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Post by The Hegemon on May 16, 2019 5:10:45 GMT
Mahare rightly noted that the film has been out for a while, so it's probably reasonable to discuss it openly. Still, as a courtesy, let's confine spoilers to this thread for now, in case anyone's been hiding under a rock and hasn't yet seen it.
Actually, a coworker is dying to see it but hasn't yet been able to do so, for a number of semi-comical reasons. I've been torturing him with "spoilers" like "it's great when Batman kills Thanos" or "how about when Stark built that light saber out of Gamorra's spare parts?"
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Post by Mahare on May 16, 2019 14:17:44 GMT
Me, I can finally say I have the body of an Asgardian, after years of hard work and practice.
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Post by charliebucket on May 16, 2019 21:37:27 GMT
Believe it or not, I was joking with some friends about how cool it'd be if Cap lifted Mijolnir, thinking it'd never happen. Well I was wrong. Great film.
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Post by The Hegemon on May 16, 2019 23:16:50 GMT
Believe it or not, I was joking with some friends about how cool it'd be if Cap lifted Mijolnir, thinking it'd never happen. Well I was wrong. Great film. That was a great moment, and for my money this was Evans' best performance as Cap so far (and he's always been good in the role). I'm honestly not a fan of Guardians o' The Galaxy, because the humor seems so forced and off-tone for the MCU as a whole. Ditto Ragnarok, which I finally forced myself to watch about a month ago. I was glad that Endgame had very little of that style of humor, though it will not doubt persist in Guardians 4. On the whole, I found Endgame to be completely satisfying. One criticism I heard before I saw it was that the final battle was too long, but IMO it could have been 20 minutes longer! |
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Post by Russell844 on May 17, 2019 20:29:58 GMT
I still haven't seen it yet...  |
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Post by charliebucket on May 17, 2019 22:25:47 GMT
Believe it or not, I was joking with some friends about how cool it'd be if Cap lifted Mijolnir, thinking it'd never happen. Well I was wrong. Great film. That was a great moment, and for my money this was Evans' best performance as Cap so far (and he's always been good in the role). I'm honestly not a fan of Guardians o' The Galaxy, because the humor seems so forced and off-tone for the MCU as a whole. Ditto Ragnarok, which I finally forced myself to watch about a month ago. I was glad that Endgame had very little of that style of humor, though it will not doubt persist in Guardians 4. On the whole, I found Endgame to be completely satisfying. One criticism I heard before I saw it was that the final battle was too long, but IMO it could have been 20 minutes longer! Yeah never been a huge Guardians fan. The only MCU film I haven't seen is GOG2. Even though it's on Netflix, I'm just not gonna watch it. But still, I enjoyed Ragnarok a bit. Felt like an important moment for the series, but some of the humor was a little bit bland and poorly written. |
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Post by The Hegemon on May 25, 2019 13:50:58 GMT
Okay, I have a lingering question (spoilers).
Tony and Scott try to retrieve the tesseract immediately following the event of the first Avengers movie, and they witness the exchange between Earlier Tony and Robert Redford in the lobby of Stark Tower.
Why is Redford there? Shield (Hydra) had intended to nuke Manhattan just minutes before, and it seems unlikely that they'd have debriefed anyone who knew for sure where Tony had thrown the nuke.
I get that it's awesome for Easter Egg cameo stuff, but within the context of the narrative, how does it make sense?
Unless Redford was already nearby and was to be sacrificed by Shield (Hydra) as collateral damage necessary to defeat the invasion force?
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Post by Mahare on May 25, 2019 18:02:35 GMT
The whole thing is Loki's fault. They were showing Infinity War the other day, and Loki had given the Tesseract to Thanos. Then Loki tried to kill Thanos...who stopped him with the stone from the Tesseract. If Loki hadn't given him the Tesseract, dagger would have worked, and bam, dead Thanos.
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Post by The Hegemon on May 25, 2019 23:37:02 GMT
Funny you should mention that...
Since the MCU has shown Loki all along as an incompetent and easily hoodwinked doofus, I've suspected that the whole thing is a setup, that he is the mastermind behind all of it, up to and including manipulating Thanos.
Although it seems unlikely, you have to admit that it would be an amazing feat of misdirection, after having the God of Mischief outfoxed, tricked, or at least stomped by every single character who's challenged him.
After all that, to see him rise up with a sort of "fooled you!" moment would be incredible.
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