- First time seeing it
- Liked it
- I cannot even fathom how anyone could watch this movie without having seen everything that came before it. I saw everything that came before it in the last 6 months and I was still lost at points. Where are all the Infinity Stones? Who's going where? Who's teamed up with whom? It was a lot to keep track of
- Related to that, and due to the nature of the movie, some subplots were better than others
- I generally liked the new team-ups we had here, especially when there were some heads being butted. The prickliness of Tony and Doctor Strange was a lot of fun, as was Peter Quill being so put off by Thor. I also liked the team of Thor, Rocket and Groot, although that whole subplot was pretty bland
- The Guardians-styled segments were my favourites; in some ways I liked them even better than the actual Guardians movies. Quill and Drax had some good bits, and while Teenage Groot was really just one joke, they stuck with that one joke and it was a good running gag throughout the movie. Rubberband Man was also a fantastic choice for the Guardians' entrance
- I also liked the aforementioned team of Tony and Strange, as well as Spider-Man. Strange's powers are still pretty cool and unique, though I wish they had leaned a little more heavily into them, perhaps more inspired by the visuals of the Doctor Strange movie. Spidey's new suit was also pretty neat
- Everyone else got pretty under-served. Captain American has a beard and Black Widow is blonde now, and those were my main takeaways from the screen time given to those two. Oh, and Bruce Banner has performance anxiety
- Thanos. Complex motivation for a villain, certainly the most powerful foe our heroes have ever fought, and I don't really care about him as a character. Considering how deep we are into the franchise, not to mention how the movie ends (which we'll get to in a minute), the most important thing about Thanos was that he had to feel like an actual threat to this multitude of incredibly powerful superheroes; the good news is he does, right from the start. But he doesn't have the charisma of the best MCU villains - Killmonger, Loki, and so on. Perhaps this was by design to make him all the more intimidating. Perhaps this was due to there not being much humanity behind his performance, by Josh Brolin, an actor I like. But even the parts intended to give him depth, like his relationship with Gamora, did nothing for me. His henchmen will have left my memory within the week if they haven't already. Parting word about Thanos for now: he has a surprisingly cute lil button nose compared to the lump of flesh that is his face
- One has to respect a movie in which the bad guy wins. The subversion of our expectations is honestly shocking. However, the risk they ran was that it ended up making the first two hours of the movie feel somewhat hollow. Nothing the Avengers did before fighting Thanos actually made any difference. Thor's axe didn't save them. The battle in Wakanda didn't save them. Even sacrificing Vision didn't save them. This does add to the bleakness of the conclusion, but at the same time it diminished my appreciation for the movie as a whole story
- It feels incredibly stupid and very 2019 to say this, but I knew a lot of details about this movie's ending thanks to memes. I tried to avoid spoilers, but it was to no avail. Spider-Man not feeling so good, people turning to dust, even the knowledge that Thanos was wiping out half the population of the universe. These were all things I knew. And with that said, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the ending to this movie still hit me hard. It was extremely well done. The emotions, the characters we've gotten to know, the ramifications, those are all going to stick with me. But if only I'd been a Marvel moviegoer when this movie came out, I'm sure seeing this ending in a theatre would have been next-level feels-hitting
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