mZuzek said: Okay, I'm doing an actual post now. So, hmm, let's see... It's a really hard movie to digest for me. Infinity War was hard because of the nature of everything that happened, and in that regard Endgame is easier as it has a happy-ish ending and all, but what makes it difficult for me is what happened to the Guardians of the Galaxy. I mean... I was fine with almost all of them dying in Infinity War because it meant Rocket would at least get more screentime and cool moments in Endgame. But, nope. Besides one alright scene with Thor, he basically spends the whole movie doing nothing and is a throwaway character that's just... there. When the Guardians do come back, they are also mostly really irrelevant, which I guess is fine given the state of the movie by that point... and well, Gamora really did never come back - and while that was good for Avengers in that it made the events of Infinity War matter, it also taints the Guardians movies for erasing a character and relationship they worked so hard to build, even though I can see this being Gunn's decision. But really, my biggest concern is fucking Thor. I mean, Thor..? Really? I sure hope that was just some high level baiting and that he won't be a Guardian come Vol. 3, but it doesn't feel like it. I got no issues with him as a character, but not in Guardians... please. In the end, I just wanted Thanos' whole arc to revolve around the Guardians more, because those were the characters that had a more personal connection to him from the beginning, but that never happened. So, yeah. GotG fanboy side of me is not happy. But when putting those thoughts aside, the movie is very, very good. I went in knowing absolutely nothing and was positively surprised with each crazy turn it took, everything was so unexpected and it was just great. All the time travel stuff and going back to earlier movies was really cool, it was great to see many characters we never thought we would again, and in some cases, didn't even use to care for. The way they subverted all your expectations and still came up with an epic finale was quite awesome, really. I just don't want fucking Thor in my fucking Guardians of the Galaxy, that's all. |
Thor and Rockets scene in infinity war I felt gave Rocket one of the best times to be a leader of a group, but I think when it comes to these two films like.... if you just focus on one character, say for me Dr Strange what does he do in the finale? he ropes one group of enemies in the air and then a damn bursts and he spends the rest of the finale holding up a wall of water and at one point motions a finger up to let Stark know that this was the 1 in millions if he made the sacrifice... also as a character he just lost his most powerful weapon in the time stone..... but! That's what standalone films are for and you know that theyre well aware of the success of the GOTG franchise on its own rights so I think you'll just have to have faith that they'll do you right in their 3rd outing.
I wil say, in the last few movies they've really let Hemsworth shine a bit in the comedy side of things and I feel like he could do well in guardians under Gunns wing.
Awesome to hear you got your butt into the seat without a spoiler, this was my goal too and I achieved it 100%, never seen any promo stuff about it, no trailer and even avoided seeing the poster in the cinema, 100% blind going in, was amazing.
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