Film Theory: Okay Marvel, It’s Time to PANIC (Ant-Man Quantumania) Reaction!

Since the latest Marvel film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's release, many fans have been, or are just now seeing the struggles the MCU is facing during their latest phases, and are questioning what is next to come for the future of Marvel movies. Film Theory helps put into perspective how deep of a crisis Marvel is in since Quantumania has been released. Even if you liked Quantumania, do you believe there are problems that are still not being dealt with in the MCU?

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[sonicboomkj]

FilmTheory may have a point because a lot of people keep forgetting that Wandavision was not suppose to be the first tv show. Also Dr Strange2 was supposed to be released before No Way Home.

[theawesomeman]

Hollywood should hire MatPat as a story consultant.

[jjstarrprod]

This episode of Film Theory was so great !
I really love his takes on movies, it's always so eye opening.

Completely agree with Andrew about going to watch a movie 4, 5 times. The last one from Marvel I've done so was actually Shang Chi, coz it was just so good ! The rest, with the exception
of No Way home that I've watched twice, it's been only single views.
The only movie that I've rewatched 6 times in theaters recently was Everything Everywhere All At Once, coz this movie is freakking AH-MA-ZING (and deserves to be watched on the biggest screen possible !) while the other Marvel movie that was specifically talking about the same topic, Dr Strange The multiverse of Madness, I only bothered to go watch it once. Don't get me wrong, it was an enjoyable movie, but come on... EEAAO just completely destroyed it, in all accounts !

[FluffyJackie]

This started with Multiverse of Madness for me and just happened more and more from then.

And now Guardians 3 is pretty much the only movie I'm genuinely excited for and afterwards I need a long break from the MCU.

[MrEnony]

I don't mind a smaller amount of only movies and maybe just 1 series. as long as they're all high quality

[cnote]

I disagree with the statement about infinity war Achara made. I agree a lot of people came back, but there were stakes. Our loki died, Vision died, Tony died. There were stakes, and yes we got loki but it's not the loki we saw in ragnarok. So even jn a multiverse there are stakes.

[Cherryontop]

There is no need to reveal so late that Kang is evil since he warned us about himself in Loki. However I think it’s because they didn’t want to make it a Kang movie as we wait for his presence in Loki.

[summertyme]

Because I was asked - Here is what the plot should have

*How to Fix Kang and get Kangin!*


Will never happen but this is how....

The story needs to be this.

In the original history of the MCU where Kang is born in the 31st century: The Thanos extinction event - aka - THE SNAP, was *never reversed.* That's right in the main timeline, the sacred timeline - Thanos won.

With this in mind the 1st scene of Antman 3, should take up where Antman 2 ended.

Scott is trapped in the Quantum Realm.... the snappening is happening.

But this time instead of cutting back to San Francisco to see the dusted remains of Hank, Janet, Hope...we cut back a few seconds sooner.

Janet Van Dyne - looks at Hank and Hope and says... *I'm sorry.* [she KNOWS! what's about to happen]

She now *turns the Quantum Tunnel off.*

Now they are all dusted away.

Now we know why Scott was stuck in the Quantum Realm for 5 years, we know that Janet turned the tunnel off to protect Scott, to prevent him from being snapped away like 1/2 of the beings in this Universe.

Why did she do this? Because that's what Kang sent her back to do!

To SAVE this Universe. *Now we have a reason for her otherwise insane actions.*

Kang - is the reason why the Avengers *in this Universe* defeated Thanos.

The dark implication of this is also that in the original universe - or sacred timeline, the Avengers lost!

Janet died in the Quantum Realm - and Hank never found her.

Meaning Scott never returned 5 years after the snap.

Meaning the Avengers never invented time travel and reversed the snap, which is exactly what led to Kang inventing the same, and more.... 1, 000 years later.

This makes the prime timeline the *darkest* timeline.

Now we have a conflict you can build an entire multiverse war on.

Kang vs. Thanos vs. Avengers vs. Scarlet Witch and Fantastic 4 and X-Men from different mutually incompatible versions of the Universe.

A real multiverse War where everyone cannot have the version of reality that they want.

Remember in prime timeline - 1/2 of the Universe was snapped out of existence and never returned - the Avengers lost!

[Penpaper]

I think they underestimated how invested we were in specific characters and actors and they thought they could just get rid of 3 of the best ones and easily replace

[rhonecherrington]

Dude, I been saying this.. Marvel isn’t the same, I mean I for one am more hopeful, much more, about the DCU than Marvel moving forward…

[neomoscoso]

The official trailer could even be construed as false advertisement. It made the film seem as though it would provide bigger stakes for the impending doom (see what I did there?)

[Wolfhunter]

i liked the film theory on the new dcu slate with gunn

[johanstenfelt]

A truly well crafted Theory, i wonder what he’ll cover next, I guess we’ll see.
Anyway, this was a good reaction, will look forward to see what you will watch next.

[Tyiriel]

Hollywood rn feels like they hired a chinese scriptwriter, then a low-paid translator with english as their second language helped by an unpaid proofreader who somehow read the 100 page script and greenlit it in 15 minutes.
Shit just somehow goes through the QA as long as you get some cool trailer action and a lot of face closeups

[nobodyexceptme]

The biggest problem with the MCU seems to be the internet and aware fans. Its becoming wrestling. All kinds of boundless speculation by self proclaimed insiders right along with real spoilers leaking weeks/months prior. People putting all kinds of expectations on films that were likely never on the table, then being mad when they don't occur. Everybody having their own channels and opinions on what they need to do with the product. A certain segment of the media and content creators that have monetized anti-disney rhetoric for ad revenue and keep pumping things out. All the while the MCU is dealing w/ actor contracts, vfx pipeline issues, corporate mandated timelines for release...all while trying to maintain a quality of success and interest in an epic story that already culminated.

[ChrisWake]

The oversaturation part of this is interesting. The earlier MCU phases had a streamlined approach to them where you were introduced to characters and almost immediately integrated to the bigger picture. They were also in the public eye quite often, thus holding staying power within the audience's mind.

The characters we were introduced to in the last phase have been plenty.. yet we're not sure when or how they will figure into things. Are we going to wait until 5-6 years to see the next chapter for Shang-Chi? How about Moon Knight, or the Eternals, or even She-Hulk? If the plan is to dump all of them into Kang Dynasty, the general audience who don't have context for these characters, especially the Disney+ ones, are going to have a rough go at keeping all the who's who in sort.

But then again, maybe this was inevitable. Maybe the promise of a larger MCU was unsustainable in the cinematic arena. That's not even accounting for the arrival of the X-men, Fantastic Four, etc.

[TimpossibleOne]

You can't surprise us with Kang being evil when the Loki series already spoiled that info.
It makes more sense to first meet Kang in Ant-Man 3 and THEN be surprised to see him appear in the Loki finale.

[mushroom]

I liked quantamania, better than love and thunder and multiverse of madness, but I would not put it in my top favorite movies. Since phase 1, 2 and 3 were better in my opinion. Still getting my hopes up for guardians 3 tho.

[darkurge]

One change I just thought of with the whole “Scott not knowing Kang is evil”, is you could have shown Janet touching his chair in the past but not show footage, then later when Scott completes his mission, he touches the chair just like Janet, this time he & us the audience see the visions of Kang’s conquest.

[shauryadutt]

I think, for me, the most significant loss for Marvel would be peeps like me who haven't watched the movie and just don't care if someone spoils it for them. As I said, I didn't watch the movie, but I still know what happened. Now, I don't NEED to watch it like it was with Winter Soldier or Endgame. I just don't care enough, and I think it's because it hasn't been a great run for them. They've been fumbling a lot.