I Want to Know What all this Avengers Endgame Stuff is About

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@AlsoNamedBort

Yes, and what makes these movies good is that it usually comes down to who can outsmart the other one instead of who punches the hardest.

Which movies?

MCU movies, for the most part, seem to be all about punching cgi hordes. I’d love to see someone use their brains for practical solutions. How about some solution that is more chess-like, maneuvering the villain into a position that he is trapped. True, Stark did that in the first Iron Man, but when it comes to the big climactic battle of the premier movies, it’s all about punching innumerable interchangeable troops.

And DC isn’t any better. Superman is supposed to be a 12th level thinker, and Batman is the world’s greatest detective, but do either of them show any of that in the recent films? Heck, Adam West Batman at least used his lab to solve crimes.

[AlsoNamedBort]

@Just_Asking_Questions

Which movies?

MCU movies, for the most part, seem to be all about punching cgi hordes. I’d love to see someone use their brains for practical solutions. How about some solution that is more chess-like, maneuvering the villain into a position that he is trapped. True, Stark did that in the first Iron Man, but when it comes to the big climactic battle of the premier movies, it’s all about punching innumerable interchangeable troops.

To name a few:
Thor 2 + 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
Ant-Man
Doctor Strange

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@AlsoNamedBort

To name a few:
Thor 2 + 3
Guardians of the Galaxy
Ant-Man
Doctor Strange

Also,

“Hail Hydra.”

[control-z]

FWIW, the ones I really enjoyed were:

Iron Man
The Avengers
Avengers Age of Ultron
Captain America Civil War
Guardians of the Galaxy
Avengers Infinity War
Avengers Endgame

You will get most of the overall story from that. Personally I don’t care about the plot that much. I vaguely remember “tesseracts” and “stones” in some of the movies but had no idea it was an overall theme/arc. I’m really in it for the banter and the flashy battle scenes.

[Miller]

@Just_Asking_Questions

Which movies?

Iron Man, as you mentioned. Doctor Strange is the alpha example, as he beats his big bad by letting himself get killed hundreds over and over and over, until the bad guy gives up. The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie is won through the main cast standing around holding hands. The climax of Winter Soldier involves a lot of punching between Cap and Bucky, but ultimately Cap wins by convincing Bucky to fight his brainwashing. And there’s no big punch-'em-up with Robert Redford’s character. Ragnarok ends with a big fight, but the maneuver that gets them the win is blowing up Asgard so the villain can’t use its power anymore, which is at least interesting tactics. Civil War climaxes in a fist fight between Captain America and Iron Man, but it explicitly doesn’t solve anything, and is meant to be seen as a failure of the Avengers as a team that it got to that point. Meanwhile, Black Panther just talks to Zemo until the cops show up to arrest him, expressly making the point that nothing would be served by another fight.

[Chronos]

…That [The Other Waldo Pepper’s post] being a spoiler for how someone did something smart in Endgame.

And several of the villains in Ant-Man and the Wasp were largely defeated by ordinary friends of the protagonist doing ordinary-people things.

[Equipoise]

@Chronos

And there’s a scene in Thor with Thor and Jane Foster eating breakfast together in the camper she’s living in at the time. That’s about as explicit as you can get in a PG-13 movie.

IIRC, there’s also confirmation that Dr. Strange and his love interest have slept together (in a broom closet at work, no less).

Star Lord is a notorious hornddog who can’t even remember the names of the women he slept with. He only starts to settle down after he falls in love with Gamora.

In Guardians of the Galaxy 2 the Ravagers visit a brothel with cyborg prostitutes.

[muldoonthief]

@Equipoise

Star Lord is a notorious hornddog who can’t even remember the names of the women he slept with. He only starts to settle down after he falls in love with Gamora.

If you’ll lie with an A’askavariian, you’ll lie with anyone.

[Alessan]

@Equipoise

Star Lord is a notorious hornddog who can’t even remember the names of the women he slept with. He only starts to settle down after he falls in love with Gamora.

Even then, he still defines himself as her “long-term booty call”.

[Sir_T-Cups]

Soooo it’s been a while.

Did you watch any movies? Watch Endgame? How was it?

[Miller]

@Equipoise

Star Lord is a notorious hornddog who can’t even remember the names of the women he slept with. He only starts to settle down after he falls in love with Gamora.

There’s even an on-screen joke that the interior of his space ship is covered in sperm.

(“If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollack painting.”)

[iiandyiiii]

So did the OP ever see the movie (or any of the lead-up movies)? If so, what are their thoughts?