Avengers: Infinity War
Infinity War is a superhero film based on the 19 other Marvel films. If you haven't seen the others first, it's chaos.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2021-12-22 |
If you know superhero canon (authoritative scripture), and want to see the greater story arc, it's really pretty good. If you're going to see a single super-hero movie, save your money and see one that is a less tangled web of 100 intersecting plot-lines. Not really spoilers, but if you read on, there are some minor reveals.
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Basic plot, after destruction of Asgard, Thanos (a titan/demigod) is running around collecting "infinity" stones: 6 crystals from when the universe was created, each gives control over a different aspect of reality. His ultimate goal is to prevent Malthusian Catastrophy (overpopulation), by putting the power crystals in his love-glove (Magic Guantlet) so he can kill half of the Universe's population (at random), and make things a lot better for the rest of us. And of course the good guys want to stop that.
The problem is ensemble films is that there's zero time for character development. The larger the cast, the less screen time for any one character. This movie had all of them. Basically, if you've heard of a Marvel super-hero, they were in it: Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, Thor, Loki, Hulk, Captain America, Spider Boy, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, War Machine, Black Panther, Vision, Falcon, Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier, Red Skull, and so on. If there was a Super Hero you liked, they'll be on-screen and off-screen, before you can clap. No one has time for anything except a couple cliche'd lines, and fight scene gimmicks. Following it was a mess, it made a Jason Borne or Mission Impossible film seem sedate in pacing.
Despite it's 84/93 rotten tomatoes reviews, it wasn't that good. I suspect the reviewers and people seeing it initially, had seen all the other Marvel Films so were able to follow things much better than the average watcher will. They did squeak a little plot in there, and were not afraid to sacrifice a few characters to the story arc. And of course a few one-liners and character you like are always good for a 15 second chuckle, but if you pause to enjoy it, you'll have missed 3 other things.
In the end, I paid $35 for a matinee (we saw it in 3D), and then another $30 on a hotdog, soda, popcorn and pretzel bites. While it wasn't horrible, I wasn't a fan of the open-throttled pacing without any nuance, breaks, or depth. I suspect this will only linger in my memory as some foggy super-hero ball, that came and went faster than an orgy at the premature ejaculators convention.
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- https://rottentomatoes.com/m/avengers_infinity_war
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers%3A_Infinity_War <- spoilers
- Required Reading before watching the movie (pre-requisites): https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/25/avengers-heres-what-you-need-to-know-for-infinity-war/
- Good rebut of the premise: http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/04/the-real-villain-in-avengers-infinity-war-is-overpopulation-panic/
