05-05-2018, 06:09 PM
Seems unnecessary, but I'll put a spoiler alert at the top here.
Considering all of the buildup and all of the hype, there were a lot of ways that Infinity War could have fallen flat on it's face. I'm very glad it did not. Besides the ending, it was the first time in a lot of movies where I genuinely had absolutely NO idea what was going to happen. Anyone with even a superficial knowledge (like myself) of the comics knew that Thanos was going to win in the end, but the entire movie was one hell of a rollercoaster of action. Just for the sake of discussion, I'll throw my critiques in here.
1) The deaths were cheap. I get that Loki and Heimdall are most certainly permadeathed, but I have a feeling that Marvel is going to weasel out of the rest. Everyone knows that Marvel (and Sony) aren't going to kill of their biggest cash cows like Spider-Man and Black Panther.
I imagine that Avengers 4 will have some serious permadeaths, and I get that they want to close this chapter of the MCU with the original team, but unless they grow a pair and have Gamora as really dead, the deaths are all kinda "meh, they'll be back."
2) Thanos' powers are really inconsistent. Thanos gave Hulk the business without even using the power stone (unless it's a passive buff?) in the beginning. But then Spider-Man and Iron Man can stagger him on Titan? And when he has all of them but the mind stone Cap can somehow stand his ground, even for a few moments? That said, the stones' powers are really inconsistent. In Guardians of the Galaxy Ronan was gonna use the power stone to destroy a whole god damn planet, now its for shooting lasers?
Don't get me wrong, the movie was great. It could have been a whole heck of a lot worse.
Considering all of the buildup and all of the hype, there were a lot of ways that Infinity War could have fallen flat on it's face. I'm very glad it did not. Besides the ending, it was the first time in a lot of movies where I genuinely had absolutely NO idea what was going to happen. Anyone with even a superficial knowledge (like myself) of the comics knew that Thanos was going to win in the end, but the entire movie was one hell of a rollercoaster of action. Just for the sake of discussion, I'll throw my critiques in here.
1) The deaths were cheap. I get that Loki and Heimdall are most certainly permadeathed, but I have a feeling that Marvel is going to weasel out of the rest. Everyone knows that Marvel (and Sony) aren't going to kill of their biggest cash cows like Spider-Man and Black Panther.
I imagine that Avengers 4 will have some serious permadeaths, and I get that they want to close this chapter of the MCU with the original team, but unless they grow a pair and have Gamora as really dead, the deaths are all kinda "meh, they'll be back."
2) Thanos' powers are really inconsistent. Thanos gave Hulk the business without even using the power stone (unless it's a passive buff?) in the beginning. But then Spider-Man and Iron Man can stagger him on Titan? And when he has all of them but the mind stone Cap can somehow stand his ground, even for a few moments? That said, the stones' powers are really inconsistent. In Guardians of the Galaxy Ronan was gonna use the power stone to destroy a whole god damn planet, now its for shooting lasers?
Don't get me wrong, the movie was great. It could have been a whole heck of a lot worse.
