Avengers Infinity War [SPOILERS]

Yeah, well Strange did say it was only way.

It was so funny in the theater, the girl behind us was crying especially when Parker died, the water works. This is actually my second Marvel movie so I didn't understand a thing. Quill and Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy were so hilarious. Pirate Angel lol. Overall, the movie was okay. I felt some of the heroes didn't play any major roles whatsoever. Hulk, I'm referring to you who decided not to come out for whatever reason. Wakanda seemed only to be a setting for a battle of attrition. Eh, if it's anything like the comics, I'm guessing Thanos will want to lose to whoever he'll be facing.

 

I'm not marking spoilers in my post, so if you don't want to be spoiled, don't read it.

I just saw it as well, and I really enjoyed it. I never did get around to seeing either Thor: Ragnarok or Black Panther, but I didn't feel especially confused while watching. One thing I liked about it was that it wasn't really an Avengers movie so much as it was a Thanos movie. They humanized the hell out of this guy and made him much more than two dimensional, and in a series where the villains, in my opinion, tend to have really weak characterizations and be mostly forgettable, I really appreciated that. I found the scenes between him and Gamora surprisingly touching and sad. Another thing I liked about the film was how the teams were broken up, and we really got the chance to see actors play off each other (and characters interact with each other) who might not otherwise have gotten to. The Guardians cast in particular livened things up and worked well with everyone. Stark and Parker's father/son relationship gives me all of the feels. Tom Holland was great in this- I was kind of bleh on yet another Spiderman before Homecoming came out, but the kid was great in this. His "I don't want to go" hit me in the gut. Thor was a standout character, too. I loved him in this.

I also felt like this movie did a decent job with balancing humor and drama. Sometimes I feel like the Marvel films try a little too hard to be funny and go hard on the one-liners. I thought the space stuff was way more interesting than the Wakanda stuff. I still think Wanda/Vision is weird, even though it happened in the comics, too. I thought some of the characters held the idiot ball- T'challa opening up the dome and letting in way more baddies than they could handle, Wanda leaving Vision to go out to the field, Quill punching Thanos, and Strange not using the time stone, for starters, but I suppose some of that could be explained away.

I'm guessing Strange forsaw that in the one decent future, Thanos ended up with all of the stones and realized that he might as well save Stark in the process. Or, as you said, perhaps Stark is the key or part of the key to the end. I am working with the assumption that everything occurred as Strange forsaw in the good future, because otherwise, Strange is a total idiot. This reasoning is a good way to excuse a lot of dumb mistakes. For instance, I'm guessing that in every possible future, Quill fucked things up by punching Thanos, or else he needed to do it in the good one, otherwise Strange would have restrained him.

Yeah, I think it is exactly that Hulk is scared of Thanos. He went up against him at the beginning of the movie and had his ass handed to him, and Thanos only had one (or two) of the stones at the time. He only got more powerful as the movie progressed, so I feel like the odds of Hulk winning just dwindled. From what I understand, Hulk is sort of a defense mechanism designed to protect Banner. Staying out of the fight might have been the best way to do that.

How many deaths do you think will stick? I'm guessing that everyone who died a "normal" death will stay dead- so Loki, Heimdall, Gamora, and Vision, while everyone who disintegrated will return once someone gets the gauntlet away from Thanos and retcons it away.

 

I loved this take on his character because to me he looked at things the way I imagine a god would. It was a different motivation for a big bad than we've seen before in this series. Don't get me wrong, I still hate him too, and he needs to be stopped, but I find the character fascinating, which I wasn't expecting to. Ugh, don't talk to me about Gamora's death; so heart-breaking. Zoe Saldana acted her ass off in this film, in particular in this last scene and when they were at the collector's looking for the reality stone.

Yeah. I don't imagine this will do much for his PTSD, though. Finally letting himself care for someone else and then the kid dies in his arms.

I guess if he did that, we wouldn't get a big action sequence at the end of the movie. But yeah, this was one of the dumbest moves in the film.

Quill definitely let his emotions get the better of him there and acted rashly. I still say it's part of the plan, though.

Some of them need to stay dead, or new people need to die to replace them if they revert time, or else what's the point? There are no stakes if everyone makes it out safely, and screw them if they're gonna reverse time and make it like it all never happened. That's a cop out and I hate when stories end that way.

 

Absolutely, his reaction was in character. It's understandable that finding out a loved one was killed would make someone flip out. Doesn't mean it was a smart choice given the situation they were in. Besides ruining the plan, he could have gotten a lot of other people killed.

Didn't seem like they were able to make it through the barrier quickly enough to turn into a problem that they couldn't handle. In theory I think T'challa probably had the right idea. In practice, I feel like he let far too many in and got overwhelmed. I don't see much difference in getting outflanked and beaten from behind and getting steamrolled to your face. You're losing either way. *shrugs*

The whole reason for being there was to get the stone out of Vision and destroy it. Wanda leaving her post endangered the plan. If Thanos got his hands on all of the stones, it wouldn't matter who died on the battlefield or how much Wakanda was destroyed.

I agree. I don't think that gives Quill a pass, though.

I wonder if Thanos will be the one to undo everything. He already seems to have guilt/grief over Gamora's death. Maybe he will find that his plan wasn't so great after all and use the time stone to revert things back to how they were. That might explain why Strange handed it over so easily.