Endgame

[kawherp]

Just came from the theater and have finally quit crying.

 

The good: Excellent acting, especially when you consider people were being asked to act without context. Heaven forbid they see what a mess of a script they were working with. Music was solid, nice touch of Steve's theme. Special effects were amazing as always, though sometimes the camera jumped too much for me to follow what was happening. Hold the damn camera still so I can follow the action. The fight scenes in Winter Soldier suffered the same issues. We have tripods and the image stabilizer technology, people. Use them!

Spoilers below the cut.
 

 

First off, I feel cheated and betrayed. I want happy endings where good triumps over evil and the main characters win. I want my main characters put back into the toy box when you are done playing with them. Bang them up, but don't break them. Broken toys can't be played with.

 

 

Acceptable story arc: Clint. He was the least of character of any of the original Avengers. I can see him going vigilante for a time. I'm not keen on him being so gory that even Rhodey is leery of finding him, but I can live with it.

 

I like Bruce and the Hulk finding common ground. I am not keen on permanent green bulk to accomplish that. And what about the anger issues? Magically vanished? Poor story telling.

 

Natasha - she would absolutely prevent Clint from throwing himself off the cliff and would fight him to protect him. I could live with her death if they allowed Steve to retrieve her during her fall. The sacrifice was real, from Clint's POV. Let Steve catch her and bring her home. We got Gamora back and can have Nat? Nope. See the rule about not breaking the toys.

 

Tony- His death was the result of poor story telling. Again, broken toys. At least he got a funeral and a goodbye with Pepper. He made a sacrifice. What makes me angry is we already know he was willing ot sacrifice himself. He did that way back in the first Avengers movie. Is it somehow "more" of a sacrifice the he'll allow Morgan to grow up w/o a father having experienced the death of his parents? This didn't have to happen. Let Bruce give it another go. Let Captain Marvel use the gauntlet. Painting your chracters into a corner is fine, but you also have to get them out. Otherwise, you break the toys and the fun movie is no longer fun. I don't go to the movies to suffer like I do when I turn on CNN.

 

Steve- everything was fine until he turned his back on everything his character ever stood for and ever did and stayed in the past with Peggy. Tony is dead, Morgan is without a dad, Bucky just got un-dusted and is still in recovery, Clint is a mess, Wanda is grieving, Thor is a basket case, Nat is dead... so Steve leaves them all to chase his happily ever after? Not buying it. Steve is anything but selfish when it comes ot the people he cares about. His character arc was just fine until that ending. The Steve I know would have rescued Nat, mentored Sam, given advice to the younger Avengers, and gone back to art school while mentoring kids who lost loved ones during the snap and were traumatized. He'd have made an effort to be the friend to Bucky he wasn't during the war, because he was wrapped up in himself to see Bucky's pain.  The aging he did makes no sense. How did the serum allow that much aging in such a short span of time? The whole idea of the serum is peak health!

 

Thor. I don't know who Chris Hemsworth was playing, but that guy wasn't Thor. Valkyrie would have given him about a month to wallow and dragged him by his hair into the public square before kicking his arse six ways to Sunday. Never mind that earth alcohol isn't strong enough to get him drunk. For a person as vain as Thor to stop working out is inconceivable. I also don't appreciate the "letting yourself go" and "fat is funny" jokes. The Thor that came out of Rankarok was a broken man willing to lead his people and do his best, because that's what heroes do. But he has a team, a family... are we really to believe that Steve isn't going to be on his case? That Tony Stark won't be flying in on a regular basis to irritate him into action? The Russos did this character a huge disservice and made an iconic character unrecognizable to me.

 

In summary, there are some good parts. But, for me, canon stops after Civil War.

 

Comments

[lessonsinescapology]

*sighs*
Completely agree with you on Steve and Thor. Poor Thor got the worst treatment of all the characters.

Plus, I kept waiting for Loki to show up at the final battle and I was surprised that he didn't.

[kawherp]

Yeah, they botched Loki, too. We have him running away with a stone and messing up the original timeline.