![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
10 years ago Peter happened to be in LA on a project and was invited to walk the red carpet at the world premier of “Iron Man”. He came out knowing that Marvel had something very special that, if done correctly, could change how the Marvel B list characters were looked at. Marvel had sold the rights to their A list teams to other studios so they had to go with what they had.
6 years ago Caroline and I stood in line for the Marvel Friends and Family screening of the Avengers film waiting with great excitement since we had seen some great films that were the pipe work for this film like Thor and Captain America. We loved it and wanted to see it again right away.
Since then a number of films have been released and the general audience has been introduced to more characters in the Marvel Universe. They did this in two phases, as they put it. The third phase ends with the untitled Avengers movie next year.
When they announced Guardians of the Galaxy, I will admit that I said, ‘Really?’ but it worked. When I heard that Doctor Strange was being filmed, I said, “Please don’t screw it up.” and they didn’t. I was thrilled they were making a Black Panther film and the film itself exceeded any expectations I had for it giving us a whole new world.
They haven’t made a misstep and the question becomes when will they?
Well it won’t be this film that is, in all honesty, ten years in the making.
When I first heard the cast for the film, I had my doubts that you can put that many characters together and not half of them end up as window dressing. I am here to say that they succeeded in gives us that many characters and every single one of them had something to do. The few that didn’t make it in were mentioned as to why they are not there and given good reasons for doing so.
They talk about films on an epic scale. This was an epic film as in things happened that mattered. There is no putting all the toys in the toy box and pulling them out again. Some toys do get broken during the film and others get damaged. There are consequences from our heroes’ decisions and indecision that will have a ripple effect through out the Marvel Universe.
The snark that we expect in the dialogue is there. Peter Parker ends up being useful because of his banter and knowledge of trivia. Some of the best exchanges in my book were between Tony Stark and Stephen Strange who don’t exactly get along. Star Lord gets a couple of fun scenes where he is basically having to deal with not being in charge or recognizing he is not in charge.
Everyone has an agenda and sometimes they mesh and sometimes they are at odds. Amazingly they did deal with most of the elephants in the room with one or two placed carefully in that toy box to be unpacked in the next Avengers’ film.
It clocks in at about 2 hours and 40 minutes but the time goes by very quickly. There is a post credit scene that sets up something down the road but if you have to go to the bathroom, the credits are long enough that you have the time before the last scene since it is all the way at the end.
Solidly acted, well written, and beautifully directed, Avengers Infinity War hits on all cylinders and keeps the Marvel Movie Machine moving forward.
I will say that bringing a tissue or two would not be out of line and having someone to talk to afterwards would be a good idea because you are going to need to talk about this.
Let’s keep spoilers out of this. I want the impact of what I saw be as big for the next viewer. Thank you.
I am grateful that I had an opportunity to see this film with the Marvel Family.
6 years ago Caroline and I stood in line for the Marvel Friends and Family screening of the Avengers film waiting with great excitement since we had seen some great films that were the pipe work for this film like Thor and Captain America. We loved it and wanted to see it again right away.
Since then a number of films have been released and the general audience has been introduced to more characters in the Marvel Universe. They did this in two phases, as they put it. The third phase ends with the untitled Avengers movie next year.
When they announced Guardians of the Galaxy, I will admit that I said, ‘Really?’ but it worked. When I heard that Doctor Strange was being filmed, I said, “Please don’t screw it up.” and they didn’t. I was thrilled they were making a Black Panther film and the film itself exceeded any expectations I had for it giving us a whole new world.
They haven’t made a misstep and the question becomes when will they?
Well it won’t be this film that is, in all honesty, ten years in the making.
When I first heard the cast for the film, I had my doubts that you can put that many characters together and not half of them end up as window dressing. I am here to say that they succeeded in gives us that many characters and every single one of them had something to do. The few that didn’t make it in were mentioned as to why they are not there and given good reasons for doing so.
They talk about films on an epic scale. This was an epic film as in things happened that mattered. There is no putting all the toys in the toy box and pulling them out again. Some toys do get broken during the film and others get damaged. There are consequences from our heroes’ decisions and indecision that will have a ripple effect through out the Marvel Universe.
The snark that we expect in the dialogue is there. Peter Parker ends up being useful because of his banter and knowledge of trivia. Some of the best exchanges in my book were between Tony Stark and Stephen Strange who don’t exactly get along. Star Lord gets a couple of fun scenes where he is basically having to deal with not being in charge or recognizing he is not in charge.
Everyone has an agenda and sometimes they mesh and sometimes they are at odds. Amazingly they did deal with most of the elephants in the room with one or two placed carefully in that toy box to be unpacked in the next Avengers’ film.
It clocks in at about 2 hours and 40 minutes but the time goes by very quickly. There is a post credit scene that sets up something down the road but if you have to go to the bathroom, the credits are long enough that you have the time before the last scene since it is all the way at the end.
Solidly acted, well written, and beautifully directed, Avengers Infinity War hits on all cylinders and keeps the Marvel Movie Machine moving forward.
I will say that bringing a tissue or two would not be out of line and having someone to talk to afterwards would be a good idea because you are going to need to talk about this.
Let’s keep spoilers out of this. I want the impact of what I saw be as big for the next viewer. Thank you.
I am grateful that I had an opportunity to see this film with the Marvel Family.
