...That's right I'm taking the day off to treat myself to watching the film in peace with like-minded considerate people who are willing to pay a lot of money for a cinema ticket to ensure they will be able to watch it without some knob getting their phone out halfway through to update their Facebook status or Tweet that they are sat in the cinema watching Ant Man.
Few things frustrate me more when I go to the cinema than paying for a ticket to be sat with a bunch of goons who can't stop themselves from talking for 2 hours or playing with their phone...in many films I've been to this sort of retarded behaviour continues, and could be part of the reason why people are fed up going to the cinema, paying a lot of money for a ticket only to that that experience of seeing a new film for the first time and having their enjoyment and immersion in the narrative ruined by an inconsiderate socially inept idiot who consider their Facebook status to be more important than watching the film they themselves have just paid a lot of money to see...
A good friend and I will usually try to see movies at an early or mid-afternoon showing on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday so that we can avoid these people who have no idea how to behave properly in a movie theater, or at least minimize our exposure to them. Unfortunately, that plan didn't pay off when we went to see
Ant-Man this afternoon. In many cases the problem is that a large percentage of moviegoers these days are people under the age of 40 who grew up with VCRs and/or DVD/Blu-Ray players in their homes, and when they get in a movie theater many of them tend to behave the same way they do when watching a movie at home because their parents never taught them how to behave in a movie theater. Today, we were surrounded by them--young mothers who brought their children with them, and there was so much commotion that for the first hour I felt as if my friend and I were the only people in the theater who actually wanted to see the movie. :facepalm
That being said, I enjoyed it. Marvel did the right thing by including a good deal of humor at the characters' expense because a hero the size of an ant is a pretty ridiculous premise, but they found just the right balance between the humor, character development, and action.
My only complaint would be that these "super hero" movies are getting repetitive and formulaic. "Here's Joe Schmoe. He's the hero, but he doesn't know it yet. This is the group of smart/rich guys who need Joe Schmoe to be their hero, but they don't know it yet. Oh, and one of them knows things can go horribly wrong, but no one will listen to him. Joe Schmoe becomes the hero anyway, saves the day, and turns out to be more clever than the smart/rich guys. And be sure to stay through the credits so you can see the teaser scene for the next movie." :rolleyes