The Marvel Militainment Machine marches on...

Rating: 2/10 (28 December 2015)

A simple(-minded) concept transfigured to better fit the Militainment Mold of Modern Marvel, ANT-MAN ain't, man. What it is, is this: "America's politics would now be also America's favorite movie," to quote the late Norman Mailer (see THE PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS). From STAR WARS to ANT-MAN and beyond, the studios are milking the Mindless Masses for all they're worth; doing their part, as it were, to further the Military Entertainment Complex. Americans, as Mailer points out in CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS, are "eager to slay." What better way to slay than to play- to live vicariously through soul-deadening video games and, now, movies that offer little more than more of the same? "Patriotism," Mailer pointed out, "was a football game." And: "Wars shift from carnage and patriotism to carnage and surrealism..." The worst offense of all: ANT-MAN trots out the likes of "Michael Douglas," as if in so doing it'll add something to the movie. It doesn't.