Avengers: Infinity War

been a while since i've seen it but iirc gotg2 starts with an 80s flashback with de-aged kurt russell then cuts to the guardians in space with a title card that says '2014'?

and presumably the only reason it's set out that way is so that groot isn't still a baby in infinity war

The sleaziness of GotG wasnt in contrast to the others, it felt more like putting them in the hands of someone other than Gunn meant that their heart & playfulness got kinda lost in translation

I thought the Starlord/Iron Man scenes were a little iffy, but Thor deciding most of them were clowns and that Rocket was surely their captain was great. If you're that old you can immediately spot competence, I guess.

All right, I saw the mention in the credits about an Arrested Development character but missed it in the film:

Arrested Development easter egg in the leaked Avengers: Infinity War clip. A reference to Tobias Fünke after he auditioned for the Blue Man Group. pic.twitter.com/lyVi3NJ9Oh

— GuruKid (@FunWithGuru) November 26, 2017

putting them in the hands of someone other than Gunn meant that their heart & playfulness got kinda lost in translation

yeah, this is otm i think

so there's a deleted scene with the destruction of Xandar, right?

it didn't get much in the movie other than a mention and an eyebrow raise

Tons of lols this time around particularly the line about Wanda when she came down to kick ass, but Rocket's "THIS is our plan? We hit him with a brick?" was the most i've laughed at a Marvel line since Rudd's Civil War mid-scrap pearl "Anyone got any orange slices?".

Anyone see it in 3D/Imax? I went 2D as that was the next available. Might go back for round 2 in 3D.

Also what are the odds you can use randomly install someone else's eyeball and still see through it?

Yeah, I always see these in 3D whenever possible. As usual, it was decent if not mind-blowing or entirely necessary (Doctor Strange was the only one where the 3D really kicked ass, and it was the first time a movie ever made me feel like I might need some Dramamine).

Dude, it was a space eyeball. They pretty much install themselves.

so uh, that old classic about shouting "fire" in a movie theater..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/04/30/after-avengers-screening-a-calif-man-started-yelling-about-god-moviegoers-panicked/

(this is horrible and would be a bad idea at any movie, but doing so immediately after the end of this one would have given me a guilty lol if people hadn't been injured)

I will admit that I was mildly alarmed when the lone dude in the front row of my showing (who I assumed must be a big fan because, y'know, front row) got up and walked out about five minutes before the movie ended. It was a little WTF.

maybe it was his second viewing and he had to go pick his kid up from school

one thing that bugged me about this was the battle in wakanda at the end, which is set on exactly the same hillside as the final battle in black panther and has basically the same tower-defence objective too - like, couldn't you have at least moved it to the other side of the hill or something?

as if they'd put their palace in a location that has two fronts for attack? pssh

maybe they ran short of budget or something i dunno

there's a joke to be had in here about filming locations and wakanda not being real but I don't want to let you down, bg

that ship has long since sailed, brother

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— Tremors was a documentary. (@turnageb) April 4, 2017

wakanda forever

that one hillside in wakanda forever

Maybe it's their favourite battle ground. So it made sense what the Black panther said to the security personnel.

i.e. it was actually chosen wasn't it?

Wanda to Dr Strange - bitch get that time stone back so i can save my bro

Btw I saw this again last night and there was an idiot in the theatre who kept loudly saying "uhhh what" or "I'm lost wtf" after every major event of the last half hour.

Esp the snap.

TBF, this is not intended for the casual viewer. And I don't think there's a new Paul Blart out yet so what the hell else they gonna watch?

The movie does an OK job fleshing out Thanos, but considering he's popped up in presence or name in several of the previous movies it would have been nice if they developed him a tad more to lay the groundwork for this one. Minus any of the cosmic entities it doesn't really do a good job of demonstrating hierarchies of power or balance or just general Things That Make the Universe Tick, which given the last Guardians introduced the Living Planet they might have been able to do. Maybe that will come into play the next movie.

quibbles:
1. After blowing [checks wiki] Maw out into space, Strange could have teleported IM, SpM and himself back to earth so the "oh no we're stuck on this ship, guess we're goin'a Titan now" moment rang a bit false.

2. You guys, quit fucking with the glove and just cut his arm off. (Oh wait, it's PG-13)

3. I thought of something else after seeing the movie Saturday night but can't think of it now.

I enjoyed it. 46 years since my 1st issue of the Avengers comic and I'm not tired of that particular team dynamic yet.

1. They weren't stuck on the ship. Tony specifically argued in favor of taking the fight to Thanos on Titan instead of returning to earth.

2. In all of the intense violence thrown his way, Thanos suffered one (1) solitary cut on his face. Feels like taking off the arm might've necessitated crushing it between two planets or something.

3. Can't really argue with that one.

2a. Sorry one cut to the face and one non-fatal split open torso via magical star-forged axe.

The only legit quibble I have encountered is that with The Infinity Gauntlet and all the stones, Thanos could have just created enough food for everyone, or bigger planets, or more resources in general, rather than just wiping out half the universe. But quips like that kind of miss the point. He wanted symbolic, blind balance.

Also, as noted by a character whose name already escapes me, Thanos is not a god. He is a flawed being whose pretense of neutrality is a delusion.

Yes. And his fatal flaw, as revealed by Warlock in the original comic, is that he himself recognizes that he's undeserving of such great power.

Darkseid rip-off though he may be, Starlin turned Thanos into a legitimately great and complex character.

I'd estimate that about 90% of the Thanos stories end where his defeat is contingent on confronting his inability to accept a win. You've got to let him win. The rest will figure itself out.

Seriously. What is he going to do now that he's 'fixed' the universe, just sit around sipping coladas all day?

Some part of the resolution to this mess is clearly going to revolve around Gamora mind-fucking him via the Soul Gem.

farming and a life of quiet seclusion, iirc

'Please, Avengers, leave me to my milking.'

http://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-spm/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Thanos-Became-A-Farmer-After-Infinity-Gauntlet-1024x466.jpg

TBF, we didn't see him do much actual farming. I mean, kudos on the craftsmanship, but constructing a Scare-Thanos does not a farmer make.

that field didn't plant itself, man

There was no evidence that he didn't just cheat and use the Fecundity Gem.

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This is fair.

The Gauntlet is fried so any harnessing of most of em will require new containers

Infinity Tophat and Tails

Rearrangin' the universe with an elegant softshoe routine.

my only genuine quibble in the entire thing was the curious military decision to take on a massive infantry without air power and/or heavy cavalry (no, war machine and hulkbuster do not count)