Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Originality in Ant-Man

Ant-Man is simply a heist movie, with redemption as its theme. Very simple. When was the last great heist film? Ocean's Eleven. Or perhaps one of the sequels. The heists films that came before cannot do what Ant-Man can. At most, heists films feature the use of high tech gadgetry. But the use of comic book superpowers? It is refreshing to see that Marvel is still able to achieve a good level of originality, at this point. Putting a comic book superhero in a heist has been done in print. Seeing it on film is...... new. I wonder how many more ways we can refresh old genres by simply combining them. Until Hollywood figures it out, every genre works with zombies. Every.