re: Infinity war reaction and SPOILERS thread

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Thor showing up might have been my favorite part....but where the frick was he while Thanos was going for the last stone?

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I thought Ragnarok showed that Thor didn't need the hammer;

so how come he goes from being owned by Thanos' minion in the beginning, to being a legit threat to Thanos with the Gauntlet? What was so special about Stormbringer that it could power him up that much? Just muscle memory from swinging something?

What a great fricking movie. This was as much of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie as it was Avengers.



I will say tho and I don't know why but Gamoras death scene felt off. I don't know if it was the editing or the score but it just felt kinda weird

Speaking of, is Valkyrie dead? I didn’t spot her on the ship in the beginning

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can someone please give a review of the post credit scene

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Fury and Maria Hill are driving in NYC talking about the war in Wakanda and contingency plans. A car crashes in front of them. Hill gets out to check the driver. He is gone (disintegrated.)

Helicopter crashes into a building.

Hill starts to turn to ash and Fury runs to the car, grabs something, starts disintegrating, says “motherf...


Ash.

Zooms in on what was in his hand after it hits the ground.

It’s a 90s pager.

Says sending. Sending. Sending

Then a star shows up and materializes into Captain Marvel’s logo.

Stormbreaker was far more powerful then his hammer.

I got out a while ago. That movie was great. I had a knot in my stomach most of the movie. I know they will figure out a way to fix things in the end, but to what degree is up for debate.

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I totally bought Star Lord losing his shite on Thanos when he found out he killed Gamora. Their relationship has been built for 3 movies. She had finally reciprocated his love. This was absolutely no "Martha" moment. This was built up and earned.

From my understanding, Thanos went to Wakanda after he got the Time stone. The invasion was to try and get the mind stone for him while he was getting the soul stone and time stone.

This Thanos was worth all the build up. He was a deep and complex villain. The very fact that you could debate if he is right or wrong shows how great he was portrayed. There is very little hope for DC to top this with Darkseid.

I agree with the person who said this was less an Avengers movie and more of a stand alone Thanos movie. It even said Thanos will return at the end like it does for the other characters at the end of their movie. If you take this as Thanos' movie, than it had a clear ending and not just a movie that was cut in half.

If you complained about a lack of stakes in previous Marvel movies and still want to argue there are no stakes, than nothing will appease you. Loki died in the first few minutes of the movie. That set the tone that the Russo brothers were not playing around.

I loved that they answered what happened to the Red Skull. I want to see this movie shake things up as much as Winter Soldier did.

Just an awesome movie. I loved it. I already want to see it again.

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Strange straight up told Stark that he wouldn't give the Time Stone up to save him or Pete, and I don't think that was just talk.

Strange went and saw 15 million scenarios, only 1 win.

You have to think he would choose the one path that leads to the win, so giving up the Stone voluntarily was a calculated move.

Look at it this way- Thanos already had 3 Stones at that point, and it's unlikely they could have killed him. So he either takes the Time Stone, or renders it useless and kills them. Without it, he might go on a rampage and just destroy everything, which he doesn't need all 6 to do. Space and Power give him that.

He needs the Time Stone, which suggests he needs a do-over for something good. Or alternately, the Gauntlet needs to be intact to allow for someone else to have that do-over.

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The flaw here is that they had the gloves off, like almost had the gloves off. Without the gloves Thanos can be soloed by Thor. Or in these guys case, bum rushed.

So Strange saw how Quill would pull a derp and screwed them over. It would have been best if Quill was knocked out, they removed the guanlet from Thanos and then. Thanos would just do what he always do, go from planet to planet and wipe out half a life.

In that respect it would have been slower and bought the avengers more time to actually stop him.

How do you know Strange didn’t play out that scenario and see it eventually failed?

There was only one way.

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The flaw here is that they had the gloves off, like almost had the gloves off. Without the gloves Thanos can be soloed by Thor. Or in these guys case, bum rushed.

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Without any Stones, I think there's still a very high probability that Thanos takes the fight on Titan. A fully powered and bloodlusted Thor might take him, but it's iffy.
Thanos had been described as the most powerful being in the galaxy, prior to having any.

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So Strange saw how Quill would pull a derp and screwed them over. It would have been best if Quill was knocked out, they removed the guanlet from Thanos and then. Thanos would just do what he always do, go from planet to planet and wipe out half a life.

In that respect it would have been slower and bought the avengers more time to actually stop him.

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Problem with that is Earth is next on the list, so Earth goes down anyway.

I'm just saying, I don't think the plan is to beat him in a fight. The plan is to stop him from genocide.
Somehow, making him omnipotent achieves this; maybe the added awareness opens his eyes to what he is doing. Maybe the Time Stone lets him reset things, and maybe the Soul Stone lets him raise his victims.

I once read a novel where God just left, and Lucifer claimed the throne in Heaven. Lucifer then realized that he now had a responsibility to keep things running, despaired at the cruelty of it all, and made things right.
I think they might be going that route. Thanos seems more contemplative and thoughtful than he did in his early cameos, like he's evolving.

Just got out of the movie. The only problem with it I had was it took Thanos like 3 days max to get all 6 gems. Why the frick did he wait so long?