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To get me to sit still for over 3hrs(we got there 30 mins before it started) with stupid tinted 3d glasses on, then it would have to be something pretty f****ing amazing...……..& it was !
Went to bed with a big daft cheesy grin on my face, loved it !
Suggestion: spoilers? Use the spoiler tag to hide them?
Eg. 😊
Not seen it yet, but expecting Thanos to survive, move to Gloucestershire and join Extinction Rebellion...
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Suggestion: That's a very good suggestion, but it's not obvious from the toolbar exactly how to do that so it would be much more helpful to explain the details than to just show the end result.
Suggestion: Could a mod add spoilers to the thread title maybe?
[i]it’s not obvious from the toolbar exactly how to do that[/i]
Well, if you can use tags... the square brackets? It's the same as all the others.
You put spoiler in the square brackets... then the spoiler, then close the tag with square brackets with /spoiler inside.
like:
It’s the same as all the others.
Not exactly. First you have to know that there's a feature that has an associated tag, which is not obvious in the case of spoilers. Things that are in the toolbar are obviously available. Things that are not in the toolbar are not obviously available. Secondly, each one has a different tag, so they're not all the same. If you don't know the code, it's not actually obvious.
Ive waited 10 years to watch Endgame and lucky for us most of Marvels big films have landed on my Lad birthday weekend , hes 15 today and boy what a present he got today, no disappointment was had.
I spent the first hour with wet eyes be it sadness or joy , giggling like a kid at the dialogue and hi fiving my daughter and the winning bits. Best make an evening free to watch it again with her shes 10 and loved it. The only low points the all to convenient "meeting" between Start and Bre at the beginning . and the headache from trying to work out the finer points of temporal mechanics ..
I thought it was ok. Preferred Infinity War. It was quite a big build up to the end fight and I thought it was quite disjointed. Thor was hilarious though.
The only low points the all to convenient “meeting” between Start and Bre at the beginning
Had you seen the end credits bit in Captain Marvel?
(Sort of spoiler...very very very minor)
and hi fiving my daughter ...
Bloody glad I wasn’t sat behind someone like you at the cinema!
Not exactly
Bleedin hell. My sincerest apologies! Wish I’d never ****ing suggested it 🙄
@ Speed.. yes twice 🙂
@DezB what some like me enjoying a film with my family and 10 year old Rocket fan .. so what
I thought it was ok. Preferred Infinity War. It was quite a big build up to the end fight and I thought it was quite disjointed. Thor was hilarious though
Agreed. It's not as pure and controlled cinematic experience as IW and not as well written, preferring to opt for ho-hum plot mechanics to get the story where they need it to be.
There are good things about it, and it delivers but it's just not as good of a film.
IW is a five star experience. EG a four.
However, satisfying everyone is an unenviable task. It still has lots of excellent moments and I think it warrants a second viewing.
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Really enjoyed it but i thought Antmans daughter looked the same age as him. In the last movie i thought she was about 10, add on the 5 years and give or take she should be a teenager. She looked about 30 to me.
And at the end when they were all together saying a certain goodbye to a certain someone by the river who was the youngish lad near the back?
As others have said it certainly did not feel like 3hrs and there was silence at the sad quiet bit, you could of heard a pin drop.
who was the youngish lad near the back?
I thought the youngish lad might be the kid from iron man 3, but didn’t see him for long enough to be sure
Then wondered if it was the same kid that was on the bike that Antman spoke to when he first got out the quantum realm. They seemed to linger on him a bit at the time, but I wasn’t sure why
Also thought maybe I didn’t pay enough attention and it was only Peter Parker
Think I might need to rewatch that scene 😂
Played by the same actor too
The kid at the funeral of Tony that no one knew, is actually the kid from Iron Man 3 who helped Tony. Rumors are that he might be “Iron Lad"
$1.2bn in 5 days 😳 Beating the previous record first weeks’ takings, held by Infinity War, by $360m.
Just as well, as I’m sure the credits get longer with each film 😃
Wow, just WOW. I can't remember the last time I had a physical and emotional response to a "action movie" like that. What a great way to round off the series, but where do Marvel go next? the accountants will want more, and I don't think they will be happy with a spin off here and there.
Saw it this morning. Absolutely fantastic. Felt almost perfectly balanced, funny, emotional - far less action than I expected, but it worked fabulously well.
The investment in making us care about this huge cast of characters over the past 10 years just gives you a massive payoff.
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Am I the only one on the planet that was really disappointed with this film?. I've watched all the Marvel films avidly and was expecting it to be at least as good as Infinity War. But it just didn't do it for me.
There was no Hulk v Thanos rematch (which I'm sure most people were expecting), infact yet again Hulk wasn't in it enough. The most powerful Avenger, Captain Marvel was also only in it for very brief periods. I felt the first 1-2hrs was too slow and wasted too much time reassembling the characters. The Thor and Iron Man v Thanos battle near the end was good, but after that the rest of the battle sequence felt disjointed.
Sorry Disney/Marvel, but this was the worst Avengers film and really feel quite let down by it.
Yeah, was a bit disappointing with all the build up, was just a bit disjointed the way the world had worked out, the plan and so on, it felt like a few movies thrown together, there was some bits that reminded me of lord of the rings, and other bits that reminded me of game of thrones, i guess they boxed themselves into a corner a bit, the other bit i struggled with was how some of the characters appeared to be way more powerful, or weaker than in previous films.
Yeah, was a bit disappointing with all the build up, was just a bit disjointed the way the world had worked out, the plan and so on, it felt like a few movies thrown together, there was some bits that reminded me of lord of the rings, and other bits that reminded me of game of thrones, i guess they boxed themselves into a corner a bit, the other bit i struggled with was how some of the characters appeared to be way more powerful, or weaker than in previous films.
Glad someone else agrees, my brother was even more disappointed with it than me. I think your reference to Lord of the Rings makes sense and perhaps they were trying to appeal to a younger/broader audience.
There was no Hulk v Thanos rematch
Thor and Iron Man v Thanos
Yeah.. moar fites needed!
The fights are the worst bit! so dull.
pottersmtber
Member
There was no Hulk v Thanos rematch (which I’m sure most people were expecting)
Joe Russo says that Hulk was just done with Banner essentially using him as a convenient brute force, and not letting him out otherwise- which ties in with the whole professor hulk thing.
Have to admit, I did prefer the PTSD theory- that Hulk's not recovered from getting so effortlessly pasted by Thanos, and doesn't want to come out in case it happens again.
Am I the only one on the planet that was really disappointed with this film?
Yeah, it's at least 30 mins too long. Takes an hour to get going, has 90 mins of story then half an hour of goodbyes. Fine if you're a die-hard Marvel fan but as someone going to be entertained it felt stretched out. It's a decent superhero action movie but it doesn't really do anything different to most of its predecessors.
I loved it, for lots of reasons.
For the h8rs who either
a) didn't get what they expected and didn't like it OR
b) got exactly what they expected and didn't like it:
heres an interview with the writers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/movies/avengers-endgame-questions-and-answers.html
SPOILER BELOW.
I have to confess, I was a little underwhelmed by Endgame. Perhaps because Infinity war was so good and the reviews of Endgame were so high, I expected...more, but the whole time travel thing just seemed to come too easy, the stones gathered too easily, handled directly by both the Hulk and Hawkeye. Also, how is Thanos without the Infinity Gauntlet almost as powerful as Thanos with it?
Maybe a second watch will allow me to review it on its own merits, rather than through comparison.
A couple of ladies at work were very disappointed. They are Chris Hemsworth fans!!
Daffy
Subscriber
Also, how is Thanos without the Infinity Gauntlet almost as powerful as Thanos with it?
We saw Thanos and co without the complete gauntlet kill half of all living asgardians, defeating Loki, Heimdall and Thor and presumably Korg and then battering Hulk, in Infinity War... And the stones only gathered easily because they were already gathered.
That NY Times link above sucks. Seems I have to register and log in to the NYT to read the frikkin article, which is the sort of behaviour which makes me want a fully loaded gauntlet... Snap! 😁
Finally seen it last night and loved it great entertainment. Remarkably I avoided all spoilers so had no idea what was coming at the start.
Bloody glad I wasn’t sat behind someone like you at the cinema!
Careful you'll end up taking my crown.
That was properly ace! The bit where Cap did that thing with the thing was brill and the online gaming bit was really funny.
Careful you’ll end up taking my crown.
I just hide it better 😉
Seriously though, it's a public cinema, other people are there, watching, trying to be absorbed, totally involved in a film. Waving your arms about and generally be an inconsiderate arse should be kept in the home.
I really enjoyed it, especially the first 2 acts. But the third act, the final showdown, was really clunkily written. With the reviews and how well the first 2/3rds of the film progressed I just thought it was leading to something more, so was left a little flat. It wasn't that it was bad, just that it could have been more, but it didn't feel like a 3 hour film
I saw it today, wife was really looking forward to it and we rewatched Infinity War the other week.
Unfortunately, and this is just our opinion..... Twas crap. I'm pretty sure the reviews have been paid for because it is in no way a five star film. It's not even the best Avengers film. I was never really the biggest Marvel fanatic going in but I enjoyed them. This for me was just a bit flat to be honest
After dodging spoilers from the kids at school all week I saw it this afternoon.
Loved it.
Thought it was a fitting end to this crop of Marvel movies. I guess it's mixed opinions here as it isn't a full-on fists and fights superhero film. Felt more at times like a character-driven piece that just happened to involve superpowers. Granted the final battle seemed a bit rushed/contrived/there just to get everyone a bit of screentime (I'd maybe have had the big battle first and then have Thanos left alone to fight the three amigos).
The fact that the Russos managed to tie up pretty much every story arc was an impressive piece of structuring even if the actual writing took a few short cuts at times.
Glad that they pretty much avoided Danvers Ex Machina - they could even have arguably left her out of the final battle too and still got to the same place.
Liked the way that one character was 'killed off' at the end without actually having to kill him, and nice nod to the fans having both potential successors there with him.
Genuinely think that, along with Logan, this is the superhero film coming of age a bit.
My other gauge is that my wife (who can take or leave superhero films) loved it, and shed more than a few tears at the funeral scene.
The most powerful Avenger, Captain Marvel was also only in it for very brief periods
Ahh, I was wondering who that was, CM is the only film I've not seen! 😆 Must been mental someone watching that film as their first go at marvel! 😆
I enjoyed it. The time flew by, but after making a thing of Nick Fury paging Captain Marvel at the end of IW, I was expecting to see more of her in Endgame.
I guess the sequence was there as an introduction to the Cpn Marvel film.
Well just went to see it a bit earlier than I wanted as the internet chatter was getting a bit spoilerish. Good film and time went very quickly and I didn't need my he-wee.
I grew up with the comics so did them justice. Having a bit of a slow come-down now helped by the Tour de Yorkshire.
We went yesterday early evening. My thought...
It was an hour too long.
Quite enjoyed it.
Felt a bit like watching a certain episode of Dallas.
I’d forgotten that modern people in shared public spaces have no concept of anyone else apart from themselves.
Thanks to the people who went out and back in 4 or 5 times with their phone torches shining in everyone’s faces.
Thanks to the family in front of us who’s dad went out 5 times to get more loud rustly food, and who’s 6 year old daughter had to be picked up and cuddled and sang at for about 15 minutes during a quiet bit.
The women near the end who wailed and cried very loudly for 10 minutes.
Hell is Other People.
I took the luxury of a midweek morning screening because this behaviour would boil my piss instantly and ruin the film for me.
Yes! Exactly that. Phones, loud munching and constant chatter made the watching experience pretty unpleasant.
Dear me where are these cinemas some of you go to? I've never experienced anything like that.
This one was in Northampton town centre whilst visiting friends. Should have put the screen in Nandos.
Hell is Other People.I took the luxury of a midweek morning screening because this behaviour would boil my piss instantly and ruin the film for me.
Indeed. The unbridled joys of working from home self employment!
@Drac They're everywhere mate, 2 kid's in Stafford talked all the way through it. One of them had plainly already seen it so was saying lines before the actors, specifically the final word that RDJ delivered.
OT but well done to St Abbs for making the best of it twinned with New Asgard
Yes! Exactly that. Phones, loud munching and constant chatter made the watching experience pretty unpleasant.
Oh! My comment about the high-fiving family went unnoticed on the previous page. Well, except by the high-fiver who thought it was perfectly ok...
Our cinema was in Portsmouth and amazingly was pretty quiet through the film. I think sometimes you just get lucky and don't sit near the arseholes.
They’re everywhere mate, 2 kid’s in Stafford talked all the way through it. One of them had plainly already seen it so was saying lines before the actors, specifically the final word that RDJ delivered.
Why tolerate it? Did you report it at the time?
@Drac - I was about to ask the same question.
There were a couple of girls constantly chattering when we saw Infinity War, I turned round & told them to shut up, they did & I'm pretty sure I heard a small cheer from the nearby audience when I did. Although that could've been my self-righteousness.
Saw it last week was not sympathetic to people who couldn't/wouldn't get a baby sitter for their small children - at least 4 kids under 8 in the audience - when the kids surprise surprise couldn't keep quiet or still during the film. One of them started crying cause he was tired and couldn't get to sleep! Other than that not too bad for pee breaks etc.
Film was very pedestrian at times, Capt Marvel not in it enough, otherwise it was a satisfactory wrap up of a pretty enormous set of story lines.
OT but well done to St Abbs for making the best of it twinned with New Asgard
There's been lots of fans in St Abbs since the film came out. It's been really good!!
New Asgard, aka Tønsberg. A town of 41,000 inhabitants that seemed to have shrunk a lot in the movie.
I'm hoping for a spin-off series that shows the Asgardians arriving and having to deal with Norwegian bureaucracy. Korg and Miek being interviewed on their education and employment history in the local NAV office would make me chuckle.
saw it yesterday - i loved all the Cap. America movies more than most of the others, except Infinity War which i thought set the bar really high, Endgame really underwhelmed me, and i felt it lost all momentum and promise of what could have been a great film bogged down in Thor's (badly acted IMHO) 'crushed' king/leader and "back to the future 2" dont interact with yourself or your mum gubbins....and for some reason i really did not like what they did with Thanos...
going to wrap the entire ramble of mine in spoilers (hopefully)
First off the bat - Thanos - to me he was never an out and out power hungry conquer the universe baddie, he had an ideal to save the universe from itself, from what i could see he never ruled the planets or worlds he conquered, he just killed half of them and moved on - trying to bring balance to the universe, not power, hence his destroying the stones!!!!.........and when done he goes off quietly and enjoys living on a farm - and as he says, it was never anything personal, for him it was as greater duty to bring this to the universe, as Odin bringing order to countless worlds under his reign........so to have him killed by petty vengance from thor seemed a little much to me and just a "oh shock horror they are never going to get everyone back" , until antman pops out.... and for me i could just see the entire movie plot from then on and lost a lot of interest - especially as they seem to contrive any way possible to make it "fun" to insert future avengers into past movies and characters. (again Back to the Future 2 anyone!)
we also didnt really get to see much with the 5 YEARS AFTER universe , i didnt feel the gravity of what was done by Thanos, apart from everyone is sad and no one is moving on, and yet from the looks of it, there is mostly peace? - perhaps for me a better plotline would be a few of the Avengers saying "you know, we've had enough, its done, we lost and actually we are more peaceful this way and actually we DO NOT want to go back to every week earth about to be flattened by some new creature", in fact i thought Tony Stark was going to bring that in, until after 2 mins he had managed to figure out quantum time leaping....
then we had all back to the future 2 crap which i didnt like
then we had past Thanos come to the future - which he never really had to do ! i almost shouted at the screen "WHY!?!!?"
he has 100% proof he succeeded in getting the stones and winning , but he now has the knowledge that in the future the Avengers will try something after thats done. so he sits tight, does it all how it supposed to pan out, and when he comes to snap his fingers he also kills the remaining avengers that he knows will try and travel to the past. job done. end of movie.
and here is where i didnt like what happened with Thanos - his motivation to go the future was nonsense, which for me then breaks all timelines and stops the Avengers from doing what they were going to do - take the stones from the past and reverse Thanos-snap with their own in the future, without Thanos knowing - but now he's come from the past and into the future, so there is no Thanos in the past anymore to do what he needs to do.
now the movie is broken.
big battle, everyone happy to see 5 years people back with them with a nod and a smile...
oh no still going to lose
cap marvel tacked on again (why she wasnt there at the start - ah well lets forget that), yay she can destroy ships - yet somehow cannot destroy thanos without the stones
oh no still going to lose
little brown truck lives
oh no still going to lose
tony stark - yay everyone lives
so ultimatley the film was from me Back to the future 2, something that failed on so many levels , only we dont have back to the future 3 to save it.
I was disappointed there wasn’t a Thor getting back in shape montage.
"ultimatley the film was from me Back to the future 2, something that failed on so many levels"
You are dead to me
It bothered me that the blue stone seemed to be in two places - the Tesseract and Loki's sceptre - so I went and looked up what all the gems were. It transpires that the stone in the sceptre is in fact the yellow Mind Stone and for some inexplicable reason glows blue when in the sceptre.
Then I spotted this.
The Space Stone (blue) was in the Tesseract; Soul (orange) collected from Vision's head; Reality (red) held in the Aether; Time (green) in Dr Strange's necklace; Power (purple) in the Orb; and Mind (yellow) in the Sceptre.
Tesseract
Head
Aether
Necklace
Orb
Sceptre
T.H.A.N.O.S.
Mind. Blown.
That's insanely nerdy !
Shoulder. Shrugged.
😆
I'm sure you could get that to go viral if you shared it in the right place 🙂
Uhhh except that the Soul stone was the one being lurked over by the red skull and the mind stone in vision's head was the one in the sceptre?
Still works if you replace Head with "Hole in the ground" though.
It's where Thanos collected them all from though, isn't it?
Or am I totally wrong?
Yes, but not totally. Just enough.
Thanos got the soul stone from Vormir.
Head and Sceptre are the same stone. So that's
T.H.A.N.O.V
But that is anagram of HOT VAN, so may refer to the location of a crucial character at the beginning of Endgame. MIND STILL BLOWN!
Damn it, you're right. It was the Mind Stone in Vision's noggin (which I guess would make sense).
Wait, it still works though because the Soul Stone was being guarded by Red Skull:
Tesseract
Head
Aether
Necklace
Orb
Skull
... though that's a little more tenuous.
Watched 'Winter Soldier' last night again (probably my favourite of the Marvels, that or Ragnarok). in light of Endgame I found the scene were Cap visits Peggy to be a bit 'open to interpretation'. When did the full story arc of the last 6 or 7 episodes get pencilled in?
Captain America in the end of the movie :
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i've tried the <spoiler> thing but it doest work - dont read below if you not seen the Endgame movie!
<spoiler>
'parantly Russo brothers have said/suggested that Captain America going back to deliver the stones
he then met up with peggy which began an alternate timeline we have never seen*, so how did he get back to the "original" timeline we are viewing..? well they say perhaps he got help for a certain Tony Stark in his timeline.
*this would mean there would be 2 captain america's in that timeline - given he would have to marry peggy after the real timeline version of him is frozen and then dethawed, and it means we can assume he helps stop anything of the original movies from happening in his alternate timeline.
</spoiler>
</spoiler>
square brackets [ , roady_tony, not < (hang on! You did it, up there ^^ !! 😆 )
Friend going to see Endgame tonight says it's still selling out cinemas. People are going for repeat viewings. Weirdos!
square brackets
a spoiler- hey it works, i think i forgot which forum i was on last post
" began an alternate timeline we have never seen"
I think that's pretty open to interpretation- it could be cap's own timeline, rather than a whole trousers of time different universe thing. There's nothing really to stop him from just living a quiet life in the background and not affecting the main course, and that'd land him back at the end of the film.
there is an entire series about Agent Carter where she is single and still pinning for Frozen Cap....so that wouldnt make sense...neither would any clips of her in the original Cap America movies as an old woman .
plus - future-in-the-past-Cap america would just not stand around while all the movies are going on around him, that goes against his entire character/personality.
future-in-the-past-Cap america would just not stand around while all the movies are going on around him
They should have made Old Cap look like Stan Lee, that would have sorted it out.