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How do you rate "Avengers: Infinity War"?

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Ethros said:
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
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hey, where do you think the idea for the Sharknado film series came from?:whistle::crazy::hugegrin:
 
Just saw this today. Managed to stay spoiler free, enjoyed it all the more.

It was good to see the guardians interacting with the avengers at last. I’m guessing, having not read the thread, that the one version of the future in which thanos is defeated is the one where Stark is spared.
 
I suspect that I have asked these questions before, but I find myself asking them again.

I can understand Thanos knowing the location of the Power Stone, considering the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy”. But why did he wait roughly four years to get it?

How did Thanos know that the Mind Stone was in Edinburgh and the Time Stone was in New York City? How did he know that the Space Stone (Tesseract) was with the Asgardians, aboard their ship? How did he know that the Reality Stone (the Aether) was on Knowhere? And yet . . . he didn’t know the location of the Soul Stone, but he knew that Gamora and Nebula would search for the Soul Stone? In fact, why did she and Nebula search for it in the first place, after so many years?
 
LJones41 said:
I suspect that I have asked these questions before, but I find myself asking them again.

I can understand Thanos knowing the location of the Power Stone, considering the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy”. But why did he wait roughly four years to get it?

How did Thanos know that the Mind Stone was in Edinburgh and the Time Stone was in New York City? How did he know that the Space Stone (Tesseract) was with the Asgardians, aboard their ship? How did he know that the Reality Stone (the Aether) was on Knowhere? And yet . . . he didn’t know the location of the Soul Stone, but he knew that Gamora and Nebula would search for the Soul Stone? In fact, why did she and Nebula search for it in the first place, after so many years?
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Regarding Thanos waiting the four years to get the power stone, I can only guess that another attack on Xandar may have drawn the attention of more powerful civilizations such as the Asgardians. Thanos had tried to attack Earth a couple years before and got his butt handed to him by the Avengers, aided by the son of Odin. He probably felt it best to lay low for a while. Since Loki secretly banished Odin, it sounded like the galaxy was going to hell, based on dialog from Thor: Ragnarok, so I'm thinking Thanos decided that it was time to make his move (attacking Nidavellir then Xandar).

I guess that reasoning invites an even greater question as to why the Asgardians allowed Thanos to slaughter countless civilizations such as Gamora's homeworld in the first place; Maybe Asgard only gets involved if there's powerful relics being used or maybe it's just best not to think too deeply about it. :)

Regarding Thanos finding the stones, I suppose it's possible that the stones are able to be tracked in some way. Remember that in Avengers, Thor tells Fury that humans messing with the Tesseract/space stone, let the galaxy know that Earth was ready for the next level of warfare, or words to that effect. Furthermore, Loki was able to locate it fairly quickly (probably with Thanos' help). Finally, Stark and Banner are able to locate the Tesseract. Somebody had deliberately sent Starlord to find the power stone at the very beginning of GotG, so someone had a fairly good idea where to find it.

Anyway, I do agree with you... it's an inconsistency that probably could have been fixed by bit of exposition.
 
In regard to the Asgardians, I think they were only concerned with those planets or homeworlds that were part of the Nine Realms (which included Earth). I don't think Xandar was part of it.

As for finding the stones . . . Thanos still didn't know where the Soul Stone was. How odd.
 
Turtletrekker said:
This. There was no point in going after the others when he had no idea where the Soul Stone was.
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With just two he was the most powerful being in the universe. I'd want to achieve that status ASAP.

Thanos' entire motivation is flawed. Killing half of everything is a temporary solution for his overpopulation problem at best and he should be smart enough to know.
 
LJones41 said:
In regard to the Asgardians, I think they were only concerned with those planets or homeworlds that were part of the Nine Realms (which included Earth). I don't think Xandar was part of it.

As for finding the stones . . . Thanos still didn't know where the Soul Stone was. How odd.
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How is it odd? All these stones were extremely well hidden until various different people dug them up into the spotlight over the previous movies. The soul stone, as it turns out, was the best hidden of all of them.

For the record, also, Nebula never searched for the Soul Stone. Gamora searched for it when she was still working for Thanos because he told her to, but then she realized she couldn't actually tell him where to find it. Unfortunately for the universe, she let it slip to Nebula that she had found it, so when Nebula got herself captured by Thanos he found out that Gamora had lied to him. That was the moment when Thanos realized that all the stones were now in play and he could finish his entire plan in one swift campaign if he acted directly, so he did.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
With just two he was the most powerful being in the universe. I'd want to achieve that status ASAP.

Thanos' entire motivation is flawed. Killing half of everything is a temporary solution for his overpopulation problem at best and he should be smart enough to know.
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I just assumed he was a Kodos fan.
 
King Daniel Beyond said:
With just two he was the most powerful being in the universe. I'd want to achieve that status ASAP.
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Remember he actually had the mind stone some years ago, when he gave it to Loki to attack earth to try to get the tesseract. The power stone made him more powerful than Hulk and Thor and co individually, but working together he needed his whole gang of random baddies like Maw to defeat them. Even with 4 stones he almost got beaten by a rag tag bunch of half a dozen people that had barely met each other before on titan.

Had he got the tesseract out of Asgard earlier, there's a good chance Thor would have got to Earth, and they would have had more time to safely remove the mind stone from Vision and destroy it.

Strange had the time stone, he wasn't unstoppable. Loki had the tesseract, again not unstoppable. It was only recently that Thanos managed to get the gauntlet to hold the stones and presumably amplify their power (the power stone and mind stone were both used as part of traditional weapons in GotG and Avengers respectively, and Strange could control the time stone with his amulet -- controlling several stones, and using the gauntlet, was the key to being able to defeat groupings of major players)

Getting that gauntlet which was far easier once Asgard had been destroyed - Asgard couldn't protect Moria (or whatever it was called) post Hela. pre-Hela, again at best he could attack the place, get the gauntlet, and his plan becomes clear, and the stones risk destruction.
 
bigglesworth said:
I guess that reasoning invites an even greater question as to why the Asgardians allowed Thanos to slaughter countless civilizations such as Gamora's homeworld in the first place; Maybe Asgard only gets involved if there's powerful relics being used or maybe it's just best not to think too deeply about it. :)
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Xandar isn't a protected planet in treaty with the gouald, and the Asgardians are bluffing :D
 
The stones were scattered throughout the universe but were all found relatively close together.
The universe is a big place. Seems very unlikely.
 
Paul Weaver said:
Xandar isn't a protected planet in treaty with the gouald, and the Asgardians are bluffing :D
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Paul Weaver said:
The power stone made him more powerful than Hulk and Thor and co individually
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And Thanos doesn't even use the power stone to beat Hulk. His own strength and skill was all it took.

thribs said:
The stones were scattered throughout the universe but were all found relatively close together.
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They've had a long time to congregate. We've only seen their locations recently, we have no idea how or when they all got into our neighborhood.
 
thribs said:
The stones were scattered throughout the universe but were all found relatively close together.
The universe is a big place. Seems very unlikely.
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We've no idea where the planet the Orb was found on is, nor where the soul stone planet is, nor where the mind stone was originally found and the Aether was hidden in a different dimension. There's no reason to think any of those were 'relatively close together'. Only the Time stone and the Space stone have been on Earth for a long time, why exactly we don't know.
 
LJones41 said:
I suspect that I have asked these questions before, but I find myself asking them again.

I can understand Thanos knowing the location of the Power Stone, considering the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy”. But why did he wait roughly four years to get it?

How did Thanos know that the Mind Stone was in Edinburgh and the Time Stone was in New York City? How did he know that the Space Stone (Tesseract) was with the Asgardians, aboard their ship? How did he know that the Reality Stone (the Aether) was on Knowhere? And yet . . . he didn’t know the location of the Soul Stone, but he knew that Gamora and Nebula would search for the Soul Stone? In fact, why did she and Nebula search for it in the first place, after so many years?
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He waited until Asgard had been destroyed, Ego was dead, the Ancient One was dead and Odin was dead.

IE, all major obstacles were eliminated.
 
Are marvel limited to the Milky Way or does it span the whole universe? If it’s just the galaxy, the six stones being found is not so Believable.
 
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