Avengers: Infinity War (Joe & Anthony Russo, April 27, 2018) Movie • Page 64

Actually, I'm looking forward to that payoff happening in the next movie.

 

The whole "I have all these stones that can warp time, reality, space, etc but I'm going to balance the universe with population control" motive is really stupid. He complains about finite resources when he can literally manipulate anything he wants. What a joke.

 

We don't actually know the limits of these stones that well. Yes he can bend reality, but that doesn't mean he can conjure up food and sustainable resources.

 

The movie to me was just like a series of vignettes, some better than others. How many lines total did Cap have? I was really disappointed there, but I'm excited for him and Tony to come together in the next one.

I just found this review I like, simple and not over critical.

 

They will definitely lean heavily on the original Avengers line-up throughout the next film. Well, until the others are brought back. Pretty sure Downey and Evans are completely done portraying these characters after next year’s film.

 

i am so confused by this statement. I was crying for a great deal of this movie. Especially Peter dying in Tony's arms. Maybe I have a greater emotional attachment to the characters or I'm just a whiner though I guess.

 

Ugh the thread turned to shit.

 

Funny thing to post after your own post.

 

LOL at people in the thread saying ya just pay me and I'll write a better script. Please. Literally get a job writing movies if this is true.

 

If I get banned just know I love you all. Jason could make me disappear with the snap of his fingers.

 

I saw this last night and was so frustrated it kept me from sleeping. I’ve never really been much of a fan of either of the previous Avengers movies (Whedon’s jokes feel like the worst comic fanboys highfiving each other over their amazing wisecracks), but I have, like most, appreciated the more recent spate of films (Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther).

I think this is the first time I’ve been legitimately pissed off. Driving away from the theater, it became increasingly clear what a cynical cash grab this is the more I thought about it. The ending everyone’s talking about is a smart business move and that’s about all I’ll give it. They’ll get the same butts in the same exact seats next year and make even more money than this one.

They’ve spent the last year telling us Avengers 3 & 4 would be the last hurrah for the original team before moving on to a new story with newer, younger characters and so of course the only ones really left alive at the end of this are the original team. It sucks the wind out of any of those deaths. The whole thing is a cheap trick. If there are fans out there who legitimately believe that Spider-Man, Black Panther and Doctor Strange, characters who have all just recently been introduced and have only had one solo film each, are actually dead than one need only point them to the next Spider-Man sequel arriving on the scene...next year mere months after the next Avengers movie. Hell, Kevin Feige has already outright said Peter’s coming back for his Junior year of high school after the events of both Avengers films:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-next-spider-man-film-will-be-the-civil-war-of-marve-1796402155

The best thing I might end up gleaning from this is that this perhaps may have something to do with Tom Holland’s response about potentially seeing Miles Morales sooner rather than later:

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Interview Sees Tom Holland Nearly Spoil Marvel's Plans For Miles Morales

I was thinking about this while I laid there restless in bed. Who knows. Maybe Miles will have stepped in during Peter’s brief absence. I just keep coming back to marketing. How can they advertise for Spider-Man 2 (set for release in July) months in advance if Spider-Man is supposed to be “dead” until they revive him in May? Maybe they won’t have to worry about that if Miles is there.

Anyway, Doctor Strange might as well be winking at the camera with the majority of his dialogue and actions telegraphing the next movie so hard.

“How many outcomes were there?”
“14 million”
“How many did we win?”
“ONE”

*WINK*

*Doctor Strange just gives Thanos the time stone after previously stating that he’d let Tony die before giving up the stone because it meant saving the universe and this is his very obvious character arc because here at the end he has decided to instead let himself die to save the universe because Doc’s got a plan but anyway*

Tony: “Why’d you do that?”

Doctor Strange: *WINK*

*Doc lays there fading into dust because of aforementioned character arc*

“Stark...it was the ONLY way”

*WINK*

 

Oh I guess I should mention I was genuinely surprised by Red Skull’s appearance. I thought he was going to forever go the way of the majority of The Incredible Hulk and just disappear forever alongside Betty Ross.

 

Maybe, but it's also right.

 

I want Hawkeye

 

With overpopulation being his concern, I think he wanted to nip that on the butt instead of expanding resources that would eventually meet their limit due to the continued increase in population (which would reach the limit sooner if trillions of people in the universe were multiplying compared to only half of that multiplying). I also think he is just in remorse and full of guilt of his own people going out that way so it’s something he has set his mind on and won’t settle for anything else. Survivors guilt and maybe a little bit of crazy has formed him into who he is. He also did it to Gamora’s planet and claimed it worked so he is going to continue it.

 

I really hope he has a good arc in the next film. AoU is really the only arc we’ve seen.

 

The one future he saw where they won probably had Stark living and being part of the group that reverses Thanos’ actions. He obviously had to wait for the right moment to give the time stone to Thanos other wise it would be suspicious. Being that Tony needed to live and the winning future had them losing that battle, offering the time stone for Stark’s life was the best way to do it without giving Thanos a hint that there was a “plan”.

 

The only thing that irked me is that Tony didn’t take a split second to send a little device to stop Star-Lord from punching Thanos. Nebula was just standing there and she could have stopped him as well. It was a universe saving decision and a human with no super powers would have been easy to contain.

 

The more I think about it, the less I like Quill’s actions. I feel like if he was so upset and angry from Gamora dying that he would endanger the universe, he probably wouldn’t have been able to pull the trigger to do it himself. So one of those two actions doesn’t sit well with the other. I’m not sure which, because they’re both individually great moments.

Also I wish they had been more creative with what Thanos could do with the Infinity Gauntlet.

 

AoU was released 1,092 days before Infinity War. Avengers was released 1,092 days before AoU.

Perfectly balanced.

 

I like that Quill was able to do what he promised to Gamora but I think his decision to punch Thanos was based on him not wanting to accept that Gamora was dead and while I definitely see Quill being the one to do something that stupid compared to the other stuff in that group, I don’t like that no one tried to stop him when they could have.
I’m hoping Thanos isn’t done with the gauntlet because he still has it during the sunrise scene. It just depends if he thinks messing with the stones after he succeeded will be an abuse of power.

 

Ima be that guy and say Hawkeye is lame and I’m glad he wasn’t in it.

 

I enjoyed it. I enjoyed seeing Winter Soldier and Rocket Raccoon together on the big screen and, as a massive comic book fan, I never thought I would see any one of these character interactions ever so it was a great moment for me.

I loved the film, that's not to say it didn't have it's flaws; it's a movie, most of them do, but I enjoyed this enough to have seen it 3 times so far. The past 10 years has been full of emotion and story arcs for characters that all have only started to come together in the few end chapters to the MCU book.

Captain America should have had much more lines than they got and some of the character actions were debatable but I feel that this will all be part of A4 and i'm happy with that and so damn excited. It shows that Marvel did not want to half-ass the movie with yet another shitty one-movie villain and I'm sure we can all agree that in the past we have commented on Marvel's villains. Red Skull's reveal actually had me gasping with fan-boy joy.

I've been watching these characters for 10 years and I agree that they did not need to have any further arc for me to gain yet further knowledge about them. I KNOW these characters from previous movies and they didn't have to spend time explaining this yet again so I'm glad they went straight to the action and straight to Thanos who was fierce and non-forgiving.

We all know that certain character deaths will be reversed (not those pre-snap)but that does not take away the fact that I, a 28 year old, ended up nearly blubbering like a 8 year old kid at seeing character fates on the screen. This is a movie for the original Avengers to close THEIR arc and A4 will hopefully be a new group that will take the torch that is being passed along. These are characters that I've learnt about since the start. Seeing them defeat villains I never thought I'd see and having comic book pages come to life and to see them die like that when this has not happened before still shook me just as I was become so attached to them

I'd taken my 3 sisters and my girlfriend, all of whom laughed when I went to see Iron Man at the start. It's a comic book movie, that's silly, who wants to see that? That won't go anywhere, no-one wants to see a man turn into a green monster, a man in an iron suit, Captain who? They have since watched these movies and it's brought us so much closer together that we watch them all the time and book tickets for the next one once they are on sale. They have also become attached to these characters, both old and new, so much that I get asked questions all the time when they wouldn't have bothered doing anything and continued to just laugh this off and as casual fans they don't know what's going to happen next and I can't fault them for that.

The humour was perfectly placed, too. We knew that these characters were funny. Star-Lord and Drax have been funny over the past 2 movies and to see that brought here was expected. Spider-Man and Dr. Strange interacted just as I'd expected, like a kid and a wizard meeting for the first time.

What i'm trying to get at is that this is the start of the end of the last 10 years of MCU. The last 10 years of me buying more comics from Marvel than I had before. More merch and figures and posters for characters that hardly hit the pages back when I was a kid but are now house-hold names. Don't take away from some people that there is major emotional involvement for these movies but also don't be so naïve as to say that other's opinions are wrong. In the end; we all watched this movie an felt something for it and will continue to do so.

My nephew is just about to turn 3 and everytime I babysit he asked to play with Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor and my figures. He's watched Avengers Assemble because it contains them all. This is the start of the movies that he will go to see when he's older. Not just Infinity War but the last 10 years has become such a stalemate in movies that it's no longer movies for children, but much more mature movies for the future that I revisit to enjoy every single time.

TL;DR: I felt like a kid again watching this movie but don't criticise because others didn't. This most likely does NOT have any bearing on anyone else's opinion and I completely respect that. Just don't argue because you don't agree on something. Criticise fairly and objectively and don't hate on other's because of it.​

 

Arguing aside, can we all agree that Thor showing up with Groot and Rocket on the battlefield was one of the best scenes? I audibly reacted to that like an excited little kid when it happened.

 

As much as I enjoyed it, I’m already looking forward to what’s next after Thanos.

It’s fairly obvious how the next Avengers will go. The OGs will take the stage and be the bulk of the film, and most of them probably won’t make it out.

I wish they did more prominent pre-snap deaths.