Infinity War Thread With The Spoilers

Half of them are left. Thanos was like the Wet Bandits in Home Alone in that he had a calling card, only instead of flooding a house it was leaving half the population of whatever world he invaded alive.

I liked it as much as I could. I have not been a fan of the two previous team up films Age of Ultron and Civil War. I wasn't expecting some story that actually had character development or moments to breathe or a villain that actually had depth, and Infinity War had none of that. Just an overly long roller coaster with thrills that is only half way done. But it was the best halfway done overly long roller coaster they could have made, so kudos.

It is really hard for me to be emotionally invested when the real deaths haven't even happened yet. Literally this was only half a movie, so it is hard to truly gauge it off of just the first half. Hopefully the next one can actually bring some real weight to the happenings. Because right now the only "death" that worked for me was Spider-Man because Peter was the only one that even treated it as such.

Though with literally have the MCU wiped out it should be less overstuffed, and all the original avengers are still out there so this will likely be the last time they are all together for a good while, and then the newer people take the spotlight after the next avengers film.

This film and the small part in ragnarok made me really like Dr. Strange, maybe I should finally watch that.

The joke about pratt being fat was dumb because he was super ripped in the first Guardians.

I really want a standalone vision movie based off the Tom King series.

Thanos really does have a nutsack chin.

Same, it totally detracted from the film for me and my fiancee.

Presumably that’s why Strange gave up the time stone and he’ll save the day in the next movie.

Yea, he was surprisingly nonchalant about getting erased from existence.

Everyone who wasn't Spider-Man was.

It was weird that his erasure took so much longer than everyone else.

Different topic: was I the only one who found the effect when Thanos used the Reality Stone on Drax and Mantis legitimately unsettling?

I joked in the shoutbox that Teen Groot and all the ancillary characters die, and apparently that's what actually happens

You know, if the Fantastic Four weren't marooned somewhere in movie purgatory, and were part of the MEU, maybe there could be a storyline where the Avengers and the FF join forces and stir up shit between Thanos and Galactus. They both kind of seem like interstellar assholes.  If they could get those two pissed at each other, maybe they would stomp off to some other part of the universe to feud among themselves for a few million years, and our galaxy wouldn't have to put up with them.

A theory I heard that I liked was that Peter's spider-sense was going crazy as he was being ashed, and that's why he had the most reaction -- he was the only one who had any real warning it was going to happen to him, and he probably felt it more as a result.

Can they grow another Groot out of Thor's axe handle?

Yeah, I just figured that in the one future Strange saw where Thanos lost that Tony Stark played a crucial role in that. And he probably knows that trading the stone for Tony will end up with them winning. He probably also knows that he's still alive in that future. So, he was fine with trading the stone for Tony and getting turned to dust. I'd be pretty nonchalant about it if I'd already seen the future and knew that I'd make it.

Also @matt1 I liked Dr Strange a lot more in this film and Thor: Ragnarok than I did in his own movie. I found the actual Dr Strange movie kinda boring until the ending. I quite liked the way Strange solved the problem at the end. I like it when the heroes outwit the bad guys. Well, I guess he had some powerful magic helping him, but the bad guy was also super powerful, so Strange genuinely outwitted him. It was neat. Other than that, I found Strange himself boring.

I liked him a LOT more in Thor: Ragnarok, and kept liking him in this movie.

Also, speaking of Thor, I feel like Thor and Asgard got cheated by Thanos. I think Hela already killed half the Asgardians, like, within the last week in MCU-time. WTF, Thanos? That just seems gratuitous and unfair. Thor is fully justified in being totally pissed off. I also totally called that Loki would sacrifice the stone and maybe himself in order to save Thor/Asgard. (To my friends, I mean.) That, at least, totally fits with the ending of Thor: Ragnarok. That's a nice arc from that movie to this one for Loki. But.....when Marvel said they were really going to kill off characters, I mean....surely there are less interesting, less popular and less useful characters to kill off than Loki, right?

Anyway, I didn't like this movie as much as the last Thor movie or Black Panther. I really don't care about the villain. There wasn't enough good character stuff from the heroes. Too many characters, too much action, not enough time. Feel like Hulk/Bruce Banner really deserved more time after what happened in that Thor movie. Shame that this was filmed before Black Panther became a massive hit. Those characters got nothing. I did like Strange's role. He was used to deliver exposition in a better way than Tony Stark. Thor had a decent role, but it kinda sucked to see them do all that to Thor. Man, is he having the shittiest year month, or what? I, too, liked the Peter Parker "death" scene. The Guardians were used pretty well, I guess, but it still all felt like plot devices.

It..... it was all....too much, I guess. Too much and not enough, simultaneously. Too much plot, not enough characters. It is hard to care about any of it since we all know there will be a reset button in Part 2.

Edit: I see that AA Dowd over at The Old Country posted a review that articulates my thoughts a bit better. His C+ grade is about where I am with this one. (yeah, yeah, the Dowd C+, I know. But, I agree with his actual review.)

However, he compared the ending of this movie positively with Rogue One, complimenting it on its downer ending. Seems to imply that it's courageous. Nah, bro. Rogue One actually killed everyone. There is no Part 2. They don't have some magic that will bring everyone back to life. I rated Rogue One about a B+, but the ending was one of the things I really liked about it. And even though they killed everyone, that wasn't courageous either. They had to, or Episode IV wouldn't make any sense.

This film only pretended to kill half the characters at the end. And I'm not sure it even counts as pretending since the audience surely knows that all those characters aren't permanently dead. Like, there's no one going, "Oh no, they killed Black Panther! Now there will never be another Black Panther movie!" I think the only character who may be really dead is Loki, and he was killed near the beginning. The end of this film felt silly to me because they're just going to undo it in Part 2.

Additionally, Rogue One is a spinoff prequel. It doesn't have any of the main Star Wars characters in it. It is silly to compare how that kind of a film treats its characters to how an Avengers movie will treat its characters.
 
Damn, even when I agree with Dowd, I still find things in his reviews that are just wrong.

I liked it more than Age of Ultron, but less than the first one. I was surprised that they developed Thanos' character and background as much as they did. It was funnier than I expected it to be, and there weren't many good character beats, but there was a lot of good interaction. Looking forward to seeing it again.