{"id":6335,"date":"2018-07-23T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2019-08-04T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T16:59:23","slug":"ant-man-and-the-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"Ant-Man and the Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MV5BYjcyYTk0N2YtMzc4ZC00Y2E0LWFkNDgtNjE1MzZmMGE1YjY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_SY1000_CR006751000_AL_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MV5BYjcyYTk0N2YtMzc4ZC00Y2E0LWFkNDgtNjE1MzZmMGE1YjY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_SY1000_CR006751000_AL_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MV5BYjcyYTk0N2YtMzc4ZC00Y2E0LWFkNDgtNjE1MzZmMGE1YjY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_SY1000_CR006751000_AL_-624x924.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MV5BYjcyYTk0N2YtMzc4ZC00Y2E0LWFkNDgtNjE1MzZmMGE1YjY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxODk2OTU@._V1_SY1000_CR006751000_AL_.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>If I think about <a title=\"Real heroes. Not actual size.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5095030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ant-Man and the Wasp<\/a> outside the context of the comics in general and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular, it is an anodyne, albeit fun, heist movie sequel, which I have no idea if I would have bothered to watch. But there&#8217;s something to be said for a summer popcorn chase movie, and even if there weren&#8217;t, I do <em>not<\/em> think about these things outside their context very often. (Also, most heist \/ chase movies are not able to use a building[1] as the constantly stolen and restolen object, so that&#8217;s pretty cool. Thanks, Pym Particles!)<\/p>\n<p>As a Marvel movie, it&#8217;s, yknow, also an anodyne heist movie. Better than <a title=\"My review of Ant-Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ant-Man<\/a>, both in how it treated its heroes and its villains[2]. Solidly middle of the pack as a Marvel movie overall, and considering that I like these pretty well as a collective, middle of the pack is good news for me!<\/p>\n<p>Also? Best blanket fort of all time. Including the one in Community.<\/p>\n<p>[1] I&#8217;ve just realized that the internal physics of this pair of movies are irretrievably broken.<br \/>\n[2] While I&#8217;m not exactly classifying Hank Pym as a villain here, I do appreciate how his jerkish, just barely this side of bad guy, behavior actually ends up having consequences. (Though I could wish fewer of them were to his shrunk out of existence wife.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I think about Ant-Man and the Wasp outside the context of the comics in general and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in particular, it is an anodyne, albeit fun, heist movie sequel, which I have no idea if I would have bothered to watch. But there&#8217;s something to be said for a summer popcorn chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,614,38,1312,22],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-alamo-drafthouse","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6667,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}