This movie was a mess. I wanted to see if this could be fixed by turning it into a more serious movie rather than an 'Antman movie'. This just wasn't it, there was no Louis or any of Scott's life in here, this was a story about Kang, let's be honest. The forced inclusion of the comedic elements to try and make it more like Antman, did not work. Darren was sickening. Jentorra was an awful insert.
The idea is to frontload Janet's flashback to reinforce Kang's story.
Cut out as much of the family's stories as possible.
keep the focus on Scott and Cassie as that is what Kang uses to manipulate Scott.
Remove Darren but keep Modok.
Remove Jentorra and cut most of the denizens of the quantum realm.
cut anything that feels irrelevant.
Most of what I've experimented with so far feels good to me and I think this works well.
This first clip shows how I have removed Darren from the approach to Kang's heist mission.
This second clip shows a change to Cassie freeing Jentorra. Instead of freeing Jentorra, she frees a group of other prisoners and it is they that protect her off screen when she's getting the message out. The prisoners are from a later scene that I've removed.
This third clip shows Cassie fighting Modok with Darren removed as much as I could. I needed to include the impact of Cassie's punch so I used some crude effects to change Darren's face to look like the metal mask. It's fast so it shouldn't be too noticeable. I may work on some animations later as it's not very many frames.
I'll put an edit list here.
- Inserted Janet meeting Kang right at the start before the Marvel logo.
- added Janet's 'flashback scene' giving a fuller introduction of Kang. The shot's of Janet actualy telling the story and Hank's interjections are removed.
- cut to black with Janet's narration ending on " I wanted to be a mother".
- removed Scott walking down the street and into cafe.
- removed book reading. We go from Kang intro straight to Cassie getting out of Jail.
- removed Scott turning on his own audio book in the car.
- removed the pizza being enlarged and the small talk about the quantum realm at start of dinner. Dinner starts on conversation about Cassie.
- removed parts of lab scene that suggest Janet never talked about quantum realm.
- removed Hope grabbing her parents during the miniaturisation scene, she isn't with them when they land.
- cut Hope's waking up shot, it's too long and the story isn't meant to be about her so much.
- removed Hope and Hank quizzing Janet about the state of affairs like they know nothing.
- cut Scott yelling "what?" after Cassie tells him to drink the ooze.
- Removed entire scene where they meet those dudes in the desert and get clothes and flying ray thing.
- cut 'scary' bit of people chanting, Cassie is obviously fine and she told him to drink, we go from her saying that almost straight to him being force fed it.
- removed awkward unfunny mind reading part, just kept the essentials.
- removed introduction of Jentorra. She is a terrible character.
- removed flying ray sequence. we go almost right from Scott's description of Earth, to the van Dynes walking through the port area (?)
- shortened the needlessly long door opening scene
- removed scene of Jentorra telling them about how they lost their homes. it's unimportant and she's a terrible character.
- cut Hank's questions during the Krylar dinner scene as if he knows nothing.
- adjusted the colour curve of the entire restaurant scene to brighten it and provide a contrast between it and the village.
- cut from restaurant to village when the fight starts.
- cut the beginning of the attack on the village, to remove Jentorra. She is a terrible character.
- cut all shots of Jentorra from the attack scene. apart from Cassie rescuing her because at this point she can be seen as just a random villager.
- edited MODOK intro, he welcomes Scott, scott says "what?", MODOK fires on them and we cut to the next scene. There is no Darren.
- cut back to restaurant fight.
- removed all talk about 'sexual needs' on the ship.
- the scene on the ship of Hope questioning Janet is removed.
- cut to Kang's base with Cassie and Scott imprisoned.
- the approach of MODOK is removed, when Scott turns round to look, it is Kang approaching the cell.
- Jenet's flashback scene is completely removed as it was repurposed for the beginning of the movie.
- MODOK's interruption of Kang is removed.
- reframed shots around the portal to remove the presence of Darren.
- many edits to the following mission to remove Darren's dialogue.
- removed 'mentor' dialogue from when MODOK finds Hank in the ship, cut to next scene as soon as MODOK has flown up into view.
- cut the struggle of MODOK and the ship before it is thrown downwards.
- removed Hank's elaborate description of receiving the strange signals. was unnecessary.
- removed Hank's pointed reference to the book that I removed from the intro. He just says "There's always room to grow"
- removed Jentorra from jailbreak scene (she is a terrible character) and inter-spliced a later scene of different prisoners being set free.
- removed Jentorra from Cassie's broadcast scene. She is a terrorcon charlatan.
- removed Kang telling MODOK to kill Cassie. totally needless.
- removed this prison break here as I used it earlier.
- removed beginning of MODOK finding and chasing Cassie.
- removed MODOK Cassie chase scene after the ship approach scene.
- Cassie and MODOK is no longer intercut with giant Scott yelling at Kang.
- removed Hope trying and failing to deal with the airborne units.
- After the house ships land and the people run out, the entire sequence featuring their attack is removed.
- When MODOK attacks Cassie on the ledge and she grows giant and destroys him, all references to Darren are removed. except one shot;
- The shot of Cassie punching MODOK is visually adjusted to appear much closer to the metallic MODOK mask.
- The sequence with both Scott and Cassie giant is slowed down a little and the framing is tighter and lower to better hint at their size.
- removed shot of Jentorra leading charge on the base. She is a tortilla cartwheel.
- removed shots of Jentorra fighting Kang directly. She is a tricuspid mollusc.
- drastically shortened the 'showdown' of Scott and Hope vs Kang. They are not that good. Instead, Scott is acting out of desperation.
- edited Kang's monologue to be shorter so I could remove some tough-guy poses, they are not that good.
- removed shot of dead house ship being carried. Hopefully this will made some young child somewhere much happier ^^
- edited
- removed another shot of Jentorra. SiaTC.
- removed "my name is Darren", the explosion of Kang's shield is caused by the ants overloading it.
- cut straight from Hank saying "a lot of ants" to Janet calling him, thereby removing Darren.
- removed the farewell to Jentorra. yes, she is a terrible carrot.
- shortened the hug between Scott and Hope. The story is not about them.
- removed all scenes back on normal sized Earth. inserted the council of kangs scene at the end before any credits.
- moved final scene with Loki and Morbius to mid credits instead of after credits.
- There is no final end credits scene.
