Avengers: Infinity Wars To Be Retitled

[NinjaPug]

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Man that was something. I actually like that they kept the core Avengers alive for the next movie. It'll be a good send off for them. Rhodey, Rocket and Nebula were the only non original Avengers still alive right?

That Red Skull cameo legit shocked me. It's been a while that I've been that surprised by something in a movie. I'm glad that wasn't spoiled for me like Yoda was in TLJ.

I really liked the tag too. I thought it was going to be something jokey with Hawkeye so I'm glad it wasn't.

I don't know how audiences are going to react to this especially the ending. I have a feeling this box office will be extremely frontloaded.

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

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There is no way it isn't Red Skull.

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So he’s a Nazi but now he’s a guardian of the infinity stone and knows all this rules of having to sacrifice the thing you love most in order to get it? Unlikely.

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

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So he’s a Nazi but now he’s a guardian of the infinity stone and knows all this rules of having to sacrifice the thing you love most in order to get it? Unlikely.

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That was 100% Red Skull. Can't believe that is being questioned

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

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So he’s a Nazi but now he’s a guardian of the infinity stone and knows all this rules of having to sacrifice the thing you love most in order to get it? Unlikely.

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What's more unlikely is that they would include a character that looks exactly like Red Skull that isn't actually Red Skull. He said he was trying to possess an infinity stone but he wasn't strong enough and he was now cursed to explain the rules of the Soul Stone to chuds who came looking for it.

[raph27]

Just got back. Still going over it all in my head.

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The non-dust deaths were a shock to me. Especially Gamora. The post-snap deaths didn't affect me much except Spidey.

How did Thor know to go to Wakanda?

Also, no Hulk at all? I thought he was going to burst out of the Hulkbuster.

Overall I did really like it, thought it was a bit crammed though.

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

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That was 100% Red Skull. Can't believe that is being questioned

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

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What's more unlikely is that they would include a character that looks exactly like Red Skull that isn't actually Red Skull. He said he was trying to possess an infinity stone but he wasn't strong enough and he was now cursed to explain the rules of the Soul Stone to chuds who came looking for it.

I think I need to watch this again. Cheers.

[Andrew NDB]

Saw "Infinity War." Definitely hard to equate into terms of "I liked it" or "I didn't like it." I enjoyed it, but I don't think I'd be in a rush to see it again. And I can't imagine much of what they should have done differently.

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There's so many moving parts here, yet at over 2 1/2 hours long, it doesn't feel like there ever was really any wasted time. I don't think I would cut anything out. The humor in the first parts sometimes felt like "Thor: Ragnarok," but not as heavy-handed. In other places, hilarious.

A lot of different locations, across the galaxy. A lot of what was going to happen was well telegraphed in advance... some of it wasn't. I was always entertained and my interest held, however a lot of it felt like "Civil War" (which isn't surprising, it's the same directors)... sort of, technically amazing to watch, but doesn't really bring out too much emotion. I'm watching a lot of these characters die, and I'm wanting to be sad... but I'm not. The Gamora scene came the closest, though I sat there for most of it going, "He is OBVIOUSLY going to kill you. Why can't you figure it out? Red Skull (played by Ross Marquand from Walking Dead this time! I just read that, and that's awesome... he's clearly doing a Hugo Weaving impression and he's a master of impressions, check out Youtube) just TOLD you that, basically." The Captain America reveals and a lot of Wakanda moments got the biggest rises out of the theater I was at, as well as Black Panther's "death." And nobody made a peep when Loki "died," but understandably... it felt like Loki to me, but it didn't feel like it was sold right. And the "maybe he's dead, maybe he's not" business from Thor later on kind of retroactively robs that of any emotion it may have had.

I don't know, there's a lot of great moments here but by the end, I just felt a bit exhausted. Not exhausted like I wanted to leave or it to be over, but just exhausted in that it was becoming a bit tiresome in the exercise the movie keeps doing of, "SOMEONE has just saved THIS character... now a slow pan with the camera right to reveal as to who it is!" Because it just keeps happening. Seriously, maybe 20 times in the movie. It's never not fun, but... over and over.

I think the biggest positive to come out of this movie that isn't "wasn't that moment so cool!" was that Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange totally and completely justifies his character's place in the MCU. I was sold.

Movie flies in the face of the "Courting Death" smile/excitement from Thanos at the end of Avengers 1, which I guess was from the comics where he literally... courted a female Death, which most folks figured would be reconfigured as Hela/Cate Blanchett from "Ragnarok." Maybe in Avengers 4. This Thanos probably would have been crying at the end of Avengers 1 when told about "to challenge the Avengers is to court death," not smiling broadly.

Side question: since Thanos successfully completed the Infinity Gauntlet and snapped his finger, killing half of the life in the universe... eh, what does this mean for the worlds where Thanos said he already culled half of the life from? Like, in the years before he had the gauntlet? He told us he did this on many worlds. What happens to them now? Even after having half their people killed, they get ANOTHER half on top of that killed off AGAIN? That's pretty sh***y.

I know the show is not too popular with some people, but I can't wait to see what this means for "Agents of SHIELD" tomorrow or maybe next week. I bet people suddenly start vanishing like at the end of "Infinity War."

Also, was it just me... or did Don Cheadle look a bit sickly/gaunt in this? I wonder if his health is OK.

[Krutch]

Just got back from seeing it.

Overall? Failed to live up to the (impossible) hype, but still liked it overall. 8/10.

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Really didn't like their choice of characters they disolved at the end, though. Once they killed off Peter Parker, it was like "Oh... well, this obviously isn't going to stick." Took any emotion I had right out of the scene.

Didn't expect Gamora to bite the dust in this one, but happily surprised. I had my money on Loki, Nebula, Vision, and either Cap or Tony to be killed off so once Gamora was killed off I was bought into the "anything can happen" scenario.

But yeah, enjoyed it. I don't feel like it's overstuffed necessarily (though I did find Thor's story pretty boring and unneeded) but I did find that character arcs are almost entirely absent in this(an argument can be made for Thanos and maybe Quill).

So, yeah, another win for Marvel. Surprise, surprise.

[RaphaelinSTL]

Man, I liked it way more than I thought I would! Easily my favorite part was ...

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The return of Red Skull. Holy ****, I loved that.

[Andrew NDB]

This has been bugging me... when and where did we see Thanos taking the power stone (the purple one)? Was that in an after credits deal? I don't think it was even mentioned in the movie.

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This has been bugging me... when and where did we see Thanos taking the power stone (the purple one)? Was that in an after credits deal? I don't think it was even mentioned in the movie.

Never on screen. It is mentioned in passing by Thor to the Guardians that he destroyed Xandar.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Never on screen. It is mentioned in passing by Thor to the Guardians that he destroyed Xandar.

How strange. I thought for sure we would get a scene with Thanos coming to Xandar. And more Glenn Close.

[Andrew NDB]

Also, to those that have seen the movie... what is very obviously wrong with this picture from the trailer?



And why?

[ProphetofGanja]

Just saw it last night. Wow, a lot to unpack. A lot of stuff was expected but I was still surprised by a fair amount of what happened

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The opening scene really set the pace and tone of the film; things moved quickly and stayed pretty dire throughout. That said, pretty much all of the humor worked for me; it felt fitting and never came across as hokey or anything.

The first-time interactions between so many different characters were pretty great. Iron Man and Dr. Strange, Dr. Strange and Spider-Man, Iron Man AND Dr. Strange AND Spider-Man AND the Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor and Rocket were great together, as were Captain America and Groot. Also I just gotta say I loved the way the Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy handled Thanos' "children", the Black Order

Considering the tall order this movie had to fill it was remarkably well-balanced (to me, at least, but I'm a huge MCU fan). Thanos was a pretty decent character for somebody who'd only had cameo appearances previously. Zoe Saldana was great as Gamora and really lent some emotional weight to her scenes with Josh Brolin. Gamora and Nebula's relationship was fleshed-out further, too, and that was nice.

There were a few rare moments that didn't quite work as well as they could have and almost took me out of the movie but they were so fleeting that they didn't.

Using Peter Dinklage as the giant dwarf Eitri was some stroke of absurd genius

Boy, that ending though. I had a feeling it would end kinda like that, not right after Thanos snapped his fingers but soon enough. It was still a bit jarring even though I was anticipating it.

Honestly I was impressed by how close the good guys came to defeating Thanos those couple times. Star Lord really f#cked things up on Titan, geez. A lot of the characterization of the Guardians in GotG Vol. 2 kinda irked my nerves but they were handled better here, I feel (Drax and Mantis in particular, who felt like caricatures in GotG Vol. 2, were much better).

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

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What's more unlikely is that they would include a character that looks exactly like Red Skull that isn't actually Red Skull. He said he was trying to possess an infinity stone but he wasn't strong enough and he was now cursed to explain the rules of the Soul Stone to chuds who came looking for it.

Yeah it seemed pretty clear to me, he basically outright said "I'm the guy from the first Captain America movie, the Red Skull"

I guess we can infer that either anyone who's killed by an Infinity Stone's soul ends up in the Soul Stone, or at the least, the souls of people who attempt to use any of the Infinity Stones but aren't powerful enough to do so (like the Red Skull apparently wasn't)

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Also, to those that have seen the movie... what is very obviously wrong with this picture from the trailer?



And why?

Well you saw the movie, right? Obviously those scenes were either left on the cutting room floor, or more likely, made simply for the trailer, to set the audience's expectations one way and subvert them when actually viewing the film. I guess there's a possibility that this scene will be used in Avengers 4, as I've heard a theory that the Avengers/Guardians will try to basically hop back in time to be better prepared for their big fight against Thanos and his army. Even if they just created those few shots just for the trailers, I ain't mad

[TigerClaw]

Gonna see it tomorrow.

[plastroncafe]

I went in with absolutely no expectations, and left really wanting to see the movie again.
Well worth the price of admission.

[PApagreg]

Well that movie made me sit down for a minute

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I mean lets face it most of these "deaths won't stick, but my god I did not expect that

Upside is that we finally get an adaption of Ironman's bleeding edge armor and my god does it look sick. That was the armor I was hoping he would have in either Ironman 3(If not that then the extemis armor) or Civil War but we were always stuck with his boring standard armor.

[Vicky82]

I saw it today and wow it was awesome shocking and intense and I want to see it again.

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I was shocked that so many characters were 'killed off' and I did actually lose track on who survived/died as well.

The saddest moment was when Peter was scared and upset because he didn't wan't to die and then hugged Tony before he got disintegrated.

I was a bit disappointed that Loki was only at the beginning for about 5 mins and Hawkeye and Ant man didn't appear but I assume those 2 will be in the next movie (if they survived)

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

That was, no doubt, the best Marvel movie since Iron Man 1 started this whole journey.

Brutal.

Just wish we saw Xandar get razed.

[TigerClaw]

The movie was awesome. Infinity War is MCU's Empire Strikes Back.