Avengers: Infinity War

This needs to be immortalized

Thanos: I’m so sorry, little one pic.twitter.com/fFqInRBntS

— Daniel wasn’t ready for Infinity War (@DDaniel_200) April 30, 2018

"there's an antman and a spiderman?!"

are thanos and cable (x-men/deadpool ii)related infinity stone or otherwise?

Not related at all cinematically, and I can't recall any real interaction between them in the comics. Come to think of it, I've never seen them in the same room together...

I'd wonder how long it would take. 36 hours?Took about three seasons on Last Man on Earth

Aaaaaand here come the memes!

"Superintendent, I don't feel so good." pic.twitter.com/3XeOXHctp5

— Ice (@IceSeason101) April 30, 2018

the arc of the meme universe is long, but it bends towards steamed hams

In the absence of justice, I will settle for hams.

Lots here, some pretty funny:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-don-apos-t-feel-204920584.html

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guilty lol

https://i.redditmedia.com/cMzLDa4wvrKIuE-kcgcKd7bFmlLON_CiRMkS1vDUYE4.jpg?w=785&s=1899523e816aa3268e6b4b5a7e098343

oh my fuck

Good

"once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas" pic.twitter.com/iCoxTBjsSt

— Justin Yandell (@ShotgunZen) May 2, 2018

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So ... close ...

just saw this and...

my wife pointed out that doc strange's willingness to give up the time gem, and his justification that this was the way it had to be, must be because when he looked into the divergent timelines this is what happened in the only timeline where the heroes win

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.

some combination of this seems otm

tho if the gauntlet is ruined, does he actually still have the unlimited power that he believes he doesn't deserve?

Remember that Rocket Rabbit almost certainly has a spare gauntlet in the trunk of his ship.

And the joke will likely be that he's had one there for years, and no one asked.

https://mashable.com/2018/04/29/new-yorker-avengers-infinity-war/

I thought Anthony Lane reviewed it? Anyway, RB is just one in a long line of weird pseudo contrarians who profess to know everything about movies except when they pretend they don't.

We loved this. It was amazing watching in the theater during Act V, when we all went from whoops and giggles to being a bunch of extended family sitting in around a hospital bed.

I’ll catch up on the thread this weekend so I can yell at everyone for being wrong and not paying attention.

I kept thinking abt all the sad little kids in the car on the ride home after the movie...and the ensuing “murky” conversations

“So...Black Panther is dead now?”
“No buddy, he’s just kinda...disappeared. Cap & Iron Man will find a way to get him back.”
“So... Does that mean you’ll find a way to make grandma come back?”
*parent quietly curses Marvel*

This kinda reminded me of the first act of the original animated Transformers movie.

this was great. i lol'd at Pratt doing Hemsworth. also Thor's line about being 1500 years old and Thanos being one in a long line of enemies was good.

My guess is Cap dies and Iron Man retires for good - there was too much set up about the wedding for that not to come through later on. Do we think Loki will come back? His death seemed a bit perfunctory given his fan favourite status.

They'll cheese it somehow. Like, Loki will come back but finally realize the error of his ways or something and will pledge to rebuild Asgard while Thor is galavanting about the universe. That gets him out of the way while leaving the possibility that he can cause trouble later.

Nothing new to add, but this was fun. It made me want to go back and fill in some of the Marvel films I've missed.

Spiderman getting ashed was the punch in the gut.

The strike against Stark retiring is that Stark has retired at the end of like half of the movies in which he's appeared.

Yeah, he's done for, if only because they've almost killed him a couple of times, he's been haunted by his NYC vision or whatever, Strange knows they need him to beat Thanos, and last because the actor is in the suit with a mask he could be anyone.

Prognosticating about who is definitely dead for really real seems thoroughly boring. The best outcome is guessing correctly and then being bored when it happens?

Notes:

* I can't believe I was worried that they wouldn't flesh out Thanos properly. I remember one of the Russo brothers mentioning this was a Thanos movie, and Brolin said as much in a couple of interviews, but I didn't know how they would fit that in since I assumed the whole movie would be leading up to one big fight with Thanos. Instead, there's only three scraps with Thanos, only one of which is actually a decent matchup, on Titan with the Guardians & the two nerds in power suits. I appreciated his Malthusian rationalization and that he extrapolates anecdata from his home planet's experience as if that's how it has to be for everyone, everywhere. Nicely reactionary & completely egotistical, a very good Thanos. You can tell Brolin really got into trying to play him as sympathetically as possible.

* I knew he was going to kill half of everybody. I think all of us knew how this movie had to end. Or was there really

* The whole forging-of-Stormbreaker side quest wasn't great for pacing and time, maybe, but I think it was necessary for the payoff when Thor finally shows up on Earth. My favorite part of the movie was when Banner shouted "oh, you guys are screwed now!" and I think my second favorite part of the movie was Groot deciding he needed to be the axe handle he wanted to see in the world.

* There's about sixty or seventy other bits in this movie tied for my third and fourth favorite things. Starlord yelling "boom" and flipping off Thanos while he falls backward through a portal, just about everything Peter Parker says, getting to see Wakanda and all the awesome Wakanda people so soon. I wish the women had more funny stuff, it seems like all the good jokes went to dudes.

* I can't believe Neanderthal hasn't boasted about being completely right about Loki eating it in the beginning of the film (although I guess "first 40 minutes" seems like hitting the side of a barn when you account for how quickly he actually gets murked)

arrgh - second bullet is supposed to say

"Or was there really a lot of uncertainty or just plain ignorance of what Thanos does with the Infinity Gauntlet once he has it? Or that he might not get to do it in this installment?"

There's a motif in this of the heroes repeatedly not really "getting" or empathizing with Thanos, saying he "cares about nothing"...Gamora most explicitly. They don't really know who/what they're dealing with because they just assume he's like the other more one-dimensional villains they've faced.

Not sure what to make of it but it's definitely something that's underlined multiple times. Alongside the theme of confronting the heroes with choosing between the greater good and their own personal attachments (with Quill failing most spectacularly) it's an interesting idea and I'm curious to see how it's developed in the next one.

(I guess you could say they fail over and over to really take seriously the dilemma that he's confronting them with...)

Thanos's problem is that he cares too much!

Yeah! Or he cares about abstractions like "balance" in the absence of particular lives...like any ideologue perhaps.

Seems like a better plan for thanos would have been to just wipe out half of all of the different civilizations or species in the universe, rather than half of the members of each civilization. This way, every single civilization is now pissed at him, versus the survivors being mostly ignoant of what happened.

So many jokes were DOA and I still don't understand Chris Pratt as a movie star but, man, did I love this. That's three great comic book films in a row from Marvel.

Thanos based his ideals on the Black Plague fallout obv

"Wow this allowed for luxury crops!"

Lol Tombot i didnt remember that I posted that

Thanos’ real goal is to make life into a Veblen good

Oh and my wife’s favorite line by miles:

“What am I supposed to say? Jesus?”

I wonder whether thanos's wish as he snapped was "destroy 50% of everyone at random oh but except me, I want to stick around for that sunrise" or whether he really did just go with "50% of everyone, true random" and then he was just lucky to still be around afterwards.

The latter. Even with all the infinity stones, he still can’t see his own plot armor; and it would be completely against his whole ethos to leave himself out of the arbitrary lottery.

All that said, I have to imagine snapping your fingers while wearing a metal gauntlet is HAMFF - I mean, try it with isotoners on, shit’s practically impossible - wait, never mind, my real point is this: he waited to do it until after Thor had basically killed him because he knew he might get the wrong result in the coin toss. Might as well do it when you actually have nothing to lose.

It will be intersting if Thanos forces the heroes to confront the suffering they'll be ushering back into the universe by reversing his magical snap.

Did anybody else shout "ARACHNID!" at Thanos

No

There was still the marvel trademark bit on undercutting the emotion of a scene with a wisecrack that they’re doing too many times and I wish they’d figure out a proper balance for.

Also, not enough Benedict Wong in the film and I wish the women had far more to do.

If they give Captain Marvel full-Kirby/Starlin cosmic-level powers it should improve the balance in the followup. Do you think they’ll figure out a way to bring in Monica Rambeau in the next 12 months?