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41: I've Never Heard of This Movie

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Ant-Man: A Microcosm of What We've Been Discussing for a While

The third Ant-Man movie, it's pretty good compared to the competition, but compared to other Marvel movies, it's, it shows some weakness. The danger of having all this interconnectedness is you end up with like, uh, homework that people don't want to do. And I think a Marvel and more generally an extended universe problem is you miss turning people off because there's now so much reading that's not required, but people think it's required. Right. Friends, I saw that at John Wick, people waiting till kind of the end for a post credit. There waslike a 30 second scene, but there was this moment of everyone kind of being like, oh,

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