spoilers spoilers, if you’re still reading this and worried about spoilers you’re a moron, but spoilers anyway…
When you think of the sheer lunatic scale of the thing… There’s never been anything else in cinema like it, totally reasonable to think there’ll never be another like it, and it literally outlived its creator so that’s a pretty big fish to land… and everyone had to be given their screen time, from Taika Waititi to Gwyneth bloody Paltrow. And it’s not just the biggest daftest story arc in cinema history but also caps off 2 megabucks series in Iron Man and Captain America, both of which made their stars so massive that they can barely afford to employ them any more… So it’s a full time job just to deal with all the scaffolding for that never mind actually do a story that works and has ups and downs and time to breathe and massive explosions and genuine sad bits.
Jeremy Renner and Karen Gillen’s own individual stories got a little bit charged through while others got laid on a little too thick (leave it with Terrible Beard saying “Are you going to tell me about this girl” and Old Cap saying “No” ffs), some of the jokes don’t really work and I wish Thanos had just had a little tiny smile as he <super spoiler> but… it made me want to rock out. Some dude gave a massive whoop when Cap got the hammer and I have to admit, as much as I want to scorn that dude, I wanted to too. And I have no idea where 3 hours went, I mean, it’s 2 in the morning! How did that happen.
And yeah I know, superhero films are daft but… Hands up anyone who wants Disney to turn all that energy away from superhero films and into TAKING OVER THE WORLD?
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Why are people with time-travel ever taken by surprise?
The documentary Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey explained this very concisely.