We do not tamper with natural law! The bill comes due, always.
I find it hard to believe Gamora won’t be back for GOTG3.
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That would be my thought as well.
And FFS, people, Black Panther is the 3rd highest grossing film of all time. If you actually believe his death is permanent? You don’t understand film franchises.
I give the movie a B+. This is not a perfect film. There are pacing issues. And if you haven’t followed this series for the past ten years, you’re going to be seriously lost. But the joy of seeing these character interactions is pretty awesome. I wasn’t all that much of a fan of Adolescent Groot. But I did think they did a decent job of giving all of the characters their part in the story.
Going a little stream of consciousness: I’m pleasantly surprised that Stark made it through the movie. From appearances in the trailers, I figured he would be the first casualty on Earth. Then again... trailers. I loved that the Guardians had a pretty big role. Leave it to Quill to fuck everything up. I almost wish he would have not been a snap death so we could see him have to deal with the ramifications of his actions. Banner’s Hulkrectile dysfunction was an interesting choice but I did like that he was able to actually make a difference in the battle with the Hulkbuster. While I think most of the deaths pre-snap are permanent, I do wonder about Gamorra. The scene between Thanos and young Gamorra at the end was a strange decision and I wonder if it has a deeper meaning in Avengers 4.
Oh yeah... I forgot about Hawkeye. Where was he?
Yeah, Gamora is the one character I'm not sure about staying dead, simply because her role in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is so important. I wonder if Nebula will take hold of the Gauntlet (like in the comics) and not only restores the finger-snap victims, but also her sister. Their mutual understanding in Vol. 2 must have some bearing in her future actions.
Cap mentioned that Clint and Scott took deals for house arrest for the sakes of their family. I imagine both of them will play a much larger role in the sequel because so few heroes remain, house arrest be damned.
Or a role at all.
I'm looking forward to Phase Four with Guardians of the Galaxy starring Nebula, Rocket, and Starhawk followed by Black Panther starring Shuri. Doctor Strange might be a bit weird, though.
Anyway, gut punch of the movie. I enjoyed it a lot, but the reset button aspect makes it hard to entirely appreciate. Thanos was great, though.
Anyway, gut punch of the movie. I enjoyed it a lot, but the reset button aspect makes it hard to entirely appreciate. Thanos was great, though.
I missed Hawkeye as well.
For myself, I feel I have seen this plotline before, with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The fire-fighting side is defeated by their failures, with the side of the fire-starters in the ascendancy, and, at the end, the fire-fighters have been reduced to a small number of survivors. Yet, the Avengers story is better written with everyone choosing to keep to the plan and respecting what came before.
I do have a question, as I do not believe it was answered in the film, how did a doomsayer like Thanos become a leader of an interstellar military?
I do have a question, as I do not believe it was answered in the film, how did a doomsayer like Thanos become a leader of an interstellar military?
Simple. Loki lies.
A wizard did it.
Presumably Thor would know Heimdall's powers as well as Loki does, so that makes little sense.
And if Heimdall can do this without the Bifrost, what was the Bifrost necessary for in the first place?
Considering the huge ramifications from half the people on the planet disappearing, doesn't that mean this will be a time reset? Agents of Shield and the Netflix shows can't fucking ignore half of the population gone without coming out and saying they no longer are actually part of the MCU.
My guess is Thanos using the time stone to restore the mind stone caused some type of problem because of the dispersed power of a destroyed stone being restored. So that will be his downfall and what Strange saw as the victorious future.
My guess is Thanos using the time stone to restore the mind stone caused some type of problem because of the dispersed power of a destroyed stone being restored. So that will be his downfall and what Strange saw as the victorious future.
He's at home, washing his tights! Oops, sorry...wrong franchise.
Yeah. We saw it Friday and had a similar reaction.
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Lots of good lines. The Guardians and Nebula were amazing. Banner was great. Strange and Spidey were fantastic, as were Vision and the Scarlet Witch. I agree with the poster who said that Thanos was nicely fleshed out; his motivation almost sounded rational. I was pleased to see that I was right in my suspicion that the Red Skull survived. Eitri is magnificently realized.
Somewhere someone said words to the effect that Vision and Scarlet Witch are going to represent the emotional heart of the film. That clearly wasn't the case, as it is Thanos and Gamora who do. I didn't find how Thanos got the Soul Stone shocking, because it was telegraphed really well; with the whole audience (or all of the adults, anyway) Gamora wrapped in the last vestige of her innocence was the last to know. That was pretty devastating nonetheless.
I kept expecting a quick wrap-up and was surprised that there was no resolution, which for me is part of why the comparison to TESB is apropos. The rest would be that the bad guys won.
Fear not, though, Captain Marvel has been summoned!
No seriously, though, this is a pretty dang humongous cliffhanger, way beyond Han being frozen in carbonite and not knowing about Luke's father. There's a pretty high bar set for how to resolve this.
This is worth seeing, and for being entertaining start to finish and having mature emotional content it gets an A+ from me.
What can Captain Marvel bring to the table? I am not familiar with her character.
What exactly did happen at Vormir? Thanos is on top of a peak, then he wakes up in a pond. Was he moved by the stone to the pond?
There is a problem with time. When Fury and Hill are receiving the message about the invasion of Earth, prior to the attack on Wakanda, Thanos had not yet snapped his finger, erasing trillions of people. He was on Titan, fighting for control of the Time Stone. Yet, back on Earth, both characters and randos are disintegrating.
Both times when seeing Thanos in that vision near the end of the movie, I felt there was something more behind the Gamora illusion.
What exactly did happen at Vormir? Thanos is on top of a peak, then he wakes up in a pond. Was he moved by the stone to the pond?
There is a problem with time. When Fury and Hill are receiving the message about the invasion of Earth, prior to the attack on Wakanda, Thanos had not yet snapped his finger, erasing trillions of people. He was on Titan, fighting for control of the Time Stone. Yet, back on Earth, both characters and randos are disintegrating.
Both times when seeing Thanos in that vision near the end of the movie, I felt there was something more behind the Gamora illusion.
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Why can't another finger snap bring everyone dissolved by the first finger snap back again?
No reason at all. It's been ages since I read the whole infinity gauntlet story but that's basically how it was resolved after the Living Tribunal got involved, as I recall. I do wonder if they will have Adam Warlock in the next movie or wait for Guardian's 3? He was instrumental in the Infinity Gauntlet storyline.
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