Avengers: Endgame (with spoilers)

[firecat]

Because I'm only about 50% of an MCU fan, the opinions under the cut are possibly annoying to more serious fans. Also, massive spoilers ahead.

Yaaay! Tony Stark is dead! (I've always despised Iron Man.)

BOOOO! No Flerken!

UGGHHH: Thor in a fat suit. Fortunately, I was warned. Also fortunately, it wasn't quite as bad as I expected it to be, based on the warnings. The worst part was when the audience laughed. I generally go around trying NOT to believe that people are looking at me and laughing inside, so it's not good for me to be reminded that yeah, an extra ounce of flesh on someone is cause for hilarity.

Thor's becoming depressed in an eating/boozing/playing video games/eschewing a barber and a tailor way as a result of his trauma was apparently Chris Hemsworth's idea. The idea itself is sound. But I wish they'd found a less cruel way to play it.

Not thrilled that Natasha died.

The rest of the movie was meh to pretty good. I liked the scene where all the female superheroes grouped together to kick ass.

(Grumble: Loki is still dead.)

Comments

[ckd]

It would have been significantly more interesting to have Clint come to terms with his behavior as Ronin. I imagine dialogue something like this:

"Nat, you saved me and helped me get myself back after Loki's mind control. But this time you couldn't save me because I wouldn't let you. It wasn't mind control that sent me on those murderous rampages, it was me. I became something I don't know how to live with, and while you've more than erased the red in your ledger over the past five years I've been adding it to mine. Too much. Live for the Clint you once knew."

[firecat]

I want to see your version of the movie.

[jazzfish]

I had some hope that they were going in that direction, and would have very much liked to have seen it.