SPOILERS: Ant-Man 3: Quantumania

[Wendy Pleakley]

Watched this last night and it falls squarely in the average category of Marvel films.

I wish they had set some of it in the real world.

Call me old fashioned but I don't want to just watch actors in CGI environments for an entire two hours, where the settings just blend together after a while. Regardless of how good it looks.

Even when characters became super big or super small it didn't have the same impact because there's no sense of scale with the fantastical environments. Contrast that to other films where Ant-Man felt huge next to an Airplane or in San Francisco harbour because we have a context and understand how big the character is relative to those elements.

In fact, I wonder if this even needed to be an Ant-Man movie at all. The first one used shrinking in fun ways. Ant-Man running around a model train set. A car chase where vehicles shrink and grow big again at opportune times. Fun things unique to the Ant-Man concept.

I feel like they could have sent Thor into the Quantum realm instead and had the same movie.

 

[Tiggerish]

michael peña & co

Definitely missed those guys.

Instead, we got M.O.D.O.K.

 

[Phroobar]

Definitely missed those guys.

Instead, we got M.O.D.O.K.

When I went to see Quantumania in the theater and MODOK came on the screen, every laughed out loud. It looked like something out of Sharkboy vs Lavagirl.

 

[erasure fan1]

I'm an Antman supporter and Paul rudd fan. But I have say, I see why this didn't do so great. I'm not sure how Modok even got past internal screening? I had a similar reaction to Leia Poppins in last jedi. When something looks that bad, you have to assume they just don't care. No one looked at it and said, heck yea that looks awesome! Disney obviously has a CG problem as just about every production has multiple amateur looking effect shots.

I can look past most of that if the story is good. This was just ok. It was missing some of that fun factor of the first two. I will say I really missed Luis in this one. Him getting sucked down into the quantum relm could have made for some fun stuff.

This movie really was hindered by the jumbled mess of phase 4. I didn't dislike it but at the same time, I probably won't watch it over and over like I did the first two.

 

[Phroobar]

Sounds like Marvel is dropping Jonathan Majors.

Marvel Reportedly Changed Its Plans for the MCU Because of Jonathan Majors

"I was told by someone who works for Marvel, it was not the plan to make Kang the center of everything until they saw the dailies from 'Quantumania' and after his performance in 'Loki,' which was so strong they were like, 'This is it. This is our way forward. We’ve lost our varsity hero team, but let’s set up around this guy Kang and this performer that so many people are reacting to.'We know this is a huge problem for them that they are facing and grappling with right now. And what’s unprecedented in this for Marvel is, I would argue they have never hung so much of a franchise on one actor, as they tried to hang it on Jonathan Majors after his 'Loki’'performance and his 'Ant-Man: Quantumania' performance."I would argue more than Downey as Iron Man, more than Brolin as Thanos, that hanging everything on this guy is then going to pop up in all of their properties leading up to something called 'The Kang Dynasty' has put them in a very unusual position. They don’t usually hang this much on one person in the way that they did here. And that has put them in the bind. We do not know what they are going to do. I’ve hear conflicting stories about they are going to replace him, they’re not even considering replacing him etc etc. But it’s just one more thing.”

Majors has denied all charges levelled against him to date, but the latest trailer for the second season of Loki didn't include him - despite the sting at the end of Quantumania focusing on the character. Loki Season 2 is scheduled for release in October.

 

[Casper Gutman]

MODOK's not the problem, he's the solution. The movie should have seen Ant-Man blackmailed into pulling off a heist with a bunch of goofy villains (Armadillo, Orb, Batroc's other brother Batroc, etc) at the behest of a mastermind revealed to be MODOK. A similar plot has worked well in the comics. Then in the credits clip you reveal Kang was pulling MODOKs strings. That gives you a real-world heist, Luis, everything you want from an Ant-Man film, and you don't waste MODOK.

 

[sedati]

I loved so much that this tried and pulled off that I don't mind that as a whole it didn't all land. I love when fantasy or sci fi gets weird and this had so many fun details.

 

[sedati]

Definitely missed those guys.

Instead, we got M.O.D.O.K.

Actually we got MODOFK.

 

[MisterPenguin]