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  • Lucas [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Renegade Cut had a pretty cool video on this.

    And yeah. The movie is so fucking dumb. Like there are magical rocks that can affect the universe and they present him with a trolley problem where he can literally remove the trolley.

    And don't even get me started on the ending:

    spoiler

    He wins and eliminates half the universe, including some big-name characters. It's an easily reversible soft death that gets resolved in the next movie. But seeing the audience freaking out fucking broke me.

    Like they're not going to seriously change the status quo when they have a shit ton of movies to squeeze out. But yeah, the stakes are totally real.

    • disco [any]
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      4 years ago

      I thought that was a great ending tbh. It was certainly effective at getting a reaction.

      • Lucas [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Maybe I'm just being edgy. As a standalone film, I think the ending would feel impactful to me. But since it's a part of a larger franchise, I couldn't quite forget that. I'll say that affected my ability to enjoy the movie.

        • CommunistBear [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah, while watching it never once did I think "oh no, they're gone" so much as "I wonder how this plot gets resolved in the next movie"

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          Well yeah, which of course keeps it true to its comic book roots.

          Still funny watching everyone have a meltdown because the characters “died”

          It does hit a little harder in a movie than it would in a TV show or comic, because we aren’t as used to a movie being so serialized.