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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.

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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.

Yeah, that feels too similar to his story in Endgame. Regardless of what happens, the stakes in this movie are high, higher than any phase 4 movie. I just hope they deliver the goods.
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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.

Yeah, that feels too similar to his story in Endgame. Regardless of what happens, the stakes in this movie are high, higher than any phase 4 movie. I just hope they deliver the goods.

At least you guys got the reference

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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.

Yeah, that feels too similar to his story in Endgame. Regardless of what happens, the stakes in this movie are high, higher than any phase 4 movie. I just hope they deliver the goods.

At least you guys got the reference
Was your post supposed to be a joke? If so it went right over my head. :lol

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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.

Yeah, that feels too similar to his story in Endgame. Regardless of what happens, the stakes in this movie are high, higher than any phase 4 movie. I just hope they deliver the goods.

At least you guys got the reference
Was your post supposed to be a joke? If so it went right over my head. :lol

Oh I get it. "Asset". :neverusethis:

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Was your post supposed to be a joke? If so it went right over my head. :lol

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Thor 3: Thor loses Asgard, the world where he was born and grew up. He loses his father and to top it off, his best weapon, Mjolnir, is destroyed.

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And it seems Scott Lang will lose a lot in his third installment too 😢"

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Yo, I've got a hunch that Scott's not gonna make it outta the Quantum Realm in this movie, but he'll be stuck there until at least one of the next two Avengers flicks and with all the knowledge he's accumulated in the Quantum Realm, he'll be a vital asset in taking down Kang!
Isn't that what happened in Endgame? I kinda hope they don't go that route here. Too similar.


Not a joke but I posted the same exact thing in two different places and some where like ehh that would be cool af, but it as you pointed out it is the same formula as in previous movies and I honestly think marvel wouldn’t do it.
Yeah, that feels too similar to his story in Endgame. Regardless of what happens, the stakes in this movie are high, higher than any phase 4 movie. I just hope they deliver the goods.

At least you guys got the reference
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Saw this over the weekend and loved it.  Regarding where other characters are, you just have to assume that they were busy with their own stuff, or they had a separate Avengers ceremony or whatever.  Stopping every MCU movie to explain where everyone else is would get tedious very quickly.  There are people out there complaining that the MCU is too interconnected, that they have to watch all the movies to understand what's going on. 

Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

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Saw this over the weekend and loved it.  Regarding where other characters are, you just have to assume that they were busy with their own stuff, or they had a separate Avengers ceremony or whatever.  Stopping every MCU movie to explain where everyone else is would get tedious very quickly.  There are people out there complaining that the MCU is too interconnected, that they have to watch all the movies to understand what's going on. 

Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

How did you see this? It doesn't come out till next week.
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Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

Yeah, I often find that to be a complaint that doesn't hold much validity either.  But what is related that sometimes is an issue is where the "bog CGI battle" just isn't done well.  Shang Chi comes to mind.  GREAT movie for the first two acts.  And then is just kind of falls apart in act 3.  Not because it has a big CGI battle.  But because the way the battle was done undercuts the stakes the movie had built. 
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Saw this over the weekend and loved it.  Regarding where other characters are, you just have to assume that they were busy with their own stuff, or they had a separate Avengers ceremony or whatever.  Stopping every MCU movie to explain where everyone else is would get tedious very quickly.  There are people out there complaining that the MCU is too interconnected, that they have to watch all the movies to understand what's going on. 

Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

How did you see this? It doesn't come out till next week.

There have been some press screening previews over the last couple of days, but they are invite only.

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Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

Yeah, I often find that to be a complaint that doesn't hold much validity either.  But what is related that sometimes is an issue is where the "bog CGI battle" just isn't done well.  Shang Chi comes to mind.  GREAT movie for the first two acts.  And then is just kind of falls apart in act 3.  Not because it has a big CGI battle.  But because the way the battle was done undercuts the stakes the movie had built. 
I think this is mostly it. Sometimes the big CGI battle just doesn't seem necessary and distracts from the major themes of the movie or could have been done on a smaller, more personal scale. For me, generally when there are mindless hordes of CGI monsters/robots, the CGI battle detracts from the movie.

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Although considering the final battle will be taking place in the quantum realm, it's safe to assume it'll be a big CGI battle.

Also... 10 days...

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Saw this over the weekend and loved it.  Regarding where other characters are, you just have to assume that they were busy with their own stuff, or they had a separate Avengers ceremony or whatever.  Stopping every MCU movie to explain where everyone else is would get tedious very quickly.  There are people out there complaining that the MCU is too interconnected, that they have to watch all the movies to understand what's going on. 

Regarding the "ending with a big CGI battle" complaints, I'm wondering how else people expect superhero movies to end?

How did you see this? It doesn't come out till next week.


I'm a really important VIP that gets to see things early.


Or, I thought I was posting in the Wakanda Forever thread. 


One or the other.

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Although considering the final battle will be taking place in the quantum realm, it's safe to assume it'll be a big CGI battle.

Also... 10 days...
Of course. For me it's not so much that there's CGI, it's more about the scale of it. If Antman and company battle it out with thousands of random monsters or something that previously didn't play a role in the movie, it will be disappointing. If they're just battling with the main foe(s) and a small group of henchmen and CGI is heavily used, that's fine with me. 

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Based on reviews it sounds like the movie succeeds in establishing Kane as the next big baddie, kicking off phase 5, and wrapping up the Ant-Man trilogy. Though it sounds like the recent MCU challenges of bloated plots and pacing issues persists here as well.

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Based on reviews it sounds like the movie succeeds in establishing Kane as the next big baddie, kicking off phase 5, and wrapping up the Ant-Man trilogy. Though it sounds like the recent MCU challenges of bloated plots and pacing issues persists here as well.

Great, so now when he appears on screen the first time, all I'm going to hear is Vince McMahon's voice yelling "THAT'S GOTTA BE KANG!  THAT'S GOTTA BE KANG!!!!!"
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Based on reviews it sounds like the movie succeeds in establishing Kane as the next big baddie, kicking off phase 5, and wrapping up the Ant-Man trilogy. Though it sounds like the recent MCU challenges of bloated plots and pacing issues persists here as well.

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Also, with the film coming out this weekend, I'd like to ask that this thread be spoiler-free for a week (til February 24th) at the very least! I'm going out of town this weekend and probably won't get a chance to see the film til next week. Ah well...

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I got my tickets for Saturday, 11am  :corn
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Based on reviews it sounds like the movie succeeds in establishing Kane as the next big baddie, kicking off phase 5, and wrapping up the Ant-Man trilogy. Though it sounds like the recent MCU challenges of bloated plots and pacing issues persists here as well.

Is he a Citizen?  ;)

Also, with the film coming out this weekend, I'd like to ask that this thread be spoiler-free for a week (til February 24th) at the very least! I'm going out of town this weekend and probably won't get a chance to see the film til next week. Ah well...

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I got my tickets for Saturday, 11am  :corn

I'm on for 6:10pm Thursday  :metal

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I have to drop my son off at an event at 6:00 on Saturday. It goes until 10:00, but he can leave when he wants. There is a showing of Ant Man at 7:00 down the street. It'd be done by 9:20 or so I'd imagine. I've already committed to picking him up within 20 minutes if he wants to go. I'm going to be hanging out near the event most likely anyway instead of driving 30 minutes home. Do I go and risk that he texts me in the middle of the movie and wants to be picked up?

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I have tickets for tomorrow 7.30pm


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Early reviews aren't very impressive, sitting on 55% on rotten tomatoes - which I believe is the second worst in the MCU.

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Yeah, I have to admit I am immediately turned off from even going to see this movie when I see how poor the reviews are.


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I got my tickets for Saturday, 11am  :corn

I'm on for 6:10pm Thursday  :metal
Can't make the Saturday showing anymore, do actually changed my ticket for Thursday at 6:15  :metal
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I got my tickets for Saturday, 11am  :corn

I'm on for 6:10pm Thursday  :metal
Can't make the Saturday showing anymore, do actually changed my ticket for Thursday at 6:15  :metal

And since you are east coast, you'll be seeing it 3 hours before me  :metal

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Early reviews aren't very impressive, sitting on 55% on rotten tomatoes - which I believe is the second worst in the MCU.

RT scores before it's open is a meaningless score.


But yes, the reviews have been mixed for sure. Not much purely negative, just a good amount of blah.

I'm seeing it tomorrow at 6, but from what I've read, it boils (largely) down to two things.

1) MCU being MCU. This is movie 31. So people are getting bored of MCU doing the same thing they keep doing. The hits work by and large, but we might be looking for something new. A new tone, a new style, a new voice, but they keep doing the same thing by and large. It's like the comments in the Kamelot thread. New song is exactly like other songs. People who love that thing enjoy the song, other people can enjoy the song to a degree but are getting bored hearing the same thing over and over.

2) MCU is getting lost in the big picture. If this movie (and I'm sure it will) won't make full sense until 2025 when we see everything else, then it's hard to enjoy right now. They may be too focused on the big picture, forgetting that we're not privy to it and we still need to enjoy the movie as a movie and not JUST a piece of a puzzle. Ideally, it would be both.
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Early reviews aren't very impressive, sitting on 55% on rotten tomatoes - which I believe is the second worst in the MCU.

RT scores before it's open is a meaningless score.


But yes, the reviews have been mixed for sure. Not much purely negative, just a good amount of blah.

I'm seeing it tomorrow at 6, but from what I've read, it boils (largely) down to two things.

1) MCU being MCU. This is movie 31. So people are getting bored of MCU doing the same thing they keep doing. The hits work by and large, but we might be looking for something new. A new tone, a new style, a new voice, but they keep doing the same thing by and large. It's like the comments in the Kamelot thread. New song is exactly like other songs. People who love that thing enjoy the song, other people can enjoy the song to a degree but are getting bored hearing the same thing over and over.

2) MCU is getting lost in the big picture. If this movie (and I'm sure it will) won't make full sense until 2025 when we see everything else, then it's hard to enjoy right now. They may be too focused on the big picture, forgetting that we're not privy to it and we still need to enjoy the movie as a movie and not JUST a piece of a puzzle. Ideally, it would be both.

A fair few point towards a general lack of fun in this one.

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That's fair. I'll find out tomorrow!
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