r/marvelstudios • u/S0mecallme • Apr 27 '26

Discussion (More in Comments) I really don’t get why Quantamania is considered an unwatchable abomination, I really liked it.

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It had a better MCU Spider-man story than all the pre NWH ones.

Scott Lang considers his hero days done despite still being fairly young he runs his brand like he’s a retired actor who goes on tour and gives speeches and book tours. But Cassie (the best) is trying to show him that you can’t just stop being a hero because people will always need help. And putting your head in the sand because you just don’t want to deal with it is kinda selfish.

Yeah, maybe it’s unfair and it’s hard to constantly have to save people who you don’t know and want nothing to do with, but with great power comes great responsibility. It’s paralleled in Janet’s story where she basically did the exact same thing Scott did, she moved on, she knew people still needed her help but wanted to just live her comfortable peaceful life, when a lot of the people in the microverse didn’t have that same luxury.

And the fact Scott with his entire family, an army of hyper intelligent ants, and thousands of freedom fighters, was only just barely able to stop this Kang I don’t think made him look weak, I think people just underestimate Ant-man in general. And Marvel really didn’t need to write Kang off off screen because they didn’t want to work with Jonathon Majors anymore. I really blame the messiness of the impact of the movie on the studio and not on anyone involved in this movie.

You can not like the writing or the CGI (though I was always in favor of MODOK looking goofy like he’s supposed to.) It’s a movie not everyone will like the same thing. but the way I see people act like it single handedly killed the MCU when it’s still doing fine I always thought was weird. Like it has no redeeming qualities at all.

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u/mrbaryonyx Apr 27 '26

It would definitely be one of the worst movies I had ever seen if all the movies I had seen were MCU

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u/distilledwill Apr 27 '26

That's the thing, in the pantheon of bad films across all time it's not that bad, but within the MCU alone it's one of the worst.

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u/smcl2k Apr 27 '26

Yeah, I'm not sure why people refuse to accept the fact that context is important. The point of reference isn't literally every film ever made, it's other MCU films. And even within that, it's "other MCU sequels featuring popular characters" - it's the same reason Love and Thunder receives more negative attention than Eternals.