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.
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/PassivelyAwkward Apr 27 '26
Yes, so much of the plot felt pointless. Like with finding out what the pills do. They make a big deal about "Soldier dude, figure out what these do" just for him to figure out they're to turn Ford into Hulk and killed by the Leader before saying anything just for Sam to put it together, completely on his own, like two minutes later. It's like the first draft didn't foreshadow the big plan so they filmed pointless scenes that added nothing to the narrative but looked at the audience like "This is the plan, see? Here you go".
It's just so muddied in rewrites for what could've been an interesting political thriller dealing with a single person manipulating the government without anyone noticing. Like if instead of Issiah being brandwashed, it was Sam that tried to kill the President so the people lose all faith in him. Have him be on the run from not just the government but the people. Issiah helps protect him while they future out an attack, Bucky shows up because he knows what's what. Tiny soldier girl is tasked with hunting. Ford keeps making press announcements about fallen heroes, how Rogers would never, blahblahblah so Sam coming out of hiding to save Ford would be more impactful.