technology long hidden from government and SHIELD, recruits newly discharged Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) to obtain his technology from an evil competitor, Darren Cross (Corey Stoll).
A few years ago, the idea of Ant-Man movie--a third tier comic-book superhero with silly powers (he's small and he talks to ants????)--might be novel. Today, superhero movies are a dime in a dozen and Marvel had practically made careers out of lesser superheroes. We know Ant-Man is gonna be, at least, good (yes, I'm a Marvel believer). The question is: How good, and how unique?
Uniqueness is definitely not Ant-Man's problem. Ant-Man's format is decidedly new in the superhero realm--it's a heist movie. In it, Scott Lang had just got out of prison and decided to take on One Last Job (Which is like, every heist movie ever, but that's actually not a bad thing. It's a cliche because it works). It also takes on a wholly different dimension than what we usually see and experience, and there's the fact that Ant-Man literally talks to ants. A lot of the unexpected, subversive, and hilarious moments simply come from the fact that there's this little guy with tremendous power, and there's absolutely no shame to revel in that (while it's still new). Ant-Man definitely do not have a problem setting itself apart from other movies.
But how good was it? Good enough, but not amazing.
Ant-Man had its share of humor, but it actually had less wisecracking than your average Avengers or Iron Man movie. Either that, or half of them didn't stick the landing. Not that being funny is a requirement for a good movie, but I can't help but feel that in an attempt to "toughen up" Paul Rudd's character, practically half of his life got sucked out of him. He's a damn good "subdued" comic actor, but most of the humor was delegated to his friend, Luis (Michael Pena) instead (he was hilarious, actually). I like Paul Rudd enough in this movie and I think he's a great actor and did good job in Ant-Man, but I am tempted to say that he might be miscast. What I'm saying is, while he was good in his role, Paul Rudd did not occupy his superheroic persona as well as Chris Pratt or Chris Evans did theirs.
Another shortcoming might come from a lack of any real villain, and therefore, any real direction. Darren Cross was quite servicable as an evil capitalist/scientist/sheep-killer, but he was Hank Pym's nemesis and not Lang's, so Lang was left without any real direction aside from general heist movie plot. Yellowjacket was great and menacing, but at the end it was too little too late. Excacerbated by thin relationships of fathers and daughters (either Hank with Hope, or Scott with his daughter), TL;DR Ant-Man could not feel like a truly "full" movie. It always felt like half a movie because it failed to focus on either end of the equation (the character-side vs comic-booky villain-side). Basically, Ant-Man was half a movie away from being great and that's a shame, because the rest of the film was fun and competently made.
While Ant-Man--being a heist movie--did not have a lot of action, the ones that were there were truly great. The heists were great too and there were genuinely exciting moments in between. Also, the cameos, the mid and also end credits scenes were hella exciting! Cannot wait for Civil War!
HIDEBEHIND
Day 22: Heist
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The Hidebehind is a cryptid first reported in 1939 in the woods of the United States. There is no true physical description of the cryptid as no one has actually seen the creature and lived to tell the tale.
You've been cast into a fictional setting, and you don't get to pick your genre. This wheel picks it for you.
May I just say, Actor Mark has got mad plot bunny disease