Gamorra is gone, never to return. Deal with it, Thanos did! The price he paid for the soul stone was a high one. Perhaps only Keyser Söze could or would match him in the ruthless stakes, but that was what gave his character some depth, light and shade.
The problem is, I can’t take any of the deaths seriously. We all know there’s like every movie of all the superheroes who died in production for more movies. They ain’t dead, they’re coming back, which cheapens the movie. What I’m supposed to take the Spiderman death seriously when we all know they ain’t killing the character? Gaurdians of the Galaxy? etc. It’s like Superman dying all over again, they’ll find some time machine stone, undo everything and “hey presto!” back to normal. Only ones that ain’t coming back are the ones that haven’t signed on for more and at last check, that’s not many. We might get a side character like Gamorra gone but seriously…
As for the movie itself it was my fave Avengers movie by far. Villian was far better done and I appreciated him winning and has some backstory and the action was pretty cool, although we did have the usual “random army vs avengers” scene to wank off the nerds to watch them do their moves. Good, entertaining movie but the cheat-out deaths takes away from it.
Most of them won’t be deaths, but they will have been transported somewhere to another dimension, by the power of one of the stones. It will be explained, but it is a matter of how convincing that will be.
I missed that joke and others the first time around because the cimema was full and I couldn’t hear the follow ups over the laughing, and Tom Holland’s reaction makes it one of the best of the movie.
I get that, but I feel within the context of the movie I felt it still worked at the time, because of how they delivered it.
Do you really think that wiping out half the population of the universe is something that’s ever going to stick? It’s more about setting up the cliffhanger ending and setting the stakes for the next movie. Especially if, as the speculation suggests, that some of the surviving characters will have to make the sacrifice and trade lives, which was one of the themes running through the whole movie
Even knowing that most of the characters will ultimately be back, I still think that getting Thanos to achieve his goal of wiping out half the universe is one of the most audacious moves within a franchise movie that I can think of.
I do feel for any children watching it, who of course don’t have the cynical understanding we do of how Hollywood and comic books work.
EDIT: No idea why this thread jumped to the top of my list. I thought I was replying to new posts
When I saw this a young girl walked out of the cinema crying racking sobs of grief. Completely agree it’s not a movie to take kids to without serious consideration first.
I loved it but after Ragnarok (Fav so far) I really missed the music. Imagine when Thor gets to Wakanda and immigrant song was playing.
I hope taika gets another movie.
I am now anticipating the next one more than I did the star wars reboots. Except maybe rogue one.
Finale will be epic
Ruffalo got told when casted that with the poor history of the hulk franchise, there would never be another standalone hulk movie. Instead they sold him on a strong character arc over multiple films.