Frankly I think it's close to a miracle that Marvel managed not only to take all of these characters and storylines and mesh them together, but to do so in such a cohesive and satisfying way. (Funny, I remember thinking pretty much the same thing about another certain crossoover event film that came out about, oh, six years ago.) It was two and a half hours of payoff with a huge gut punch at the end. Sure, we all know that most, if not all, of those Snap deaths are probably going to be reversed in A4, but I feel extremely confident in saying that a major price will be paid to accomplish that. It's very telling, to me at least, that among the survivors are the original Avengers team (minus Clint, but I'll bet he survived the culling off-screen). A4 is looking like it will be a last hurrah for those core characters, with some not surviving, and by that movie's end they will have essentially passed the torch on to the next group of heroes.
I did find it a little odd that the movie opened with Thanos having already acquired the Power Stone. I understand why they did it that way, but I would have liked to have seen it actually happen. I'd love to see that event get shifted to a cold open for a Nova movie in the near future (which I really, really want to happen), with Thanos showing up on Xandar and utterly wrecking the Nova Corps before destroying Xandar with the Power Stone, but not before a mortally wounded Rhomann Dey escapes with the last remaining fragment of the Xandarian Worldmind, which generates the Nova Force. Cut to the Marvel Studios fanfare, and then the movie shifts to Richard Rider on Earth. Here's hoping...
I'm a big fan of Doctor Strange, and I absolutely loved how he was handled in this movie, even moreso than in his own movie. Strange is still arrogant in his own way, but it's an arrogance tempered by the burden he's accepted as a guardian of Earth and reality itself. His interactions with Iron Man were pitch perfect. He's not impressed whatsoever by Stark and he isn't afraid to remind Stark that he's not the only brilliant mind in the room. It's a reaction that I don't think Stark is used to getting from people and it was very refreshing to see.
One of the Russo brothers confirmed in an interview that Spider-Man: Homecoming got the chronology wrong and Infinity War confirmed that it has been six years since The Avengers and two years since Civil War. I wonder how this will effect Homecoming's sequel since I recall reading that the original idea was for a trilogy of movies, each covering a different year of high school (sophomore, junior, senior), but if IW is two years after CW, then Peter should be a senior when all of this is going down. SM2 is apparently meant to take place immediately after A4, so I hope we don't get another chronology screw-up. Honestly I'd be perfectly fine with SM2 having Peter starting college.
It was nice to see Fury and Hill again, and Fury's final line as he disintegrated cracked me up. "Motherf--!"
I can't wait to see Captain Marvel join the party, and I'm very curious to see how they explain why Fury waited until now to call on her.
And while originally I thought that having Ant-Man and the Wasp be released after Infinity War but take place before it was kinda odd, after that ending, I can understand why, and AM&TW looks like it's gonna be a nice, fun pick-me-up after the emotionally heavy IW.
I did find it a little odd that the movie opened with Thanos having already acquired the Power Stone. I understand why they did it that way, but I would have liked to have seen it actually happen. I'd love to see that event get shifted to a cold open for a Nova movie in the near future (which I really, really want to happen), with Thanos showing up on Xandar and utterly wrecking the Nova Corps before destroying Xandar with the Power Stone, but not before a mortally wounded Rhomann Dey escapes with the last remaining fragment of the Xandarian Worldmind, which generates the Nova Force. Cut to the Marvel Studios fanfare, and then the movie shifts to Richard Rider on Earth. Here's hoping...
I'm a big fan of Doctor Strange, and I absolutely loved how he was handled in this movie, even moreso than in his own movie. Strange is still arrogant in his own way, but it's an arrogance tempered by the burden he's accepted as a guardian of Earth and reality itself. His interactions with Iron Man were pitch perfect. He's not impressed whatsoever by Stark and he isn't afraid to remind Stark that he's not the only brilliant mind in the room. It's a reaction that I don't think Stark is used to getting from people and it was very refreshing to see.
One of the Russo brothers confirmed in an interview that Spider-Man: Homecoming got the chronology wrong and Infinity War confirmed that it has been six years since The Avengers and two years since Civil War. I wonder how this will effect Homecoming's sequel since I recall reading that the original idea was for a trilogy of movies, each covering a different year of high school (sophomore, junior, senior), but if IW is two years after CW, then Peter should be a senior when all of this is going down. SM2 is apparently meant to take place immediately after A4, so I hope we don't get another chronology screw-up. Honestly I'd be perfectly fine with SM2 having Peter starting college.
It was nice to see Fury and Hill again, and Fury's final line as he disintegrated cracked me up. "Motherf--!"
I can't wait to see Captain Marvel join the party, and I'm very curious to see how they explain why Fury waited until now to call on her.And while originally I thought that having Ant-Man and the Wasp be released after Infinity War but take place before it was kinda odd, after that ending, I can understand why, and AM&TW looks like it's gonna be a nice, fun pick-me-up after the emotionally heavy IW.
