Thanos used the POWER to kill 1/2 of everything with a SOUL and MIND in SPACE at the same TIME in this REALITY.
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Except Hawkeye, who was not in the movie.
I gave it an A for the whole concept of bringing together the rich and diverse MCU. Although my understanding was that this was a two-parter, I was stunned by the ending.
The Russo brothers specifically mentioned Hawkeye not being present in this movie and alluded (or even flat out stated, can't remember correctly) that he will play a part in Infinity War 2. I guess the same will apply to Ant Man and of course Captain Marvel who is mentioned to be the strongest MCU hero to date.
What got me wondering is that all main heroes survived this one.. Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Dr. Strange ('ll be excluding Black Panther and Spider Man since we know they'll get sequels so they will return in Infinity War 2). I fully expected Cap to die when he went hand to hand with Thanos in that trailer moneyshot but no. However i think there will be a big price to pay in Infinity War 2 to undo some of the events and my theory is that the Soul Stone will play a pivotal role.
Remember a Soul for a Soul? I guess some Avengers, chief amongst them selfless Steve Rogers, will trade their lives for the ones closest to them so that some heroes may return. It could also well be that the Soul Stone actually saved all those that were killed by Thanos, it is mentioned that it is the most powerful stone.
HITSHE put forward that idea last week.
Although you do remember that that's how Heroes Reborn ended?
In each 13th issue of each title, running under the heroes reborn imprint, Doom managed to travel back in time 24 hours before the end of the world 3 times before finally saving the world from... I'm going to say Galactus?
Although you do remember that that's how Heroes Reborn ended?
In each 13th issue of each title, running under the heroes reborn imprint, Doom managed to travel back in time 24 hours before the end of the world 3 times before finally saving the world from... I'm going to say Galactus?
This will sound very strange and weird, yet...
I realized after some thought that, essentially, the Rapture of Christian mythology happened and, as in the Calvinistic view, the "saved" are a random percentage, where one's actions and beliefs in life have absolutely nothing to do with whether one was "saved" or not.
The resulting world would be one of a civilization teetering in the brink, with destruction on an epic scale, as airplanes become unpiloted, cars become driverless, power plants became unmanned, etc. Cities will burn and die. Transport networks will fail. The event the survivalists have waited for will finally have happened. And people would be thrown into depression or worse as their loved ones vanished without explanation. The MCU at this point would become a post-apocalyptic world trying to recover from an inexplicable cataclysm.
If Agenst of SHIELD embraced that next year, with half of the cast gone, that would be amazeballs.
Hey hey, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. DOFP was such a great movie too
What I'm most curious about right now is how they're going to handle half the population of the universe reappearing in A4, because however they handle certain individual characters, it seems like a no-brainer that most of it will be undone. So my question is will the people who weren't vaporised remember spending a year in a world with half of everyone gone, or will it be a reverse time thing?
Not sure which way I'd rather they go since both options are going to be problematic. The latter seems a bit cheap and hand-wavy and may bugger up what the TV/Netflix people are doing, in a "Bobby walking out of the shower on 'Dallas'" kind of way. The former is more interesting but how the ever-loving hell does any civilisation get back to any semblance or normality after not one, but two gargantuan population shifts in one year? For better or worse that should fundamentally change things forever.
Not sure which way I'd rather they go since both options are going to be problematic. The latter seems a bit cheap and hand-wavy and may bugger up what the TV/Netflix people are doing, in a "Bobby walking out of the shower on 'Dallas'" kind of way. The former is more interesting but how the ever-loving hell does any civilisation get back to any semblance or normality after not one, but two gargantuan population shifts in one year? For better or worse that should fundamentally change things forever.
I found it overrated, myself.
That would be my guess too. But then why would Thanos leave all six Infinity Stones lying there for anyone to take? And do they now have to worry about the Power Stone killing everything remaining on Earth like in the first Guardians movie?
The Reality Stone also behaved a lot more like its comic counterpart than the Aether in Thor: The Dark World. Somehow I have a hard time picturing Malekith using it to turn things into bubbles!
Edited to add Days of Future Past comment: Most of that movie was great-- it was a lot of fun seeing both casts. But the ending completely killed it. They stopped Mystique from killing Trask, but what happened instead was way worse: they broke an unstable mutant out of prison, destroyed the White House, took the President hostage, threatened the nation on live TV, and went on their merry way without Magneto or Xavier or any of them having to answer to the law. The future should have been a hundred times worse for mutants after that.
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Thanos for President of the Universe.
MAKE THE UNIVERSE GREAT AGAIN
MUGA!!??!!
630 million worldwide, 250 million domestic in 3 days. Not bad at all.
Amazing! That breaks The Force Awakens record by a mere two million dollars.
So... what will Thanos be up to next?
Solve some sudokus in his new found spare time?
Find the cure for cancer?
Hang out in a bar full of villains and boast about his success in ridding the world of half of those pesky heroes?
Solve some sudokus in his new found spare time?
Find the cure for cancer?
Hang out in a bar full of villains and boast about his success in ridding the world of half of those pesky heroes?
That would be my guess too. But then why would Thanos leave all six Infinity Stones lying there for anyone to take? And do they now have to worry about the Power Stone killing everything remaining on Earth like in the first Guardians movie?
The Reality Stone also behaved a lot more like its comic counterpart than the Aether in Thor: The Dark World. Somehow I have a hard time picturing Malekith using it to turn things into bubbles!
Edited to add Days of Future Past comment: Most of that movie was great-- it was a lot of fun seeing both casts. But the ending completely killed it. They stopped Mystique from killing Trask, but what happened instead was way worse: they broke an unstable mutant out of prison, destroyed the White House, took the President hostage, threatened the nation on live TV, and went on their merry way without Magneto or Xavier or any of them having to answer to the law. The future should have been a hundred times worse for mutants after that.
Add to that, Xavier just let Magneto go. That makes him an accessory to terrorism and murder. Yet the movie never brings this up.
A++++
Highest I've rated an MCU movie. I was captivated from start to finish. An elemant that they have been badly lacking, Thanos is hands down the best villian they've put on screen. There was a LOT of intense scenes with life or death attached, far more than you usually see in an MCU movie. The action sequences were there, but not as overbearing as we saw in AOU and CW. The humorous spots were also well timed and every character had their moment to shine. And the ending was VERY surprising. I didn't see that one coming.
Definitely my favorite of the MCU.
Highest I've rated an MCU movie. I was captivated from start to finish. An elemant that they have been badly lacking, Thanos is hands down the best villian they've put on screen. There was a LOT of intense scenes with life or death attached, far more than you usually see in an MCU movie. The action sequences were there, but not as overbearing as we saw in AOU and CW. The humorous spots were also well timed and every character had their moment to shine. And the ending was VERY surprising. I didn't see that one coming.
Definitely my favorite of the MCU.
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I was hoping one of the post credits would be Hawkeye seeing his family disappear in front of him to get him into the fight for Part 2. Ant-Man & The Wasp is set just before Avengers right? again I'd like to see the film end with or have the post credit scene show Wasp n Hank both disappear too.
This is my second all time favorite MCU film. My first is still "Captain America: The Winter Soldier".
That said, I still give it an absolute A+ for the fact it was so dawn entertaining with a great balance of comedy, drama, moments that brought a tear to your eye, and moments that made you cheer. I think the scriptwriters of the film deserve a Academy Award for the fact they were able to write a film with so many major characters; and still managed to keep all those characters in character while interacting with each other (I LOVED the interplay between Tony Stark and Doctor Strange early in the film; it was perfect given the nature of both characters from their previous films and showed that yeah, you can find others really annoying (two OVERLY egocentric characters); but still do the job you need to do.) Hell, they made Thanos a 3 dimensional somewhat layered character in this; he wasn't just your one note two-dimensional "hate me because I'm so obviously evil" Villain, unlike the main Villain in another recent long standing supergroup film I could name that was fairly recently (in film terms) released.
Evryone had at least one sequence in which they really shined and nothing felt forced in that regard. It was 2 hours and 40 minutes long; but it went by fast and I'm chomping at the bit to see the resolution in Infinity War II.
(Also, they BETTER be planning a Dr. Strange II down the line in the MCU. I LOVE the writer's take on the character, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal. He definitely was the Master of the Mystic Arts and Sorcerer Supreme in Infinity War.
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That said, I still give it an absolute A+ for the fact it was so dawn entertaining with a great balance of comedy, drama, moments that brought a tear to your eye, and moments that made you cheer. I think the scriptwriters of the film deserve a Academy Award for the fact they were able to write a film with so many major characters; and still managed to keep all those characters in character while interacting with each other (I LOVED the interplay between Tony Stark and Doctor Strange early in the film; it was perfect given the nature of both characters from their previous films and showed that yeah, you can find others really annoying (two OVERLY egocentric characters); but still do the job you need to do.) Hell, they made Thanos a 3 dimensional somewhat layered character in this; he wasn't just your one note two-dimensional "hate me because I'm so obviously evil" Villain, unlike the main Villain in another recent long standing supergroup film I could name that was fairly recently (in film terms) released.
Evryone had at least one sequence in which they really shined and nothing felt forced in that regard. It was 2 hours and 40 minutes long; but it went by fast and I'm chomping at the bit to see the resolution in Infinity War II.
(Also, they BETTER be planning a Dr. Strange II down the line in the MCU. I LOVE the writer's take on the character, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal. He definitely was the Master of the Mystic Arts and Sorcerer Supreme in Infinity War.
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So, Thanos's home planet is a moon around Saturn and was once a densely overpopulated civilization that is now desolate and it took Thanos's a significant length of time to get there from Earth while moving at a FTL speed/though hyperspace?
The comics are one thing, in the movie my impression was that it was a separate planet "out there" somewhere and a moon of Saturn.
Who said it took a significant amount of time to travel from Earth to Titan?