Ant-man was a really good comedy saddled with too much action baggage. I spent the entire time wishing they would lean in the comedy more. And then the sequel suffered from the same problem, if not worse.
so to hear that they seem to have moved even further into being a standard MCU movie is just highly disappointing. they had a rock-solid comedy cast, but they can't let them just work with that.
(also, another review mentions how once they are in the quantum realm you can't tell how big or small anything is, which (if true) ruins one of the core features of Ant-Man...)
Other reviews I've read highlight that it falls victim to the standard post-Endgame MCU issue, that every villain needs to be bigger and badder than the last. So if you have an invader that wants to destroy the world, the next guy needs to be a threat to the entire universe, so then the NEXT guy needs to be a threat to the whole multiverse, etc etc etc to the point of absurdity.
I don't know why they think we as the audience care. Let Ant Man solve smaller problems! I'm biased as a San Francisco resident, but I really liked all the Bay Area locations in the first movie and I'm not psyched for another CGI green screen fest. Why can't Ant Man stop someone trying to wreak havoc locally? Give me some shots of Golden Gate Park and the Ferry Building- it's not rocket science!
Now to log off and take my daily walk through Buena Vista Park, which takes me past the house they use for the exteriors of Hank Pym's mansion.
So it seems like Kang is the same onscreen as he’s been in print for decades: a theoretically very dangerous villain with all sorts of eons-spanning machinations but who is in practice really boring and pompous...hooray
The way I ran to add Return to Seoul to my list of 2022 releases (as I believe we are categorizing this film that comes out here in Canada on March 3rd lol) that I still need to catch up with.
On Ant-man, sounds like I will continue my recent trend of waiting to see MCU films when they come to streaming.
As a Korean American who is a unabashed Francophile, I cannot believe a film like Return to Seoul exists!!! Goodness, I just watched the trailer and I cannot wait to see this.
Finally saw Return to Seoul -- liked it a whole lot. The lead performance is excellent, really amazing for a first-timer. I loved the first 1/3 of the film, right to when she meets her dad and fam...I thought it lost something in the middle, but then it recovered in the third act.
The thing I like most about the movie is what you've concluded, too -- that there just aren't any easy answers or even emotional resolutions. When Freddie turns into a monster many years later in the back of the cab with her French boyfriend (she says something like, "I can make you disappear, just like that"), my heart sank just like it was meant to. She's not better. She'll never be better. And it makes sense, because the wound of an abandoned child can never really be healed.
Two tangential but related things while seeing RtS:
1) That heartfelt conversation between Nicole Kidman (daughter) and Dianne Wiest (mom) in Rabbit Hole -- I believe it takes place in the laundry room. Wiest lost a child (Kidman's sibling, I presume -- it's been many years so I can't recall exactly), and after Kidman's kid's death, Kidman asks her about how she dealt with it, and Wiest mentions this void, or hole, and how that void in a way becomes the child, and you end up cherishing that, too. I may be mangling the hell out of that scene, but that's the way I remember it.
2) Haley Lu Richardson's unabashed, exhaustive dancing in Columbus. Reminded me of Freddie's dancing in the bar.
Very late posting here. Just finished watching “Return to Seoul” on a flight. I will need to rewatch it since these weren’t ideal viewing conditions, but wow, even having read the review this was nothing like I expected. The final meeting at Hammond destroyed me. I loved it.
Is Quantumania funny, at least?
Oh sure. Mostly at the beginning and end but the MODOK stuff is funny throughout.
MODOK is inherently funny and I am forever mad that the Hulu show was canned after one season
Ant-man was a really good comedy saddled with too much action baggage. I spent the entire time wishing they would lean in the comedy more. And then the sequel suffered from the same problem, if not worse.
so to hear that they seem to have moved even further into being a standard MCU movie is just highly disappointing. they had a rock-solid comedy cast, but they can't let them just work with that.
(also, another review mentions how once they are in the quantum realm you can't tell how big or small anything is, which (if true) ruins one of the core features of Ant-Man...)
Other reviews I've read highlight that it falls victim to the standard post-Endgame MCU issue, that every villain needs to be bigger and badder than the last. So if you have an invader that wants to destroy the world, the next guy needs to be a threat to the entire universe, so then the NEXT guy needs to be a threat to the whole multiverse, etc etc etc to the point of absurdity.
I don't know why they think we as the audience care. Let Ant Man solve smaller problems! I'm biased as a San Francisco resident, but I really liked all the Bay Area locations in the first movie and I'm not psyched for another CGI green screen fest. Why can't Ant Man stop someone trying to wreak havoc locally? Give me some shots of Golden Gate Park and the Ferry Building- it's not rocket science!
Now to log off and take my daily walk through Buena Vista Park, which takes me past the house they use for the exteriors of Hank Pym's mansion.
City Lights gets a moment, so there's that.
So it seems like Kang is the same onscreen as he’s been in print for decades: a theoretically very dangerous villain with all sorts of eons-spanning machinations but who is in practice really boring and pompous...hooray
The way I ran to add Return to Seoul to my list of 2022 releases (as I believe we are categorizing this film that comes out here in Canada on March 3rd lol) that I still need to catch up with.
On Ant-man, sounds like I will continue my recent trend of waiting to see MCU films when they come to streaming.
I for one am thrilled that the Quantumania trailers might finally, finally end.
As a Korean American who is a unabashed Francophile, I cannot believe a film like Return to Seoul exists!!! Goodness, I just watched the trailer and I cannot wait to see this.
It's awesome. Let us know what you think
Finally saw Return to Seoul -- liked it a whole lot. The lead performance is excellent, really amazing for a first-timer. I loved the first 1/3 of the film, right to when she meets her dad and fam...I thought it lost something in the middle, but then it recovered in the third act.
The thing I like most about the movie is what you've concluded, too -- that there just aren't any easy answers or even emotional resolutions. When Freddie turns into a monster many years later in the back of the cab with her French boyfriend (she says something like, "I can make you disappear, just like that"), my heart sank just like it was meant to. She's not better. She'll never be better. And it makes sense, because the wound of an abandoned child can never really be healed.
Two tangential but related things while seeing RtS:
1) That heartfelt conversation between Nicole Kidman (daughter) and Dianne Wiest (mom) in Rabbit Hole -- I believe it takes place in the laundry room. Wiest lost a child (Kidman's sibling, I presume -- it's been many years so I can't recall exactly), and after Kidman's kid's death, Kidman asks her about how she dealt with it, and Wiest mentions this void, or hole, and how that void in a way becomes the child, and you end up cherishing that, too. I may be mangling the hell out of that scene, but that's the way I remember it.
2) Haley Lu Richardson's unabashed, exhaustive dancing in Columbus. Reminded me of Freddie's dancing in the bar.
The Return to Seoul needle drops were incredible.
They sure are. That film is cool as hell.
Very late posting here. Just finished watching “Return to Seoul” on a flight. I will need to rewatch it since these weren’t ideal viewing conditions, but wow, even having read the review this was nothing like I expected. The final meeting at Hammond destroyed me. I loved it.