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Apr. 28th, 2018 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI went to see Avengers: Infinity War.
It was fine. I was really enjoying it up until they killed Gamora. Number one: they killed Gamora. Number two: they killed her to make a point about Thanos, and to make everyone else in the film sad.
Number three: they implied, by killing her, that he really did love her, and I know abusive people can still love the people they hurt, but it's still fucking weird to make that statement. And they made her an idiot before she died, because even if she didn't believe he loved her, she knew he believed it, so I genuinely thought when she started laughing she was going to say "so you're going to kill me now? After all this time I've wished I was dead?". But no, she just ~didn't realise~. And that after the Red Skull (of all people) with his mystic knowledge addressed her as 'daughter of Thanos', and not daughter of the woman she obviously considers her mother. *spit*
And I was going to say it was good mostly because the problem with most Marvel films is that they have some cool ideas, and some wisecracking, but you're mostly left waiting for something meaningful to happen. And they save that for the big crossover/event films like this. But then that wave of deaths happens at the end, including to people that I'm pretty sure still have future films to come out, and it's just like it doesn't mean anything, because obviously those deaths aren't going to last. Which throws all the other deaths into question too - some I think will hold up, but who can be sure at this point? I already knew people died and 'the bad guy won', because the cleaner who fancies me asked me if I'd seen the film, and said he'd seen it already, and when I asked him what it was like that's what he told me. He even offered to tell me exactly which people died 'for five pounds'. Like, no spoilers please. So I got the impression this was only going to be half the story, and then we're going to have a 'Return of the Jedi' film for Avengers 4, probably with some real deaths. But it's just...ugh. Still waiting for something meaningful to happen.
And Tony Stark didn't die, even temporarily, and Dr Strange said offering his stone to save Tony was 'the only way', and he's seen all 14 million scenarios where they lose, and the one where they don't, so Tony Stark is probably going to be the one who has to defeat Thanos, and he's so special, and he got a special, long-winded scene with the kid he had mentored and wanted to protect turning to dust to make him feel bad, and Thanos respected him, and wanted people to remember him. And *ptuh*. *Ptuh*, Tony Stark, *ptuh*.
Tony was quite funny in this film, for his wisecracks didn't annoy me. But he was still a cunt, who didn't seem to think saving the world was a good enough reason to get on with people, or ignore the fact you don't get on with people, or call Steve. I hate him.
Anyway. I going to look up Thanos/Peter Quill fic because I am easily pleased, and I probably won't enjoy it that much, and that will be that. I don't know what the symbol was in the after-credits cutscene. I'm sure the internet will tell me. Also they killed a black guy first. That happened.
It was fine. I was really enjoying it up until they killed Gamora. Number one: they killed Gamora. Number two: they killed her to make a point about Thanos, and to make everyone else in the film sad.
Number three: they implied, by killing her, that he really did love her, and I know abusive people can still love the people they hurt, but it's still fucking weird to make that statement. And they made her an idiot before she died, because even if she didn't believe he loved her, she knew he believed it, so I genuinely thought when she started laughing she was going to say "so you're going to kill me now? After all this time I've wished I was dead?". But no, she just ~didn't realise~. And that after the Red Skull (of all people) with his mystic knowledge addressed her as 'daughter of Thanos', and not daughter of the woman she obviously considers her mother. *spit*
And I was going to say it was good mostly because the problem with most Marvel films is that they have some cool ideas, and some wisecracking, but you're mostly left waiting for something meaningful to happen. And they save that for the big crossover/event films like this. But then that wave of deaths happens at the end, including to people that I'm pretty sure still have future films to come out, and it's just like it doesn't mean anything, because obviously those deaths aren't going to last. Which throws all the other deaths into question too - some I think will hold up, but who can be sure at this point? I already knew people died and 'the bad guy won', because the cleaner who fancies me asked me if I'd seen the film, and said he'd seen it already, and when I asked him what it was like that's what he told me. He even offered to tell me exactly which people died 'for five pounds'. Like, no spoilers please. So I got the impression this was only going to be half the story, and then we're going to have a 'Return of the Jedi' film for Avengers 4, probably with some real deaths. But it's just...ugh. Still waiting for something meaningful to happen.
And Tony Stark didn't die, even temporarily, and Dr Strange said offering his stone to save Tony was 'the only way', and he's seen all 14 million scenarios where they lose, and the one where they don't, so Tony Stark is probably going to be the one who has to defeat Thanos, and he's so special, and he got a special, long-winded scene with the kid he had mentored and wanted to protect turning to dust to make him feel bad, and Thanos respected him, and wanted people to remember him. And *ptuh*. *Ptuh*, Tony Stark, *ptuh*.
Tony was quite funny in this film, for his wisecracks didn't annoy me. But he was still a cunt, who didn't seem to think saving the world was a good enough reason to get on with people, or ignore the fact you don't get on with people, or call Steve. I hate him.
Anyway. I going to look up Thanos/Peter Quill fic because I am easily pleased, and I probably won't enjoy it that much, and that will be that. I don't know what the symbol was in the after-credits cutscene. I'm sure the internet will tell me. Also they killed a black guy first. That happened.
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Date: 2018-04-30 01:44 am (UTC)sometimes/depends on who writes them, so I'm kind of feeling like I'll like that part even if it was spoiled for me, lol)! But, I hear you on the "waiting for something meaningful to happen" thing...that's generally how I feel after the first part of a two part series, orz.(no subject)
Date: 2018-04-30 08:41 pm (UTC)