No, you're right. Infinity war is the better movie but endgame was the better event. Endgame is almost a perfect fanservice movie and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Infinity war is not that good either. Everything is preventable but the heroes forgot how to heroe and make very bad decisions

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

Agreed. Infinity War was so dumb, I never even bothered to see Endgame. In that sense, it had the same effect on me as The Last Jedi, but at least MCU had an overarching story planned which is more than can be said for the Disney SW trilogy.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

Infinity War has its faults. It's paced a little nonstop and the Wakanda bits are a bit weak. That being said, I saw it ten times in the cinema and it's the perfect movie for me. I swear -- the tail end of Thanos being on Titan to the end of the movie, you can feel how somber it was and I feel that's because of the connection to the characters. We can always say "oh they're coming back" but I like to watch the movie on its own and remember just how it felt watching the movie for the first time.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah infinity war was better, I knew this the moment Thanos ripped that planet down with the power and space stones

[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Endgame is great in terms of fanservice, but IW is just a far more solid film

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm still pissed that the McGuffin in that movie was basic-ass time travel, when they had the way cooler McGuffin of the Quantum Realm they could have explored.

To make matters even worse, it's seeming like the real reason they did the time travel BS was so they could start the multiverse BS, so they had a justification to continue pumping out garbage content.

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Completely agree! Though time travel wasn't a MacGuffin, it was just a plot contrivance. A Macguffin is an interchangeable irrelavent object used to drive the motivation for the plot. The "tesseract" in Avengers, or the "Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone" in Harry Potter for example.

Sorry to be pedantic, I fully agree with your actual point, and just thought you might want to know.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Lol thank you, I genuinely appreciate the pedantry

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

It's also just a bad time travel movie because the purpose of it was to be appeal to self-contained nostalgia. Like, "hey, remember all these OTHER movies you saw that built up to this one? Well, they're going to revisit these in minor, superficial ways at the very end of our huge event." Yeah, dog, I don't care about those movies anymore and they weren't very entertaining to begin with. Just get to the ball numbing action violence.

[–] sederx@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'm so sick of time travel

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed. My main takeaway from it was that my butt hurt after sitting in the theater for that long.

[–] BanditMcDougal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I fell asleep during it in the theater. It was so insanely boring.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

You’ll have my bow.