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Direckshun · 02-22-2023, 12:25 PM

I really enjoyed it, but I've long accepted some of the problems Marvel deals with.

Spoiler!

One of the "problems" is that it features big fights at the end, and I don't really care. I would like them to change it up but I don't mind it if the story is solid. The fact that Kang was totally jobbed at the end by ants, I completely sympathize with that criticism but I don't mind it a ton because the stakes in this movie felt smaller to me. I really don't like some of the critiques of the movie. (Why did MODOK turn on Kang because Cassie called him a dick?! Because it was amusing.)

There are a couple problems I have that are less forgivaable. Marvel absolutely has to fix their CGI problem. I don't need the CGI to be perfect -- it wasn't perfect in Ragnarok or in Guardians 1 or 2.

But I need the CGI to stop actively distracting from the plot. She-Hulk was a fun, breezy story on paper, but in execution it is a hot mess because the main character is ghastly to look at (not a criticism of her appearance, but of the CGI delivery of the character). "Multiverse of Madness" and "Quantumania" takes place on green screens which are nicely realized but it is obvious as day that the characters are on a stage. At no point was it remotely close to looking like they were in an actual environment. I'll forgive MODOK, because that character was a joke through and through, but Dr. Strange's third eye? Why can they not make that look convincing? Dr. Strange was wearing the worst wig of all time anyway in that movie.

I've also seen movies my entire life and I understand main characters (and usually villains) are harder to kill than plot fodder, but this can only be stretched so far. Kang cannot vaporize a crowd easily but fail to take out a single member of the Ant crew. This is probably the biggest problem with having every movie serve a cinematic universe: Scott Lang would have pulled out of the Avengers after he cleared his name in Ant Man, and the Wasp would have taken over -- she's better at everything anyway. Cassie is needed for what is likely to be the young avengers, so she can't be killed. But not even unarmed 70 year olds in Hank or Janet can be allowed to die.

Anyway, maybe I'll run through one of these criticism videos and air out all the things I think are fair and unfair criticisms. But these issues are big Achilles heels on this movie.

02-22-2023, 12:25 PM	#62
Direckshun __ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springpatch	I really enjoyed it, but I've long accepted some of the problems Marvel deals with. Spoiler! One of the "problems" is that it features big fights at the end, and I don't really care. I would like them to change it up but I don't mind it if the story is solid. The fact that Kang was totally jobbed at the end by ants, I completely sympathize with that criticism but I don't mind it a ton because the stakes in this movie felt smaller to me. I really don't like some of the critiques of the movie. (Why did MODOK turn on Kang because Cassie called him a dick?! Because it was amusing.) There are a couple problems I have that are less forgivaable. Marvel absolutely has to fix their CGI problem. I don't need the CGI to be perfect -- it wasn't perfect in Ragnarok or in Guardians 1 or 2. But I need the CGI to stop actively distracting from the plot. She-Hulk was a fun, breezy story on paper, but in execution it is a hot mess because the main character is ghastly to look at (not a criticism of her appearance, but of the CGI delivery of the character). "Multiverse of Madness" and "Quantumania" takes place on green screens which are nicely realized but it is obvious as day that the characters are on a stage. At no point was it remotely close to looking like they were in an actual environment. I'll forgive MODOK, because that character was a joke through and through, but Dr. Strange's third eye? Why can they not make that look convincing? Dr. Strange was wearing the worst wig of all time anyway in that movie. I've also seen movies my entire life and I understand main characters (and usually villains) are harder to kill than plot fodder, but this can only be stretched so far. Kang cannot vaporize a crowd easily but fail to take out a single member of the Ant crew. This is probably the biggest problem with having every movie serve a cinematic universe: Scott Lang would have pulled out of the Avengers after he cleared his name in Ant Man, and the Wasp would have taken over -- she's better at everything anyway. Cassie is needed for what is likely to be the young avengers, so she can't be killed. But not even unarmed 70 year olds in Hank or Janet can be allowed to die. Anyway, maybe I'll run through one of these criticism videos and air out all the things I think are fair and unfair criticisms. But these issues are big Achilles heels on this movie.
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