Avengers: Fin de partie
May. 1st, 2019 03:25 pmAnthony and Joe Russo (dirs.), Avengers: Endgame
My favourite line in Endgame is "I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
*checks notes*
Ahem.
I watched the first two Iron Men when the second one came out. I thought the first one was mediocre and the second terrible, and didn't bother to get invested in the MCU. I saw the Guardians movies with friends who were a lot more into it than me: I enjoyed the Gamora / Nebula backstory, but was sufficiently annoyed by Star-lord that I didn't really regret my choices to not dig deeper. On the other hand, Black Panther blew me away last year.
And over the last month or two Erin and I watched about half the MCU movies, which was an enjoyable way to spend a bunch of evenings. For the most part I found them ... much less dire than I'd been afraid. Even Age of Ultron and Civil War. And I quite enjoyed Captain Marvel, a few weekends ago. So I was reasonably psyched up for Endgame.
The neat thing is, this is about as close to a universal pop-culture phenomenon as we've had in the last ... decade, at least, probably much longer. Even the new Star Wars movies haven't brought out this much excitement and anticipation and shared "brb rewatching twenty movies before endgame". It's nice to feel like I'm engaging in something that tons of other folks are as well, and to get that little bit of joy when I see someone else noting that they're off to see Endgame.
( Spoilers follow )
A solid ending to a decade's worth of franchise. I'm curious to see where the MCU goes next.
They really should have had Luis from Ant-Man do a recap of the movies, though.
Also, the best superhero movie remains Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
My favourite line in Endgame is "I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
*checks notes*
Ahem.
I watched the first two Iron Men when the second one came out. I thought the first one was mediocre and the second terrible, and didn't bother to get invested in the MCU. I saw the Guardians movies with friends who were a lot more into it than me: I enjoyed the Gamora / Nebula backstory, but was sufficiently annoyed by Star-lord that I didn't really regret my choices to not dig deeper. On the other hand, Black Panther blew me away last year.
And over the last month or two Erin and I watched about half the MCU movies, which was an enjoyable way to spend a bunch of evenings. For the most part I found them ... much less dire than I'd been afraid. Even Age of Ultron and Civil War. And I quite enjoyed Captain Marvel, a few weekends ago. So I was reasonably psyched up for Endgame.
The neat thing is, this is about as close to a universal pop-culture phenomenon as we've had in the last ... decade, at least, probably much longer. Even the new Star Wars movies haven't brought out this much excitement and anticipation and shared "brb rewatching twenty movies before endgame". It's nice to feel like I'm engaging in something that tons of other folks are as well, and to get that little bit of joy when I see someone else noting that they're off to see Endgame.
( Spoilers follow )
A solid ending to a decade's worth of franchise. I'm curious to see where the MCU goes next.
They really should have had Luis from Ant-Man do a recap of the movies, though.
Also, the best superhero movie remains Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.