Ant Man 3

[Andrew NDB]

Saw it finally. I didn't care for it. I rarely felt anything for anyone at any time. It all just felt like "noise." Like they tried to give Ant-Man his own "Ragnarok" while playing it somewhat more straight on "this is a weird situation I'm in" and not "wa-hoo! Weirdness everywhere! Awesome! With rock songs!" And I'm not saying they should have veered into that direction. They just needed a better script.

Michael Douglas did get to be a boss toward the end. This has his coolest moments in the MCU, but it takes a while to get there. And I don't know anything about MODOK beyond knowing and seeing that a lot of people were looking forward to seeing him in the MCU and speculating on how that would go. At one point I remember even reading something about Jim Carrey, but it was probably bullsh**. But this MODOK? I appreciate bringing back Darren to give some semblance of a trilogy full circle... but this is how they want to do him?

Hope Van Dyne seems sidelined and made kind of nothing. Like you could take a day and easily write her completely out of the movie if you wanted to and it would be fine. There isn't an emotional arc in there for her at all beyond just there to help. And I was starting to count the number of times the camera would end up on the daughter with the same exact copy paste mouth open stare.

Also, kinda shocking they didn't even bother to include absolutely anything with the Mexican supporting cast guy with the fast talking storytelling. That has been a huge hit with fans.