Avengers: Infinity War

I maintain to this day that Captain Planet was one among a number of similar propaganda efforts on the part of the pollution industry to make environmentalism seem as uncool as possible.

I read the Infinity Gauntlet just now and that would have made for a hilarious movie if done as is

mission v much accomplished xp

Caveats re: Infinity Gauntlet

1) Starlin is Starlin. He does a very particular thing and you kinda have to be onboard with his thing or you're likely to find it corny af. Zen-Hooberis. Pip the Troll. Afroed evil Warlock analogues. All that.
2) Infinity Gauntlet is not just Infinity Gauntlet. It's worth going back and reading Starlin's runs on Warlock and Captain Marvel first, but at the very least his run on Silver Surfer and Thanos Quest are pretty essential. He's been writing this story in dribs and drabs for 40+ years, and Infinity Gauntlet is just a chapter.
3) It's probably best to just kinda ignore Starlin's employment of any non-cosmic characters. The inclusion of the regular heroes always felt a little bit perfunctory to me.

The one nice thing about Infinity Gauntlet as an event is that, in complete contrast with the mega-events of today where much of the story seems to occur throughout the dozens of tie-in issues, the crossovers are completely perfunctory. Unless you feel that it's very important to see Silver Surfer preventing Rhino from releasing zoo animals.

i can think of nothing more important tbh *pulls up marvel unlimited*

You didn't really get to see anyone mourn, which would be the actual emotional stake in this situation - the deaths aren't permanent but the characters don't know that, they could've used that for emotional resonance.

the movie ended like 2 min after everyone died

I know! Which makes all the talk about how devastating the moment is even weirder to me.

None of the Avengers died under the Obama administration

— KIΠG KUΠT∆ (@RNB215) May 9, 2018

#quicksilverwasafalseflag

Finally got around to seeing this last night. I don't have a whole lot to add to what was already said, I thought it was good, better than expected. Seems like they finally found a way to make a good ensemble superhero movie.

i think the reason this "worked" as an ensemble movie is that it wasted v little time on reintroducing characters. it just assumed that you knew all the players and how they vibed w each other

watched ben shapiro review infinity war and he said thomas sowell could have defeated thanos with logic and he meant it

— raandy (@randygdub) May 11, 2018

nah man, Thanos has the Logic Stone

Some interesting bits in this

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/avengers-infinity-war-directors-confirm-which-characters-died-off-screen_us_5af5f6fee4b032b10bfaa3a0

A 'no comment' on Jane Foster's death = a 'nooooooooo' from me. Unless they're planning to recast, which is fine and encouraged.

she was on the toilet when she disintegrated

ass's to ashes

If they can re cast Marta and Donna they can re cast anyone

kinda sad we’re not gonna see matt damon’s big ol’ ham actor loki again tbh

I wasn’t going to see this thing again but my mom wanted to go. Her review: it was good

<i>Yeah, the Soul Gem is the one gem that we didn't actually see the use of.</i>

My theory is, given how seemingly easy it was for Thanos to convince Gamora to reveal the Soul Stone's location, that she planned this in advance and had somehow rigged the Soul Stone, just like Warlock and Thanos fooled Magus with the Reality Gem in the Infinity War comic.

Notice that after the sacrifice of Gamora, Thanos wakes up on beach with the Soul Stone without knowing how he ended up there, or where the Stone actually came from... And like you said, during the rest of the movie we never see him use it. So I think Gamora revealing the Soul Stone's location was all part of a plan, and she didn't actually die. What Thanos got was either an extremely convincing replica, or the real Stone but rigged in a way Gamora can use to her advantage.

It could be that whoever possessed the Soul Stone before the events of this movie helped Gamora pull this off, so that Thanos didn't notice he got a replica or a rigged Stone. They could even do it so that after-credits scene for Avengers 4 shows this real possessor of the Stone – and it's revealed to be Warlock. Most of the MCU after-credits scenes are teasers for upcoming movies, so why not tease GotG 3, which is supposed to be the official debut of Warlock?

I checked the wiki, which claims that the soul stone was used to pick the real Doctor Strange out of the many duplicates.

I'm also kind of skeptical that, if we won't have Adam Warlock by the end of the Infinity War, he will ever turn up.

they've teased his arrival pretty definitively in gotg2, i'd be very surprised if he doesn't show up eventually

Yeah, I'd say Adam Warlock is a lock for GOTG3

I took every shot from behind-the-scenes featurettes where Dr. Strange is in front of a greenscreen, and edited him into a waterpark. pic.twitter.com/kiD8JTZLgH

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) May 15, 2018

Howard The Duck has the Soul stone obvs.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/fa83d8aef181c08e313df54c2f39bda6/tumblr_p8omqkDgLK1xtspdio1_1280.jpg

they hope to dichotomize the titan
a divided enemy is an easier foe to deal with
but thanos refuses to surrender his individuality

thanos isnt the hero this universe wanted

but he might just be the one it needed

good message for the snowflakes seduced by the quippily sardonic egomaniac billionaire or all american muscle head ex armed-forces or the yoga dude who claims to have a magic answer to everything

thanos '22 imo

his goal is admirable, his methods suspect, his resolve... unshakeable

the yoga dude lol

"oh i used be a surgeon, had it all, had a moment of clarity on a trip to nepawl, have u been to nepawl awh u must the yak butter is to die for hry wanna see a trick?"

the fuck basis is this for a superhero

i think u'll find he's not a superhero he's the sorceror supreme actually

Wong's a better character

well, yeah

is wong now sorceror supreme pro tempore or does he need a confirmation hearing?

I finally saw this yesterday. I pretty much loved every second of it.

I have no idea how anyone sharing scenes with the Guardians kept their shit together enough to get enough editable footage because had I been on that set, I would have been breaking like a mofo and been fired.

So many people in these movies are great but special shout-outs to Danai Gurira, Tom Holland, and Dave Bautista.

yeah bautista is consistently a highlight and man does this movie make me want a whole thor/rocket/drax road movie

^ Would watch.

Also I think Veg is OTM above about how Starlord seems off in this one - I'd suggest that the real minute-to-minute way in which the film works or doesn't depends a lot on how they get the previous films' senses of humour to work with or against each other - and if you don't get Peter Quill's to be funny, he just looks like a dick.

2018: bautista is consistently a highlight

Lots of media reporting that there's a 30 minute extended "Thanos Cut" coming but not true apparently

No, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Is Not Getting A Thanos Cut https://t.co/vvaQUs9b7H pic.twitter.com/n0SXzlG8FO

— Heroic Hollywood (@heroichollywood) July 3, 2018

surely a thanos cut would be 50% shorter

Marvel has never released extended cuts have they?

they usually don't even have that many outtakes on their home releases

lmao this is great: https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-subreddit-dedicated-to-thanos-is-preparing-to-ban-hal-1827346665

I finally watched this. It kind of came off as a big-budget freshman trolley-problem essay? Everybody gets a chance to either kill someone personally or else half the universe will die, and they all choose the latter while the audience facepalms.

Wanda has to choose between saving half the universe or saving her robot bf. Then Quill has to choose between saving half the universe or saving Gamora. Then Gamora has to choose between saving half the universe or saving her robot sister. Then Cumberbatch has to choose between saving half the universe or saving Tony. Did I forget one. Maybe it's better if you've read the books first.

I mean Dr strange knows the outcome but otherwise good points

With Quill it’s more avenging? Which he doesn’t anyway.

- Wanda knows Thanos can't kill half the people in the universe until he gets the Stone from Vision's head. So it makes sense that, while Thanos isn't there yet, she would absolutely everything to try destroy the Stone without killing Vision while there's still time. Then, when they run out of time, she does kill Vision and destroy the Stone. Which would've worked without Thanos's "turn back time" trick, which she couldn't have known about.

- As I mentioned upthread, there are some hints that Gamora revealing the location of the Soul Stone was a part of bigger plan by her to defeat Thanos; either she provided him with a credible forgery, or her soul was transported inside the Stone, where she can control it. The sequel will show whether this theory is true.

- As Darraghmac points out, Strange looked at all the parallel timelines and saw one where they defeated Thanos, and apparently the only the chance to do that was to let Thanos get the Stones and kill everyone, Strange included. So he didn't need to make the choice at all, just let everything roll.

- With Quill, there's really no excuse. But I guess it's in line how the GotG movies depict him as a bit boneheaded and easily angered.