Key ingredients for MCU greatness outlined below:
A superb entertainment, pipping A Bridge Too Far for best cast of all time I think with a lot of great surprises, and also some really beautiful moments that are the reason that this works and feels substantial, and that Infinity War doesn't. An extremely innovative use of the MCU, great feat of writing. It doesn't transcend the MCU, of course it can't, but it stands with the pillars of the series as really robust action adventure films.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
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@m4, yeah I had sky high expectations but even I got the kind of stuff I just didn’t expect.
There were moments the entire theater collectively LOST IT, people were going crazy laughing and clapping, and just reacting overall. I usually hate super loud theaters and annoying people but I fucking loved this atmosphere, so coming from me that’s A LOT. I found it hard keeping my cool during so many certain emotional moments, but when I heard a girl above me cry, I fucking lost it and just let it all go.
I’ll probably post more elaborate thoughts in the morning, once I’ve had bit more time to process. But I gotta say one thing because I know a million debbie downers are incoming. You can shit on whatever things you think MCU “lacked” - plot logic, “le intellectual depth”, whatever, you can think it’s brainless crap for kids, it’s uninspired, non cinematic, stupid, whatever. But you just cannot deny the impact it’s had. The emotional reach MCU has is insane, and that’s no thanks to the audiences being dumb and the movies’ “silly jokes & green screen cgi explosions”. If that was all it took to create something THIS big, we would’ve seen this success a million times already. So you can stay bitter for ages trying to explain that away or undermine it. Imagine a franchise being so massive even the haters ran to see it.
There were moments the entire theater collectively LOST IT, people were going crazy laughing and clapping, and just reacting overall. I usually hate super loud theaters and annoying people but I fucking loved this atmosphere, so coming from me that’s A LOT. I found it hard keeping my cool during so many certain emotional moments, but when I heard a girl above me cry, I fucking lost it and just let it all go.
I’ll probably post more elaborate thoughts in the morning, once I’ve had bit more time to process. But I gotta say one thing because I know a million debbie downers are incoming. You can shit on whatever things you think MCU “lacked” - plot logic, “le intellectual depth”, whatever, you can think it’s brainless crap for kids, it’s uninspired, non cinematic, stupid, whatever. But you just cannot deny the impact it’s had. The emotional reach MCU has is insane, and that’s no thanks to the audiences being dumb and the movies’ “silly jokes & green screen cgi explosions”. If that was all it took to create something THIS big, we would’ve seen this success a million times already. So you can stay bitter for ages trying to explain that away or undermine it. Imagine a franchise being so massive even the haters ran to see it.
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There was this kid, ten years old at best, alone in cinema just like I was back in 1994 when Lion King came, he was sitting next to me and he asked me ‘are you excited as I am sir? This is going to be the best movie ever!’ I was so glad it probably was, for him, at the end.
Man can we talk about how gorgeous this movie was, aesthetically?
Also, my first introduction to Cap Marvel. Yeah, she’s a bitch alright just like in the comic books. Liked that a lot.
Man can we talk about how gorgeous this movie was, aesthetically?
Also, my first introduction to Cap Marvel. Yeah, she’s a bitch alright just like in the comic books. Liked that a lot.
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I have not been an MCU fan fan, but have been following it for 11 years and genuinely love some of them (cap 2 and cap 3), Endgame caps this universe in the most amazingly entertaining way. I don't even care if my opinion changes after some time. Those three hours of my first viewing would ALWAYS be downright gobsmacking.
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Heavy spoiler
This is the new gold standard for the MCU. This was an excellent and emotionally satisfying movie.
I knew little to nothing going in and I cried. First time I've cried in a theater.
Overall very entertaining but a good amount doesn't add up for me..
