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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I saw Ant Man! It was a hell of a lot better than I expected, though I do have a weakness for heist movies. They did a pretty great job considering how little they have to work with — shrinking isn't exactly your average blockbuster superpower. Lots of hand-waving, but it was consistent enough and I liked how they incorporated it into the larger MCU. And the inevitable romance was remarkably inconsequential and unobtrusive, not to mention subverting the trite "bitch ex-wife and asshole new boyfriend" trope.
And I don't know what the consensus on this is, but I loved Luis.
Until I see evidence otherwise, my headcanon's going to be that Scott and Hope just felt like making out that one time and have no actual romantic feelings for each other. Seriously, they had, like, zero romantic chemistry together.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.I assumed they were doing it just to piss Hank off, which, let's face it, is a pretty good reason.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.paxton's not even that much of an asshole, we just sympathize with scott because he's the viewpoint character. from his perspective, he's just trying to do what's best for his family, and he's wary of scott because he's an ex-con who has trouble keeping a job and who consequently hasn't paid any child support up until that point. it's not like he can know what's in scott's heart.
edited 28th Jul '15 6:32:40 PM by wehrmacht
Just saw Ant-Man for the second time today, and while it now rests squarely in my top five favourite MCU films, and I also realized something. Anthony's death adds NOTHING to the plot. It's just thrown in to artificially raise the stakes and make the conflict "personal" (as if having Cross attack Cassie didn't do that already), you can see it coming from a mile away once Scott names him, and it is never brought up again.
Sure, killing off a supporting character CAN work in a movie, if said character and their relationships are developed well enough. Anthony has no character development. He is just an ant that acts cute.
Anyone else get that impression?
You know... there's no good reason why the Ant-Man suit can't fly. Both Wasp suits and the Yellowjacket suit can. Sure, it makes room for Antony (who really should've been named something else, like Antoine or Antonio, because it's too close to Anthony Stark), but of course Antony was a parodic character death.

Grandson Zemo is the one with all the Character Development. The original was basically just a Card-Carrying Villain.