Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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Himeo
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Yes. I find the more "complexity" a story has the worse it is. Diluted focus, unclear or non-existent theme, wasting screen time with self-indulgent bullshit.
We all knew going in Thanos would win and kill off a bunch of superheros. We also knew going in that the Titanic would sink.
IW plot: Thanos wants to kill half of the universe. Marvel wants to include 40+ superheroes in a movie. They do. He does. The End.
Titanic's Plot: A noblewoman from a poor family betrothes a rich, abusive asshole. On the voyage she falls in love with a charming peasant and decides to run away with him. Then the Titanic sinks and the lovers are separated.
One of these movies is a timeless classic. The other is IW.
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saw it yesterday, loved it. right up there with the top superhero movies of all time...wife was like, who was fury sending a message to, i said...Capt. Marvel..her movie comes up just before the next avengers movie..
can i say this,,waiting a year for the sequel is bullshit, i want to see it now!!!
after the fight with thanos by strange etc.. wife is like why didn't they just cut his arm off?
can i say this,,waiting a year for the sequel is bullshit, i want to see it now!!!
after the fight with thanos by strange etc.. wife is like why didn't they just cut his arm off?
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Yeah but we sit here in other forums all day explaining why this mentality is brain-AIDS. Humans (and since humans wrote this story, presumably all intelligent aliens too) don't respond well to that utopian bullshit. If you snap your fingers and do this, nothing changes. Bad habits continue and likely progress even further. This is the MCU Thanos version of fucking Barney Sanderson. "Fuck, we're running out of shit? SNAP FINGERS, FREE SHIT FOR EVERYONE!"
Being human is by definition a back-and-forth good-and-bad balance thing. If your scale tips too far in one direction and you crash into the ground, the answer isn't to magically prevent that from happening by lengthening the scale "lever." The answer that has proven time and again to work for humans is you crash into the ground, learn from the mistake, and rebuild in better form. Thanos is just being overly crusader about it since it happen to his own homeworld, so he's out forcing crashes on everyone to create the balance that is naturally possible. Oddly, his plan does actually prevent real-time suffering by skipping straight to the crash, but it does come with a psychological effect of now everyone's aware of this "god" out there who's gonna fuck their shit up if they let themselves simply grow unchecked again.
Hmm, where have I heard this type of stuff before?
Dunno, interesting thought exercise. But TLDR I'm gonna have to disagree with your guys' "issue" with his solution. Barney Sanderson/socialist-utopianism has done no good for humanity, and neither would Thanos Sanderson 2020.
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well, we don't know if hawkeye survived......technically. but yes all the OG avengers we saw in the movie survived...
wife is like why no hulk.. i went, hulk is like a ~7yr old who got his ass kicked, he is sulking/being a big gigantic green baby.
wife is like why no hulk.. i went, hulk is like a ~7yr old who got his ass kicked, he is sulking/being a big gigantic green baby.
what gets me is -and it just occurred to me this morning: Didn't thanos ORIGINALLY HAVE THE FUCKING MIND STONE which was in Loki's Staff/weapon in Avengers 1? all that trouble for something you HAD initially and LOST.
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Valderen
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At that point he didn't want to personally get involved. He had others do his bidding.
He knew Earth had the Space Stone(Tasseract), and gave the staff with the Mind Stone in to Loki to help him get the Tasseract for him. Loki didn't even know he had an Infinity Stone.
He didn't expect Earth to offer such resistance.
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I get it. They didn’t explain it.
Two things
1) Timeline is tighter than real life. It hasn’t been ten years.
2) Odin. Protector of the Nine Realms. He would roflstomp Thanos. Once he was dead Thanos was free to begin.
7) Power Stone amplifies the other stones greatly. He wanted to start there. That battle requires a fleet and a serious army to fight Nova
Two things
1) Timeline is tighter than real life. It hasn’t been ten years.
2) Odin. Protector of the Nine Realms. He would roflstomp Thanos. Once he was dead Thanos was free to begin.
7) Power Stone amplifies the other stones greatly. He wanted to start there. That battle requires a fleet and a serious army to fight Nova
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Impossible. He is the master of the art of standing so still that he is invisible, and he was in nearly every scene, but you couldn't see him!!
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Downhammer
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As funny as it was, I laughed harder at RDJ's speechless reaction to the line.
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Chris
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Thanos mostly used the power and space stones, he got the mind stone back last.
Teleporting around was the key to collecting the rest, so that explains why he traded the mind stone to Loki to get the space stone.
Titanic's Plot: Boat sinks and lots of people die.
Citizen Kane's Plot: Man gets crankier the older he gets.
Lord of the Rings' Plot: Some people destroy evil ring.
Seems pretty dumb.
Teleporting around was the key to collecting the rest, so that explains why he traded the mind stone to Loki to get the space stone.
Titanic's Plot: Boat sinks and lots of people die.
Citizen Kane's Plot: Man gets crankier the older he gets.
Lord of the Rings' Plot: Some people destroy evil ring.
Seems pretty dumb.
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I thought the writers did an excellent job with the groupings of characters that aren't traditionally together. Mostly this was the GotG interactions but the Strange stuff was good too.
Two years ago I would have paid for a Falcon/Winter Soldier buddy movie but now I want a WS/Rocket one.
Two years ago I would have paid for a Falcon/Winter Soldier buddy movie but now I want a WS/Rocket one.
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