Movies AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Thread v.6

[KnightTemplar]

I fucking hate theaters. It's like people have laugh offs to see who can laugh the loudest. The theater I was in yesterday also decided to clap every time a superhero made his first appearance. I hate people.

I went at 9:25 in the morning. About half a dozen people in the audience. Bliss

 

[Amerikuracana]

Some of the dialogue did feel a bit out of place or out of character, but I chook it up to the size/scale of the main cast and perhaps not doing many reshoots, as well as Marvel kind of forced to inject humor at this point. I mean, if you remove all the humor from this movie and tweek the tone a bit more, it becomes a bit too dark. Gotta give the people hope. Make th m believe it will all be alright.

Widow's gross line felt completely ridiculous to me for example. And most of Panthers dialogue felt like it needed to be redone.. Still, I find myself not having or wanting to talk about the movie much, since it brought m my favorite arc and character. Not sure what to critize or analyze.

PS: I haven't gone to see a movie where people laugh out loud in a while. It's so damn annoying when I'm trying to hear the scene. Why the fuck are people laughing so loud? Fuck.

The laughter in my theatre felt forced. Like they were obligated. Ragnarok was funny funny, not just obvious one-liner funny. I laughed like once or maybe twice.. Yes, some of the jokes were forced, Moreso than in GOTG or TR.

The dialogue in general was choppy at times, but not enough to mess up pacing. I think I literally did groan once or twice at bad dialogue, however.

I'm focusing too much on the negative. I liked the overall pace, which would have been easy to botch with all that was going on. The action was solid. There were emotions I liked, from the characters I knew I would like going in.. And more.

 

[milkmandanl]

Still in shock and awe after seeing it Thursday night. Right now I give it an 8/10 and will pop my Sherdog “spoiler tag” cherry with reasons why...what an awesome effin movie!!!!!

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Hulk is one of my all time favorites and will need another day to get over his beat down and increase the 8 to 9....yes, the 8 was a purely emotional rating [/ spoiler]

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I’ll need to see it again to get past a few smaller WTF moments...BP and all the GoTG except rabbit getting vanished [/ spoiler]

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

I went at 9:25 in the morning. About half a dozen people in the audience. Bliss

My theater was packed and the A/C shit the bed. Didn't take away one bit from the movie.

 

[Jar of Flies]

I didn’t think the humor was any better or worse than past MCU movies, I think I may just be getting a little fatigued since it’s all the same kinda jokes every movie. The one exception-

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Drax’s “why is Gamora”

That had me LOLing.

 

[Nonsense]

no he doesnt dude

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Tony asks him where he came from and he says "from a field trip"

Have you never seen

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time travel movies where there are two of the same character in one place? Anyway, he said it. I just posited a theory.

 

[eon001]

I fucking hate theaters. It's like people have laugh offs to see who can laugh the loudest. The theater I was in yesterday also decided to clap every time a superhero made his first appearance. I hate people.

Isn't that clapping shit an American thing? I'm so glad I live in a reserved English community lol. Although I've had to deal with my fair share of nightmare patrons. Caught 2 people smoking during the Revanant.

 

[MayhemMonkey]

Have you never seen

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time travel movies where there are two of the same character in one place? Anyway, he said it. I just posited a theory.

no he didnt

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I literally just watched a cam version to see if you were right, Spiderman doesnt ever say he is from the future. he clearly states "from a field trip"

so stop making shit up

 

[eon001]

I didn’t think the humor was any better or worse than past MCU movies, I think I may just be getting a little fatigued since it’s all the same kinda jokes every movie. The one exception-

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Drax’s “why is Gamora”

That had me LOLing.

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"Why was she up there this whole time"

Seen it twice and that killed both times. I think they were anticipating an honest trailer criticisms. That's the exact thing fans would ask if she didn't say it in the film.

 

[eon001]

I went at 9:25 in the morning. About half a dozen people in the audience. Bliss

Yea me too. Both screenings I saw were for 10:00 am. Only die hards will get up that early. Only 20-30 people. All showed respect. Laughed but didn't go crazy.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

I'm sure that's the case seeing as many people easily accept these movies and are easily content with them.

As far as TDKR goes, yeah, I genuinely thought it was hot garbage and unequivocally Nolan's worst film. It was as if he phoned it in, big time, and gave no shits about adequately finishing up his trilogy. If anything, it felt like he did it just to do it, not because he genuinely wanted to, and it was awful because of it. Yes, awful. Especially when compared to the previous two.

As I said before, I'm fine with jokes. But there's a time and a place for it all, and the jokes told need to actually be funny and relevant to the story at hand in order to work. Most of the time with Marvel's movies, especially the more recent ones, they fall flat and become downright painful to sit through, especially when they bombard us with them non-stop and they're not even funny to begin with. Ragnarok for me was an excruciating experience. The jokes weren't funny, the quips were lame, the one liners were off, and the entire thing felt forced and unnatural as all hell; and it was just unrelenting. Even worse, it massively undercut the stakes of the movie and totally killed any tension that could have been. It was as if they just threw shit out there for no other reason than to try and "be funny," but it was at the expense of literally everything else. It may be the most popular Thor movie, but it's easily my least favorite of the three.

TDKR for me was basically a less successful retred of the previous film, it doesn't quiet have the drive of the joker plot nore indeed the originality of style but I think its hard to consider one great and the other terrible.

The key with humour for me is matching it to the setting and the characters which I think Marvel does very well. An example of filmstrying to copy them badly for me would be the recent Starwars sequels, you have a setting and characters there that I think is naturally far more down to earth than say the last Thor film yet there trying to sneak in goofy humour. Add to that of course its down to the quality of the material and the acting as well, which I think in both of cases is far better in Ragnarok than it is The Last Jedi. I mean something like the leftist rock alien was geinuinely original and I felt both well written and performed where as Last Jedi was full of the most clichéd goofyball humour(the kind of jokes you could find a dozen times in a kid Saturday morning cartoon) performed badly.

I wouldn't say Marvel always get tn right, I felt the Doc Strange film was a rather uneven mix and again rather mundane in what humour it had in it.

 

[MMouse]

Question

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Wasnt Titan supposed to show signs of reviving after Thanos wiping out half of the universe?

It still looked like a hot mess

 

[Amerikuracana]

I didn’t think the humor was any better or worse than past MCU movies, I think I may just be getting a little fatigued since it’s all the same kinda jokes every movie. The one exception-

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Drax’s “why is Gamora”

That had me LOLing.

That was one of the bad jokes, imo.. It was so bad that the surprise of it being there was almost funny, I guess.

 

[MayhemMonkey]

Question

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Wasnt Titan supposed to show signs of reviving after Thanos wiping out half of the universe?

It still looked like a hot mess

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Na he said to Dr Strange that the Titans didnt listen, and it fell to ruin

 

[MMouse]

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Na he said to Dr Strange that the Titans didnt listen, and it fell to ruin

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I thought the whole goal to killing half of the universe is to restore titan aka balance in the universe?

 

[Amerikuracana]

Also, the forced laughter is a millenial and younger thing. My kids do it until I call them out like a good 90's dad. It's the "I just saw somebody fall, this is being recorded, and I have to force laugh for social media attention" laugh.. That's what it is. Since they don't make each other laugh by being witty and sarcastic like we had to in the 90s, the laughs have changed.

It used to be a girl thing, even before social media. One of them would fall and another would force laugh.. But most (not all) girls have crap senses of humor and are not witty and clever in humor, rights guys? Lol!! Yeah but now it's all the young people.

 

[MayhemMonkey]

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I thought the whole goal to killing half of the universe is to restore titan aka balance in the universe?

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yeah but I dont think it can return a planet back to its former glory...... I think it only benefits those with an active population

 

[MayhemMonkey]

Also, the forced laughter is a millenial and younger thing. My kids do it until I call them out like a good 90's dad. It's the "I just saw somebody fall, this is being recorded, and I have to force laugh for social media attention" laugh.. That's what it is. Since they don't make each other laugh by being witty and sarcastic like we had to in the 90s, the laughs have changed.

It used to be a girl thing, even before social media. One of them would fall and another would force laugh.. But most (not all) girls have crap senses of humor and are not witty and clever in humor, rights guys? Lol!! Yeah but now it's all the young people.

right we get it..... you think the humour is forced.

the rest of us disagree, we enjoy the humour

 

[SheetsMMAfan]

Too many spoilers to go through, and too early for me to ellaborate much, but holy fucking shit OMG wow... They fucking pulled it off.

Easiest 10/10 for any movie ever. The work they put into this universe, these heroes, these relationships, and it fucking paid off times 100.

From the last scene, to the 45 minute car ride home, I was all but speechless. I can't think of any better way they could have pulled this off. Thanos fucking slayed it, and every actor poured everything into their rolls.

Gonna say this before I take an entire day to create and post my review. Dave Bautista as Drax is probably the most underated castings and most underated heroes in these movies. This fucking dude is like a big kid when it came to trying out for the role and pushing himself to get cast, and it absolutely shows that he is having the time of his life. His lines were absolutely stellar. All quote/meme worthy.

More to come later. It's hard to review something with so few flaws.

 

[Nonsense]

no he didnt

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I literally just watched a cam version to see if you were right, Spiderman doesnt ever say he is from the future. he clearly states "from a field trip"

so stop making shit up

That’s not the part I’m talking about. Good grief. It’s mid-fight and it’s not Tony - it’s someone who doesn’t know him, hence “who are you?”