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Spoilers Avengers: Infinity War grade and discussion thread

How do you rate "Avengers: Infinity War"?

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Anwar said:
Just think how people who were teens when 80s classics came out must feel nowadays.
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I work with a 21 year old (I'm 38) and it blows my mind this kid has never seen Predator, Twister, RoboCop, thinks Ghost Busters is boring and has never seen Pulp Fiction. I feel sorry for this generation used to these CGI crapfests (not saying Infinity War is a CGI crapfest, I enjoyed it). I know I grew up in a Golden Age of action movies we'll likely never see again.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
I work with a 21 year old (I'm 38) and it blows my mind this kid has never seen Predator, Twister, RoboCop, thinks Ghost Busters is boring and has never seen Pulp Fiction. I feel sorry for this generation used to these CGI crapfests (not saying Infinity War is a CGI crapfest, I enjoyed it). I know I grew up in a Golden Age of action movies we'll likely never see again.
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Ghostbusters isn't that great, though. Neither is Twister or Robocop. And I love Predator as a sort of hyper-simplified pure action flick, but anyone who wants something more than explosions, one-liners and a bit of gore would be perfectly justified in turning their nose down at it as well.

The mythical golden age of 80/90s cinema was no better than movies today. It just happens to be what a lot of people grew up with, and they have lionized it all in their heads and now can't stop beating everyone else over the head with their claims of 'Muh Classics!'
 
There is an amusing bit on the Infinity War home release during the Directors Roundtable feature with Jon Favreau, James Gunn, Ryan Coogler, Joss Whedon, the Russo Brothers, Peyton Reed and Taika Watiti. In it, Ryan Coogler states that Star Wars was something that happened before he was born and that he was more familiar with Harrison Ford from The Fugitive. Likewise, rather than Rocky, his familiarity with Sylvester Stallone came from Cliffhanger.:lol:
 
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Captrek said:
I’m sorely tempted to reinherit him just so I can do that.
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To be fair, how did you view some "Sci Fi Classics" like Forbidden Planet (1956); "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" (1956); "War of the Worlds" (1953) after "Star Wars (1977) hit theaters? ;)

[Hey I was 14 in 1977 ;)]
 
I'll give you Pulp Fiction, Ghostbusters, Robocop and Predator. But Twister? Haha, that just seemed like an odd random addition :lol: Is it that good/considered a classic? I think I saw it when I was like 13, can hardly remember it
 
grendelsbayne said:
Ghostbusters isn't that great, though. Neither is Twister or Robocop. And I love Predator as a sort of hyper-simplified pure action flick, but anyone who wants something more than explosions, one-liners and a bit of gore would be perfectly justified in turning their nose down at it as well.

The mythical golden age of 80/90s cinema was no better than movies today. It just happens to be what a lot of people grew up with, and they have lionized it all in their heads and now can't stop beating everyone else over the head with their claims of 'Muh Classics!'
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I'll accept my love of these movies is seen through some shades of nostalgia, but I'd be hard pressed to agree that today's movies are just as good. The movies I listed I rewatch at least once or twice a year. The only movie I can think of in the past ten years I've watched more than once or twice would be Mad Max: Fury Road.

Again, maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think 80s and 90s movies were just more fun.
 
Just spotted a nice continuity bit. In the end-tag, just before people start fading, Fury tells Hill to, "Tell Klein to meet us at..." just before the car crashes in front of them.

Klein is this guy from Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron.

Also, apparently Fury and Hill were in Chicago at the time (Which means that it was simultaneously daylight in Central Africa, San Francisco and Chicago), which in my head canon means that they were there following up on events from the Agents of SHIELD season finale.
 
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It may have been a rolling or jumping around in execution. Those scenes didn’t have to take place concurrently.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Just spotted a nice continuity bit. In the end-tag, just before people start fading, Fury tells Hill to, "Tell Klein to meet us at..." just before the car crashes in front of them.

Klein is this guy from Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron.
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Oh, nice catch! I didn't realize that character had a name. Hell, I'm not sure if I even realized he also appeared in Age of Ultron.[/QUOTE]
 
Emh said:
Oh, nice catch! I didn't realize that character had a name. Hell, I'm not sure if I even realized he also appeared in Age of Ultron.
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He's at 1:26 and at the very end of the clip and has a quick bit a little later.

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Turd Ferguson said:
I'll accept my love of these movies is seen through some shades of nostalgia, but I'd be hard pressed to agree that today's movies are just as good. The movies I listed I rewatch at least once or twice a year. The only movie I can think of in the past ten years I've watched more than once or twice would be Mad Max: Fury Road.

Again, maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think 80s and 90s movies were just more fun.
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My childhood classics are things like Predator, Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, etc. But I rewatch movies like Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Captain America trilogy, the Dark Knight, Unstoppable, Spider-man Homecoming, Zombieland, Kick-Ass, Deadpool, Logan etc just as often. Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle was quite possibly the funniest movie I've seen since Groundhog Day came out, and way more funny than most of what came before GD as well.
 
Anwar said:
It's debatable that without a proper channeling device like the Gauntlet, you can't use the full potential of an Infinity Stone. Remember that merely touching it sent the Red Skull to another planet and before then he was only using it as a battery to power his weapons. So Loki simply couldn't use it to teleport them away.

The writers said that Thor can get tired and need to recuperate, and Thanos merely got him as a weak moment.

Thanos wasn't focusing it's full power, he just wanted the ship blown up and Thor survived.
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I'm beginning to suspect that I had simply spotted some bloopers in the writing and the MCU is trying to make excuses in order to push this idea that all (or most) of their movies have a flawless narrative.

Now, I'm sure that many fans are aware that the writing for these films are not flawless. But it would be nice for the studio suits to just admit it. For once.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Also, apparently Fury and Hill were in Chicago at the time (Which means that it was simultaneously daylight in Central Africa, San Francisco and Chicago)
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Well, yeah - given that it definitely wasn't morning in Wakanda, if it was also daytime in SF (must've been an early-morning mission for the Ant-team), it would have to be daytime in Chicago as well.

Turtletrekker said:
which in my head canon means that they were there following up on events from the Agents of SHIELD season finale.
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Good one! :bolian:
 
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