For me it was Guardians of the Galaxy. I had only seen The Avengers and liked it at the time, and I was hyped for this new weird space movie. But all I got was The Avengers in space and it sucked.

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I was already getting tired of it towards the end, but End Game really put the nail in the coffin. Thanos was the most developed villain the show had (still pretty generic though), with motivations and emotions and everything. It almost seemed like they were setting it up to be a critique of his worldview, and the final film would show the deep flaws in ideology.

    But it just goes: What do you mean, 'faulty premise'? Thanos was right, the world is better for genociding half of humanity. Anyway, now we're gonna do time-travel fan-service, and then undo everything that just happened.

    Like, any child can tell you killing 3.5 billion people is bad -- give me a goddamn critique of Thomas Malthus.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Same. I wasn't leftist at the time, but I was interested in Infinity War because of what happened; big bad guy wipes out half of the universe (and a good chunk of the heroes). So what now? Do we move on, hold him accountable, how do we deal with this?

      Time travel. No stakes whatsoever, we can just use time travel now. Fuck off. Any time a show/movie opens that can, I just immediately lose interest because there are no longer any real stakes; it serves to undermine anything and everything that happens from then on out.