Here, the time travel approach is headache inducing. Time travel…a tricky subject, and while one of my favorite tropes in adventure fiction, it’s just as easy to create tons of plot holes as it is to provide thrilling fiction.Maybe the inevitable Captain Marvel sequel will better serve her. Here she’s basically the film’s deus ex machina (one of many, really). Marvel Studios still doesn’t seem to have a grasp on Captain Marvel at all – two movies in, and that character remains an enigma and not in a way that seems purposefully done.Why even put Okoye on the poster in the first place if she’s barely going to show up in the movie?.

Hawkeye as Ronin reminds me uncomfortably of the CW’s Green Arrow.Black Widow’s bad hair makes way more sense in context now.Smart Hulk! I grew up loving the “Professor” version of Bruce Banner during the Peter David/Gary Frank days, so to have that brought to life on screen summoned up some nice “11 year old Kyle” feelings.Scott gets some of the best early emotional beats. I think I’ve settled on the idea that the Russos have a tremendous grasp on certain characters that outstrips their solo filmmakers, as their usage of Ant-Man is generally my prime example (though Doctor Strange in Infinity War was far stronger than his presence in his solo film as well).“Five Years Later” – as melodramatic as that title sequence was, the Legion fan in me couldn’t help but very excited.

They’ve gotten so good at this stuff, how can they still not convincingly get the Iron Man suit “floating head” thing right?

Emaciated Tony was done so well, I actually thought Robert Downey might have lost all that weight.

It’s a welcome respite, really…but it’s also the closest the MCU has ever come to approximating the tone of a Zack Snyder DCU film.

The first act is a bit of an odd beast, with a somber tone not seen in any of these entries before.

Okay, let’s talk about Endgame…random, disorganized thoughts ahead: Or if you’re the type that doesn’t care about knowing the twists and turns of the film, that’s okay too! If you haven’t seen the movie yet, bookmark this page for later. Here’s the deal, this is a full-fledged spoiler-filled post, and I expect the comments section to the be the same. What a thing! It’s a movie I liked with some reservations…but I really wanted to get an opportunity to discuss a few points that have stuck with me over the weekend, and then open the floor for further discussion among all of y’all. A triumph of branding, fan cultivation, and perfecting a certain type of blockbuster formula, one that’s threatening to even break Avatar‘s worldwide box office record. The weekend has come and gone, and seemingly everyone you know has just about seen Avengers: Endgame – the culmination of 22 movies over the course of 11 years.

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