Saw Infinity War

[igrockspock]

I OD'd on the Marvel franchise sometime around Avengers 2. While I loved the found family vibe of the first Avengers film, a lot of the subsequent movies have been about tearing the family apart, which I do not enjoy nearly as much. I am also getting tired of Tony Stark's face, and his man pain. So...I mostly saw Infinity War because everyone was talking about it, and not because I have a large emotional investment in it, which probably colored my reaction.

I watched the story unfold on screen, laughed at a few of the jokes, and mostly I just didn't care. Many of the deaths just felt...perfunctory? It was hard to feel much emotional reaction since I know they're not permanent. I mean, Black Panther, Spiderman, and Guardians of the Galaxy are all getting sequels, so it's not like Marvel plans to leave those characters dead. (Would I love it if Shuri turned out to be the next Black Panther? Yes. Is it going to happen? No.) I think they did as well as they could with such a massive cast, but the deaths would have had a lot more impact if we'd seen these people having real feelings for each other as a team, and there wasn't much time for that. Also, I really missed Black Widow. She was and always will be my favorite, no matter how I feel about the rest of the franchise, and she was in the background for most of the movie. Maybe we'll get more of her in Avengers 4?

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[minoanmiss]

I am so freaking tired of Tony Stark.

Once I heard about Gamora's plot line -- as a survivor of childhood abuse I could not.

[igrockspock]

Yeah, I was super not happy about that. I've read enough casting spoilers to doubt whether her death would be permanent, but the set-up was really not cool. The body count for women and characters of color was also disturbingly high.

[kore]

YUP

I couldn't deal with it even in the camera rip we saw this weekend, so fforwarded through the really bad Gamora triggery parts and that was like half the movie. THANKS RUSSOS.

[kore]

While I loved the found family vibe of the first Avengers film, a lot of the subsequent movies have been about tearing the family apart, which I do not enjoy nearly as much. I am also getting tired of Tony Stark's face, and his man pain

Yeah, I thought a whole lot of that was Whedon, with his "Buffy happy, show god. Buffy in pain, show better" aesthetic, but the Russos seem to have it too so WTF.

Finally saw a camrip and it just seemed so....joyless. And nearly all the jokes were bad (Bruce's running gag was one of the worst offenders). And it also seemed like 1/3 a Thanos movie and 1/3 Thor movie (I love Thor, but did we have to spend so long on him getting the damn axe?) and 1/3 Tony quipping with Strange and Peter. Oh yeah and QUILL and his manpain, just in case we didn't have enough Tony manpain. And everybody else was barely there -- the faceless villains we didn't know got more face time and lines than people like Nat and Sam.

The bit with all the deaths at the end was beyond creepy (amusingly as the directors credit went up the ambient recoding caught like half-a-dozen people all raggedly yelling "NO!" or "What the HELL?"), and then there was the unwanted 9/11 visual with the chopper slamming into the skyscraper.

There were like two (2) things I actually enjoyed, Rocket (who at least had a personality) and the scene-stealing magical cape. Everything else was just....blah. And Thanos being all I'M SO SICK OF WINNING, no thank you.