Game of Thrones author and old-school Marvel Comics fan George R.R. Martin recently watched Marvel's Ant-Man, and went to his Not A Blog page to share his review. He was concerned about the Ant-Man film when he found out it would focus on Scott Lang rather Hank Pym, but he ended up ranking the film among the best Marvel – or any other studio with a Marvel movie license – has ever released.
ANT-MAN has a proper balance of story, character, humor, and action, I think. A couple reviewers are calling it the best Marvel movie ever. I won't go that far, but it's right up there, maybe second only to the second Sam Raimi/ Tobey McGuire Spider-Man film, the one with Doc Ock. I've liked most of the Marvel movies, to be sure, I'm still a Marvel fanboy at heart (Excelsior!), but I liked this one more than the first AVENGERS and a lot more than the second, more than either THOR, more than the second and third IRON MAN and maybe just a smidge more than the first (though I liked that one a lot too)
I've heard a lot of great feedback for Ant-Man; Although I haven't seen the movie yet, Dave wrote a review for our site. You can read it here. It's interesting to know that he also considered Sam Raimi's Spider-Man to be one of the best, and I agree with that. It's much better than the Amazing Spider-Man with Andrew Garfield.
Martin also pointed out Marvel's villain problem:
Quibbles? Yeah, a few. Where was the Wasp? We got a few glimpses, and a set up for the next film. But I wanted more Wasp, and I loved the old original Hank/ Janet dynamic (before they got to the wife-beating stuff). Also, while Yellowjacket makes a decent villain here (in the comics, of course, he was actually one of Hank's later identities, after Giant-Man and Goliath), I am tired of this Marvel movie trope where the bad guy has the same powers as the hero. The Hulk fought the Abomination, who is just a bad Hulk. Spider-Man fights Venom, who is just a bad Spider-Man. Iron Manfights Ironmonger, a bad Iron Man. Yawn. I want more films where the hero and the villain have wildly different powers. That makes the action much more interesting).
He's got a great point, and I've been thinking the same thing since I've seen the Abomination from The Incredible Hulk and the Ironmonger from Iron Man. Marvel did have some interesting villains. You can read the rest of his thoughts on his Livejournal page.
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