Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-27 (Sunday) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:38:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:38:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9d4e98c8a75e9f6cdcd46cd7172393d5"; logging-data="137366"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FvHP/IFZIDPgjDSpOAV7v" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:PIqT3NLMZon89piiNuYky7tnXfs= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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".