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Saturday, April 28th, 2018 09:52 pm (UTC)
It does all the things a megasuperblockbuster is supposed to do, but lacks the soul and catharsis that the original Avengers movie had. I've been 'hearing' the Avengers theme in my head all weekend - that brassy, hopeful emotional tone that was entirely missing from the end of IW. I think that says a lot about what I missed from this movie.

That's a really great way of putting it, yeah. And this film really is defeatist -- I mean yeah, if it's Thanos's biopic/story/whatever, he wins, end of film. The next film will, apparently literally, be all about reversing it (and won't it be interesting to see if audiences will buy that. Again, literally buy it). But like I was just saying elsewhere, this film shows the gang defeated over and over and over again. Nothing works, and in fact their typical love-saves-us-all/we-don't-bargain-for-lives philosophy not only doesn't work, the writers rig it so that makes Thanos succeed (Gamora trying to save Nebula, Wanda trying to save Vision until too late, Strange trying to save Tony. Altho apparently the theory is Strange has set this all up for Tony to save the day -- bleah).

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