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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:38:18 -0700
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On 4/28/25 9:24 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> I watched
> 
> 
> Ant-Man (4K disc) 2015 movie set in the MCU.  The screenplay was co- 
> written by Edgar Wright, who was also supposed to direct, but he was 
> replaced by Peyton Reed, who would go on to direct all the movies.  Paul 
> Rudd (who also co-wrote the screenplay this one and the sequel) stars as 
> Scott Lang, a small time criminal who gets out of jail and finds himself 
> manipulated by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), the original Ant-Man into 
> becoming the new Ant-Man so he can team up with Pym's daughter Hope 
> (Evangeline Lilly) to prevent Corey Stoll from using Pym's shrinking 
> technology.
> 
> 
> Ant-Man and the Wasp (4K disc) 2018 sequel which picks up after the 
> events of "Captain America: Civil War" to find Ant-Man under house 
> arrest.  But thanks to the events of the first movie Scott now has a 
> link with Hank Pym's wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) who is trapped in the 
> Quantum Realm.  Hank and Hope guilt Scott into breaking his house arrest 
> to help them rescue Hope, but first they have to get pass a phase 
> shifting villain (or maybe antihero) named Ghost.
> 
> 
> Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (4K disc) 2023 sequel which picks up 
> after the events of "Avengers: Endgame."  Scott is now a minor 
> celebrity, and thanks to the "blip" his daughter Cassie Lang (Kathryn 
> Newton) is now a teenager.  Cassie decides to secretly investigate the 
> quantum realm where Hope lived.  Let's just ignore the fact Hope was 
> there for three decades and apparently no one asked her any questions 
> about how she survived!  Anyway, Cassie sends a signal which allows Kang 
> the Conqueror to kidnap them and bring them into the Quantum Realm. This 
> one is probably the best of the three, but it has one major problem in 
> that it is pretty obvious that there's *no* way Ant-Man defeats Kang! 
> That's just not happening!  On the commentary they talked a lot about 
> Johnathan Majors and setting him up to be the main villain of the 
> franchise going forward.

It is by far the worst of the three. While it's visually "pretty" (it's 
one of the first movies I watched after I got my 4k OLED TV), I find it 
abysmal, sharing none of the charm of the first two films.

It was watching this film that convinced me that the MCU had pretty much 
lost it, post-"Endgame".