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Yeah, by the time Avengers: Infinity War hit the theaters, the back story involved multiple characters and their individual stories all coalescing in the big payoff.
I seriously tell anyone who asks about Infinity War (and who aren't really comic book fans) that they either need to commit to watching the movies that come before or just not see the movie at all. There's too much to explain to the casual/uninformed viewer if they haven't made the effort to watch the previous entries of the MCU. And I'm not taking time to explain everything while I'm trying to watch and enjoy. It's really cheating for people who do that anyway.
No shortcuts, you gotta commit!
Well here's a couple of salient points:
Anytime you see a comic book movie, especially Avengers: Infinity War, you need to have seen the previous movies that were involved in the world building. There's been 18 movies previous to the one you took your sister to see and at least 7 of those were pertinent to Thanos being the big baddie in a future movie.
Another thing would have been to look up specific characters online, if you had no previous knowledge of the MCU. Any of these character's bios can be accessed at any number of sites. If you weren't sure about the stories, you could have started this way.
But seriously, it isn't as if this was some kind of surprise going in. The MCU has been building towards this moment since the post credit scene from the first Avengers movie in 2012. Even a casual comic book fan should have know this part. There's been 13 movies of character development since Avengers, so if you didn't know that going in then what else is there to tell? Do the homework man.
Avi Arad always seems to be at the center of these gargantuan cluster fucks. He messed up Rami's script in Spider-man 3 by insisting on Venom being in the movie. It was another of his great and bad ideas. Maybe he needs to step away and Sony needs to contract out Marvel Studios to handle things from here on out.
Okay, got my sides mixed up. Thanks!
It appeared that Tony got stabbed in a vital organ, the liver. However it's possible that Thanos missed his liver and that Tony's nano-tech suit had some kind of medical nano-tech that sealed the wound and treated any internal injuries.
Remember that this is post Black Panther, so the world knows of Wakanda. Someone with Tony's resources could likely get his hands on Wakanda's nano-technology and medical technology.
She was one hot fox for sure! I saw this movie twice when it came out, loved it for the genre that is was and have a copy in my DVD collection. Fright Night, along with The Last Starfighter, Terminator, Flash Gordon and TRON are five of my personal favorites from the 1980's.
Yeah, I do worry about over saturation. When every movie starts being super hero themed, apathy will start setting in. Since July, with Marvel only having Ant-Man and the Wasp, then Captain Marvel in 2019, it will give everyone a bit of breath in buildup for Avengers 4.
Here's the deal - as long as Marvel/Disney keeps putting out a solid product, fans are going to keep flocking to the movies. Simple enough. That's why I've had worries about Captain Marvel, not because it's a female lead but because they used some SJW terms to describe it. One of the reasons that the MCU has appeal to such a broad range of people (young,old, male, female, black, white), is because they stay away from politics, religion and other controversial topics that create divisions. IF the MCU ever veers into these area for plots or subplots, they will damage their brand. So far, I think Feige has done a stellar job navigating this minefield and keeping the MCU exciting and fresh for everyone. Ultimately that's one of the biggest factors contributing to the MCU's success, making movies that appeal to everyone and not going down a rabbit hole to please some loudmouth and small demographic. In relation to this, I was buoyed to hear that Iger announced that Kevin Feige will have ALL CONTROL over the future of the MCU, including the X-Men and Fantastic 4 projects.
EXCELSIOR!!!
Now it's amassed 621.4 million. Not a bad haul at all.
Interesting question. Perhaps STEM needed time to take over. Maybe it needed to map the pathways of his mind first. I loved the ending though. It was not what I expected at all. No more Grey, only STEM.
I'm so happy to see someone else bring this up! It seemed like the police relied mainly on drones to do policing for them and all they did was spend the day studying a computer screen. You would think that a future PD would have a lot more technology accessible to be able to find out the things that STEM found, like the arm tattoo. It was pretty shitty police work or just lazy police work. One in the same, actually.
I concur with your review. It was a interesting flick with a nice twist on a previously used idea (see Robocop, Six Million Dollar Man, etc.).
They were pretty bad movies. Poor Ben. He'd gotten past his Daredevil, Jersey Girl and Gigly days, won acclaim for screenplays and directing, seemed poised for bigger things and then got cast as Batman in Snyder films. I'm betting he and Zach don't hang out these days.
Just re-read your post.
It truly will live forever....50 years from now when an Awful movie comes out and it has a terrible creative failure in it, people will say "Well Its bad but at least its not "Martha" bad".......
Martha bad. That's freaking HILARIOUS!!! :D
Well unless she's pertinent to some future Doctor Strange, why would they not forget her? She played the supportive female friend she was supposed to play in the origin movie. What other purpose does she serve? There wasn't a romantic angle with her and Doc, so what other reason would there be for having her in another movie?
Oh and Portman was not good in the Thor movies. She didn't bring a whole lot to the role of Jane Foster. That's probably more a reflection of the way the character was written than Portman's abilities, however I've never been personally impressed by her. Bottom line, everyone else you mentioned (except Jeremy Renner and Sam Jackson), are secondary characters who aren't needed to advance future stories. And Kat Dennings is a horrible actress.
I fail to see how Kevin Feige is responsible for inappropriate tweets or questionable online pictures (more on that in a minute), posted by James Gunn.
Let's examine the facts:
1. Gunn made tacky tweets, mainly pedophile jokes, years ago. As to his intent I can't say but from what I've read, they were most likely poor attempts at making humor of a bad subject.
2. There were pics of Gunn dressed as a priest, with other people seated around him, dressed as little girls. Now despite all the furor over them, these pics could have easily been from a costume party or some kind of silly cosplay event. When you put them besides the aforementioned tweets however, they look really bad.
3. I can't judge James Gunn, because I don't know James Gunn and can only look to the statements he's made in his defense. He is partially to blame for his predicament, because of his political tweets that made some people dig back and find other tweets he'd made. If you're out there making enemies, they will look at everything you've said, done or written. That's the way it works in the world of modern, social media these days.
Was some sort of justice served? Who knows. I would have liked for Disney to give Gunn a fair hearing and maybe they did. I wasn't there, so I don't know. But to say Kevin ought to be fired because of the questionable postings of one of his directors is asinine to the upmost height. It's asinine in the same way that it was asinine to bench the head coach of Ohio State for not knowing one of his assistant coaches had been violent against his own spouse. How the hell is Urban Meyer responsible for what goes on behind the doors of the home of an assistant coach? Same argument here. Kevin Feige isn't responsible for the actions of one of Marvel's directors doing things in his own time when he's not directing. Again, asinine!
I would at least like to know what the plot was in Affleck's script. Wish they would share more details.
I think that Darlene has always been a person who gets her way, whether through Jacob, through their hired muscle or on her own. It's obvious that Jacob was getting a message from the Navarro Cartel that they viewed Darlene as a problem, thus prompting him to plan her murder. She realized this and murdered him first. I agree that Darlene is unbalanced mentally but I also think she's calculating.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't she white to begin with? I remember seeing her in the comics and yes, she was white.
Guess what? Black Panther is black (like in the comics) and he's a great character. Falcon is black (like in the comics) and he's a great character. Rodey Rhodes/War Machine is black (like in the comics) and he's a great character.
What has the color of one's skin got to do with making them a great character? A great character is a great character.
I'm also a comic book purist of sorts, at least when it comes to portraying characters as they are in the pages. Captain Marvel was a white lady, therefore she should be played by a white female. It's the same reason that Storm should be played by a black female, because that's what she is.
...didn't even top 700 million at the box office.
...may not have made it's budget back.
...ended the DCEU as we knew it.
Take your pick.
I don't know. The more I see, the more I am thinking that Feige might have struck the right balance with this movie. The proof will be in it's reception.
Granted, I'm not high on Brie Larson, I never have been. But I do think that they've reeled her in some. If they had a good script and tied it in with the greater MCU, then it will be a hit.
Not a hit on the level of Black Panther or even the original Iron Man, yet a hit nonetheless.