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ANT-MAN & THE WASP QUANTUMANIA directed by Peyton Reed (2023)
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On 3/5/2023 at 12:21 PM, paperheart said:

Int'l may drag this past $500MM, still dreadful

Amazing that this film looks likely to fall short of the first Ant Man movie. Will struggle to reach $500 million, and has a good chance of not getting there. So how big a loss will Disney take on this film?  

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I went for a third showing and here’s my third review. I needed to see it one last time in 3D IMAX before it went away for all time this weekend. To me, Quantumania  is infinitely more rewatchable than Ant-Man and the Wasp, which I’ve never really liked. I like this third movie  the more I see it, which I can’t say for the second.

Again, Jonathan Majors is the real deal, especially I suppose after Creed III’s good reviews and box office this weekend.

Evangeline Lily’s Hope Pym stood out for me this time. Even though she’s kind of in the background for a lot of the movie, she’s a much more likable partner in Quantumania than she was in Ant-Man and the Wasp. In that second movie, because Scott had gotten the Pyms in trouble, she was so mean and demeaning to Scott that it got to be too much.  I believe she had fallen  prey to the wet blanket nanny female trope that some writers do when trying to write a “strong” female character. Being mean doesn’t necessarily equate to strength. In Quantumania, she’s not pushy or demeaning to Scott, and has real hero moments not ruined by a put-down of Scott immediately afterwards. Hope Pym is much warmer in Quantumania, which is a plus for the character. 

Kathryn Newton’s performance as Cassie seemed a little undisciplined, which actually fit the raw undisciplined Cassie in a meta kind of way.

Third time around, MODOK didn’t bother me at all.

 

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So based on what we know from Loki, Quantumania, and writer Jeff Loveness’ recent statement that Kang didn’t lie…

He Who Remains prevented infinite multiverses by pruning them via the TVA, thus preventing the possibility of an infinite number of Kangs who all possess the secret to time. When Sylvie killed He Who Remains, that event created the infinite multiverse and thus an infinite number of Kangs, which is why Loki returns to a TVA with Kang statues everywhere. He Who Remains warns Sylvie before he dies “wait until you meet my variants.” The Kang of Quantumania is the first variant we meet after Sylvie’s act, who states only he can stop the infinite number of Kangs. So if Kang didn’t lie, then Kang is actually a hero in a way, and Scott and the Pyms did the same thing Sylvie is guilty of, that is, stopping the one man who knows how to stop infinite numbers of himself from destroying everything. 

So, like Thanos, is there a possibility that Kang is right?

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On 3/5/2023 at 5:11 PM, bentbryan said:

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If this is referring to me, you mean by moth am I like (besides being an Ant-Man fan from childhood) both a bigly movie fan and comic book fan and am therefore drawn to the warm glow of the only good comic book movie in town right now? ( and news flash, Quantumania is a good movie)  Then I guess so, only Quantumania doesn’t burn to the touch.

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