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Originally Posted by Izzle
Agreed.
The ending is the price that we pay for rabid fanboyism. My wife is a casual fan of the Marvel movies. She pretty much watches it for Chris Hemsworth and a night out at the movies. But her fangirling largely ends at the theaters. She doesn't know about the Marvel movie studios. She only knows the next movie in the slate is Ant-Man and The Wasp only cos she saw a trailer not too long ago. She didn't know the significance of paging Captain Marvel in the end credits. Suffice to say, she's a pretty casual fan.
But, the ending of this movie really shook her. She said that the Thanos wasn't supposed to "win". When Black Panther started to dissipate and you saw that shocked look on Okoye's face, that was when my wife started to get the sense that #### is getting real. She was borderline annoyed at me for not being saddened about Spider-Man dying (SM is my favorite superhero and she was sure I'd tear up over his loss). Basically, the "emotional" devastation was much more pronounced for her than for me. While I loved the movie, the ending did not have as much of an effect on me simply because of what I knew in the real world. For my wife, the ending was pretty crushing.
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I saw an older kid consoling his distraught younger brother, explaining that Spider-Man and Black Panther aren't gone forever and how Fury was contacting Captain Marvel to save everyone. It was kind of touching to watch, these movies are having a huge impact on young kids