Just saw Infinity War…

I thought it was the best Marvel movie. Some might disagree and rank this or that other one before it. It’s in the converstion though.

BUT. (And you will agree nittany): if we discuss it at all, it should be in a different thread. One that has huge WARNING SPOILERS signals in the subject titles to alert people who have not seen it yet.

You HAVE TO see this movie without knowing a SINGLE spoiler. That’s crucial all the way through the movie from beginning to end.

And it is impossible to discuss without bringing up spoilers.

I thought it had a couple of clunky character arcs (I will save comments on that for the WARNING SPOILERS thread) but for the most part it was just so well done, from the acting to the storylines.

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Billy_T wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

Wow.

Come on, Nittany. Not everyone has the time to read through your voluminous verbosity regarding current movies. I mean, some of us are just too busy with our semi-retirement days for any such laborious endeavor.

Would you mind summarizing your take a bit, please? Could you please put all of that in a “Hack-size” post, instead?

I ain’t no Nittany, ain’t no Nittany man’s son
But I can talk some movie till the Nittany man come

A couple of quick things.

If you are even remotely considering seeing this, do not let yourself learn one single thing about the film. And in years of posting about movies here, this is the first time I have ever stressed that about a film.

Also though, there’s a core of MCU films you have to see before seeing this one. If you haven’t seen them, this film will not always make much sense.

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Billy_T wrote:

I definitely want to see it, ZN. But I am a bit behind, as far as the MCU goes. Haven’t seen Black Panther yet, for instance, but we have a new, low-cost theater nearby and I hope to see it this week, if all goes well. It’s a digital theater, for $3. Have never seen a film in that format before, so who knows?

I do remember being bothered by TV shows that were shot in digital, but that was years ago, and I think they were done in 1080i or p, and I’m guessing today it’s all 4K. Likely makes a huge difference.

Film is waaaay superior to digital at that lower rez. Don’t know about comparisons with 4K yet.

Anyway . . . I’ll take your advice about not reading review stuff first. I’m that way about most things — books, movies, TV. I don’t even like introductions that tell us how we’re supposed to interpret this or that work of fiction. My preference is for Afterwards, or reading the intros later.

Exceptions are when it’s a non-fiction work, especially history, when I already know how things turned out.

;>)

Thanks, ZN.

Here’s the minimal set of films you need to have seen for I.W. to make sense.

Avengers 1.
Guardians of the Galaxy. 1, not necessarily 2. If you don’t see 2, just find out via online Wikis who Mantis is.
Captain America: Civil War.
Thor: Ragnarok.
Spiderman: Homecoming.
Dr. Strange.
Black Panther.

With a couple of those, if you just read the wikipedia plot summaries, it will be enough.

nittany ram wrote:

Best acting of any superhero film, the characters have more depth, and it’s easily the funniest film of the Avenger series so far.

And the storyline includes some powerful emotional moments that work.