Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Solid 9/10 for me. Honestly, it was about the best "end" I could have ever hoped for. The last act was by far the best massive battle of any movie I've ever seen. I will say that on future rewatches I'll be likely to skip a lot of the movie and just get to that part, which makes Infinity War a better movie overall. I have already watched IW from start to finish multiple times, including the night before Endgame, and I never feel like any parts are too slow or need to be skipped. You could have cut a good half hour out of Endgame though and other than the payoff for the characters themselves, it wouldn't detract from the movie very much at all. But, on first viewing, I'm glad all those scenes were there. Even the overwhelming loss you feel after they kill Thanos and realize they still failed was worth having in the film, but on subsequent viewings I'll easily skip much of that (including the Russo support group especially).

Fat Thor was hilarious...but I wish he had somehow gotten back to ripped Thor by the final battle. I'm no expert on Asgardian physiology, but I was hoping he could magic himself fit again or something, and just hadn't cared to prior to that. And the Fortnite scene definitely could have/should have been cut. Funny, and I love Korg of course, but we could have easily lost that part.

The girl power scene, yeah it was heavy handed and eye-rolling, but since there was a teenage girl (maybe 13) sitting next to me (no, not my date), I can definitely say that it opened my eyes a bit as to how much that bullshit meant to people like her. She literally sobbed when Black Widow sacrificed herself (and Tony, of course), she was ecstatic when Captain Marvel appeared, and when the girl power team stood on screen for a second, she literally shouted out, "The Women of Marvel!!! I'm going to pee my pants!" Thankfully, she did not. It sort of opened my eyes as to just how big this Marvel thing has gotten. Sure, I sort of knew it, but not really to this extent. That girl lived for those moments, and I guarantee she begged her dad to take her to Captain Marvel as well. So if 30 seconds of girl power was all it takes to bring in that audience and make these movies even more successful, I'll put up with it. Because unlike most other people it seems, I don't have any "superhero fatigue." I have lived for a long fucking time hoping for exactly this sort of thing, and now I'm getting them, and I will stay with them until they start sucking too hard to stand anymore. We're nowhere near that yet. Sure, it might happen soon, but I can still hope.

All of the callbacks and fan service in this movie was just amazing. I can't even imagine what the count is. I've seen videos that say shit like 209, and it feels like they really stretched the definition of "easter egg" with that video, but there were definitely a shitload of them. It was the perfect "Endgame" movie, honestly. I can't think of a better way to send off various characters and still move on with others without making their loss seem trivial. It was more of an event than just a movie, and I loved it. Again, not my favorite Marvel movie, but for what it was, it was everything I could have hoped for.