#the movie wasn't terrible but as a person who loves both bruce banner and peter quill it was rough

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so i finally watched endgame

and my brain hurts now. spoilery rambling under the cut:

me @ everything Clint did in the first half of this movie, despite recognizing that the movie intentionally started with his family being dusted to make his vengeance (?) spree seem a little more justified: 

after the amazing scene of paper football with Tony and Nebula (you know what would have been a cool thread to carry through to the end of the movie? THAT. Tony throwing the gauntlet to Nebula and her flicking it up and into the van like her first attempt at being the goalpost would have delighted me so much), the first part of the movie was... bad?

Tony with a wheelchair and IV being bombarded with exactly how much Earth had lost and completely shutting down had me B R O K E

like, I love MCU fanfiction, I live for those quiet reflective moments, but nothing about this was fun - not Professor Hulk, not depressed Thor, not Steve and Natasha still looking for solutions five years in - and by fun I mean ‘adheres to the things I liked about these characters in any way, shape, or form’

this movie happens because of a RAT

Tony and Pepper and Morgan are an adorable family and everything about what happened to them in this movie breaks my heart. he’s such a good dad they should have let him live and be a good dad. the conversation between him and Pepper about not being able to just sit on a solution was lovely though

i. okay. this is probably just me but I am salty about what they’ve done with Bruce Banner. His entire character in these movies was the balance between Banner and the Hulk, being anxious about who he could trust and what people wanted from him, and they don’t even care to resolve that in the movie other than a couple throwaway lines - and those lines are ‘i decided to stop fighting the hulk and become large and green permanently but I’m still smart and everything is fine now’. he’s a popular celebrity now whose capacity as a scientist is reduced to playing second fiddle to Tony Stark. I know these movies care more about tech than biological science but... he’s a genius too... let him be smart and actually work with Tony on things please...

like, give me just one scene of Tony’s solution not entirely handling the biological constraints of human being and Bruce fixing it for him. one scene with the two of them reflecting on how Tony’s given Bruce funding and a lab and gets someone who can understand his technobabble in return. come on

i understand that it’s completely possible for Ragnarok Thor to devolve into Endgame Thor, depression is powerful and it sucks, but they didn’t have to make him dumb. Either acknowledge that Infinity War broke him and let the people who care about him help, or don’t break him in the first place! i feel like even a Thor who had deemed himself unworthy of caring for his people would have just left entirely to wallow elsewhere, not stuck around to be an extremely visible disappointment to people who trusted him 

and then

and then

they had that scene with a subset of Avengers crowded onto couches and lying on table late into the night, planning a time heist, and I was HOOKED. this is literally everything I’ve ever wanted from an Avengers movie

Scott is the MVP for bringing us time heist. this part of the movie banged

i’m still furious about Thor just ABANDONING Rocket in an unfamiliar time and place but. you know what. i’ll live.

everything about the 2012 team was amazing (except 2012 Hulk, why is he allowed to be out during sensitive material transfers but not take the elevator?). ‘yeah, yeah, i know.’ Loki being the only one who spots this nonsense going down. Captain America’s total disregard for a clean fight that doesn’t destroy several stories’ worth of property. 

were there other ways to get Pym particles? yes. did I enjoy Tony getting to meet his father and coming to peace with his past that made me sure  he was going to die? eh. do I need more content of Steve and Tony, heist partners? absolutely.

this movie was so rude to Peter Quill, but I was so overjoyed at getting to see the GOTG opening again that it took a while to sink in

I love everything about Nebula’s prominence in this movie except the fact that she didn’t get to stab Thanos even ONCE. Her being an integral part of the team, past vs. present Nebula getting entangled, getting to see Gamora again and inspiring her growth this time around - Perfect. Stunning. Give that girl a trophy and the found family she deserves

au where they send Steve to get the Soul Stone and shit goes down please

I’m sad about Vormir but oh, do I love how they handled it. This is the best scene Natasha has in the entire MCU imo -  she makes a conscious decision to die for the goal and her best friend, chooses it again and again, brings her life full circle outside of what she’s been given in previous movies. What a badass.

I really thought Rocket was going to tell them that holding the Infinity Stones as a group would make them less dangerous, the way the Guardians did with the Power Stone, and they would... win together. I guess they just needed another gauntlet for Thanos to almost get on

Steve gets Mjolnir for the singular purpose of allowing them to put a 1:1 fight between him and Thanos in that lasts more than three seconds. loling at him getting to keep it for the rest of the fight though. someone needed a power-up :) 

look. even if I hated EVERYTHING else about this movie, that scene of Steve getting up one last time with a broken shield, ready to die standing, and having Sam’s voice crackle in his ear would make this worth rewatching. those portal openings were legendary.

hot potato with the Gauntlet fulfilled my Infinity War dreams, i can leave the MCU happy now

don’t give the danger glove that every single member of the opposing force will kill for on sight to the sixteen-year old please

once again crying over Peter Quill losing the love of his life, finding her on the battlefield, and being literally kicked in the nuts for it

RESCUE

Captain Marvel getting headsmacked by Thanos and not even budging made my entire day

and then that happened

i don’t even want to talk about it we could have had a happy ending and instead we went back to the Bad Movie from the first hour

and then they decide to make fun of Peter Quill one more time for good measure. fight me.

i’m not devastated, i saw it coming, but just... it didn’t need to happen. They could have given him a family and a home and peace but instead we get tragedy. a valid ending, but ow

they could have at least done the respectful thing and ended on him instead of finishing the funeral and going on to ‘Steve escapes his friends to pick up a dance and a picket fence life’ lmao