#the only worthwhile part of endgame is that in the MCU there’s a Bucky AND Sebastian Stan

[pooslie]

Endgame rant (yes I’m still pissed 2 years later

Eg is so full of garbage plotholes and mischaracterisation that they shoved in there and covered up with fan service so that the fanboys call us stupid and crazy for pointing out the flaws.

Examples:

Red skull: how the fuck do you have RS in IW and Eg and he and Steve NEVER INTERACT?! Why have him there at all??

Nebula: she’s really gonna let them go to get the Soul Stone without ANY warning that Thanos killed her sister (his favorite) for it?? Like maybe you don’t know that it’s the COST but you know that SOMETHING happened and maybe just a heads up

Clint: LITERALLY no reason for him to be a fuckin racist serial killer. It effects the plot 0% if instead of going on a vengeance murder spree he’s literally doing anything else to poorly cope. Drinking. Drugs. Living off pizza and black coffee in bedstuy and always in a fight with the tracksuit mafia since he stole their dog....etc.

Tony blaming Steve for Thanos winning. “And I needed you! Past tense.” Ummm bitch YOU are the one who didn’t immediately call Steve! Even if he was on 1000% solid terms with you and the avengers, he still probably would not have been, idk, WALKING THROUGH THE PARK WITH TONY AND PEPPER?! Like you CHOSE not to call him! That’s on YOU. (God, ever since AoU I hate Tony! It makes me so sad because he was my FAVORITE!!)

Speaking of Tony—there’s NO REASON for him to have done the snap. You had Wanda and Carol (powered by infinity stones), Steve, T’challa, and Bucky (supersoldiers), Asgardians (nearly immortal), Peter Quill (1/2 god), and Nebula (who fucking DESERVED to be the one to take her father out AND probably could have dropped her arm and got a new one before it killed her)

This is to say NOTHING of the time travel BS. 2012 NY timeline is a MESS, Steve fucking EVERYTHING up by going back to the 50s, Starlord knocked out and therefore captured by Ronan and Thanos & his army cut from 2014 timeline thus shredding THAT one to tatters as well.

I just really hate it.

Literally the only worthwhile part is Steve lifting Mjolnir

[thedarkreichenbach]

Avengers Infinity War Review

We are less than an year away from an ultimate culmination in the MCU with Avengers 4, but Avengers Infinity War is still fresh in my mind. Infinity War - a movie that basically shows us how last minute efforts may not be worthwhile. So it started with Tony's morning walk with Pepper in the park and lasted till afternoon in the rushed Wakanda Battle, barely an entire day and it's a war, with casualties being ½ life of all universe!

Tony Stark - Who we can say was on top of his game with nanotechnology in the Mark 50 Bleeding Edge armour, went toe to toe with Thanos, gave his everything what he had, every piece of his new nanotech, made Thanos bleed and almost lost. Had the battle been on earth, he could use all his supporting tech that might have made a difference.

Captain America - He had shorter screen time in this one although he played the role of assembling the Avengers on earth in Wakanda. Natasha, Bucky, Falcon did okay.

Hulk - So a 5 minute brawl with the Mad Titan and he's done? It was a really bad payoff and false marketing by Marvel this time, makes me wanna sue them for overtly hyping us till the end for a last minute entrance of the enormous green rage monster and he says no!

Thor - The most formidable character, who still had the will to fight, despite losing everything in front of him he believed that fate was on his side, as he survived the annihilation of the Statesman by Thanos. After being rescued by the Guardians, he was willing to do what it takes for a rematch, travelled to Nidavellir and became half-dead again by taking the full force of a dying star (Odin's beard!), got Stormbreaker, his new upgraded enchanted king's weapon, even ALMOST defeated Thanos, but all in vain. The God of Thunder knew what it's like to lose, to be desperately right, yet to fail nonetheless.

Dr. Strange - The Master of Mystic Arts, he proved to be VERY useful in the Battle of Titan, he chose to sacrifice his precious Time gem to save Stark's life, which he didn't cared for minutes ago. He gave it willingly even though it meant defeat for them now, possibly for that 1 future outcome to succeed out of those unsuccessful fourteen million six hundred and five possible outcomes. I believe in his Endgame plan cause he used the Time gem, and that it's definitely worth saving Tony's life! Wong could've made himself useful if not for the Sanctorum!

Black Panther - He was nerfed a lot by not using all the state of the art Vibranium Wakandan tech & weapons they showed us in his solo movie. Shuri boasted like a bitch in the prelude about Ultron being an inferior AI compared to Wakandan tech and yet she was unable to separate the synapses from Vision's Mind Stone on her own. Tony made Thanos bleed but maybe Wakandans cannot.

Spider-Man - Crime fighting spider-ling got a massive upgrade from Tony Stark. With his new Iron Spider suit, he was officially knighted an Avenger by Tony and fought Thanos in his own quirky vigilant insect ways. Waldoes were cool, but I expected some cool new tricks like the 'Instant Kill Mode'.

Vision - Stark's most advanced superbot grandchild, who took on Ultron's army all by himself was crippled in the entire movie! Well, that's just lazy writing here, being the one with Mind Stone & Vibranium body fused with JARVIS, Vision could've proven a worthy character and might've literally overpowered Thanos.

Wanda - The only one who knew and did what others could've, destroyed an Infinity stone on her own by sacrificing the love of her life! She's the real MVP here by doing that by one hand and fighting Thanos by another, at the same time.

Loki - I still wonder if he's really dead or not. Even though it was for 5 minutes, Loki made it count with his 'Undying Fidelity', he chose to sacrifice the Tesseract for his brother and died. Loki knew this day would come from the beginning, Thanos really made the antagonist of the first Avengers movie look like a tiny ant that he could crush and long for death, but who knows maybe we haven't seen last of Loki.

Heimdall - One of the wisest decision maker in the movie, by using the Bifrost, I'll rephrase that : an Einstein-Rosen bridge - a friggin wormhole from his hands with the help of his enchanted sword, to send Hulk to Earth to inform the Avengers, Heimdall's death was heroic as he bid farewell to Thor as their eyes met.

Guardians - They had some really good tech with them that was standing at par with the Avengers' and tried to fight Thanos with their fierce combat skills. Their crossover did supplement the Avengers, given they were outnumbered on Titan and on Earth. Starlord was willing to kill Gamora but they both were indeed powerless as destiny was on Thanos' side. Groot and Drax did well on their parts, but I personally found the hilarious sweet rabbit, Rocket Raccoon the best Guardian.

Thanos - The Mad Titan got real character development in a single movie, Thanos had the intellect, resources, will and choice to fulfill his destiny no matter what toll it extracts. Such a deeply written persona melded into something equally catastrophic worked wonders for Marvel. Not only did he chose to sacrifice his own children to complete his goal, he even understood his enemies, the Avengers and the Guardians with a sound mind and empathy, which isn't something a mainstream psycho killer villain does. Thanos can't be called as a villain in this movie, instead he's an antagonist.

If Avengers was about an alien invasion prevented, and Avengers : Age of Ultron was about Deus ex Machina, Avengers Infinity War is a really cosmic & philosophical movie you can't get enough of. It's a movie that has drastically improvised plot twists, one thing seems bound to happen in a scenario, but then suddenly at the eleventh hour it doesn't and gives rise to another out of the box new situation. It's a piece of art which expresses death from the POV of Thanos who thinks he's trying to do good, and showing mercy by killing half of all life in the universe, as he explains saving it from total annihilation as life will at some point, cease to exist. It's a real unique beauty in what hard choices one can take if he has a strong will, and ultimately accomplishing his mission. It changed my perception of will, defeat, loss, hope, power, balance, life & death, in a way I didn't imagined ever. Now I'm hereby waiting desperately for Captain Marvel & Avengers 4 since forever!