Avengers Endgame
May. 4th, 2019 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSaw A:E Friday. I'm still trying to ... either process emotions or figure out if I have any.
Good movie. Long. Funny in places. Much stuff.
Okay, now for the spoilers stuff.
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(Incidentally, the Star Wars preview did a very good job of being boring as fuck. How much time did it spend on Rey breathing??? Like ... the point of previews is to make you WANT to watch the movie. I'm likely to see it regardless so it doesn't take much to make me want. I'm an easy target. And they managed to make me *less* interested in seeing it. Wtf.)
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Okay, that's enough space.
(There is no order to this.)
So that explains how Loki got his hands on the tesseract cube. Heh.
Integrated Hulk trying to be Early Hulk was hilarious. Gratuitous shirt ripping! Gentle smash!
First scene broke my heart (oh, Clint); I don't know how much sense it would make to people who hadn't seen IW, but it had a good sense of how Thanos disrupted things.
I'm not sure why he jumped from there to becoming a random vigilante targeting gangs -- I mean, I get the logic of "good people died and evil people lived so I am killing the evil people" but ... yeah. Of course, I'm not fully caught up on the Marvel Universe movies. There are just too many of them.
Thor going for the head made me want to hug him. I don't know that going for the head at the end of IW would have worked, but you know he's blaming himself for the choice. Lebowski-Thor was kind of pathetically hilarious (the first sight of him with a beer belly made me go o.O)
Clint and Natasha fighting over who got to sacrifice themselves: darkly funny, but made me wonder what would happen if both of them had jumped. Two soul stones with no one to take them?
Also, reminded me of the quote about how finding something to die for is easy, finding something to live for is different.
Also also, made me kind of want to write fic about Natasha afterwards. About the afterlife of soul stone sacrifices.
Some of the plot was kind of predictable -- of course there was time travel; of course tony figured it out (though his dilemma broke me slightly); of course they were able to bring all the people back. Though I have to say that the scene of everyone showing up through portals, while epically kickass, didn't really feel real. I mean, not just in the sense of it being a movie, or of employing magic and technology that doesn't exist. It just felt ... very CGI, and very "gratuitous shot of everyone, one at a time".
When Black Panther was running with the glove, my first thought was: Wakanda football!
Spider Man was adorable, both his reunion with Iron Man and the total "omg whee flying horse! Oh shit, almost died" ping-pong he was doing. You know he has a total teenage boy crush on captain marvel, too, the way he was looking up at her.
I loved the female lineup of help. Which was, like, a lot of the CM movie too, but still.
I am kind of tired of "battered dying hero gets to say goodbye to everyone one at a time" scenes. Though the "you can rest how" line made me ache a little. Poor Tony.
Funeral scene took forever. This movie, like LotR, has too much ending. Though I realized tonight that the thing with Steve getting a life felt more like a post credits stinger thing than part of the movie, even if it was that too.
I am slightly annoyed that he got to go retire in the past with Peggy, even though it's a happy ending for him. I think invite annoyed because it partly feels anticlimactic somehow, and also because the others didn't get that. Okay, so he's been through more than enough trauma and such, and deserves down time, but ... meh. I don't know. Maybe I'm just cranky that Bucky didn't get in on the HEA too.
It does give a good space for fic, though. And passing on the shield was a nice touch (Falcon will make a good Cap).
Steve vs Steve cracked me up. And Steve admiring his own ass... ("That really is America's ass" 😂). Also: the "hail hydra" bit in the elevator was a nice touch.
They did a very emphatic job of passing on the reins to the next set of people. I mean, there had already been a transition of IM-Thor-Hulk-Cap to Rhodey and Falcon and whatnot, but the retired first set of avengers were still around. Now Tony is dead (wah) and Steve is old and Hulk is integrated and Thor is off exploring space, and there's Captain Marvel and New Captain America (now played by someone who isn't a white guy named Chris!) and Spider-Man, and hoooooopefully we will no longer have to rewatch all bazillion movies to figure out what's going on.
(Also I want crossover fic where Wonder Woman was part of the final Thanos battle there. Don't need the rest of the DC universe, just her. Because she totally would have been the Kick-Ass Women Squad.)
I probably have more thoughts ... maybe. Meanwhile I should probably get around to watching Ant-Man And The Wasp, before seeing Endgame again (I have another friend I'm seeing it with in a bit over a week). Rewatching Infinity War and CM wouldn't hurt either.
Good movie. Long. Funny in places. Much stuff.
Okay, now for the spoilers stuff.
Spacer, in case anyone is viewing this entry directly but wants to remain spoiler free ...
...
...
...
...
(Incidentally, the Star Wars preview did a very good job of being boring as fuck. How much time did it spend on Rey breathing??? Like ... the point of previews is to make you WANT to watch the movie. I'm likely to see it regardless so it doesn't take much to make me want. I'm an easy target. And they managed to make me *less* interested in seeing it. Wtf.)
...
Okay, that's enough space.
(There is no order to this.)
So that explains how Loki got his hands on the tesseract cube. Heh.
Integrated Hulk trying to be Early Hulk was hilarious. Gratuitous shirt ripping! Gentle smash!
First scene broke my heart (oh, Clint); I don't know how much sense it would make to people who hadn't seen IW, but it had a good sense of how Thanos disrupted things.
I'm not sure why he jumped from there to becoming a random vigilante targeting gangs -- I mean, I get the logic of "good people died and evil people lived so I am killing the evil people" but ... yeah. Of course, I'm not fully caught up on the Marvel Universe movies. There are just too many of them.
Thor going for the head made me want to hug him. I don't know that going for the head at the end of IW would have worked, but you know he's blaming himself for the choice. Lebowski-Thor was kind of pathetically hilarious (the first sight of him with a beer belly made me go o.O)
Clint and Natasha fighting over who got to sacrifice themselves: darkly funny, but made me wonder what would happen if both of them had jumped. Two soul stones with no one to take them?
Also, reminded me of the quote about how finding something to die for is easy, finding something to live for is different.
Also also, made me kind of want to write fic about Natasha afterwards. About the afterlife of soul stone sacrifices.
Some of the plot was kind of predictable -- of course there was time travel; of course tony figured it out (though his dilemma broke me slightly); of course they were able to bring all the people back. Though I have to say that the scene of everyone showing up through portals, while epically kickass, didn't really feel real. I mean, not just in the sense of it being a movie, or of employing magic and technology that doesn't exist. It just felt ... very CGI, and very "gratuitous shot of everyone, one at a time".
When Black Panther was running with the glove, my first thought was: Wakanda football!
Spider Man was adorable, both his reunion with Iron Man and the total "omg whee flying horse! Oh shit, almost died" ping-pong he was doing. You know he has a total teenage boy crush on captain marvel, too, the way he was looking up at her.
I loved the female lineup of help. Which was, like, a lot of the CM movie too, but still.
I am kind of tired of "battered dying hero gets to say goodbye to everyone one at a time" scenes. Though the "you can rest how" line made me ache a little. Poor Tony.
Funeral scene took forever. This movie, like LotR, has too much ending. Though I realized tonight that the thing with Steve getting a life felt more like a post credits stinger thing than part of the movie, even if it was that too.
I am slightly annoyed that he got to go retire in the past with Peggy, even though it's a happy ending for him. I think invite annoyed because it partly feels anticlimactic somehow, and also because the others didn't get that. Okay, so he's been through more than enough trauma and such, and deserves down time, but ... meh. I don't know. Maybe I'm just cranky that Bucky didn't get in on the HEA too.
It does give a good space for fic, though. And passing on the shield was a nice touch (Falcon will make a good Cap).
Steve vs Steve cracked me up. And Steve admiring his own ass... ("That really is America's ass" 😂). Also: the "hail hydra" bit in the elevator was a nice touch.
They did a very emphatic job of passing on the reins to the next set of people. I mean, there had already been a transition of IM-Thor-Hulk-Cap to Rhodey and Falcon and whatnot, but the retired first set of avengers were still around. Now Tony is dead (wah) and Steve is old and Hulk is integrated and Thor is off exploring space, and there's Captain Marvel and New Captain America (now played by someone who isn't a white guy named Chris!) and Spider-Man, and hoooooopefully we will no longer have to rewatch all bazillion movies to figure out what's going on.
(Also I want crossover fic where Wonder Woman was part of the final Thanos battle there. Don't need the rest of the DC universe, just her. Because she totally would have been the Kick-Ass Women Squad.)
I probably have more thoughts ... maybe. Meanwhile I should probably get around to watching Ant-Man And The Wasp, before seeing Endgame again (I have another friend I'm seeing it with in a bit over a week). Rewatching Infinity War and CM wouldn't hurt either.