Infinity War (spoilers, obvs)

[stubbleupdate]

Well,

My quick thoughts

Thor, again, steals the show.
Only two bits that genuinely surprised me
Thanos's plan will instead lead to a social meltdown/apocalypse, so thanks for that.
Generally handled well.
I've been told that the sign in Edinburgh is just a prop. So disappointed

Comments

[mesmiranda]

I liked it, but more than anything else I felt like it didn't take any time to stop and just breathe. Everything was like quip, battle, quip, battle, quip, quip, people punching each other, stuff blows up!, and snarky post-mortem one-liner. There's some great moments and great lines and I really did like it--I had a great time--it's just... there was a lot going on. Maybe too much for one viewing.

Some random notes:

- Josh Brolin knocks it out of the park.
- Dave Batista continues to knock it out of the park.
- Chris Hemsworth's Thor fits with the Guardians of the Galaxy like peanut butter and chocolate.
- Wanda and Vision were really sweet together, especially Vision stammering and acting all dorky in Scotland, and I totally bought it.
- If Ben and Jerry's hasn't come out with those two flavours by now (Stark Raving Hazelnut and the other one, Bruce Bannaner?) they will.
- At the risk of being callous: when was Heimdall upgraded to best friend status? Don't get me wrong, he was awesome and Idris Elba is a literal golden god, but somewhere Sif and the Warriors Three are going "THANKS BUDDY".
- Chris Evans and his magnificent beard really didn't have much to do this time around except be leaderly and stalwart. Considering Chris Evans has one more movie left in his contract, Avengers 4 better send him out in style.
- I love Peter Dinklage, but Eitri was basically Tyrion-at-the-start-of-season-five--surly, disheveled, possibly hungover, with a slightly dodgy RP accent. (Seriously, please get the man a vocal coach.)
- Strange vs. Thanos was the one battle I really went "ooo" at, in the middle of all the people punching and laserbeaming each other.
- I'm starting to suspect the Russo Brothers ship Stucky, and I'm totally here for it.
- My theatre cheered at Cap's appearance and Thor's reappearance.
- My theatre groaned as one when there was no mid-credits scene. (But nobody seemed to quite get or react to the Captain Marvel symbol coming up.)
- Is it my imagination, or was the movie more profane than normal? A lot of "asshole" being flung around, Strange calls Tony "douchebag", I'm pretty sure they said "shit" more than once... funny considering they censored the hooey out of the Deadpool 2 trailer beforehand.

Overall I really think I need a second viewing to unpack all my thoughts.

[stubbleupdate]

A Hulk-a Hulk-a Burning Fudge

[mesmiranda]

Thank you!

...That really does sound good. I'm with Wong.

[skjam]

Did like the joke of Peter Dinklage playing the tallest person in the movie.

[mesmiranda]

At the risk of being an arse (not intentionally, I promise!) I was kind of "ehhh" about it?

I mean, the punchline there was like, "Because he's actually a dwarf in real life, get it?" and I'm kind of over it at this point. Dinklage is a talented actor, and every single role of his I've seen relates back to him being a dwarf--even Tyrion, in which he gets some of his best moments/monologues. It's like, give him something else to do, y'know?

(One thing I liked about X-Men: Days of Future Past was that Trask was just an inventor type who thought the Sentinels were a good answer to the "mutant problem". Nothing to do with his dwarfism whatsoever.)

[icon_uk]

I can see why it might jar, but he was still playing a dwarf, Eitiri is an Asgardian dwarf... They'll be bigger of course.

[mesmiranda]

No, I totally get that part. I just wish Dinklage got more roles that have absolutely nothing to do with him being a dwarf--ability over appearance, like TVTropes says.

[icon_uk]

Entirely fair.

I think my first exposure to him as an actor was in the sadly short lived "Threshold" in 2005, where he played " a mathematics and linguistics genius with a penchant for unpredictability, alcohol and women" and, as you say, his height was sometimes referenced, but never defined his character.

[mesmiranda]

Oh, that sounds brilliant. It wouldn't be available anywhere for streaming, would it?

[zylly]

I really liked seeing some of Doc's more iconic spells like the Crimson Bands and Images of Ikon, compared to the very mundane spells used in his own movie.