I'd even put him below Spider-Man and Marvel shares the film rights to the character with Sony. I don't mean that as an insult, because you can't really put Ant-Man on the same level of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther or Thor. Then again that may be the fact that Ant-Man, realistically speaking, is a B-level Marvel hero. It didn't feel like up to what Marvel usually does. He's just a good dad trying to do right for his daughter. Scott Lang didn't really have much of a personality, as good as Paul Rudd was in it. Not to say it was rushed, but it's just saying that there was something missing from the movie. Anyway, I felt that Wright leaving sort of put them in a tough spot and they were just trying to get it done for its assigned release date. I guess it's for the best, since we probably wouldn't have gotten one of the freshest and cleverest action movies (in Baby Driver) as soon as we did. Like, seriously, can you imagine how fucking great the original Ant-Man would have been if Marvel would have given Wright more creative freedom. I felt the original was hurt by the fact that Edgar Wright, who was meant to write and direct, left the project due to creative differences with Marvel. I find this to be an improvement over the original in pretty much every way. As far as this movie is concerned, this is interesting. Just take a step back and do something that's a little smaller and not necessarily so much about saving the world and whatnot. It's just something that I wish Marvel would do. DC has failed to catch up with Marvel, but they can do more interesting stories as a result, they can do one-offs while still maintaining their shared universe. I assume Matt Reeves is gonna take Batman in an interesting direction as well. Birds of Prey (the Harley Quinn movie that was just announced) could also be really interesting. Like this Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie, that looks really interesting and something different from this type of genre. That opens up a lot of different ways to tell stories that, say, Marvel might not even bother. And DC, in a way, has something great in their hands, because while Marvel is concerned with their own massive universe and keeping it all in check, they could do one-off stories that aren't a part of their universe. I'm not saying Suicide Squad was a good movie, because it wasn't (even if it wasn't as bad as some claim), but at least that film took a more novel approach to the concept. While the DCEU hasn't gone swimmingly, I have to give them props for, at the very least, trying to differentiate things up from the formula. Perhaps not visually, but in terms of tone, they're all practically similar. This is a problem with the MCU in general, but all of their films tend to feel alike. But, in my opinion, I'm just getting to the point where that doesn't really matter, where I just need a break from all this superhero action. I think that's been a smart decision on their part. Yes, they appear in each other's movies from time to time, but not enough to where you're seeing too much of them at one time. They give it room to breathe and, say, the next movie might be centered on Captain America or Thor, as an example. For example, if Iron Man 2 releases this year, you're not gonna get an Iron Man 3 that same year. Marvel has been able to get away with 21 movies (Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame later this years bumps that number up to 23) in the same franchise over the course of 10+ years because of the fact that, for the most part, you're not seeing the same characters over and over again. The thing is that, despite this only being the second movie in this 'sub-series', so to speak, it's part of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is its own massive franchise. Perhaps not sick and tired to the point where I stop watching them, but there is such a thing as franchise fatigue. I'll be honest with you guys, am I ever NOT honest, I wonder what the point is gonna be for me where I just get sick and tired of these movies. Another month, another Marvel movie to review.
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