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dgwphotography
Apr 26 2019 07:18 AM

No Spoilers, yet.



I will just say that it was, minus a few nits, the greatest movie of this genre ever.

Centerfield
Apr 26 2019 09:18 AM
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Wow, that's impressive.



ShortCenter is going to see it with a buddy today. I'm guessing he'll want to see it again, at which point I'll try to catch it.

Fman99
Apr 26 2019 08:12 PM
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My nerdish friends were super bonered up about this movie. I still wouldn't know what the hell was going on, I've seen virtually none of the last 20 years' worth of superhero movies.

LWFS
Apr 26 2019 11:36 PM
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Three hours of more or less nonstop fan-service.



Save for one of the character retirements near the end... close to perfectly executed.

Edgy MD
Apr 27 2019 10:43 AM
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Two nines and a ten so far.

Frayed Knot
Apr 27 2019 06:03 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 28 2019 12:18 PM

My local theatre had 41 showings of this film today, starting at 8:30 AM with the final one at 11:50 tonight.

37 regular plus 4 more in 3D

Looks like only 38 time/screen choices on the docket for Sunday





But I'm on team FMan on this one, the appeal of these superhero films eludes me.

And, let's face it, I highly doubt this movie is going to be the 'endgame' of anything.

41Forever
Apr 27 2019 07:05 PM
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Seeing it tonight with my son and daughter-in-law!



We like Hawkeye, the under-appreciated Avenger.

MFS62
Apr 27 2019 07:56 PM
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Good news - I'll be seeing it tomorrow at 9AM.

Bad news - it is my grandson's 8th birthday "party", and I'll be there with about a dozen of his classmates and friends.

I may be too shaken to vote for a while.

Later

41Forever
Apr 27 2019 11:51 PM
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Loved it!



And a Mets mention, too!

MFS62
Apr 28 2019 06:02 AM
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No spoilers, please.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-avengers-endgame-spoilers-beat-up-taiwan-20190428-rzamfw7o35f6zblwzde7jfrsv4-story.html



Later

Benjamin Grimm
Apr 28 2019 06:45 AM
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I gave it a 7. It was fun, and is the rare three-hour movie that doesn't seem overlong.

Frayed Knot
Apr 28 2019 01:48 PM
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Spoiler-blabberer gets pummeled by movie going crowd.

MFS62
Apr 28 2019 04:23 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

Spoiler-blabberer gets pummeled by movie going crowd.

I posted the same story (2 posts above) from the Daily News, a much more reliable source than the NY Post. (SM=84)



I saw the movie today.

My own spoiler: (stop reading if you haven't seen it.)





Incredible, unbelievable, the result of a severely damaged mind.

Does anyone really put mayonnaise on a hot dog?

The rest was totally believable.



Later

Willets Point
Apr 28 2019 10:28 PM
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Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 29 2019 09:45 AM

Saw it today with my son. I gave it 4 out 5 (or 8 snaps here). Obviously the pay off is going to be better the more invested you are in the previous 21 movies. This one actually felt like three different movies in sequence, and they got a lot of good character work in without it feeling padded or boring. The end ties up the story arcs for several of the Original Avengers while setting up new storylines for some of the more recenlty introduced characters.

metirish
Apr 29 2019 09:20 AM
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Lorcan and I saw it saturday, there were many moments when the entire theater started cheering etc ....

Willets Point
Apr 29 2019 09:41 AM
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This link is spoilery, but questions 10 a-c resemble my own thoughts on the Mets' references in the movie: https://www.tvguide.com/news/avengers-endgame-burning-questions/





I mean, New York City post-snap is still going to have around 4 million people, larger than Chicago and Los Angeles are today, so would they not still be able to field a baseball team and draw fans?

MFS62
Apr 29 2019 07:15 PM
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I would have snapped twice in Chavez Ravine.

Just to be sure.

Later

seawolf17
Apr 30 2019 07:08 AM
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I thought it was great. I gave it nine snaps because I'm just not ALL IN the way some others might be.

metirish
Apr 30 2019 08:36 AM
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During gym class yesterday Lorcan told me that one of his classmates who is a known troublemaker spoiled the ending , everyone was pissed...teacher gave him detention

dgwphotography
Apr 30 2019 11:48 AM
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=seawolf17 post_id=8647 time=1556629737 user_id=91]
I thought it was great. I gave it nine snaps because I'm just not ALL IN the way some others might be.



Yeah... I've been all in since that Humvee drove through the desert

metirish
Apr 30 2019 12:02 PM
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I am becoming a little obsessed with watching Youtube videos on the ending and meaning etc , wtf am I doing

seawolf17
Apr 30 2019 12:02 PM
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=dgwphotography post_id=8687 time=1556646504 user_id=78]
=seawolf17 post_id=8647 time=1556629737 user_id=91]
I thought it was great. I gave it nine snaps because I'm just not ALL IN the way some others might be.



Yeah... I've been all in since that Humvee drove through the desert


See, I don't even get that reference. So there you go. :)

Willets Point
Apr 30 2019 01:10 PM
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=seawolf17 post_id=8691 time=1556647363 user_id=91]
=dgwphotography post_id=8687 time=1556646504 user_id=78]
=seawolf17 post_id=8647 time=1556629737 user_id=91]
I thought it was great. I gave it nine snaps because I'm just not ALL IN the way some others might be.



Yeah... I've been all in since that Humvee drove through the desert


See, I don't even get that reference. So there you go. :)

It simply refers to first scene in the first movie, Iron Man.



I recently finished watching all the MCU movies I hadn't seen yet, and I have to say the series has improved in leaps and bounds since it started. Most of the movies in Phase 1 are pretty bad, but all the movies in Phase 3 (except Doctor Strange) are excellent. I'm glad I didn't start watching at the beginning because I would've never come back.

Vic Sage
May 01 2019 11:14 AM
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I've been with them since the beginning and it was as good a denouement as i could've hoped. Sure, the 2nd act was overlong, but Act I sets up everything great and Act III packed an emotional punch.

LWFS
May 02 2019 11:15 PM
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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.



Cannot disagree more. I feel like the series has been trying and failing to get me to care more about Hawkeye than I care to (and I genuinely enjoy the comics edition, especially in more recent, Matt Fraction-penned versions) for damn near a decade, and it's one of my least favorite things about the movies. And are we just leaving aside the fact that he basically became a less-efficient Punisher for five years to let him go back to his paper-cut-out happy-ending family... when complex, more interesting, fundamentally decent Black Widow gets fridged for the stupid Soul Gem?

41Forever
May 03 2019 08:16 AM
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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.


We like Hawkeye, the under-appreciated Avenger.


Cannot disagree more. I feel like the series has been trying and failing to get me to care more about Hawkeye than I care to (and I genuinely enjoy the comics edition, especially in more recent, Matt Fraction-penned versions) for damn near a decade, and it's one of my least favorite things about the movies. And are we just leaving aside the fact that he basically became a less-efficient Punisher for five years to let him go back to his paper-cut-out happy-ending family... when complex, more interesting, fundamentally decent Black Widow gets fridged for the stupid Soul Gem?


Hawkeye has always been my daughter's favorite, which may have more to with Jeremy Renner than the actual character. 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.

dgwphotography
May 03 2019 11:43 AM
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=LWFS post_id=8984 time=1556860506 user_id=84]
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.



Cannot disagree more. I feel like the series has been trying and failing to get me to care more about Hawkeye than I care to (and I genuinely enjoy the comics edition, especially in more recent, Matt Fraction-penned versions) for damn near a decade, and it's one of my least favorite things about the movies. And are we just leaving aside the fact that he basically became a less-efficient Punisher for five years to let him go back to his paper-cut-out happy-ending family... when complex, more interesting, fundamentally decent Black Widow gets fridged for the stupid Soul Gem?

Well, there will be the Hawkeye mini-series on Disney's streaming service. It's rumored it will involve him training his daughter, who will in turn be a part of Young Avengers with Iron Lad (Harley from Iron Man 3 - he was in the funeral scene in Endgame), and Ant-Man's daughter.

Edgy MD
May 04 2019 06:34 PM
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=LWFS post_id=8984 time=1556860506 user_id=84]
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.



Cannot disagree more. I feel like the series has been trying and failing to get me to care more about Hawkeye than I care to (and I genuinely enjoy the comics edition, especially in more recent, Matt Fraction-penned versions) for damn near a decade, and it's one of my least favorite things about the movies. And are we just leaving aside the fact that he basically became a less-efficient Punisher for five years to let him go back to his paper-cut-out happy-ending family... when complex, more interesting, fundamentally decent Black Widow gets fridged for the stupid Soul Gem?

I doubt she'd describe herself a more fundamentally decent.



More recently decent, sure. But it's all about death with meaning and redemption in dem action movies.

Lefty Specialist
May 06 2019 08:01 AM
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Almost perfect. Yes, I prefer Scarlett Johanssen and I find Hawkeye irritating.



Two Met mentions were nice. Lebowski Thor was freaking awesome. And the bow was wrapped up nicely.



One small thing, the point in the climactic battle where suddenly all the women ganged up together was a bit too pander-y for me. My wife groaned at that. But I quibble.



9 snaps.

Edgy MD
May 06 2019 03:39 PM
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I groaned at that too. That was was pandermonium. That was taken from the script of Kung-Fu Pander. It was dreamed up by execs eating at the Panderosa Steakhouse. That was Marvel going all, "We've kicked DC's ass in everything except Wonder Woman. We need a Chickz Rool Action shot. Write that in there for me. Don't worry about whether it makes sense."



Besides, everybody was looking to clear a path for Captain Marvel. Isn't she supposed to be faster than any of them?

dgwphotography
May 07 2019 11:18 AM
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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.

dgwphotography
May 07 2019 11:19 AM
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=dgwphotography post_id=9372 time=1557249519 user_id=78]
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
May 07 2019 02:58 PM
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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
May 07 2019 09:56 PM
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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.


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
May 08 2019 08:49 PM
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Spider-Man: WtF?! would have been a great title.

dgwphotography
May 10 2019 10:29 AM
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=LWFS post_id=8984 time=1556860506 user_id=84]
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.



Cannot disagree more. I feel like the series has been trying and failing to get me to care more about Hawkeye than I care to (and I genuinely enjoy the comics edition, especially in more recent, Matt Fraction-penned versions) for damn near a decade, and it's one of my least favorite things about the movies. And are we just leaving aside the fact that he basically became a less-efficient Punisher for five years to let him go back to his paper-cut-out happy-ending family... when complex, more interesting, fundamentally decent Black Widow gets fridged for the stupid Soul Gem?


I was reminded of something I missed when talking about it with my oldest. Look back at the scene between Black Widow and Cap - She's let her hair grow out - there is now blonde mixed in with the red, and she's spent. How fundamentally decent would she be if she let Hawkeye sacrifice himself knowing that he would have a family to go back to if their plan worked?

Edgy MD
May 11 2019 06:57 AM
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Questions About the Universe


[list=1]

  • [*]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?



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




  • [*]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.



  • [*]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?



  • [*]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?



  • [*]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.



  • [*]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.


  • [*]Thanos gets to handle Thor's axe? Does Stormbringer not have the charm that Mjolnir has to only be held by the worthy?



  • [*]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.
    • [/list]

    These are the questions that keep me up at night.

    stevejrogers
    Jun 28 2019 06:52 AM
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    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.