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I’m not sure why this movie was so well received.
The Vision/Scarlet Witch love story felt forced
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Hasn't this been building for a while? Plus she needed a cost to destroying the stone and having Thanos do what he did. Plus good on Tony for having the foresight to make Vision anatomically correct.
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Hulk not coming out got annoying
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Was it a point of pride for the hulk to not come out, or was he the typical 5 year old bully who finally gets his butt kicked and withdraws from further fights?
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Gamora getting “sacrificed” was seen miles away
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I actually loved the idea that she didn't realize that Thanos actually loved her. When she was laughing and saying that he didn't love anything and then the realization came out that he did and was about to give that up was actually a visceral shock to her and a great moment for me as a viewer. Its where we really began to believe that instead of being the standard kill everyone villain, that Thanos actually truly believed that he was the hero doing the unbearable for the right reasons.
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Star lord is a complete bonehead
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But hasn't that been StarLords problem all along, he's not a thinking man's hero, he's a fly by the seat of his pants, driven by emotions hero, he's really the complete opposite of most of the other mains in the storyline who are pretty logical in their heroism. Remember the argument between Captain America and Iron Man in the Avengers.
Captain America - "You're not the guy who would lay down on the barbed wire so everyone else could get across"
Iron Man - "I would cut the barbed wire"
Or something like that.
Peter . . . would despite all the quips and funny lines absolutely lay down on the barbed wire, he would get irrational when someone close to him got hurt, that goes back to not taking his moms hand. He felt he failed her, and all he has is the concepts of rage, and revenge to fall back on.
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But props to Disney for having the stones by mass killing everyone’s favourite heroes and letting the bad guy win
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I loved it, but I keep thinking in this movie its easy to say the above, but to frame it in terms of the movie itself and its centralized theme.
Props to Disney for having the stones by mass killing everyone's favorite heroes and letting the Protagonist anti-hero win.
Honestly If you look at the central theme of this movie, it makes for a really cool discussion around the concept of what is and isn't standardized story telling in a hero's universe.
While the Avengers weren't the villains in this movie, they really were the antagonists, and Thanos wasn't the typical villain.
Oh and the book club meets at 9:00 and Locke's place, bring Scotch and Cigars. We'll be reading comics.