Avengers: Infinity War

Actually, upon reflection, it's kind of only half a movie in terms of particular events that need to be resolved or reversed for the sake of upcoming films which have already been announced. In terms of the film itself, it's just a movie where the heroes lose hard. And it's difficult to see it as the first half of a story when there's no clear process by which the events of this film can be rectified in the second half. I mean, clearly they will be to some extent, but the next chapter is likely to at least kick off with the survivors resigned to figuring out how to just move forward in a profoundly-altered world.

uh, i can’t believe nobody is talking about Future’s super weird rap from the end credits of AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR??? it doesn’t even spoil the movie... despite playing AFTER the movie!! managed to sneak a video and transcribe the lyrics– hope Disney doesn’t take this down!!! pic.twitter.com/n1bBlSZoEJ

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) April 28, 2018

I was sold on the song by the end but the actors included in the credits were otm

also thank you, I hate to be the first one to post demi’s credits videos every time

I appreciate the extra effort demi put into this one

The video was great but the 200 identical 'it's real' responses to incredulous twitterers are killing me.

I'm not sure what my favorite inclusion in the credits is, but S. Epatha Merkerson is up there

Michael Stulbargh seems most destined to actually show up in the MCU at some point

I am not sure what about the Marvel movies has done this to me, but I want Iron Man to die and stay dead and I dislike the iron man

maybe it's because he's an old blowhard and I see his on-screen partner and I assume she's started the MCU version of goop

pepper potts has a website called "poop"

i keep forgetting what MCU stands for, then i remember and want to abolish acronyms.

so they all died in this huh

“And despite the hard-luck finish—something an obligatory post-credits sequence goes a long way toward neutering”

From Keith Uhlich’s review, imo a bizarre way to characterize the movie reminding us that non-super heroes/half the population are going to start seeing their loved ones turn to ash.

Get the feeling he may have stayed in the theater too long and accidentally saw a preview for Overboard or something.

this was great imo!

though walking out of the theater the crowd was def shook & suuuuuper quiet

the Threads of superhero films

.,..if you knew Threads 2: Still Threadin' was coming in 12 months to undo most of the radiation poisoning, sure.

Things I liked:

- that it spent time with the characters before throwing them into action, unlike the last Avengers ie Ultron which was like “lala party oh hey a new robot aaand GO”

- Gamora/Ultron story was v affecting imo. Not so much the Ultron part but Gamora’s. esp with the Nebula scene

- Spidey’s Prototype 17A spacesuit was p dope

- “Kick names. Take ass.”

Am on the fence about:

- the tone of the Guardians or maybe just Starlord in particular felt a little sleazy or something, it wasn’t quite right. Minor quibble tho.

Things I didn’t like:

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P. sure my wife is suffering PTSD from this movie.

Nebula as a Damien Hirst installation was extremely O_O

I managed to make it til tonight more or less totally blind (aside from reading the original comics), so everything beyond what was in the trailer (and expectations from the original comics) came as total surprise to me. Ergo, I thought this was pretty great, more or less what I've been hoping for from a lot of these movies, which is something closer to what I remember as a kid reading this stories, crossover issues and limited series and melodrama and dramatic deaths and all. Faked out more than a few times, too. I know I wasn't the only one expecting Death only to get that other character.

I like how some characters have powers so limitless even they don't know their limits. Though there are still a couple characters in this MCU whose powers remain kind of vague to me.

here is my question: why does billionaire tech giant tony stark have a flip phone?

I thought this was pretty clearly an ironic billionaire tech giant has old flip phone joke? I mean, I chuckled.

it’s a burner, have you guys never seen a crime show

you buy a bunch, then program their numbers into each other. no one knows where or when you bought them and you use them one time, and only to call the other burners. you never turn it on before you use it, so no tracking

even with Stark’s tech it’d be hard to track, and he probably wouldn’t due to honor. the government/registration act types had none of them

yeah it’s like the least interesting thing in the movie! watch a Wire once in awhile :D

i didnt know before this that Bruce & Hulk talked to each other

imo hulk’s prob burned out from 24/7 hulking out on Planet Jeff Goldblum in Ragnarok. i get it buddy

Guys, Captain America mailed Stark the burner at the end of Civil War after they had their big rasslin' match. I'm really embarrassed that you can't remember a minor plot point from a two-year-old movie.

also this ^

(NB, I rewatched Civil War like a week ago, and I otherwise never would have remembered that plot point.)

Hulk performance anxiety were funny. Lots of jokes in this were funny.

needed more Carrie Coon

I love her, but I think we got enough of her.

v glad to see her getting that MCU $$$

They pulled so much stuff off with this movie that I don't put anything past them at this point, but ... are they planning to introduce Captain Marvel *and* Adam Warlock in the next movie? My only guess is that they will sort of combine Marvel and Warlock, for convenience sake, even though they've hinted at Warlock in previous MCU movies. The fact that they got rid (as expected) of some of the more abstract cosmic stuff (like Death, or Mephisto, or Infinity, et al.) shows they have no problem focusing the scope/scale a little tighter, and they've said outright that Captain Marvel will be the most powerful being introduced in the movies to date, which inflates her already considerable powers in the comics, right?

Warlock will happen but not until Guardians 3 (the only hint of his arrival/existence thus far was a shot of his cocoon and a mention of his name in the post-credits scene of GotG 2). There's only room enough for one superhero ex machina in the next Avengers film, so it'll have to be the one who has her own feature-length proof of concept on the way.

I know it feels wrong for Warlock to be MIA given how integral he (not to mention the equally-absent Silver Surfer) is to the comic version of the story, but I've learned to roll with the MCU's alternate take on things at this point. Besides, we're gonna need some folks to keep WATCH over those INFINITY gems once this is all over (wink wink), so I'm sure there will be a place for him.

It only occurred to me for the first time yesterday that, personality-wise, Rocket is kind of a Pip stand-in in the MCU (if those in the know feel like making predictions about what happens to all those magical glove Skittles).

Oh btw i really enjoyed Dinklage <3

most personal wtf moment in this was the scene with wanda and the vision in scotland cuz i bought the first issue of infinity war in 1991 at deadhead comics, just around the corner from where that scene was filmed in edinburgh

also lol at the visible 'we will deep-fry your kebab' notice in a shop window in one shot - truly a flavour of the real scotland right there

Oh btw i really enjoyed Dinklage <3

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 April 2018 05:03 (four hours ago)

that voice! im not sure if it was meant to be intentionally funny or not but i did chuckle a few times at it

dinklage and hemworth scenes did threaten to descend into battle of the unconvincing cod-english accents but yeah he was good value

i bet whoever thought to cast dinklage as a giant dwarf was very pleased with themselves when they came up with the idea

Yeah, that was actually genius. I thought he would be Pip.

Thanos should totally win the Nobel Peace Prize for reuniting the Avengers.

imo hulk’s prob burned out from 24/7 hulking out on Planet Jeff Goldblum in Ragnarok. i get it buddy

Plus he got his ass good and thoroughly kicked for the first time ever by Thanos and probably wasn't eager to try a second time.

yeah, the little whimper the hulk lets out after thanos cracks him in the jaw for the first time was surprisingly affecting!

speaking of the opening scene, are we to assume that valkyrie and korg and miek and the rest of the crew of thor's ship are all dead now after it blew up?

the tone of the Guardians or maybe just Starlord in particular felt a little sleazy or something, it wasn’t quite right. Minor quibble tho.

veg otm about this btw, something about chris pratt really rubbed me the wrong way in this one - maybe it's just his shtick is getting thin or maybe it's the moustache, but he was definitely more on the wrong end of the loveable rogue - cocky dipshit spectrum this time out

drax remains a delight, tho - dave bautista is such a great deadpan weirdo

I assume so, if Heimdahl is dead it seems the rest of them are as well. Which is one of the darkest things the MCU has done! That makes Thor literally the only surviving Asgardian.

Hulk in the last Thor movie is so Hulk he doesn't want to be Banner ever again. It takes work, but they finally convince Banner to come out again. Then when they need Hulk they need Banner to become Hulk, but there is the express concern that Hulk might be permanent. I forget whether the movie ends with Hulk Hulk or Banner, but clearly he is Banner again by this movie. Maybe Hulk is just sick of the constant indecision? Be Hulk! Don't be Hulk! No, be Hulk again! And Hulk is all, I'm getting too old for this shit.

holy shit xxxpost I don't remember hearing it but I read elsewhere that there was a line about Thanos killing half the people on the ship (as is his wont) so I'd wager that some of them managed to escape. Almost certain they wouldn't have killed the heroes from two movies ago offscreen.

One of my many predictions is that (at least some of) the Asgardians are going to be resurrected and New Asgard will be on earth where Odin died immediately after being all 'hey sons, check this place out, pretty sweet huh, hint hint'.