Endgame Endgame User Review Thread (TAG SPOILERS)

[BoredGuy]

There will always be a lot of people piling on and proving how totally smart and cool they are by trashing things everyone else likes... I find it most helpful to find posters here who seem to share your sensibilities, and read their reviews, there's just too many to wade through otherwise

 

[Hannibal75]

I think I just had the best sex of my life.

10/10

 

[DKDetective]

Based on the reviews from M1ll3r and other poster whose opinions I respect, Endgame sounds almost like a J.J. Abrams movie to me. The plotting and science are convoluted and do not stand up to deep consideration, but while watching it, it is a tremendous fun thrillrider with great characters and heart. I'm fine with that.

 

[First Avenger]

It's hard for me to imagine a better ''finale'' than Endgame. It's full of bold choices and subverted expectations, even more than previous movies from the Russos, yet in my opinion pretty much every decision works on the whole. Three hours of epicness, fun, joy and sadness to say goodbye to 11 marvelous years of storytelling, plots and characters. Congrats to everyone involved for what will remain an unforgettable experience for me.

 

[MovieSlave]

Based on the reviews from M1ll3r and other poster whose opinions I respect, Endgame sounds almost like a J.J. Abrams movie to me. The plotting and science are convoluted and do not stand up to deep consideration, but while watching it, it is a tremendous fun thrillrider with great characters and heart. I'm fine with that.

I'm fine with that as well but when it comes to

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time travel in movies I am never all that critical of it. Most movies that involve time travel and altering the future involve paradoxes that when you really analyze it do not make sense in the end. A lot of times it is the ol', what came first the chicken or the egg kind of thing. Reminds me of the whole Hodor situation in Game of Thrones. That actually doesn't involve time travel but it's still one of those things where you just have to ride with it.

 

[Boy Scout]

So...is that aspect of the movie common knowledge? Because two of you have mentioned it without spoiler tags and I didn’t know it was a confirmed thing.

 

[samsnee]

No it’s not common knowledge so probably should be spoiler tagged.

 

[Boy Scout]

Awesome. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it.

 

[Batmannerism]

Based on the reviews from M1ll3r and other poster whose opinions I respect, Endgame sounds almost like a J.J. Abrams movie to me. The plotting and science are convoluted and do not stand up to deep consideration, but while watching it, it is a tremendous fun thrillrider with great characters and heart. I'm fine with that.

That's fair - the ending was more satisfying than the ending of LOST though.

 

[MovieSlave]

Damn it! Sorry you two, I just added the spoiler tags.

 

[SpiderProtector]

Just saw it. I really liked it, it sure delivered. Great ending!

That's all I had to say.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

This is a film that has so much in it that I have a hard time pinning down all my feelings after just one viewing. It feels like I really need to see this again.

One very noticeable thing was that, for the first time ever, I heard a Swedish audience loudly cheer and applaud during the actual film. That's never happened to me before.

 

[Boy Scout]

Damn it! Sorry you two, I just added the spoiler tags.

Eh, it’s cool, don’t stress about it. I’m sure there are many more surprises in store.

 

[Naglfar]

Just came back from the theatre. I have some nitpicks with certain plotlines, but honestly the amount of emotions and feelings that this film gave me, make them a distant afterthought. It is a love letter to everyone that's been with the MCU from the beginning and I think it works perfectly as the final chapter of the Infinity Saga. Congratulations to everyone involved on the making of this movie. Can't wait to watch it again tomorrow. 9-10/10

 

[MovieSlave]

Eh, it’s cool, don’t stress about it. I’m sure
there are many more surprises in store.

It's not really cool. As someone who has been avoiding spoilers like the plague I can't believe I slipped up a tad. At least since I haven't seen the movie it wasn't anything character related.

 

[Batmannerism]

This is a film that has so much in it that I have a hard time pinning down all my feelings after just one viewing. It feels like I really need to see this again.

One very noticeable thing was that, for the first time ever, I heard a Swedish audience loudly cheer and applaud during the actual film. That's never happened to me before.

A similar thing happened at the session I attended. The movie opened at 10:30am yesterday in New Zealand and I saw it at 8:30pm. Lots of applause at the end.

 

[SpiderProtector]

This is a film that has so much in it that I have a hard time pinning down all my feelings after just one viewing. It feels like I really need to see this again.

One very noticeable thing was that, for the first time ever, I heard a Swedish audience loudly cheer and applaud during the actual film. That's never happened to me before.

Haha oh man I'm swedish too. Happened in my theater as well!

Quite an unusual thing for sure.

 

[Zorro]

I'm glad that's becoming international with all fans and not just an american thing lol

 

[shabadoo25]

I'm just curious if despite being a conclusion of the saga does this movie open up some new ideas for future movies?

 

[inomilan]

I'm just curious if despite being a conclusion of the saga does this movie open up some new ideas for future movies?

It does

 

[FunkMiller]

Based on the reviews from M1ll3r and other poster whose opinions I respect, Endgame sounds almost like a J.J. Abrams movie to me. The plotting and science are convoluted and do not stand up to deep consideration, but while watching it, it is a tremendous fun thrillrider with great characters and heart. I'm fine with that.

Yep. That’s not a bad comparison.

It’s a tremendously enjoyable, funny film, with some outstanding character moments, and some marvellous pay offs for 10 years of cinema. Genuinely emotional at times, and containing two of the single greatest hero moments in comic book movie history.

But the narrative is largely poor. It relies on a lazy, contrived plot device that leads to a lot of sloppy storytelling. There’s also some questionable decisions made with the fate of some characters, that undercuts the work done on them in previous films.

It’s a film that most will like or love, a few will adore, and a few will dislike. It’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s also nowhere near bad.

 

[Panacea]

In the end I was really quite disappointed with it. The first act was disjointed and plagued with humour that didn't really fit, the second was OK if pretty paint by numbers, while the third was admittedly very epic at times. That said, a lot of the choices they made for the characters I really did not like, Thor in particular. In fact the more I think about that the more I think it taints the rest of the movie. I absolutely do not think the movie needed to be three hours long either, but I suspect mistakes were made in the script writing process that left them unable to trim it down in the editing booth. I wonder whether directing, shooting and editing so much content back to back took it's toll on the Russos. I don't think this is anywhere near as tight as Infinity War.

 

[jmc]

I'm kinda glad to see the reaction is mixed. I cannot however understand the level of praise from critics it has gotten though.

 

[Panacea]

One thing I did like, and correct me if I'm wrong, but was this the first time that a character that debuted in a TV show also appeared later in a movie? I'm talking about

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Jarvis

 

[Batmannerism]

Yep. That’s not a bad comparison.

It’s a tremendously enjoyable, funny film, with some outstanding character moments, and some marvellous pay offs for 10 years of cinema. Genuinely emotional at times, and containing two of the single greatest hero moments in comic book movie history.

But the narrative is largely poor. It relies on a lazy, contrived plot device that leads to a lot of sloppy storytelling. There’s also some questionable decisions made with the fate of some characters, that undercuts the work done on them in previous films.

It’s a film that most will like or love, a few will adore, and a few will dislike. It’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s also nowhere near bad.

That sums it up nicely, particularly how enjoyable and character driven it is - but I completely agree on the narrative problems and sloppy storytelling

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for example if 2019 Nebula shoots 2014 evil Nebula shouldn't she cease to exist? Or are all the stones being taken from alternate timelines - I got part of Hulk's explanation to the Ancient One, that the stones were being borrowed from alternate timelines and then replaced. Of course Loki's escape with the tessaract has now screwed up that particular alternate reality.
Also I am not a fan of skipping ahead in time 5 years because that's both lazy storytelling and messes up other aspects of the shared universe. Given that Infinity War was in 2018 does that now mean that Endgame occurs in 2023 or 2024 ? Peter Parker has been gone 5 years and goes straight back to high school ? Time travel is very hard to get right and to be honest this movie is more about the characters than the plot, because we all already know what the main thrust of the story is going to be.

Having said all that it's still a very good movie and is more about character and fan service than anything else, and on those aspects it really works.

TBH it was a huge task ending the whole saga so I don't think they could have ever managed to meet the expectations and hype.