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Just watched it. It was good for a Marvel movie, which is very much not a high bar.

It was somewhat more entertaining than I was expecting, and there was much less Marvel Humor that made me want to gouge my eyes out. I was actually into a couple scenes (like most of the aforementioned Team Titan* vs Thanos fight).

However, it was also significantly dumber than I thought it would be. So much of the movie was just unnecessary had characters been less moronic at various points. It was the epitome of "tactics over strategy". Why the fuck didn't Team Titan just fucking kill Thanos when they had the chance? Why the fuck did Scarlett Witch[?] completely forget why she was even there and leave Vision alone**? The only characters that seemed capable of long-term thinking were Thor and Doctor Strange, presumably, and that's a back-handed compliment at best; had Thor acted like everybody else, he would've gone into battle without a weapon.

And the ending meant absolutely nothing to me. Even without taking meta considerations into account (there are new Marvel movies coming out, Marvel is spineless in regards to character deaths, they don't want the fanbase to revolt, etc), it was abundantly clear that it wouldn't stick. The character who apparently acted the dumbest in giving in to Thanos also happened to be the one who saw into the future and said, essentially, that this was part of the plan at the end. As far as I'm concerned, the only deaths occurred at the beginning.

I did like a good amount of the movie, I'm just encouraged to be critical because other people here aren't, in general. My enjoyment was also somewhat soured by other people in the theater (including my friends) who did shit like chant along to the Wakanda stuff and just get overly excited about the mere existence of some characters or people getting thrown into things. Chill.

*why couldnt they give thanos's planet a name that wasn't already used for a significant moon in the solar system? i was really thrown off for a while

**the entire Wakanda part was kind of bad. They were worried about the beasts sneaking around back, but they only put like 2 guards in Vision's room. They could've spared a super. Apparently they didn't have a few kilotons of explosives lying around either, or napalm, or any WW2 style weapon that would've fucking melted the mindless goons. They blew their whole budget on cool laser spears that they abandoned when they would've been the most useful. How the hell did anybody know that the stone was in Wakanda, anyhow? Thanos being able to sense it I buy, but he was busy sacrificing his daughter or some shit. Also they called the stones molecular which just feels wrong.
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