oh, we're using our made-up names?
my sister and i saw infinity war today. we (well, she) got the tickets like two weeks ago for a theater neither of us has ever been to on account of it's in roxbury, south of both of us, and i'm impressed we got seats at all. they were good seats, too.
it was IN. TENSE. seriously, it was like a two and a half hour fight scene, intercut with the occasional leading-up-to-the-fight-scene scene. and every choice over the infinity stones was "save this person you love or let thanos destroy the universe", and it was about half and half for decisions. i mean, loki gave up the tesseract to save thor, stephen strange gave up the time stone to save tony (altho he'd also seen the one instance where the avengers win over thanos, and i'm not sure he even liked tony, so i think that was actually less him giving up the stone to save someone he loved and more him giving up the stone because he'd seen that it led to thanos eventually being beaten), gamora gave up the location of the soul stone to save nebula. but wanda destroyed the stone in vision's head knowing it could kill him, and thanos sacrificed gamora to get the soul stone. i thought that was a great scene, by the way - not just gamora laughing because she thought it would keep thanos from his goal because he didn't love anything, but also the realization that he did actually love her - and whatever he felt must have counted as love, because her death got him the stone, and according to mantis he really did grieve - and hello, red skull! i wasn't expecting him. (bummed he wasn't hugo weaving, tho.)
(i can't get into wanda/vision. it's too weird for me. i fully admit part of the problem is the age difference. i have no idea how old wanda is supposed to be, and technically vision is probably only four, but paul bettany is like eighteen years older than elizabeth olsen and i just can't. besides, vision isn't even human! he kind of is, maybe, but he came from jarvis, and jarvis ain't a person. wanda/vision is like human/ai and that's just not something i can buy into.) (on the other hand, i wasn't upset that bruce and natasha are no longer a thing. probably because he fell off the grid for a couple years when he was being the big green guy on sakaar....)
i wasn't expecting loki to bite it so soon, or at all, altho as my sister pointed out, he wasn't in any of the promo material or the trailers. altho neither was clint - and i am BITTER AND ANNOYED that HE WASN'T IN THE MOVIE AT ALL - i didn't really miss scott, tho - and, well, he wasn't even in the movie. she'd figured out that loki was going to die. i certainly wasn't expecting gamora to die either, altho to be honest i didn't have any theories over who would, but rather theories over who wouldn't. (scott on account of ant-man and wasp, peter on account of i'm pretty sure there's another spider-man movie on the way, and tony because come on, the mcu isn't going to kill off rdj.) (and look, i was right! kind of. i don't think peter's dead, or anyone else who disintegrated at the end.)
my sister thought it was kind of thor's movie, but i didn't really think it was anyone's. it definitely felt like an ensemble, at the very least because it didn't really focus on anyone in particular for very long, because there were so many characters to deal with. could've used slightly more steve, but every avengers movie could use more steve. :D i like steve. not sold on the longer floppy hair, but if you've been putting up with my mcu opinions since catws you shouldn't be too surprised. there's always going to be someone's hair i don't like. him and thor meeting in wakanda was cute - "i see you got your hair cut." "i see you're copying me with the beard." they really are adorable. peter is so cute, too, with the way he always calls tony "mr stark" and his "i got you! i got you! i'm sorry i can't remember everyone's names!" when he's shooting webs to grab all the guardians on titan, after thanos flings everyone everywhere. he was so scared when he started to disintegrate! that was awful, altho to be fair all the disintegrations were awful. okoye's face when t'challa blew into dust...! and rocket! and bucky's "steve...?"!
oh, rocket and bucky - "how much for the gun?" "it's not for sale." "how much for the arm?" *Look* and rocket muttering cheerfully that he's still going to get it - and the way bucky grabbed rocket and swung him around, both of them shooting at thanos' army. i loved it. and! and! steve and bucky got their hug! and then bucky disintegrated, but whatever, he'll be back. dude's been through way too much shit and has gotten too close to coming out the other side to die now.
the entire audience cheered when thor rode the lighting into wakanda. applause, everything. i thought he kind of got short shrift in aou, so it was nice to get so much of him this time. they must have weird-looking rabbits on asgard, tho, if that's how he refers to rocket. and speaking of wakanda, that was an amazing fight scene from top to bottom - natasha and okoye teaming up to fight whatever her name was, thanos's minion who went after wanda, was the best - when all the warriors were standing in formation chanting their war chant i may or may not have gotten chills. it was just so good. no idea if m'baku survived, or shuri, but i'm going with "yes" in the absence any evidence, mostly because i don't want either of them to be dead or disintegrated.
...where was nakia?
i never saw doctor strange but i have to say, i like the guy. and yes, part of that is because he doesn't take tony's shit and has just as high an opinion of himself and his role in keeping the world safe, but part of it is because i just liked watching benedict cucumberpatch play him. the magic effects were really neat. and the scene where he and tony are facing off in his house (or was it in the ring ship, after they freed him), when they're eye to eye, i was convinced rdj was standing on a crate, because benedict is like four inches taller. i may or may not have leaned over and whispered "robert downey, jr is standing on a crate" to my sister, even.
a couple of times we both had the same thought and turned to each other and went "..." and then ":DDD" because we knew we had the same idea. i love a good shared-brain moment.
i think there was something else i wanted to mention but now i don't remember what it was. we saw the afternoon show and then went back to my sister's to watch thor: ragnarok again, so it's been a few hours. oh, i'm glad we didn't see thanos getting the purple stone from nova corps, because a. it would have made the movie longer, and b. i didn't need to see him destroying the city, probably killing glenn close nova prime in the process, and taking the stone by force.
i'm still BITTER AND ANNOYED that there was no clint, not even in the post-credit sequence. it was fun to see maria hill and fury, tho, even if they did both disintegrate. "motherf--" heh. there were scattered cheers when we saw what message he was trying to send. but i thought everyone thought he was dead. well, obviously maria hill knows he's alive, but the rest of the world? so why was he riding around in an suv in broad daylight?
did i mention it was a very intense movie? because it's a very intense movie. they throw you right into the middle of the action. a lot of shit happens and keeps happening and for the last, i dunno, fifteen, twenty minutes (how long do we stay in wakanda after thanos's army shows up?) i held my breath a lot. ok, part of that was that i was expecting someone else to die, so it was anticipatory breath-holding. and a certain amount of "don't kill steve don't kill steve don't kill steve" even tho i really don't think the ptb are going to kill him off.
still BITTER AND ANNOYED, tho. did jeremy renner piss someone off? does kevin feige just not like hawkeye that much? do the russos not like him? on the one hand, we did get a brief explanation for his absence, but on the other, what the hell.
people started talking during the closing credits and a guy went "SSHHH!" and reminded us about the mid-credits scene. and we all hushed in anticipation! there actually isn't a mid-credits scene, but of course there's a post-credits scene. so, you know, stay to the end. :D
in slightly related news, i bought some super cute prints yesterday. look at them - are they not adorable? they are totally adorable.
in unrelated news, it continues to be spring and gorgeous. the only problem with going to see a 4:15 movie was that i couldn't spend the entire afternoon sitting around outside. it was sooooo nice.
this is what you get when you cross cathy guisewite and countess elizabeth bathory.
it was IN. TENSE. seriously, it was like a two and a half hour fight scene, intercut with the occasional leading-up-to-the-fight-scene scene. and every choice over the infinity stones was "save this person you love or let thanos destroy the universe", and it was about half and half for decisions. i mean, loki gave up the tesseract to save thor, stephen strange gave up the time stone to save tony (altho he'd also seen the one instance where the avengers win over thanos, and i'm not sure he even liked tony, so i think that was actually less him giving up the stone to save someone he loved and more him giving up the stone because he'd seen that it led to thanos eventually being beaten), gamora gave up the location of the soul stone to save nebula. but wanda destroyed the stone in vision's head knowing it could kill him, and thanos sacrificed gamora to get the soul stone. i thought that was a great scene, by the way - not just gamora laughing because she thought it would keep thanos from his goal because he didn't love anything, but also the realization that he did actually love her - and whatever he felt must have counted as love, because her death got him the stone, and according to mantis he really did grieve - and hello, red skull! i wasn't expecting him. (bummed he wasn't hugo weaving, tho.)
(i can't get into wanda/vision. it's too weird for me. i fully admit part of the problem is the age difference. i have no idea how old wanda is supposed to be, and technically vision is probably only four, but paul bettany is like eighteen years older than elizabeth olsen and i just can't. besides, vision isn't even human! he kind of is, maybe, but he came from jarvis, and jarvis ain't a person. wanda/vision is like human/ai and that's just not something i can buy into.) (on the other hand, i wasn't upset that bruce and natasha are no longer a thing. probably because he fell off the grid for a couple years when he was being the big green guy on sakaar....)
i wasn't expecting loki to bite it so soon, or at all, altho as my sister pointed out, he wasn't in any of the promo material or the trailers. altho neither was clint - and i am BITTER AND ANNOYED that HE WASN'T IN THE MOVIE AT ALL - i didn't really miss scott, tho - and, well, he wasn't even in the movie. she'd figured out that loki was going to die. i certainly wasn't expecting gamora to die either, altho to be honest i didn't have any theories over who would, but rather theories over who wouldn't. (scott on account of ant-man and wasp, peter on account of i'm pretty sure there's another spider-man movie on the way, and tony because come on, the mcu isn't going to kill off rdj.) (and look, i was right! kind of. i don't think peter's dead, or anyone else who disintegrated at the end.)
my sister thought it was kind of thor's movie, but i didn't really think it was anyone's. it definitely felt like an ensemble, at the very least because it didn't really focus on anyone in particular for very long, because there were so many characters to deal with. could've used slightly more steve, but every avengers movie could use more steve. :D i like steve. not sold on the longer floppy hair, but if you've been putting up with my mcu opinions since catws you shouldn't be too surprised. there's always going to be someone's hair i don't like. him and thor meeting in wakanda was cute - "i see you got your hair cut." "i see you're copying me with the beard." they really are adorable. peter is so cute, too, with the way he always calls tony "mr stark" and his "i got you! i got you! i'm sorry i can't remember everyone's names!" when he's shooting webs to grab all the guardians on titan, after thanos flings everyone everywhere. he was so scared when he started to disintegrate! that was awful, altho to be fair all the disintegrations were awful. okoye's face when t'challa blew into dust...! and rocket! and bucky's "steve...?"!
oh, rocket and bucky - "how much for the gun?" "it's not for sale." "how much for the arm?" *Look* and rocket muttering cheerfully that he's still going to get it - and the way bucky grabbed rocket and swung him around, both of them shooting at thanos' army. i loved it. and! and! steve and bucky got their hug! and then bucky disintegrated, but whatever, he'll be back. dude's been through way too much shit and has gotten too close to coming out the other side to die now.
the entire audience cheered when thor rode the lighting into wakanda. applause, everything. i thought he kind of got short shrift in aou, so it was nice to get so much of him this time. they must have weird-looking rabbits on asgard, tho, if that's how he refers to rocket. and speaking of wakanda, that was an amazing fight scene from top to bottom - natasha and okoye teaming up to fight whatever her name was, thanos's minion who went after wanda, was the best - when all the warriors were standing in formation chanting their war chant i may or may not have gotten chills. it was just so good. no idea if m'baku survived, or shuri, but i'm going with "yes" in the absence any evidence, mostly because i don't want either of them to be dead or disintegrated.
...where was nakia?
i never saw doctor strange but i have to say, i like the guy. and yes, part of that is because he doesn't take tony's shit and has just as high an opinion of himself and his role in keeping the world safe, but part of it is because i just liked watching benedict cucumberpatch play him. the magic effects were really neat. and the scene where he and tony are facing off in his house (or was it in the ring ship, after they freed him), when they're eye to eye, i was convinced rdj was standing on a crate, because benedict is like four inches taller. i may or may not have leaned over and whispered "robert downey, jr is standing on a crate" to my sister, even.
a couple of times we both had the same thought and turned to each other and went "..." and then ":DDD" because we knew we had the same idea. i love a good shared-brain moment.
i think there was something else i wanted to mention but now i don't remember what it was. we saw the afternoon show and then went back to my sister's to watch thor: ragnarok again, so it's been a few hours. oh, i'm glad we didn't see thanos getting the purple stone from nova corps, because a. it would have made the movie longer, and b. i didn't need to see him destroying the city, probably killing glenn close nova prime in the process, and taking the stone by force.
i'm still BITTER AND ANNOYED that there was no clint, not even in the post-credit sequence. it was fun to see maria hill and fury, tho, even if they did both disintegrate. "motherf--" heh. there were scattered cheers when we saw what message he was trying to send. but i thought everyone thought he was dead. well, obviously maria hill knows he's alive, but the rest of the world? so why was he riding around in an suv in broad daylight?
did i mention it was a very intense movie? because it's a very intense movie. they throw you right into the middle of the action. a lot of shit happens and keeps happening and for the last, i dunno, fifteen, twenty minutes (how long do we stay in wakanda after thanos's army shows up?) i held my breath a lot. ok, part of that was that i was expecting someone else to die, so it was anticipatory breath-holding. and a certain amount of "don't kill steve don't kill steve don't kill steve" even tho i really don't think the ptb are going to kill him off.
still BITTER AND ANNOYED, tho. did jeremy renner piss someone off? does kevin feige just not like hawkeye that much? do the russos not like him? on the one hand, we did get a brief explanation for his absence, but on the other, what the hell.
people started talking during the closing credits and a guy went "SSHHH!" and reminded us about the mid-credits scene. and we all hushed in anticipation! there actually isn't a mid-credits scene, but of course there's a post-credits scene. so, you know, stay to the end. :D
in slightly related news, i bought some super cute prints yesterday. look at them - are they not adorable? they are totally adorable.
in unrelated news, it continues to be spring and gorgeous. the only problem with going to see a 4:15 movie was that i couldn't spend the entire afternoon sitting around outside. it was sooooo nice.
this is what you get when you cross cathy guisewite and countess elizabeth bathory.