My family and I went to see Avengers: Endgame and I enjoyed it immensely. I will not do a formal review of it, since I think it would be impossible for me to do so without sounding like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
Suffice it to say if you have ever had any interest in Marvel Comic book characters, or simply enjoy a good rousing film of adventure, you should enjoy it. As he did in the Guardians of the Galaxy flicks, Rocket Raccoon stole every scene he was in.
Quite a bit of humor in the film, especially in the depiction of Thor:
Deathless film for the ages? Of course not. A film that manages to be three hours in length without ever getting boring, yes! Just put your mind on neutral as to time travel paradoxes before going to see it.
A fun film, not to be taken seriously.
I liked it too except for the use of time travel. Seems like a writers cop out to me. Things don’t work out…just go back in time to fix it.
Agreed Ben. Once time travel is brought in to a story, a fair amount of drama goes out of it.
Not reading this since I haven’t seen it yet but i just wanted to say that I encourage you to let your geek flag fly. (Ok I read the first sentence. )
Note article in Crisis magazine on Endgame: The Moral Confusion of Avengers: Endgame
Daniel Waldow
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/the-moral-confusion-of-avengers-endgame
My comment below:
I doubt that many folks who see ‘Avengers: Endgame’ will perceive any moral confusion. Rather they will treat the movie as a quasi religious experience coming away with a sense of fervor.
RE: Time Travel… it’s a movie.
In science, the arrow of time moves forward.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
In Theology, If there were a way around it, Lucifer would have found it.
” I saw Satan fall like lightening…. they know what awaits them.”
There will be no “next time”. Bank on it.
@Michael Dowd
That kind of thing… just bugs me.
Except YOU JUST SAID THE HULK REJECTS IT! It’s very clear the scene is black comedy. And nobody bothers to talk about it beyond a gut rejection because to stop in the middle of the story and deliver a moral message would make the movie awful. Nobody wants to go to the movies to hear preaching.
*headdesk* Or – you know – it’s a logical question when you are talking about someone who has killed ONE HALF OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! (a death toll of billions upon billions) Not to mention, if you’re going to condemn someone for even bringing up an idea that would have occurred to almost anybody considering it, then it seems like you would have to condemn the Bible for outright ordering it.
And?
This is what I’m frequently on about dogma ruining good stories. Apparently for characters to have an arc is too much and goes against the faith! You can’t show anybody at a low point and climb back up, they must be flawless at all times! (ignore those stories like Peter denying Christ)
What follows from here is basically what bugs me when dealing with several folks on discussion of morality. Namely that in the effort to avoid consequentialism, they end up in the moral relativity that Buckley warned against: that 2 people, one who shoved a little old lady in front of a bus, and another who shoved a little old lady out of the way of a bus, are both equally bad because both of them shove little old ladies (which is wrong). Or to put it another way: The Allies were just as bad as the Axis because both sides killed Germans.
Oh I get it. This person didn’t actually watch the movie.
Ugh, these kind of critiques are exhausting.