Let me talk about the MCU’s “law of fear of marriage”: So far, superheroes who are married and have a small family have been more or less rejected by the reunion.
Of course it refers to Hawkeye and Ant-Man. Hawkeye was originally portrayed as an auxiliary role by the movie from the beginning to the end. Later, a warm family (in fact, to please female audiences) appeared inexplicably, but the appearance rate became less and less. Although Ant-Man is divorced, the family relationship is actually maintained well, especially the deep relationship with his daughter. As a result, Thanos, the most terrifying enemy in MCU history, was supposed to use all his strength to resist desperately, but he didn't bring two of them to play at all.
The official statement is that the two were under house arrest by the government because of their involvement in the civil war, so they were unable to fight the hegemony. The world is about to be destroyed. Who would believe this untenable reason? If you really need the help of Ant-Man and Hawkeye, like Captain America, Black Widow, and Witch, who are opposed to the government, is it not a matter of minutes to help them remove the ankle ring? Even the director of "Ant-Man" Peyton Reid himself joked: "Maybe they (the main force of the reunion) just think that Ant-Man is not capable enough, so they didn't summon Scott to participate in the battle."
The "law of fear of marriage" is a joke. However, if Ant-Man did not participate in Infinity War, it would indeed seem a bit embarrassing. Judging from the MCU's idea of marginalizing the first generation of Ant-Man Hank Pym, Scott wants to become a popular hero like Iron Man, American Team, and Fat Green. It depends on the face of Marvel's senior management. At least for now, his status in the MCU is indeed quite low, not even comparable to the later bugs and Panthers. Of course, next year Ant-Man will join forces with Captain Marvel to save the world, and it has almost become a reality. That might be the day when Scott Lang turned over.
Comics fans think that Hank Pym shouldn’t be treated like this. In the comic universe, Ant-Man's ability is probably slightly higher than that of Iron Man and others. Once upon a time, Hank Pim's IQ was not inferior to Mr. Fantastic, and various research results were even stronger than Stark. Pim is not only the founder of the reunion, but the Pim particle he invented is also one of the most fascinating concepts in Marvel history. Ultron is also a product of Pim's schizophrenia. Too many things are related to a generation of Ant-Man. .
In the movie, Hank Pim came up as a supporting actor, a typical eccentric old scholar, guiding Scott Lang as a mentor. In this way, he was neither the veteran of the reunion nor the master of Ultron, nor did he emphasize his extraordinary IQ and prominent status. Many important roles were so unclearly robbed by others. From the perspective of Michael Douglas's age, it is estimated that Marvel will not let him reincarnate into the Yellow Jacket or Goliath (Fishborn's Goliath has appeared in "Ant-Man 2"). Perhaps, due to the dark history of Pim's schizophrenia and domestic violence, it is understandable that Marvel does not want this tainted character to be in charge, but such a simple marginalization is undoubtedly the loss of the original video adaptation.
Marvel, who has always been insensitive to integers, is not painful in the creation of the 20th movie. Under the huge size of the MCU, the entire "Ant-Man 2" is nothing more than a story that happened after the "Civil War". A very small event before "Infinity War". The motivation of the story is inherited from "Ant-Man 1", and the scenario is inherited from "Civil War". It tells the story of the old Ant-Man, the new Ant-Man and the Wasp working together to find a mother in the quantum domain. The most fascinating part of the whole movie is the flamboyant fighting style and the first easter egg at the end. The rest is nothing new.
Of course, "Ant-Man 2" cannot be presumed to be a bad movie. For me, the current Marvel movies are more of a habit of watching, the quality is stable between 6-7 points, and there is no need to look forward to new ideas. Even though each single-player movie of MCU has its own focus, such as "Black Panther"'s display of African modernism and utopia, "Doctor Strange"'s depiction of exotic religions and magic, and "Guardians of the Galaxy" retro rock The fusion with B-level sci-fi... But after all, it is inseparable. The serious homogeneity of these styles, ideas, and concepts has long been criticized by movie fans.
Therefore, under the stimulation of a long-term single conservative image, "Ant-Man 2", which focuses on family themes, is at a level that is not higher than other Marvel movies. The experience of watching a movie is a bit like eating melon seeds. The process of watching will not be boring to violent sleepiness, and after watching it, you will not feel unsatisfied, and it will mostly become some kind of mechanical experience. Marvel movies have long since reached the realm of a sage that kills time.
In the simulacra society, spectacles are no longer spectacles. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to use special effects to make a film be discussed for three or four years. Because if only the sensory stimulation is applied to the image itself, without considering how to make it rich and expressive, then the sense of surprise will always be fleeting. In addition, the capture of the intuitive world by the image is almost at an end, even fictional monsters, alien life, and even various energies themselves have been designed to be seven-and-seven. In such an environment, spectacle visual effects require creators to use advanced imagination to control. Marvel's approach in recent years is to show a more abstract world.
In "Doctor Strange", the most dazzling thing is probably the special effects passage where the volume was filmed by Tilda Swinton with Tilda Swinton's "Don't use the dragon" until the soul is out of its body, and it wanders between the heavens and the earth. Up. Combining the concept of time and space of Eastern philosophy with the visual form of the West, it creates a short piece of pure fictional montage landscape that is surprisingly empty, which is a grafting technique mastered by Hollywood.
When it comes to "Rainers Twilight" and "Black Panther", it means to increase the proportion of different worlds to varying degrees (a large number of panoramic shots of Immortal Palace, Saka Xing and Wakanda), not to mention that "Guardians of the Galaxy" is already extremely gorgeous Of the art style. Unlike the first-generation single-player series such as Iron Man and Captain America, the arrangement of the urban landscape and the reality of the material, the wonders of the third stage of the MCU rely more on overhead imagination. These are the landscapes endowed by the text, and they are also the deliberate effects of the creators.
"Ant-Man 2" plays with the concept of quantum mechanics, and naturally the display of the quantum domain is also the highlight. Of course, for people who really understand quantum mechanics, or even read Cao Tianyuan's "Does God Throw a Dice?" ——For the audience of "The History of Quantum Physics", the explanation of this concept in the film would seem too pediatric. For example, the concept of "quantum entanglement" has a lot of far-fetched and taken for granted elements in movies. In genre entertainment films, the logical slots on these settings do not seem to attract so much attention.
The important thing is whether the images that the audience can intuitively feel, such as the depiction of the different world of the quantum domain, are refreshing. I think at this point, "Ant-Man 2" is doing pretty well. The quantum phenomenon in Marvel's eyes may not be as gorgeous as the universe in Doctor Strange's mind, but the ever-changing peaks should be showing the wave-particle duality of light. There are also discontinuous radiant energy, rough surfaces of elementary particles, and strangely shaped microorganisms, which provide the viewer with a lot of space for divergent thinking.
And the repertoire of the series, that is, the comic action effect created by the change of object size, has been preserved in its originality. As mentioned earlier, the awe-inspiring sense of spectacle images is extremely prone to obsolescence. But the size change of "Ant-Man" rarely has longer novelty, because unlike Captain America's shield and fighting, the transformation and brute force of the Hulk, or Thor's Hammer, the concept of Ant-Man's size can be changed. It is easy to extend more visual possibilities.
In this episode, we saw how a building turned into a suitcase and was pulled away, saw the less common interesting car chase scene, and saw a series of nervous and embarrassing scenes caused by the failure of the controller. As a result, the giant state that has been seen in "Civil War" and the design of using the scale to scale and fight with the enemy are not so new.
Marvel has always been weak in shaping the villain. After 20 movies, only Rocky from "Avengers 1" and Thanos from "Avengers 3" are the only ones worth remembering... Well, Baron Zemo can barely count as one. In "Ant-Man 2", I simply gave up the villain. Only the black market merchant Sonny Burch's team can be called evil. The FBI is just a headless fly. However, the ghost, with an unusually hostile look, fierce eyes, and incomprehensible, looked lively, and various sudden attacks did not actually cause much trouble. In the end, it smoothly turned the arrogance with everyone into a jade silk.
Such an understatement, "Ant-Man 2" may still be the first superhero movie that doesn't take the villain seriously. Like before, whether it is DC or Marvel movies, whether the villains are well shaped, whether they are strong or not, will no longer be evaluated, at least the narrative focus is theirs. This time, the story of Ant-Man is all about saving mom. According to this, the biggest "villain" should be the quantum domain that has trapped Michelle Pfeiffer for thirty years. But in the pipeline type film, would it be a bit boring with such a design? The film does not provide us with a sufficient emotional basis for Janet van Dyne, and it is difficult for us to care about her fate.
Therefore, the weakness of the villain this time can be seen as intentional by the creators, but they did not really want to create an "anti-type" creation. In any case, at the expense of the dramatic tension created by the traditional opposition between good and evil, the gap left by it should be filled with other things. The narrative of "Ant-Man 2" basically revolves around the competition for the laboratory, the "Mugffin". Just as we don’t care about Janet’s fate, we don’t care about "Mugffin", and the meaning of "Mugffin" is exactly what the characters in the play care about, but the audience doesn't care about it. What we are concerned about is the process of robbing "Mugffin" by several forces. At this point, "Ant-Man 2" did not well repair the weakness of the dramatic weakness left behind after losing the villain.
In the MCU, Hank Pym, a generation of Ant-Man, is not only marginalized, but also has many unglamorous historical issues. The previous one was a tense father-daughter relationship, and this one was a ghost. In the comics, the ghost is Iron Man's old enemy, but also a super hacker, biologist, and physicist. He is a high IQ male criminal who hates the government, the elite class and the capital society extremely. The movie is simply dealt with again. It is the daughter of an employee who Hank fired when he was young. This employee also has the same stubborn temper as Pim, but does not have Pim's IQ and talent. So I conducted an experiment in my own house and caused an accident, which caused my daughter's body to wander in the multiverse for many years, between the virtual and the real, similar to a cloud of probability or a quantum superposition state.
The fighting power of the ghost is not as strong as imagined, because its motive is not to destroy the world, but to cure its own "quantum disease." So in this film, the damage she caused may not be as great as Sonny Birch's. But Sonny Birch has a physical body, his mind and three views are not as good as a clown, his team is not strong, and he has no superpowers. Why should he trouble the Ant-Man family? The heroes don't take him seriously.
The collapse of the whole story is based on this kind of non-tension entanglement of forces. Even if "Ant-Man 2" is like other Hollywood movies, you can see the ending at a glance, but at least the process should be a little bit different. When the power of the two factions differed to a certain extent, and there was no other effective plot to supplement it, the rhythm and viewability of the film quickly reached the ceiling.
The action scenes are remarkable, but the overall level is general, and there are no iconic scenes worth remembering. The huge Hello Kitty is just a visual piece. And the small character comedy, anti-hero and family drama of the Ant-Man series are also on the basis of the previous episode. In this episode, probably the most noisy characters are Scott’s three best friends. Every joke is closely related to the low-context thinking of cross-cultural communication (not overly relying on the local cultural background, not emphasizing the communication context, and the information Contained in a clear code that can be read by a global audience), but it's not funny at all.
Because of the restoration of the family relationship in the previous episode, Scott Lang’s troubles are no longer his identity as a thief, the debt crisis, and the obstructive relationship with his ex-wife and daughter. In this film, Scott has to deal with FBI surveillance on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has to help Pim and Hope find their mother under the predicament of half coercion. When the contradictions within the family are transferred to the outside, the story tends to have a clearer tone. The problem with the singularity of the text is that the defamiliarized narrative charm of the previous movie has been consumed in repeated appropriation, and the use of novel space-time has also fallen into stereotypes after a large number of homogenous works.
The lack of tension has become the biggest problem in this film. Therefore, our entire viewing process is likely to be just watching instead of substituting, thus preventing the transmission of emotions. It seems that an overly relaxed superhero movie can hardly leave us with any impressive details, not to mention that it is still a work made strictly in accordance with the industrial assembly line. At this point, entertainment seems to have to be discounted. As a result, the first easter egg at the end of the film received more applause, because it evoked the oppressive and heart-wrenching emotions we experienced when watching "Infinity War".
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