The industry experts knew it was going to have a great opening weekend but the movie surpassed even those expectations.

Agreed. I think it's an aspect of lazy writing.


"Hey, let's kill off this really popular character so we can drum up some great drama but of course we'll have to bring him/her back later because well....he/she is a very popular character!".


Even Game of Thrones is guilty of that.....

Saw it again yesterday, just had to it was so enjoyable but I think twice is enough, there is so much going on in it.

I have to say that I'm not a fan of the "false advertising" in the trailer for it...slight spoiler ahead:




This reminds me of that picturesque scene In "Rogue One" when the TIE Fighter rises up in front of Jyn and hovers there silhouetted in the sun in front of her that was never in the movie. It's like they put stuff in just to get you to watch the movie and that stuff isn't in there...FALSE ADVERTISING!

Other than that, it was good the second time...picked up on a few subtle things that I missed before.

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In Rogue One, the change came from the movie being re-edited to take on a darker tone. It was a VERY wise decision. They dropped the "I rebel" line too.
They ended up with one of the best SW movies because of that. IMO.

Also, a lot of trailers are made early in the shooting schedule for the film so you often end up with shots in the trailer that then later on ended up being cut during the editing process.

Saw it tonight, not greatly impressed. I know you shouldn't over think these fantasy movies but I just find much of the writing to be lazy and sloppy as a series like this goes on, they depend more and more on action and CGI.

I lost count of how many times I thought "Well if you can do THAT why didn't you do it earlier when it would have been decisive?"

The early part of the movie had some great humor however.

Just went to see the movie and thought it had good (if not a tad overdone) effects. I always liked thor's entrance into battle, so cool.

Anyways, after the ending, I figured that I'd take a stab at how part 2 will play out overall.... Thor (with the help of remaining super-heroes) will most likely cut off thanos arm with gauntlet and they'll use it somehow to reverse time and make the world the way it was. Then destroy the stones somehow to banish them so they can't be used again.

For the most part I enjoyed the movie but it suffers from the same pitfall that affects all superhero movies. Namely the problem that you have superheroes with powers who could have easily used them to change the situation but chose not to. I think the writers of these movies struggle in achieving the right balance beteeen giving a superhero enough powers so that they are stronger than humans but not too much power whereby they can easily change any plot situation!

Oh and the Iron Man suit has become ridiculously "advanced". Geordi LaForge couldn't make it do the things it did in IW.

I think the Iron Man suit was made ridiculously good so that Tony would have even a remote chance of fighting Thanos toe to toe. Even then, he still lost.

Like all of the suits since the first movie, they’re following the comic with the armor evolution. Still, I agree, it’s a bit much. Through IM2 and the first Avengers it was good, but then it gets crazy. Seems like they’re trying to go through the full evolution before killing him off.

Oh and then Tony just casually uses his super Star Trek medical device to suture his wound? Sorry but that violent stab wound inflicted by Thanos would have most likely ruptured the abdominal aorta and Tony would have bled out and died in like 2 minutes tops.

I finally just saw the movie. I can now imagine what Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is going to be called...