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Apr. 29th, 2019 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impySaw Endgame. My Avengers luck continued. Our theater was maybe half full with no one in front of us and yet four assholes who spent half the movie bouncing up and down for snacks and bathroom trips sat RIGHT NEXT TO ME. Dude, you choose your seating when you buy your tickets. You saw that the entire rest of our aisle was WIDE OPEN. Leave a seat or two between us, goddammit. Or, when you came back after your second snack run during the actual movie, just switch to the other side. But no, dude, you just sit riiiiiiiiiight next to me and chew your popcorn so loudly that I can hear you perfectly despite my right ear being the one with issues. :P
I... thought I'd have more to say but it's a very, very long movie and when it was over, I just wanted to throw on some PJs and have something to eat because it was a lot. Cass asked a fair amount of questions for someone who didn't want to be spoiled but she also asked me to rank it and I don't think I can. Not yet, anyway.
But I do have some thoughts. The final battle scene was probably the one my brother suggested as a bathroom break but it was probably my favorite stretch once the portals started to open. Wanda going in on Thanos and the team-up with Carol was delightful. The callback to not being alone as the female characters banded together was also nice.
I also enjoyed the loophole we were given with Loki and even though it opens SO many potential paradox issues, I sniffled when Steve went back to Peggy. I mentally cheered when Jarvis got to make the jump from TV show to MCU and if Thor isn't in the next GoTG movie, I will riot.
Oh, and opening with Hawkeye's family going poof was a cheap shot. Probably required, but cheap. Much like killing Tony even though it was probably the only death I assumed would happen for sure.
I think my biggest problem with Endgame is that it fucking highlighted how bad the MCU is with its female characters. Just so, so bad. And there's no reason for that other than dudes are dumb, I guess? Reading the article/interview with the screenwriters about Endgame was actually painful because they... don't get it? They make a big deal about why Tony gets the funeral and Nat gets nothing and it makes no sense. I just... sigh.
I did like the bit at the end with Clint and Wanda, and really the funeral set-up with all the little family groups was nicely done.
Not sure how much more I'll get out of seeing it a second time next weekend, but when Queen A invites you, you accept whenever possible.
I... thought I'd have more to say but it's a very, very long movie and when it was over, I just wanted to throw on some PJs and have something to eat because it was a lot. Cass asked a fair amount of questions for someone who didn't want to be spoiled but she also asked me to rank it and I don't think I can. Not yet, anyway.
But I do have some thoughts. The final battle scene was probably the one my brother suggested as a bathroom break but it was probably my favorite stretch once the portals started to open. Wanda going in on Thanos and the team-up with Carol was delightful. The callback to not being alone as the female characters banded together was also nice.
I also enjoyed the loophole we were given with Loki and even though it opens SO many potential paradox issues, I sniffled when Steve went back to Peggy. I mentally cheered when Jarvis got to make the jump from TV show to MCU and if Thor isn't in the next GoTG movie, I will riot.
Oh, and opening with Hawkeye's family going poof was a cheap shot. Probably required, but cheap. Much like killing Tony even though it was probably the only death I assumed would happen for sure.
I think my biggest problem with Endgame is that it fucking highlighted how bad the MCU is with its female characters. Just so, so bad. And there's no reason for that other than dudes are dumb, I guess? Reading the article/interview with the screenwriters about Endgame was actually painful because they... don't get it? They make a big deal about why Tony gets the funeral and Nat gets nothing and it makes no sense. I just... sigh.
I did like the bit at the end with Clint and Wanda, and really the funeral set-up with all the little family groups was nicely done.
Not sure how much more I'll get out of seeing it a second time next weekend, but when Queen A invites you, you accept whenever possible.
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Date: 2019-04-30 03:57 am (UTC)I've always complained about how MCU treats the ladies. Not in as much depth as others, but I hate the females being sidelined so much. Wanda could very likely take down Thanos on her own and they've never let her unleash until this movie and even then that's a fraction of her actual power. Captain Marvel could do the same, but instead she's not even there most of the time and the highlight, in my opinion, is her haircut. In Infinity War, they killed the main female on a team of mostly men. In Endgame, they killed the main female on a team of mostly men AGAIN.
It's a mess. I haven't seen Captain Marvel, but I'm hoping that's at least good. But so far the best movie for women in the MCU was Black Panther, hands down and by a really really long shot.
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Date: 2019-04-30 07:26 am (UTC)I irrationally love Hawkeye, but when he sidelined Nat, I could accept that he was gonna die and it would've worked for his storyline. But no, once more the writers of the MCU took the main female character of a group to the Soul Stone and sacrificed her for man pain. I was so shocked by the stupidity of repeating the same damn mistake that it wasn't until I got into the car that my rage flared fully. To say nothing of the fact that getting the soul stone from it's hiding place required a death wasn't anything new. If nothing else, Nebula knew this and obviously shared with the class. This was the one time they could have, and should have, found a fucking loophole and they just went nope, kill her.
I hate that they Nerfed Wanda this whole time (though I did like that I could spin it that the only way Thanos got away from Wanda is that she was savoring her destruction of him and he only got away because he essentially cheated but really, I'd have preferred Wanda kill his ass rather than Tony) and the only reason I accept it from Carol this go round is that this was shot before CM and CM said fuckit, we're going to make Carol all kinds of awesome and Endgame can fucking choke.
I can't speak to the first five or ten minutes of CM but there is a reason Marvel waited about two seconds after CM premiered before telling everyone that Endgame wouldn't just be three hours of Carol destroying Thanos and everything being reset to awesome. Because you leave the movie and your first thought is to cackle and say Thanos is fuuuuuuuuuuucked. I think it follows BP's model of being really good for women and there are a couple of moments that I will thoroughly enjoy watching again (and again) whenever it gets a home release.