Avengers: Infinity War

Might as well get this rolling. Footage was shown at D23 -- nothing official released yet but here's a very spoiler-heavy discussion of said footage:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-footage-from-avengers-infinity-war-blows-awa-1796948476

Etc. etc.

Plus, Black Order characters now known

https://io9.gizmodo.com/thanos-black-order-and-infinity-gauntlet-have-been-reve-1796952158

Ahhhh, cool. I'd kinda been wondering if they'd incorporate some of Hickman's material into the next Avengers movies, as his run is readymade for big screen epic insanity.

Whole lotta Avengin'

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/k4umfbkielbit0zqgpyf.png

I'm becoming gravely concerned that Thanos is going to be horribly boring in these.

I miss the dissolve btw

https://thedissolve.com/news/2895-op-ed-thanos-hasnt-starred-in-a-movie-yet-and-im-a/

Assume the marvel brain trust will use infinity stone related cgi hijinx do the heavy lifting. Replacing thanos doing insane shit with character development

maybe if they bring back Blanchett's Hela to be his sweetheart like in the Ultimates or whatever, he can be a little bit more interesting than the "I deserve to be the ultimate galactic tyrant why because I said so" they've given him and almost every other MCU villain as a motivation

so you’re talking about this basically?

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Marvel-May-Make-Major-Change-Thanos-Story-Infinity-War-107577.html

I welcome more Cate and less shitty cgi death person as love interest

Yes, that. Also, if we can get a Thanos-Hela DENIED meme out of it, that could also be culturally important

Trailer!...

...tomorrow.

But you can enjoy this now. It reveals nothing.

Thank you to the best fans in the universe! Marvel Studios' "Avengers: #InfinityWar" Trailer TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/2F1E0A81Bt

— The Avengers (@Avengers) November 28, 2017

my ILM friend that's editing this trailer as we speak is um not fond of it

took me way longer than it should have to realise you weren’t talking about an I love music poster there

I've a feeling A:IW will be a bit of a turd. Serious, blowing up loads of shit Marvel has peaked, it's their quirkier films that are more artistically successful now.

I also feel that this movie I know nothing about will be bad like a piece of poop.

hey me too

Bet Marvel are quaking now!

Man, if the trailer editing guy isn't on board, this culmination of a nine-year, $5 billion franchise is doomed.

she is not a guy

and unsurprisingly she works on a lot of garbage she doesn't like, as you might expect

All people are guys, see US v The Electric Company (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZfuNTqbHE8

Okay, I guess?

Whole lotta' Avengin'

I'm exhausted just from the trailer.
that said, the latest Marvel I saw - I think it was Ultron or was it Civil War... or both ! - was already too much of fights/destruction/everything for me.

Definitely released a few sneaky endorphins TBH. I reaaly hate Spidey's shiny outfit though.

Is this still gonna be two parts?

Apparently the second one is currently untitled and no longer Infinity War Part 2. Make of that what you will.

that said, the latest Marvel I saw - I think it was Ultron or was it Civil War... or both ! - was already too much of fights/destruction/everything for me.

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:15 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Keep going, dude. All three movies released this year had a ton of laughs and fun to offset the crazy action setpieces.

starlord has a moustache wtf

the other annoying thing for me is that IronMan, arguably my favourite avenger as a kid, spends most of his time in (ugly) clothes instead of his armor (with helmet on !) nowadays...

I do like Parker's Spidey-sense.

Although I know that, in the self-mocking way of these movies, it will probably be referred to exactly that way on screen by Downey: "What, you have some sort of 'spidey sense' or something?"

Thanos looks idiotic, although that's no change from the comics

Otherwise trailer seemed like a boring slugfest

Also: No Paul Rudd, and a whole two (2) women

I see Spider-Man, but... no Ned, no deal!

I counted 5 women (Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Okoye, Gamora, Mantis; no Wasp or Nebula)

I missed Gamora and Mantis but counted a whole 9 seconds featuring women in the trailer

as someone who loves to complain about the proliferation of superhero movies, this is an absurd complaint

also kind of silly to expect anything near equal representation considering every single one of their current toplining characters is male

that's an excuse, not a justification

I see Spider-Man, but... no Ned, no deal!

Quite right. Oh wait.

Ned is in the movie according to Wikipedia, as is Shuri. (Also lol that this trailer is basically a series of low-level spoilers for the Black Panter movie)

Like, I'm pretty sure everyone is expecting Black Panther to make it out of his own movie alive but it wasn't guaranteed that Okeye would until this trailer came out, plus Shuri is listed in the Wikipedia cast.

that's an excuse, not a justification

it's neither - just a reminder of their shitty state of affairs on this score

Speaking of which, where is Monica Rambeau?

it's neither - just a reminder of their shitty state of affairs on this score

so we agree, then - great!

i really enjoy the MCU movies, just this trailer seems to double down on everything i find least enjoyable about them (i.e. fight scenes, brooding, thanos cgi)

hopefully movie won't reflect trailer etc

I appreciate the one-two

.@JohnBoyega is all of us watching the #Avengers​ #InfinityWar trailer... 😂 pic.twitter.com/RguGFWM92s

— IGN (@IGN) November 29, 2017

Yall know I was watching star wars right? 👀👀👀👀😂😂😂 https://t.co/PojthPjDXA

— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) November 29, 2017

A short new thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxOVlm_lE8

One less week to wait before we all get to go infinitying.

Apparently two and a half hours long. (How else are they going to show everyone.)

eheh, yes, of course I know that like many other things, you just have to accept this is how it goes in this universe...
and I think I haven't read a comic book since... the 80s !

I think at the beginning of the main battle, there's a moment with Star-Lord (?) when they just talk for a little while and there's NOBODY around them...

Comic superheroes frequently engage in a sprightly half hour monologue while engaging in a bout of fisticuffs that couldn't possibly last more than a few minutes. It's like a secondary superpower.

i really enjoyed Paul Rudd's bewildered take on everything. refreshingly human in the midst of all this steely confidence.

can't agree that the CGI faces looked good. they looked bad.

It looked tight, shame about the CGI kids

https://cdn3.movieweb.com/i/article/JUUQa4WjfKMZ7RD9sobATvTZRR22z3/738:50/Avengers-Endgame-Professor-Hulk-Out-Clip.jpg

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Finally got around to seeing this last night. This was pretty good, about as good as an ensemble superhero movie could probably get.

It held up on a rewatch pretty well too. Still think going quiet for the first hour was the key move.

yeah, I think having the avengers immediately going out and easily killing Thanos and then not knowing what to do next was pretty effective for setting the right mood

Getting very close to Avatar now in All Time Worldwide.

Is there a reason for the discrepancy between this and Force Awakens in terms of the split between US/Overseas takings?

xp oh shit thanos was bin laden

the snap was an inside job

blues did 1/2

Is there a reason for the discrepancy between this and Force Awakens in terms of the split between US/Overseas takings?

Endgame seems to be doing much better in China: almost 1/3 of its non-US profits are from there, whereas with Force Awakens the same number was 1/10... And for Last Jedi the ratio is even less than one tenth. Apparently Star Wars just isn't that big in China, mostly because the original trilogy never made it to the cinemas there, so SW never became a big cultural phenomenon.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-movies-chinese-box-office-bomb-explained

https://media.knzk.me/media_attachments/files/005/372/335/original/06650af9b74dbe9e.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EylDlSz.jpg

When does this open?

so many people who need lives

Wrote @ringer about the Marvel fans who were so invested in Avengers: Endgame breaking the all-time box office record that they saw it 20 or more times, and why they wanted to #BeatAvatar.https://t.co/BWwxEqhmm6

— Ben Lindbergh (@BenLindbergh) July 26, 2019

They could have been seeing Ready Player One instead!

Florida man Agustin Alanis saw Endgame 200 times—more than 25 days’ worth of watching—in its first 89 days in theaters.

I am fairly certain there is no film I've ever seen more than, let's say, 15 times in my entire life

Even RDJ's embedded tweet in that article seems to be rolling its eyes ...

Get a new re-release on life and make #ENDGAME #1....
c’mon, there’s “new stuff” and everything... pic.twitter.com/92Vx74OnVh

— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) June 26, 2019

Also, calculating average ticket prices in 2019, that incel who saw it 200 times spent $1,802 of his parents' dinero to achieve this epic, historic goal.

Look I'm as big a Marvel Zombie as you'll find around these parts but these folks is sick

let's tell these dorks about the era-adjusted GWTW record and they can stay in the theater til they expire

They could've just written Disney a check.

Author kept his shade in check for most of the piece but ...

So Endgame may or may not have actually made more money than Avatar, even if we pretend that the two competed on even footing. Oh, and Avatar stands a good chance of reclaiming the record if, as expected, it’s re-released again in advance of 2021’s Avatar 2. All of that argues against making too much of this, but “it’s an important part of the industry, just from a marketing perspective,” Nash says. “The studios benefit from being able to say that they’re breaking records.”

That doesn’t mean we consumers have to swallow that line, but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one; Martin mentions that it’s “cool as a fan to be able to be a part of something big, such as helping a movie that is one for the ages.” If Avatar ever reclaims the top spot, he says, he’ll still take consolation in knowing that Endgame “was no. 1 at one point in time.”

so glad these pathetic losers are finding consolation

My reaction is roughly comparable to instances of mid-level employees hip-hip-hooraying about their company achieving some financial goal which will (by design) not affect the hooray-ers in any material way. And that reaction is: sad.

So glad those quadzillionaires can buy another fleet of yachts, you so deserve it guys.

“If you bought a ticket to see Endgame in theaters, congratulations, hero,” Douglass says before signing off. Not all heroes wear capes. Some go see blockbusters 200 times.

LOL, I was reading the whole piece thinking "forget Avatar: Endgame, give Jack Douglass the Oscar."

I saw it a second time and had a blast. I could see probably watching it once more sometime down the road.

"but it’s fun to feel like a winner, if only by being associated with one" is the entire rationale behind following soccer teams (as wells as other sports probably, idk)

So I finally watched this. It's...ok! It was kinda fun having only seen a handful of the movies leading up to it (the Guardians ones, the last Thor, Infinity War, maybe one of the other Avengers movies, an Iron Man or two), in the same way that reading a random comic and having to infer or imagine what all the references mean is fun.

For most of the movie my partner thought that "Bucky" was a weird nickname that Captain America had for the woman he left behind in the past.

For most of the movie my partner thought that "Bucky" was a weird nickname that Captain America had for the woman he left behind in the past.

I mean... given some of the slash fic that exists, this isn't too far off tbh.

fucky morelike amirite 😂😂😂

i loved this movie but it really was Left Behind for superheroes, eh?

Never read the books, but based on the plot description, doesn't "Left Behind for superheroes" apply better to Endgame? Since that one deals with the actual repercussions of Thanos's fingersnap?

this thread covers both halves of this two-part movie

Ah.

My daughter watched "Endgame" again last night. Still think it's super weird that the kid from "Iron Man 3" gets a cameo appearance at the funeral. I had totally forgotten who that was all over again and had to look it up. Doesn't help, of course, that he is no longer a little kid, but even having seen "Iron Man 3" again more recently than "Endgame," I didn't even know the character's name

i think it's "Pepper Potts"

Salt Shaka.

Idk, that's the kind of narrative continuity that I appreciate and makes it feel a little more like the comics. I mean, even by IM3 Tony was still mostly a stand-offish asshole, but that kid broke through to him and it just showed that he stuck with the kid as a mentor after gifting him that whole new lab.

No prob with the kid being there, but he's only in the one movie, has never been mentioned or referenced since, and is one of the only people in that pile of funeral guests who is not a superhero or movie star. Plus there is absolutely no one that saw this and recognized him as that kid at that time, anyway, because he is five years older and literally looks totally different. I guess that makes him a really conspicuous human easter egg?

i do find it amusing that any lessons Tony learns about not being a jackass pretty much fade by the next movie's start.

well...not anymore i guess

xpost - I mean, it's the MCU, so I wouldn't write him out just yet. According to wikipedia, the actor has a three film deal for the MCU and has appeared in two so far... so, who knows. Now maybe that's just the standard contract they sign with minor characters to leave their options open, but who knows.

Be funny if that contract was iron clad, and the MCU is struggling to justify another two second cameo in one of the upcoming movies.

There were some rumors swirling that he'd put on the armor as Iron Lad in a Young Avengers spin-off.

Avenger: "If only we knew where Tony hid that last transponder tech doodad."
Random young guy at funeral: "I think I know a garage in Tennessee where we can find one ... "

Oof, insult to injury, I think the entire 6 paragraph wiki description of the Iron Man 3 plot doesn't even mention the kid once!