Avengers: Infinity War

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.

Probably not. Well, maybe, this one is often pretty goofy, but the jokes don't really, er, snap, imo. It is full of satisfying emotional beats for fans of the entire series.

Will likely sit it out and wait for the bluray. I value my comfort stops too much to sit for three hours plus in a ciny.

No credits sequence. I waited. People groaned.
haha same here

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.
I'd say yes. This is a very diff movie to IW and has lots of comedic moments.

Do we see Gamora at all after she throws shade at Star Lord after meeting him for the first time, so to speak? Assume she disappears along with all of Thanos's army, but don't remember a shot that settles that. And of course she already died in another timeline in IW, so not really a loose end I guess. Small point but it is bothering me for some reason.

I thought they did a surprisingly good job both lamp-shading and hand-waiving the time travel stuff.

Wait, so the movie with a distribution strategy of "carpet bomb every multiplex in the nation" is doing well? Oh, do tell.….…...

― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, April 26, 2019

this is a dumb take and you know it. if it was as simple as carpet-bombing bc ha ha multiplex audiences will buy tickets to anything then Alita: Battle Angel would be a smash.

Endgame is on every available screen because the demand is there. theaters are sold out through Monday and adding more showings any chance they get.

and the demand is there because Marvel's earned it.

back when Iron Man was shooting, conventional wisdom was that the capes and tights were toast. and rightly so: from 2003 to 2008, movies based on Marvel properties were nearly 100% utter garbage. (hi here Daredevil, Elektra, X-Men: Last Stand, Hulk, Ghost Rider, two different crap FF flicks, etc).

Fortunately for Marvel, RDJ's stock at the time was low enough that he was willing to sign on for one more popcorner in a tapped-out genre. That's the only real stroke of luck in the entire run. Everything else is down to hard work, smart bets on talent, and telling stories even non-nerds enjoy.

fair enough if you don't like superhero movies but it's not as though erasing them at a stroke would fill the multiplexes with things you want to see. you'd just get different "blockbuster" crap delivered at a generally lower level of care and quality.

*hi dere* -- damn u autocorrect

Do we see Gamora at all after she throws shade at Star Lord after meeting him for the first time, so to speak? Assume she disappears along with all of Thanos's army, but don't remember a shot that settles that.

There's a quick shot with the GOTG crew before Quill and Thor start their map bickering where Quill's doing some sort of scan for Gamora and the display says she's not able to be found or something like that. My guess is that this could be the setup for where Gunn wants to go with the 3rd GOTG -- have the emotional throughline be can Quill do things over with Gamora but different or the like. We'll see!

As for said cash crush:

It’s even bigger than originally seen this morning. Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is tearing up all the record books with a $140M-$150M opening day, blasting away Star Wars: Force Awakens‘ record first day and single day records of $119.1M. Industry estimates have Endgame‘s weekend between $315M-$330M. Don’t be stunned if it goes higher.

we should actually have a separate thread for deleterious effects of the Disney-Fox merger on film preservation and exhibition so we can leave the funnybook fans their space xps

rogermexico otm

great thread idea simon

here u go

the Disney-Fox merger and film/TV production/exhibition hegemony in general

Would I like this? Loved Spider-Man Homecoming, Antman and the Wasp and Thor:Ragnarok, lukewarm on Black Panther, Iron Man 3 and Doctor Strange and I found Infinity War a total drag.

I'd also say yes. There's lots of fun/funny moments with a Spider-Man/Ragnorak vibe

I wonder if the Loki show will be him traveling through time and causing trouble, like in Quantum Leap or whatever. Or solving problems, like Highway to Heaven!

I feel such weariness at the knowledge that I have no interest in seeing this, yet will someday inevitably spend three hours of my life doing just that.

― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 April 2019 19:41 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the best and only good review of this movie

a student of mine once said civil war was the best movie because numerically it had the most superheroes in it. this was before infinity war. anyway, i suppose by that metric this is the best marvel movie

No credits sequence. I waited. People groaned.

Would've paid to see just that.

I was just posting a tweet fwiw, but since I'm here...

fair enough if you don't like superhero movies but it's not as though erasing them at a stroke would fill the multiplexes with things you want to see. you'd just get different "blockbuster" crap delivered at a generally lower level of care and quality.

No, I would absolutely enjoy having different flavors of action blockbuster crap available at the same time because variety is better.

Alien vs John Wick

Thanos dropping a bunch of alien xenomorph eggs would have been a twist

Disney/Fox merger makes it possible! Hawkeye being chased by aliens reminded me of Aliens.

Anyone else think they should have maybe waited to introduce Captain Marvel in the next round of movies? She's cool, but doesn't add much but a couple of deus ex moments, and even that doesn't honestly add much that they couldn't have done some other way. Did like her flinch-free fight with bad, though.

other than the wakanda backdrop, they did the same thing to black panther with the timing of the last round of movies

I like Hawkeye constantly feeling in the redheads when his wife isn’t around

Feeling up that is

i wonder how much natalie portmangot paid for this without having to do a single second of shooting any new footage

Probably more than 95% of ilxors make in a year

"Still don't know what Scar Witch does." she does goth dance moves and shoots flames from her hands

why did none of peter parkers friends age 5 years? why is marissa tomei still completely hot? these are questions I want answered in Spiderman: The Homecomening

sorry I guess it's Far From the Homecomening.

if all Parker’s friends got snapped out of existence too they wouldn’t have aged

good thread

Sometimes it's fun to remember that 101 Dalmatians probably sold more tickets than every blockbuster of the past decade

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 27, 2019

Enjoyed this, though the Joe Biden campaign ad ending was pretty annoying. Might've been saved if Agent Carter had grabbed America's ass just before the credits.

I sensed during Ant-Man's return to empty streets that the filmmakers had seen Testament, so that was neat.

good thread

Particularly the bit where someone links to some supporting evidence that doesn't support it at all.

It must be annoying being Captain Marvel if her super power is that wherever she goes, women suddenly appear.

(though the sound of the barrel being scraped to get a screen-full undercuts the point a little)

There was... a lot of fan service

Having viewed a late showing I was too tired to notice if anything particularly interesting was going on in the giant battle scene because the screen was like some post-apocalyptic Where’s Waldo

I guess the only thing was introduction of Pepper? Who, tbh, I first mistook for Captain Marvel in armor. And hammer payoff? That was great.

In the end, the biggest hero was Jon Favreau, for letting a small child help him through grief issues.

The small kid from Iron Man 3 was the taller kid in the funeral with everyone at the end - though I couldn't place the two people off on the right as the camera turned left.

I started crying when I saw the bench at the end.

Pepper was in some of the previous films, Josh.

Sky’s the limit I guess:

y 10:14 PM post: And with a snap, Avengers: Endgame is swelling, just as expected. Industry estimates as of last night for Friday stand at $158.3M (including $60M record previews), which is $39.2M more than Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ opening and single day record of $119.1M. And as for the weekend, this morning the range is between $349M-$356M off the widest theatrical release ever of 4,662. Saturday is expected to ease between -30% and -35% for a take between $102M-$110M.

i think he meant pepper in iron man armor

my son had to tell me who the kid was at the end (harley from iron man 3? I don't remember that at all)

cobie smulders was up there getting a wordless cameo.

I couldn’t place the kid from Iron Man 3. Nice callback

Yeah, I meant Pepper in armor. I miss things, but not usually characters that have appeared prominently in other movies.

Speaking of which, who was missing at the funeral? Clark Gregg?

Assuming the Black Widow movie is going to be a prequel/origin story?

And wondering what they do with the Scarlet Witch & Vision show with Vision currently dead.

I thought it was a nice touch that the line that kicked off the appearance of public super heroes, Stark announcing “I am Iron Man” at the end of the first MCU movie, is the line that ends the action in this one, bookending the entire thing

Yes, Pepper Potts in an Iron Man suit, as in Iron Man 3.

I totally forgot about her in the suit there. Did she fight? I just remember like 300 iron men flying around an abandoned factory fighting fire-breathing ... Iraq war vets?

I told one of my kids that while a good memory of the other films was not necessary, the better you remember them and the more familiar you are with them the better much of the fan-service payoff in this is. But really, it's the time travelin' "look how far we've come" final film in a long running series of overlapping characters, of course it's going to be fan-service-y.

Re: Black Widow, Captain America had to put all the cosmic cubes back where they got them, right? Which means giving it back to Dead Red Skull? Which can mean all sorts of stuff.

They’d return it to the planet, right? He didn’t possess it, he was just stuck as its sentry

I think that's just going to be glossed over tbh.

The fight scene at the end wasn't best served by everyone having to have a turn, though I understand that's one of the points of the movie.

But yes, Captain America showing up to return it only to find the Red Skull would be messed up

There were a lot of things that could be nitpicked and I appreciate there were unexplained things all over the place. Hopefully that doesn’t mean we get a spin-off to “solve” every plot piece, though.