I liked it though not quite as much as Infinity War. Was definitely surprised when Thanos was dispatched so early and easily. Liked the idea of a “time-heist” though perhaps the actual episodes could have been cleverer, with more moments like Cap’s “Hail Hydra”. Have mixed feelings about the final battle, it was impressive and the moment when all the dead heroes return was great but I think I would have preferred a smaller battle for a change, maybe just Thanos and his henchmen against the Avengers.
I was also confused about Gamorah and why she seemed to have disappeared from the final scenes but the best explanation I have read is that she had no attachment to any of the characters and there was no real reason for her to stay. Perhaps they could have had a brief scene showing this. Anyway it sets up the next GOTG film nicely, with a range of potential arcs for Gamorah before she presumably returns to the Guardians.
I would love to see a film about Captain America teaming up with Agent Carter in the alternate timeline.
That’s the message I want to convey to people who think changing the language of how we refer to suicide will do anything to change the reality. Commit is a neutral word. You can commit to a school, commit in a relationship, commit a crime, or commit suicide. Trying to force newspeak to make you feel better will not change anything. If you want to prevent suicide, there are a lot of proactive things you can do. Trying to get people to stop saying “commit” is NOT one of them.
Given that the humans who were dusted didn’t live 2 pounds of living bacteria in their wake, I’m going to assume that the 2-6 pounds of living bacteria were left 100% alone in people who were spared, and 100% dusted in the people who weren’t.
I’m not aware of any line in the movies suggesting that the “half of all life” was strictly random down to the cellular organism level.
They already used “Iron Man” during the credits of Iron Man. And the MCU doesn’t repeat themselves - otherwise they would have used “Immigrant Song” again when Thor came blasting out of the Bifrost into Wakanda in Infinity War.
You are missing the point. This is not about causing (or preventing) suicide. This is, for me at least, about the fact that ever since my father’s suicide three decades ago, it has caused a sharp visceral pang or ache every time I hear that terminology (but not just the mention of suicide without “commit”). For the vast majority of that time, I never asked anyone but my wife or close friends to change their wording (my preferred phrase: “took his own life”). Then a year or two ago, I discovered that experts and news organizations had come around to where I had been for all these years. And I started getting the word out.
So fundamentally it’s about an easy way to be respectful of others’ feelings. But sure: you can be the equivalent of the person who stubbornly insists on continuing to call black people “colored” because it’s what they grew up learning, and besides, lots of things are colored, like colored paper. Knock yourself out. Real cool. :mad:
ETA: Grammatically, note that none of the positive uses of “commit” take a direct object with no prepositional phrase. That’s the key difference.
I meant they didn’t reuse it in a different movie, even though it would have been the awesomest use to have it in Infinity War.
And would have been the greatest possible moment of awesome to play it when Thor arrived in Wakanda. I literally just tested it, and even the timing is perfect - if you start the song just as the Bifrost appears and Stormbreaker starts dismembering outriders, it gets to “I come from the land of the ice and snow” just as they show Thor & Rocket & Groot.
That is indeed incredible. I kind of think it would have taken away from the very somber tone they were trying to set in that battle, but I would’ve loved it.
Obviously you’ve missed the umpteen articles and Youtube videos about “And in THIS scene, we see that Hawkeye has eyebrows, clearly calling back to THIS scene in Avengers where, wait for it… Hawkeye ALSO has eyebrows! A true Easter Egg that only MCU true-fans will catch and appreciate.”
It wasn’t really somber at that point though - the outriders were overrunning them, and it looked bad for our heroes, but when Thor appeared and started kicking the shit out of everyone it became triumphant. It honestly isn’t very different from the Thor vs. Hela scene in Ragnarok.
He’s fifteen hundred years old, and killed twice as many enemies as that, so there should be plenty of footage.
