Avengers: Endgame Review, Part 1
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iariaSo that was a lot. A lot happened. There's a lot to process. I feel the need to go watch it again right now. But overall I really enjoyed the movie. It was a great experience and those 3 hours passed quickly. I'm... satisfied with how things played out and with how everything tied together. I'm really upset about one thing in a 'that was great but also Nooooooo :( forever' way and there were a few things that I didn't like but overall it came together pretty well. It'll be interesting to see how I feel about it after more time has passed.
It's pretty late and I have a lot of thoughts but need to get to bed so this is going to have to be divided into two parts.
+ Tony, oh Tony. D: D: D: Tears forever. I need some fix it fic stat. I figured it would come down to Tony or Steve dying but I'd convinced myself that it wouldn't be Tony. RDJ loves the character and would be down for cameos while Evans wants out; RDJ started the whole MCU so I could see them ending it with his happy ending; Wong was invited to the wedding! So it really hit me hard. D: D: I'm really sad. There were tears at the theatre and I'm feeling kind of down now.
And yet that said I thought how it all played out was excellent. Loved it all. That moment between Tony and Strange with Strange holding up one finger and Tony understanding, and Tony stealing the Stones and using his nano-suit to create his own Gauntlet and "I am Iron Man", was all perfect. Seriously loved it.
Just not the fact that he actually died. Where's Helen Cho!? Or Carol can give him a transfusion of her Kree blood and save him like Yon-Rogg saved her? Or magic, Strange get your ass in gear! There is so much advanced science and magic floating around... I may be in stage denial right now. If he'd survived I would have considered it a perfect ending for the character. As is I can't imagine the MCU without Tony Stark. What about all those cameos we deserve?
+ I'm... pleased with how Tony's death goodbye scene played out - that Rhodey got there first and was able to say his goodbye, that Peter got a goodbye, and with Pepper coming in at the end, gently moving Peter aside, and Tony holding her hand against his reactor as she tearfully assured him that they would be okay. "It's okay. We'll be okay. You can rest now."... and now there are tears again. The funeral was also wonderfully done.
+ I loved that Nat took over running what was basically some combination of Avengers/SHIELD. The Avengers were Natasha's family and I'm sad that she didn't get the chance to have them back.
+ Natasha dying I wasn't expecting until they actually got to the planet and I remembered that oh yeah a sacrifice had to be made. I figured that it would be her because Clint had his family waiting for him if they succeeded. I really loved their fight over who would get to sacrifice themselves for the Soul Stone. It was so well done, that whole sequence. The love they feel for each other, the moves each makes to beat the other to the cliff, that final moment. It worked so well and was one of my favourite scenes.
+ I wish we'd gotten a moment of goodbye at the end for Natasha- more than just Clint and Wanda's moment of shared grief over her and Vision. Like, we could see Clint release another bundle of flowers with something of Nat's on the water and it pulls back to show everyone there for Natasha too.
+ "I love you 3000." Tony as a father was so great. I loved him with Morgan. She was super adorable. He was a good dad and now I'm sad again.
+ What we got of Tony/Pepper was wonderful but I'm greedy and just wanted more of them. I loved that they're happily married. I loved that she was at Avengers headquarters when Tony showed up. I really liked how the scene played out where he reveals that he figured out time travel. That they didn't repeated her trying to hold him back nonsense. I loved (and cried) at their goodbye. :(
+ Tony and Peter's reunion was wonderful, and the hug! I loved Peter going on about what happened and Tony just hugging him in relief and joy and Peter's "This is nice." It's everything I wanted.
+ I'm the most uncertain of Thor's storyline out of everyone's, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. The initial reveal was very unexpected, and funny because of that. And Thor completely losing it for those five years and drowning himself in drink and despair isn't completely out of nowhere. Plus it's five years out of 1500 so I think he can wallow for a while in his guilt and grief. And yet they took it too far. I wish he'd sobered up and gotten into the game quicker than he did. He did get several great moments of pathos/emotion - him pleading to be allowed to use the Gauntlet to make up for his failure hit me hard, for example. But for too much of the movie he was used as comic relief and I really wish they'd stopped that far sooner.
+ I loved Thor's reunion with Frigga. I didn't know she was going to be in it, then I thought it was only going to be that cameo and then she sensed him and they got this whole amazing reunion scene. He got a hug from his mom again, and advice and to feel her love and it was beautiful. One of my favourite scenes of the movie. I am so glad they put this in here.
+ I was disappointed that we didn't see Thor and Loki interact at all but that gag of Thor sneaking past Loki's cell as Loki threw his ball in boredom was amusing. Still, where's Thor's grief for Loki and desire to see him? It should have been there as much as it was for Frigga.
+ Loki doesn't come back with the Snapped and yet this movie only confirmed for me that he is totally alive, yup, 100%. Past Loki escaped with the Tesseract. ... he's alive. He had some plan, that appeared to be him dying but he really didn't and the sun will rise upon them again.
+ I am happy that Steve and Peggy got their happy ending together. I've always liked them so it was nice. That said - it makes no sense to me? So Steve married Peggy in the 1970s and has been around in the background this entire time? Steve Rogers was fine not trying to help anyone? He never tried to save Bucky? He had no problem not mentioning to Peggy that Hydra was infiltrating her SHIELD as she was building it? No one knew he was around? Did he spend those years hiding from everyone who knew him and was no one suspicious that they never met Peggy's husband? ... what? It's kind of nonsense, honestly. I'm not sure I can buy it working like that on a character level let alone a timeline one.
+ Steve wielding Mjolnir was pretty great. But at the same time him using it to wield lightning made me stop and go "uhhh????" I always thought lightning was a Thor thing not a hammer thing. It was weird and a little off-putting.
+ I loved the Steve vs Steve fight. Lots of fun. And I loved his little smirk after leaving the Hydra elevator with the staff.
+ I thought Carol was used really well. She came, helped take out Thanos, went off to help the rest of universe and then only returned to be kickass in the final battle. My one issue was that she wasn't called in when they decided to go with their time heist plan. Simply one line from Nat about Carol being out of communication and that she left her a message would have been enough. But yeah, she was used so well in that final battle. Loved her taking out Thanos's ship and her part trying to move the Gauntlet.
Another of my favourite scenes in the movie was that final Carol vs Thanos and her taking him on and winning. She was stronger than him, she was beating him, and I loved everything about it. If she'd been in Infinity Wars he wouldn't have won. Thanos removing the Space (?) Stone to knock her away was also such a great move. He was scared of her and it forced him to think and get creative, so nice.
+ I really loved after Steve pulled himself back up ready to keep facing Thanos and his army we get Sam's "on your left" and a portal suddenly appears behind him and T'Challa/Okoye/Shuri walk out and then more portals appear with more people, lost people, an army of people at his back ready to fight. It was such an uplifting wonderful moment.
+ I loved the game of pass they ended up playing with the Gauntlet during the final battle. From Clint to T'Challa to Peter to Carol, with numerous other people acting as interference. It was amazing. That whole final is one I need to watch over and over because I know I missed so much but Rescue saving Peter and giving him a lift during one part stuck out and I loved it.
+ I loved that Nebula going into the past had such unexpected consequences. That she and her past self were on the same network and that ended up leading Thanos to them. It was a clever way to make him a threat again.
+ I was pleased that Gamora had a bigger role than I was expecting and the focus on her relationship with Nebula. But I was really sad that past!Nebula was killed.
+ I was disappointed that Nebula and Gamora weren't there when Thanos died. They really deserved to be. It should have been them he was looking at as he turned to dust.
+ I enjoyed Professor Hulk. I loved that moment in 2012 when he half-heartedly 'smash's' his way on his mission, hee.
It's pretty late and I have a lot of thoughts but need to get to bed so this is going to have to be divided into two parts.
+ Tony, oh Tony. D: D: D: Tears forever. I need some fix it fic stat. I figured it would come down to Tony or Steve dying but I'd convinced myself that it wouldn't be Tony. RDJ loves the character and would be down for cameos while Evans wants out; RDJ started the whole MCU so I could see them ending it with his happy ending; Wong was invited to the wedding! So it really hit me hard. D: D: I'm really sad. There were tears at the theatre and I'm feeling kind of down now.
And yet that said I thought how it all played out was excellent. Loved it all. That moment between Tony and Strange with Strange holding up one finger and Tony understanding, and Tony stealing the Stones and using his nano-suit to create his own Gauntlet and "I am Iron Man", was all perfect. Seriously loved it.
Just not the fact that he actually died. Where's Helen Cho!? Or Carol can give him a transfusion of her Kree blood and save him like Yon-Rogg saved her? Or magic, Strange get your ass in gear! There is so much advanced science and magic floating around... I may be in stage denial right now. If he'd survived I would have considered it a perfect ending for the character. As is I can't imagine the MCU without Tony Stark. What about all those cameos we deserve?
+ I'm... pleased with how Tony's death goodbye scene played out - that Rhodey got there first and was able to say his goodbye, that Peter got a goodbye, and with Pepper coming in at the end, gently moving Peter aside, and Tony holding her hand against his reactor as she tearfully assured him that they would be okay. "It's okay. We'll be okay. You can rest now."... and now there are tears again. The funeral was also wonderfully done.
+ I loved that Nat took over running what was basically some combination of Avengers/SHIELD. The Avengers were Natasha's family and I'm sad that she didn't get the chance to have them back.
+ Natasha dying I wasn't expecting until they actually got to the planet and I remembered that oh yeah a sacrifice had to be made. I figured that it would be her because Clint had his family waiting for him if they succeeded. I really loved their fight over who would get to sacrifice themselves for the Soul Stone. It was so well done, that whole sequence. The love they feel for each other, the moves each makes to beat the other to the cliff, that final moment. It worked so well and was one of my favourite scenes.
+ I wish we'd gotten a moment of goodbye at the end for Natasha- more than just Clint and Wanda's moment of shared grief over her and Vision. Like, we could see Clint release another bundle of flowers with something of Nat's on the water and it pulls back to show everyone there for Natasha too.
+ "I love you 3000." Tony as a father was so great. I loved him with Morgan. She was super adorable. He was a good dad and now I'm sad again.
+ What we got of Tony/Pepper was wonderful but I'm greedy and just wanted more of them. I loved that they're happily married. I loved that she was at Avengers headquarters when Tony showed up. I really liked how the scene played out where he reveals that he figured out time travel. That they didn't repeated her trying to hold him back nonsense. I loved (and cried) at their goodbye. :(
+ Tony and Peter's reunion was wonderful, and the hug! I loved Peter going on about what happened and Tony just hugging him in relief and joy and Peter's "This is nice." It's everything I wanted.
+ I'm the most uncertain of Thor's storyline out of everyone's, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. The initial reveal was very unexpected, and funny because of that. And Thor completely losing it for those five years and drowning himself in drink and despair isn't completely out of nowhere. Plus it's five years out of 1500 so I think he can wallow for a while in his guilt and grief. And yet they took it too far. I wish he'd sobered up and gotten into the game quicker than he did. He did get several great moments of pathos/emotion - him pleading to be allowed to use the Gauntlet to make up for his failure hit me hard, for example. But for too much of the movie he was used as comic relief and I really wish they'd stopped that far sooner.
+ I loved Thor's reunion with Frigga. I didn't know she was going to be in it, then I thought it was only going to be that cameo and then she sensed him and they got this whole amazing reunion scene. He got a hug from his mom again, and advice and to feel her love and it was beautiful. One of my favourite scenes of the movie. I am so glad they put this in here.
+ I was disappointed that we didn't see Thor and Loki interact at all but that gag of Thor sneaking past Loki's cell as Loki threw his ball in boredom was amusing. Still, where's Thor's grief for Loki and desire to see him? It should have been there as much as it was for Frigga.
+ Loki doesn't come back with the Snapped and yet this movie only confirmed for me that he is totally alive, yup, 100%. Past Loki escaped with the Tesseract. ... he's alive. He had some plan, that appeared to be him dying but he really didn't and the sun will rise upon them again.
+ I am happy that Steve and Peggy got their happy ending together. I've always liked them so it was nice. That said - it makes no sense to me? So Steve married Peggy in the 1970s and has been around in the background this entire time? Steve Rogers was fine not trying to help anyone? He never tried to save Bucky? He had no problem not mentioning to Peggy that Hydra was infiltrating her SHIELD as she was building it? No one knew he was around? Did he spend those years hiding from everyone who knew him and was no one suspicious that they never met Peggy's husband? ... what? It's kind of nonsense, honestly. I'm not sure I can buy it working like that on a character level let alone a timeline one.
+ Steve wielding Mjolnir was pretty great. But at the same time him using it to wield lightning made me stop and go "uhhh????" I always thought lightning was a Thor thing not a hammer thing. It was weird and a little off-putting.
+ I loved the Steve vs Steve fight. Lots of fun. And I loved his little smirk after leaving the Hydra elevator with the staff.
+ I thought Carol was used really well. She came, helped take out Thanos, went off to help the rest of universe and then only returned to be kickass in the final battle. My one issue was that she wasn't called in when they decided to go with their time heist plan. Simply one line from Nat about Carol being out of communication and that she left her a message would have been enough. But yeah, she was used so well in that final battle. Loved her taking out Thanos's ship and her part trying to move the Gauntlet.
Another of my favourite scenes in the movie was that final Carol vs Thanos and her taking him on and winning. She was stronger than him, she was beating him, and I loved everything about it. If she'd been in Infinity Wars he wouldn't have won. Thanos removing the Space (?) Stone to knock her away was also such a great move. He was scared of her and it forced him to think and get creative, so nice.
+ I really loved after Steve pulled himself back up ready to keep facing Thanos and his army we get Sam's "on your left" and a portal suddenly appears behind him and T'Challa/Okoye/Shuri walk out and then more portals appear with more people, lost people, an army of people at his back ready to fight. It was such an uplifting wonderful moment.
+ I loved the game of pass they ended up playing with the Gauntlet during the final battle. From Clint to T'Challa to Peter to Carol, with numerous other people acting as interference. It was amazing. That whole final is one I need to watch over and over because I know I missed so much but Rescue saving Peter and giving him a lift during one part stuck out and I loved it.
+ I loved that Nebula going into the past had such unexpected consequences. That she and her past self were on the same network and that ended up leading Thanos to them. It was a clever way to make him a threat again.
+ I was pleased that Gamora had a bigger role than I was expecting and the focus on her relationship with Nebula. But I was really sad that past!Nebula was killed.
+ I was disappointed that Nebula and Gamora weren't there when Thanos died. They really deserved to be. It should have been them he was looking at as he turned to dust.
+ I enjoyed Professor Hulk. I loved that moment in 2012 when he half-heartedly 'smash's' his way on his mission, hee.
