Avengers: Infinity War

Moedred

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Two films which will have different titles start filming later this year.
You’re going to be moving around through different perspectives of the characters. It’s like Nashville for super heroes. It’s storytelling that is vignetted storytelling.
It's like when "your" book gets railroaded for months by some publisher-wide allowance-sucking cross-pollinating arc. Usually it leads nowhere. Though maybe as with Harry Potter 7 we'll get some fatalities. Omniscient Heimdall has to go if he survives 2017: Marvel in Space. Vision will lose his bindi and possibly corporeal form in the galactic game of Trivial Pursuit which is the plot. Followed hopefully by some plain old boring traditional end credits, June, and Indy 5.
 

Moedred

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Had the absolute pleasure of illustrating this exclusive <a href="https://twitter.com/DolbyCinema?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DolbyCinema</a> poster <a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarvelStudios</a>' <a href="https://twitter.com/Avengers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Avengers</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InfinityWar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InfinityWar</a>, and see the film in theaters April 27!<a href="https://twitter.com/RobertDowneyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertDowneyJr</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisEvans</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chadwickboseman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrishemsworth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chrishemsworth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prattprattpratt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prattprattpratt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TomHolland1996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomHolland1996</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Kevfeige?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Kevfeige</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Russo_Brothers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Russo_Brothers</a> <a href="https://t.co/eeIvBRRbm5">pic.twitter.com/eeIvBRRbm5</a></p>— Paul Shipper (@paulshipper) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulshipper/status/985175178937331712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ready Player One, and now this! Brilliant work as always from our (semi?) retired site staff Paul Shipper, and Raven member #3.
 

Pale Horse

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Ooops - Spoilers

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[align=right]I went through all this work just to create a ****y troll post, and you fell for it. /align]

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Joe Brody

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Great ride -- and what a trip to see it with a full house. Can't recall some of the great recent endings (like in the Harry Potter films) but in my showing everyone not only stayed to the end of the end credits but lingered long afterwards outside the theatre. It's a once in a lifetime event.

Here's the best review that I found.
 

Pale Horse

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Joe Brody said:
Great ride -- and what a trip to see it with a full house. Can't recall some of the great recent endings (like in the Harry Potter films) but in my showing everyone not only stayed to the end of the end credits but lingered long afterwards outside the theatre. It's a once in a lifetime event.

Here's the best review that I found.

Meh...I'm with Shorty on this one. So much popcorn. How can you truly invest yourself into the characters and story this film, when you consider this THREAD...I mean everything you think will be changed on a whim, anyway. I know it's supposed to be a spectacle, and it is, and the Russo Brothers did a fine job when you consider the scale of the ensemble. But, it ain't gonna stay with me. It's pulpy, it's shiny, it's well connected, but that's about all I can say about it. It's temporal. Very temporal.

In the end the deus ex machina and gross suspension of disbelief is too much to overcome.

Maybe I'm too old.
 

roundshort

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I don?t know Pale, I heard that at the end Captain Kirk hooks up with Bat Girl while Logan and E.T. Have an epic battle all while Inspector Gadget.... never mind
 

Pale Horse

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I'm crying!!!

roundshort said:
while Logan and E.T. Have an epic battle

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JasonMa

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I'm with Pale Horse, good, not great. Probably better if you're a die-hard Marvel comic nut (I'm not) but for me it doesn't live up to the best of the MCU. My top 5 of the MCU are still (in some order) the first Avengers, Black Panther, and all 3 Captain America movies.
 

Joe Brody

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It's a good film but I think it will underperform due to the ending that lacks an adequate hopeful upbeat -- like the soldier reading Churchill's speech at the end of Dunkirk.

My older kids have already gone back to watch it again with friends, as have my wife and I (the film got in my head and I needed to see it again). My youngest on the other hand does not want to see it again. I think as word gets out, some families will stay away and young kids will shy away.

From what I understand about Ant Man and The Wasp, its going to be very interesting to see how that film avoids ending on the same downbeat -- but I'm sure Marvel knows enough to get some equilibrium back.
 

Moedred

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Great movie. This thread contained spoilers 2 years and a billion dollars ago, so why stop now? Mark Ruffalo spoiled it a year ago: "Wait til you see this next one, ha-..." Pretty sure Shuri backed up Vision. Peter Dinklage is the new Heimdall. I'm guessing the relatively carefree Ant-Man 2 occurs before this.

Indyfans in particular should consider the directors' wise words:
When you try to predict what an audience wants, you’re going to make mush. When you commit to the story you want to tell, it tends to have a much more resonant impact on the audience. The audience can tell you they love chocolate ice cream, but if you give it to them every day, they’re going to get sick of it real fast.
 

Pale Horse

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Moedred said:
I'm guessing the relatively carefree Ant-Man 2 occurs before this.

If Antman had been around and miniaturized himself, he could have crawled into Thanos' ass and then gone gigantic, and this could have all been avoided.
 

JasonMa

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Moedred said:
I'm guessing the relatively carefree Ant-Man 2 occurs before this.
Yes and Ms. Marvel is set in the 90's (thus the use of a pager in the bonus scene). As the only two MCU movies between now and Avengers 4 we won't see any fallout until then.*

* - Still unknown is how SHIELD will deal with this. Last week's episode had a comment about the "happenings in New York" which I assume was a callout to the movie. With them not being renewed yet they may be planning to avoid it until next season, if it happens.
 

Moedred

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A scene near the end takes place in Soul World?
?Yeah, it?s ? it?s implied it?s the Soul Stone. It?s all orange around, then he?s inside the Soul Stone with the amount of power that it took to snap his fingers.? When asked if that means that Gamora is in the Soul Stone, Russo answered, ?She?s, in fact is, yes.?
Quantum Realm up next? Bob Iger:
We?re looking for worlds that are completely separate from the worlds we?ve already visited. They can be separate geographically, or separate in time?not just in place but in time.
Evangeline Lilly:
Everything?s about to shift, and you?re about to lose the solid ground underneath you. And [Ant-Man and the Wasp], of course, will play a part in that. Those characters are experts in the quantum realm. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, they are trying everything in their power to safely enter the quantum realm and return back from it because they have evidence from the first film that Scott Lang was able to do that. If he can do it, why can?t we? If we do succeed in Ant-Man and the Wasp, then that does open a whole entire new multi-verse to enter into and play around in.
Very well reasoned predictions here.
 

Raiders90

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Pale Horse said:
If Antman had been around and miniaturized himself, he could have crawled into Thanos' ass and then gone gigantic, and this could have all been avoided.

You have to be one of the saltiest individuals I've ever met. You want Indy wiped off the map and Harrison Ford committed to an asylum (going so far as to repeatedly accuse him of Dementia - wishing it on him so he can't be in Indy 5 - wishing a fate worse than death on a guy just so he can't be in a movie), you gleefully hope for the death of the moviegoing experience. You hate a pulpy film because it's pulpy. KOTCS burned you THAT bad, eh?
 

Pale Horse

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Raiders112390 said:
...you gleefully hope for the death of the moviegoing experience. You hate a pulpy film because it's pulpy. KOTCS burned you THAT bad, eh?

I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you?ve picked up this bad habit of not listening. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics..., starting from square one?baby?s milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in Truth's ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.

I just believe in growing up. I guess that makes me a pirate.
 

roundshort

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Raiders112390 said:
You have to be one of the saltiest individuals I've ever met. You want Indy wiped off the map and Harrison Ford committed to an asylum (going so far as to repeatedly accuse him of Dementia - wishing it on him so he can't be in Indy 5 - wishing a fate worse than death on a guy just so he can't be in a movie), you gleefully hope for the death of the moviegoing experience. You hate a pulpy film because it's pulpy. KOTCS burned you THAT bad, eh?

If you think Pale is salty, you ain't seen nothing yet. Morton's has my phone number on speed dial. What we need is Harrison Ford waking up in a treatment center saying that KOTCS (and LC) were just a bad dream....
 
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