Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War SPOILER User Review Thread - Part 2

[legendkillin]

In GOTG 2 his branches reached out just as long in the Yondu fight scene. They just would have had to have Eitri break it off instead. Teen Groot played his game and did nothing 98% of the time.

 

[Joeyjojo72]

In GOTG 2 his branches reached out just as long in the Yondu fight scene. They just would have had to have Eitri break it off instead. Teen Groot played his game and did nothing 98% of the time.

Baby groot had trouble following simple dir3ctions. It was a running gag throughout the film. It would not have occurred to him to make a handle.

 

[Relugus]

Ebony Maw did great with his screen time,, and I hope Cap gets double next time. Parker and BP getting triple would also be awesome.

Quite how they would get double or triple when they are dusted is hard to fathom.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

In GOTG 2 his branches reached out just as long in the Yondu fight scene. They just would have had to have Eitri break it off instead. Teen Groot played his game and did nothing 98% of the time.

Nah. He's nowhere near as effective or as powerful as he was when he was larger. If he was the Guardians would just ask him to grow as large as he was before AND the Ravagers wouldn't be able to humiliate him so easily. No need for the plan with Yondu's arrow either. Old Groot could have busted them out with little effort.

 

[Iceman]

I would have preferred adult Groot at this point when the story gets serious and the stakes highest. Wouldn’t have minded an earlier film cover teen Groot.

 

[ctsketch]

Five gets you ten that you've never read any comic book with Thanos in it.

I've read stories with Thanos and I agree that M&M did a great job with him.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I've read stories with Thanos and I agree that M&M did a great job with him.

I didn't say Thanos was bad in the film did I? I think Brolin was superb, as did Jim Starlin himself. I said that poster didn't read any comics because he has a history of some insanely brain dead comnentary (and a few Pro-bans).

 

[Ninjablade]

Went for my third viewing today, was surprisingly really packed.

Also, I’m not sure why, but I started to really find funny the fact that Thanos makes small talk with the Red Skull on the way up to the peak of the mountain. That’s such a mundane thing, and all I could imagine was during rest of his and Gamora’s trip up the top he was trying to catch up with her and her life.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Saw it at a good theater for the first time today. Great clarity with their projector so all the CGI really popped and looked great especially Thanos.

 

[Relugus]

Nothing. Everybody knows they’re all coming back. Black Panther 2 was announced as well. There’s no way he’s not coming back either. By the first teaser they’ll show all the characters back. Kind of why the ending wasn’t that shocking.

I think Black Panther and Spiderman and Strange will obviously be back. Scarlet Witch, it depends 100% on if she meets Doctor Strange. Bucky could continue in Black Widow and/or Black Panther. Falcon... that depends on what happens with Cap.

 

[Brutikus]

2nd viewing,did not see Valkyrie anywhere in the mess of leftovers from dead Asgardians and Thor is still awesome as.

Tony and Stephen's dialogue and team up is awesome,Gamora's death is more impacting to me than Peter's easily.

The sense of loss at the end not only from the remaining living heroes is as palpable as Thanos' sense that he completed his mission but did not really have any personal victory.


9/10

 

[legendkillin]

2nd viewing,did not see Valkyrie anywhere in the mess of leftovers from dead Asgardians

Russos said she was alive and not on the ship.

 

[WitcherGeralt]

I was trying to look for any chunk of rocks scattering all over the ship.

 

[HammerDown]

 

[Murdock103]

Am I the only person who doesn’t this like theory that all people post snap are actually just trapped in the Soul Stone?

I can’t imagine a bigger anti-climax in Avengers 4 than someone realising that all those trillions and trillions of beings aren’t actually dead, just in a different dimension.

 

[RoastBeast]

Am I the only person who doesn’t this like theory that all people post snap are actually just trapped in the Soul Stone?

I can’t imagine a bigger anti-climax in Avengers 4 than someone realising that all those trillions and trillions of beings aren’t actually dead, just in a different dimension.

It would be boring and I don't think they would do that. They know everyone has thought of that and they want to yank chains, based on interviews currently going on.

 

[Spider-Fan]

The writers and the Russos are very adamant that the characters that were snapped are dead. So, I think they're likely all dead. But I don't believe for one second the snap won't be undone somehow, LOL!

 

[Murdock103]

The writers and the Russos are very adamant that the characters that were snapped are dead. So, I think they're likely all dead. But I don't believe for one second the snap won't be undone somehow, LOL!

Oh of course the snap deaths will be undone.
But this Soul Realm theory is probably the strangest thing I’ve heard.
I’ve seen a lot of people propose it with a ‘see, that way they can bring them back!’ As though in this universe with Quantam realms and magical infinity gems, there aren’t already a bunch of ways you could bring back dead characters.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I am not crazy about that idea but if they do have plans for Adam Warlock then I could see showing Souls inside the Stone's "Soul World" as a set up for Adam's character.

I think a cosmic set of films based around Adam would be quite interesting, especially if they tackle the Magus storyline. I don't think we have seen such a story in a CBM before.

 

[C. Lee]

I am not crazy about that idea but if they do have plans for Adam Warlock then I could see showing Souls inside the Stone's "Soul World" as a set up for Adam's character.

I think a cosmic set of films based around Adam would be quite interesting, especially if they tackle the Magus storyline. I don't think we have seen such a story in a CBM before.

I read somewhere in the last few days the Russos saying Adam Warlock wouldn't be in the movie. They said they want their movies to be "based" on the comics....not exact duplicates.

 

[legendkillin]

Am I the only person who doesn’t this like theory that all people post snap are actually just trapped in the Soul Stone?

I can’t imagine a bigger anti-climax in Avengers 4 than someone realising that all those trillions and trillions of beings aren’t actually dead, just in a different dimension.

If they are not in the stone we should still see where they may go.

T'Challa could be in the Astral Plane with his dad.

Strange can be wherever Ancient One went. If they want to bring Mephisto in the MCU maybe he has his soul.

Hel, Valhalla, limbo, etc. It would just be nice to know.

 

[Murdock103]

I read somewhere in the last few days the Russos saying Adam Warlock wouldn't be in the movie. They said they want their movies to be "based" on the comics....not exact duplicates.

Yes I read the same, Warlock won’t be making an appearance in A4.

 

[Murdock103]

If they are not in the stone we should still see where they may go.

T'Challa could be in the Astral Plane with his dad.

Strange can be wherever Ancient One went. If they want to bring Mephisto in the MCU maybe he has his soul.

Hel, Valhalla, limbo, etc. It would just be nice to know.

I can see a couple of problems with this, one from a storytelling point of view, and one from a purely business perspective.

Storytelling wise, I think if you see characters still alive, in any sort of form, you lose impact from their deaths. I could accept this with Asgardian characters perhaps. Odin after all does in Ragnarok, but is seen later by Thor in a vision. But what exactly this is is unclear. The fact that Asgardians are as close to Gods as they can be, you have some wiggle room.
But seeing Spider-Man chilling around heaven, or limbo or wherever....I think it takes away from the impact of him being ‘dead’. On top of that, this isn’t just the Avengers or Wakandans that have disappeared. It’s half of every life form in the universe.
Surely they’ll have all gone to be same place? Or they’ve all got to their respective afterlives... which leads me to -

Business reason - I can’t imagine Disney or Marvel want to potentially isolate any of their audience by going into which different afterlives exist in the MCU.
I know they have somewhat shown this with Odin, and Black Panther, but these were shown as being somewhat obtuse, and without any real clarification that these were definite afterlives.

If you show these characters have all gone somewhere, it will be to that same place. It will be somewhere clearly fictional and only existing in the MCU - like within the Soul Stone.

Although I quite like the idea that after the Avengers succeed in defeating Thanos and saving the universe, you have all these people really furious with the Avengers because they’ve been dragged out of their respective heavens where actually, they were quite content.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I read somewhere in the last few days the Russos saying Adam Warlock wouldn't be in the movie. They said they want their movies to be "based" on the comics....not exact duplicates.

I am not saying Adam was going to be in A4 but the end of GOTG2 shows he is in the MCU and they have plans for him.


In the books he has the Soul Gem/Stone so showing that there is a universe in miniature inside the Stone would be or could be a set up for later stories in the MCU.

People keep thinking I am talking about Adam in A4 for some reason when I am talking about him in a post A4/GOTG3 sense.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I can see a couple of problems with this, one from a storytelling point of view, and one from a purely business perspective.

Storytelling wise, I think if you see characters still alive, in any sort of form, you lose impact from their deaths. I could accept this with Asgardian characters perhaps. Odin after all does in Ragnarok, but is seen later by Thor in a vision. But what exactly this is is unclear. The fact that Asgardians are as close to Gods as they can be, you have some wiggle room.
But seeing Spider-Man chilling around heaven, or limbo or wherever....I think it takes away from the impact of him being ‘dead’. On top of that, this isn’t just the Avengers or Wakandans that have disappeared. It’s half of every life form in the universe.
Surely they’ll have all gone to be same place? Or they’ve all got to their respective afterlives... which leads me to -

Business reason - I can’t imagine Disney or Marvel want to potentially isolate any of their audience by going into which different afterlives exist in the MCU.
I know they have somewhat shown this with Odin, and Black Panther, but these were shown as being somewhat obtuse, and without any real clarification that these were definite afterlives.

If you show these characters have all gone somewhere, it will be to that same place. It will be somewhere clearly fictional and only existing in the MCU - like within the Soul Stone.

Although I quite like the idea that after the Avengers succeed in defeating Thanos and saving the universe, you have all these people really furious with the Avengers because they’ve been dragged out of their respective heavens where actually, they were quite content.

This is all gonna be undone in a way that it will be as though it never happened. Outside of some heroes maybe not even all but some having a memory of the events the rest of the MCU will kind of have to be in the dark about it after such a huge event. It's just too big of a thing to assume that life just goes back to normal with no big repercussions, and said repercussions are not necessarily what big tent pole films are about exploring with any depth.

Politically, socially... Half of the planet's population going bye bye out of the blue for any period of time have gigantic consequences.

Look at the Fury post credit scene. More than just the people that were eliminated due to the Guantlet died that day. If your plane's cockpit crew disappeared chances are you died too even if you weren't in the half that Thanos culled. Were you on an operating table with your chest open when the snap happened? Well your chances of surviving when the operating theater has half of the staff decreased a lot.

So even if the people Thanos blinked away came back there would still be a crap metric ton of people that dies due to the aftermath of those missing people. The people that died on that theoretical airplane don't come back just because the heroes reverse what Thanos did, I don't think.

Unless... There is a reset that undoes it all in some way. The ramifications for the MCU going forward are just too big to not do it that way. The MCU ceases to be a reasonable facsimile of our world and becomes a totally alternate world that would bare no resemblance to our if the heroes don't reset it somehow. Do we think that Spidey films are going to take place in a New York where who knows what the aftermath of the IW would lead to? I just don't see Marvel leaning into that scenario for more than one movie.