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Other than Loki there have been no repeat villains, and they get no time to expand upon their single film... and usually pretty cliche... appearances.
On top of that, the generic rich white business man has been used in far too many of the Marvel movies, and this one offered little to challenge that.
I think that was more to do with where the bomb was
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Just lock them away. If they can do it with the abomination and loki they can figure a way to hold the others. It's much easier to sell a "broke free or was broken out" to re-use a villain than bringing someone back from the dead.
So far there's only a handful that are in a questionable state that could potentially come back.
First, this actually is a good movie to see in 3D, in that sense it's Marvel's best movie for the cinematic experience. IMAX 3D, everything looked great and the effects never seemed bad or ridiculous.
But let's switch it up a bit and go with the casting first. Michael Douglas is a great Hank Pym, glad he was in the movie a lot. Lilly is a great Hope, even though the character of Hope is dull and rehashed MCU female only with a bob haircut or whatever, I would have liked her to be more like Janet. The kid who plays Cassie was great, so much better than Iron Man 3 kid. Paul Rudd is good throughout but he never feels like Scott Lang, it was Paul Rudd is Ant-Man, he never is able to take himself to the level RDJ or Pratt does in owning and making the lead an extension of him. Not-Luthor was dull and boring as fuck though, Marvel has to be trolling the audience at this point with shitty villains. Even the attempt to shoehorn a reason for him being boring and dumb feels like a waste. The robbery gang, definitely hit and miss. Michael Pena is funny half the time, irritatingly punchable the other half (the "heard it from a friend of a friend" thing was bad the first time, a complete whiff the second).
Story wise, you could skip the first 20 minutes and still be fine. Maybe watch the first two minutes of the setup with Pym, but I could not care less about Scott's family issues or trying to do things the right way. Could also care less about Not-Luthor being grumpy gus at Pym and Hope trying to make her hair perfectly frame her face all the time always. What kept coming to mind with this movie was how it picked and choosed how to incorporate the other stuff in the MCU, to the point where you can clearly tell what scenes were made after the fact. For the most part you can see Wright's ideas everywhere they pop up. Everything in the small scale is his, even when it's mishandled like the briefcase fight. But then you have a scene halfway through that Marvel spoiled that feels like it was done one reshoots after everything else just to tie Ant-Man into the next movies because Marvel Studios gave the green light to Phase3's ideas.
For instance, the Yellowjacket suit is basically the stand-in for the Iron Man armor. But they never talk about the Iron Man armor even though this takes place after Avengers 2, and that would be a big competitor in terms of military application. But then later they talk about Stark to handwave away Avengers involvement and focus more on Pym's talked about past with Howard. And you would think SHIELD disappearing would have a bigger mark on Pym since he was one of their biggest (heh) assets for decades. Also, the movie tries to do an admirable thing by making SHIELD and the Triskelion seem to be around and known before Iron Man 1, but it never lands it so it always does feel like a secret organization who even Tony was only somewhat aware of 7 years ago.
And the big tie-in appeal to the other movies. the
Also, there was one scene that was trying to have importance and weight to it that just didn't:
There was more weight to the Pym/Hope talk about Janet (before it was ruined with trying too hard funny business at the end) even though that seemed like a bog standard movie story device.
So there we go, it's a fine movie, I've just lost interest continuing this review. I'm not saying it passive aggressively when I say it's a fine movie, it does all the stuff it needed to without a problem and in a few instance really does give these blips of fun that Iron Man or GOTG had (the training montage, the opening of the third act heist). It just didn't have anything else to make me care, there really was no heart to the movie, even though it tried to make it seem like there was. I think if the humor landed more it would have really made it better, but there were about three scenes where I really laughed and had a smile. I think I laughed more in Cap 1 than this movie, which is just...weird.
edit: plot hole, I think?
Anyway my feeling was that the film was pretty entertaining but you could definitely see the seams where they stitched in the MCU tie-ins to the Edgar Wright draft.
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I said the same thing to my kid when we were talking about it.
I thought it was a great movie. It didn't feel two hours long.
Speaking of, we need Justin Hammer to go through with his threat on Pepper.
I'm hoping Red Skull would reappear being super villain bros with Thanos.
Gotta keep pumping him in all the movies for when he
God I would hate that.
It'll could possibly not be contained, and be logic'd with forcefields or transparent material. Because women in comics.
Yeah, looks unfinished. Might be more reassuring if it had one complete arm. Wouldn't be surprised if the final version...
Tit armor ain't doing it for me. :P
Whatever happens,
Hopefully, they don't try to take it further.
Which makes me hope that some future film will have the formation of AIM.
I'd love to see them set that up. AoS is a great place to put that as well. Set up some remnants of Hydra butting heads with a newly re-surging AIM, with them possibly scalping off talent from them, etc.
They don't need to be the main bad guys there, just set up some "new/old player in town" sort of situation.
Thinking of AOS, I really wish that we could start seeing AOS agents appear in the movies. Not as major roles or anything. Just the kind of level of Coulson and his crew in the first Iron Man film. Now that SHIELD is "back," we should start to see SHIELD agents appearing, and why not use people from AOS?
Mockingbird and Quake in particular should have roles outside of the show, however minor.
Technically, we already have AIM as of IM3, but they were a really poor showing of what Advanced Idea Mechanics is supposed to be.
Ant-Man probably could have...
Centipede was the best not!AIM in the MCU.
It had solid story, and was on a smaller scale which is welcome. Everyone played their parts to perfection. Scott Lang isn't who I pictured as Scott Lang, it was Paul Rudd playing Scott Lang and it worked. He was likable, funny and intelligent. The movie knew not to take itself too seriously, which is for the best with its goofy premise. Despite that the serious scenes do have weight to them and the powers on display were imaginative. Weaponizing the bugs was amazing.
Michael Douglas was brilliant.
Evangeline Lilly was fantastic as always. She never disappoints.
Michael Pena was charming, shows range in this movie.
The callbacks and cameos were incredible.
edit: She was Anna Akana.
A lovely movie.
Man, I thought the IM3 kid was a lot better, especially on the second viewing (but then, I feel that way about the whole movie, so). Cassie was... adequate in the sense that with actors that young, you call it a win as long as they don't sound too fake.
One of the things I appreciated was that it expanded the MCU more culturally. Had a way more diverse cast and the initial San Francisco setting really set it apart.
I'm hoping that Spider-Man follows in those footsteps as well.
Also was it me or was the Falcon fight just noticeably way better shot and thought out than any of the later uses of Ant Man's powers? Especially the final fight they just spend almost the whole time shrunk, but don't even use that for anything except for a couple of visual gags. It really didn't have anywhere near the sense of scale or fun or cleverness.