Avengers 4: Endgame (Joe & Anthony Russo April 26, 2019) Movie • Page 97

Hmm...

Top 10
Carol
Valkyrie
Shuri
Jessica
Daisy
Tony
Thor
Korg
T'Challa
Killmonger

Bottom 3
Finn Jones
Tilda Swinton
The Mandarin

Heck yeah I'm calling out the actors. What were the casting directors thinking?!

 

I don't have an official answer but it was something I was really confused about and I think it ultimately comes down to how focused it is on Bucky and the program that made him the Winter Soldier.

 

I can't quite explain, maybe it's just me thinking a movie made almost 8 years ago should be close to what we get these days. Just the costume design was kind of cheesy, characters weren't fleshed out (serious Thor ain't great lol), stuff like that. Maybe my judgement is off-base. I don't know.

 

After taking an online quiz (top to last):

• Thor: Ragnarok

• Avengers: Infinity War

• Guardians of the Galaxy

• Avengers: Endgame

• Black Panther

• Iron Man

• Spider-Man: Homecoming

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier

• Ant-Man

• Ant-Man and the Wasp

• Captain Marvel

• Doctor Strange

• Captain America: Civil War

• The Avengers

• Avengers: Age of Ultron

• Thor: The Dark World

• Thor

• Captain America: The First Avenger

Films I have not watched:
Hulk, IM2, half of IM3

 

I always thought they should've just called it "Marvel's Civil War" instead.

 

Cap's suit was so cheesy back then lol

 

Avengers 1 might be my de facto number 1 if it didn't have that TV aesthetic (I blame Ike Perlmutter for being cheap)

and if it wasn't shot in 1.85:1

 

Ya I cant say Ive seen Age of Ultron above the first Avengers much, but thats cool.

I will say that even though Age of Ultron was a bit of a mess for me I still really like it and love how much it ties into the rest of the MCU. Ragnarok, Cap lifting Mjolnir, Clints family, Cap dancing with Peggy, all of the visions they see really, Tony first mentioning Endgame, Vision, Wanda, etc... Theres just so much connective tissue to that movie that I appreciate.

 

TV aesthetic is a perfect way to put it, thank you!

 

Yeah, I otherwise really like Tilda Swinton, but absolutely a bad casting call

 

Ike Perlmutter is one of the biggest PoS's in the industry

 

just a fucking fascist

 

Haha damn I didn't realize he was on trial for bribing a cop

But of course I've never heard of the dude before now

 

He was also part of that trio of Mar a Lago members who were shadow-running the VA for Trump. He's a big Trump guy. Among a number of other generally horrible things.

And all that is in addition to the fact that he's the reason why the TV show characters don't cross over into the movies. Which is why I was shocked that James D'Arcy was in this.

 

Oh and I will say that after my second viewing the ONLY storyline/relationship among all the characters that I felt lacking in the way it wrapped up was Nat and Bruce. Even though it wasnt executed the best, I personally did appreciate their relationship. I think Nat saying something along the lines of "I remember when this was impossible" when referring to him and the Hulk becoming one was the only interaction they had really.

Just with how much of connection they had, I wouldve liked a personal moment between them, even if it was something brief like them showing after the Snap that they are close friends.

 

one of the worst Perlmutter offenses is making Shane Black and co. change Iron Man 3 from having Rebecca Hall be the big bad to Guy Pearce

his reasoning was essentially "boys won't buy the action figure if the villain is a girl"

I like that movie more than most but it would have been even better if the final twist was that the ultimate villain was Hall's character, one of countless women a pre-Iron Man Tony Stark tossed aside without a care

 

wtf how do people like that even get to that level of power. System is fucked.

 

It's not a coincidence that the movies have all been markedly better since his influence over them was removed entirely

 

Honestly I can't accurately put into words how much I hate that guy. Human garbage doesn't even do him justice.

 

Nat/Bruce was a relationship that shouldn't have even started in the first place tbh but the one thing that came from that that I was happy with, was Clint getting a family. I def shipped him and Nat before that lol

 

The irony being they didn’t even make a Guy Pearce figure.

 

fucking exactly!!!!!!!

just infuriating

 

Almost at $1.8 billion before the second weekend. TFA and Titanic are going to be dethroned by Monday.

 

Only thing is it hasn't been holding throughout the week quite as strong as TFA, which was insane how well it held so that's not on Endgame so much as TFA being that much of an absolute beast