Avengers End Game (2019)

[dgwphotography]

I don't think that was pandering - It was a preview of things to come. I'm sure when they announce the next slate of movies, one of them will be A-Force, which is Marvel's all-female team of Avengers.

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I don't think that was pandering - It was a preview of things to come. I'm sure when they announce the next slate of movies, one of them will be A-Force, which is Marvel's all-female team of Avengers.

[Edgy MD]

How weird is it that half the world is now the same age they were five years ago and half are five years older?



Billions of younger siblings are now older siblings. Hundreds of millions of therapists will be needed to deal with the trauma.



Half of Peter's classmates will be in college or done with college, while half of them will be catching up. Hundreds of millions of spouses will be materializing out of the dust only to find that the person they were embracing only five minutes ago in their time is now with (or married to) someone else. When the returning spouses, say, "Hey, WTF?" the only answer they'll get back is, "What? Captain America told me to move on, OK?"



And then the returning spouses will be all, "OK, whatever, I guess. You've gotten old and fat anyhow."



Prisoners will be re-materializing in cells that have long since been re-occupied, having to complete their sentence even though the associates they went away with have long since been freed. Physicists will be all, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU GOT AN IMAGE OF A BLACK HOLE WHEN I WAS GONE?!!! I'M THE BLACK HOLE GUY!! IT'S NOT YOUR THING! IT'S MY THING!!"



Some will come home to find memorial tributes to themselves, a somber corner of the room of their old home devoted to photos and prayer candles. They'll find their names on that big memorial in San Francisco. But others will have the punch in the gut that they've been gone for five years and not a single person knows they were missing.



Are you a billionaire industrialist? Too bad. Somebody took your company when you were gone and it's going to take a lifetime of legal wrangling to undo that.



What if you disappeared in the middle of coitus? Are you just going to re-materialize and climax even though your partner is long gone? How freaked out will you be? And what do you mean Trump is still the president?!!! I GAVE YOU FIVE YEARS TO FIX THAT SHIT!! Where's Thanos?! I PREFERRED OBLIVION!!!

[LWFS]

I don't think that was pandering - It was a preview of things to come. I'm sure when they announce the next slate of movies, one of them will be A-Force, which is Marvel's all-female team of Avengers.

They don't know each other, they didn't emerge from portals near each other, and they're not complementary in terms of powers. There's no earthly reason they should be near each other like that except for gratuitous girlpowering. Whether or not it's a hint at A-Force, it's totally a big pile of pet pander, swished around a nonstick pander, and delivered via Pander Express.



And Edgy's thoughts resonate. How the hell is that new Spider Man vehicle NOT just two hours of "What the Living Fuck Happened To Us? Wait, WHO'S President Now?"

[Edgy MD]

Spider-Man: WtF?! would have been a great title.

[dgwphotography]

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Was just reminded of how much I really did enjoy this while rehashing it with a co-worker. So funny and fun, especially in that thar middle. Hulk and the stairs, some Ant-Man or other's bladder control issues, the very idea of a Time Heist... it's just four-color joy in motion, really.


=41Forever post_id=8397 time=1556413546 user_id=69]We like Hawkeye, the under-appreciated Avenger.

[Edgy MD]

Questions About the Universe

2. In Guardians of the Galaxy, there was all this falderal about how infinity stones are so vastly powerful that they destroy all but the most powerful beings from the most ancient of races who would choose to wield one. How come, in this film, folks are tossing them around like jelly beans?




4. Where does Thanos' army even come from? Was the time portal jammed open? How do they get troop transport ships through there?





6. Military strategy: Thanos' army, in this film as well as Avengers: Infinity War, is largely made up of ravenous canine-like creatures, of limited intelligence, that do all their fighting hand-to-hand, and maw-to-guts, so in the last film, the Avengers largely oppose them with a hand-to-hand army from Wakanda, led by hand-to-hand fighters Black Panther and Captain America. How about some artillary? How about some ballistics? How about some air support? Missiles? It seems there are a lot of military forces in the world that could have really helped out in both films.




8. Thanos had a gunship hovering overhead in this film. Shouldn't the few airborne folks in the Avengers army — War Machine, Iron Man, Pepper, Falcon, etc. — have been dispatched to take out that ship right off?




10. Why did Dr. Strange open up all those portals in front of Thanos' army? Wouldn't it have been more effective if some of the incoming army had appeared on Thanos' flanks or behind him?




12. And if Dr. Strange can open up portals that big, including portals that can transport beings from planet to planet, why. not just open a big hole underneath Thanos' army that opens on the other side in deep space.




14. Wong also did some cool thing in the first movie when they're battling in Union Square or something, where he opens up a portal and sends a giant Hulk-sized thug of a creature into some tundra environment. When the creature tries to jump back through the portal, Wong closes it, and the creature gets it's forearm cut off by the closing portal. Why doesn't Strange try that on Thanos in either movie? Open a portal beneath his feet, and then close it on him really fast and cut him in half? Easy peasy.



16. Thanos gets to handle Thor's axe? Does Stormbringer not have the charm that Mjolnir has to only be held by the worthy?




18. What happens to Gomorrah? She's there, she save's Quill's ass, she kicks him in the nuts, and then she's mysteriously gone. Part of the closing action seems to be setting up a third GotG film in which they search for her.

These are the questions that keep me up at night.

[stevejrogers]

I don't know if they've even called him "Hawkeye" in the movies! It's always "Barnes." But he's our guy and we're sticking with him! Plus, his kids like baseball.

In Avengers, before he and Selvig are taken by Loki, he's hanging out in the rafters and gets jokingly referred to as “Hawkeye.”



By the same token, Avengers I think is the only time Natasha Romanova gets referred to as “Black Widow.” During her “interrogation” scene when Agent Coulson calls her.