Avengers: Infinity War

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.'

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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)

I assume it's hard to have too much flying when you have an invisible laser dome over the arena.

Some legit nitpicks I saw: why do the people vanish costumes and clothes and fake arms and all? And how do we know Captain Marvel isn't gone, too? Maybe Adam Warlock is checking her messages.

Some other observations others have made: that drop of blood from Thanos (or on Thor's axe) may come in handy.

People's accoutrements vanish because the secret half of Thanos's plan is to eliminate half of the universe's wardrobe in the hopes of making his own more fabulous.

Call to Captain Marvel was a last ditch shot in the dark. I guess Fury didn't know for sure that it would work (and, in the moment he was turning to a fine ash, probably only half cared) but he had to make the attempt.

The bigger nitpick there might be that the now-omniscient Thanos should maybe have penciled in any potential legitimate threats on his 'to make nonexistent' list.

Like, hey guy, remember that guy who sunk an axe head in your thorax? Maybe don't leave him standing. Just a thought.

Thanos wanted to be neutral and random.

xpost Oh, for sure, esp. since he had no idea what was going on. But I still think they bring in Adam Warlock for 4. They made such a big deal of his pod in Guardians 2. iirc in the original story he does just sort of pop up as the deus ex. These Marvel movies seem to be doing a great job successfully introducing characters with long and complicated histories. Esp. considering a few of the A-listers, like (not) Scarlet Witch and Vision, I still don't know what they do or what their powers are.

Warlock was kind of a ringer in Infinity Gauntlet but he was a prior presence in the Marvel U and had been residing in the Soul Gem for fifteen years and he had been reintroduced and his reemergence had been foreshadowed in issues of Silver Surfer leading up to the crossover. In this particular context, him suddenly showing up from out of nowhere to save the day would be hugely narratively unsatisfying. I still assert that we don't see him until Guardians 3.

(It remains to be seen if the sudden appearance of Carol Danvers will have the impact they're clearly hoping for, but she does have a feature-length intro coming up before Avengers 4 whereas Warlock does not.)

I predict the CM movie will have an Infinity War framing sequence wrapped around her origin and 1st adventure.

Yeah, I figured that was a given. Unless at the end we zoom to the present day and she sees her communicator going off and disgustedly chucks it in a trash can. Good luck, suckers!

Why is Ant Man next up. Is he significant in some way.

He has been learning to access TEH QUANTUM REALM since the end of the first Ant Person movie so he perhaps has access to the fundamental building blocks of reality itself.

They can inject him into Thanos's boo-boo.

Edinburgh at night looked gorgeous.

into Thanos's poop?

Other than Wakanda, this was a pretty weirdly unpopulated movie. Lots of heroes standing in empty ships, or on empty planets, or in empty cities. Even the tag at the end ... I can only imagine the intergalactic chaos of half the population disappearing. Avengers 4 is at the very least going to start out on a very depressing note, with cities/civilization ruin.

I can't imagine it will be as fully fleshed out, but I read a chilling thought experiment article once about all of the passive destruction (unregulated nuclear plants, etc.) that would take place if humanity were to just suddenly perish or disappear in one fell swoop.

I'd wonder how long it would take. 36 hours?

he's used to living with aliens who are more efficient at replacing each other in infrastructure roles when half the planet dies

"sorry Humans, I guess this didn't work real well for your planet, but I can't snap my fingers and exclude you guys, it's a package deal. good luck, hope my snap got yr President"

Did Strange's cloak get dusted when he did?

I...think so?

My prediction is that at least but probably just Iron Man sacrifices himself to destroy Thanos in the sequel. Of the heroes, he's the one who won't be back (at least as played by RDJ). Don't think they'll kill Thor or Captain America, but don't know what else they can do with the latter as depicted by Evans. He (the character) would never retire on his own; maybe he will work the farm in Wakanda? Obv. Nebula will play a big(ger) role. She's left on Titan with Iron Man, and she plays a big role in the book. I also think post Thanos these movies will de-escalate the threats a bit to be less than world threatening. Unless they go full Free-Skrull, which ... maybe! I'm trying to think what other huge storylines they could mine, at least minus the Fantastic Four/Doom, who would actually be an idea Big Bad.

I read some stuff online last night about what might or might not happen in #4 and the casual “Yeah Cap’s prob done, iirc Thanos snapped his neck in one of the comics storyline” or “Oh Iron Man is for sure toast” and I’m like:
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