Infinity War was so dense. Usually I can find a favorite
something that I can latch onto and say
that thing is why I came to see this movie. There's so much great humor and tense drama and fun action and sweet character moments. I literally can't even.
I mean really.
The three things I walked away with in my head: GIANT. SPACE. DWARFS. (Think of Minsc and Boo from Baldur's Gate fame. luls, miniature giant space hamster) Alan Silvestri can score the hell out of a film. And the third is the thing from the post credits.
What's really not helping my inability to is that all this is happening so soon after Black Panther. Now, I was totally jazzed for BP. Too jazzed as I've said. I didn't get any time, really, to hype myself out for Infinity War. I was ready for it but that was about it. That lack of grace period to build myself for the next experience didn't help me watching. Though I otherwise was totes blown out by the movie.
My great hope is that they can keep the Russo Brothers around for special occassions because
damn they can work it.
Death is a tricky thing in the comic books, and it can be doubly so for any live action translation. All of the characters who were "snapped" out of existence aren't really dead to me. I mourn not for their disappearance because by the time all is said and done I expect most of them to return, no harm - no foul. Sort of. (And no real attachment to the innumerable others across the galaxies.)
The character(s) I thought were going to get dead didn't get died. I kinda figured that Vision was def on the chopping block what with being an embodiment of a stone, so I wasn't shocked or hurt or emotional about his demise. Though there was some of the empathy for the relationship with Wanda.
The emotional weight of Thanos' sacrifice, as such, didn't hit me as hard as it could have. One, though I like Gamora - her space in the Guardians movies - she's not favored. And, really? Honest and true? Well, of course,
The Mad Titan would sacrifice someone else for his greater ambitions. Yeah, he "gave up a daughter," who, okay, I can believe he had some emotion for. But it didn't strike me as, say, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son to the Lord - mirrored by Jacob's willingness to be sacrificed.
BOOK SPOILER FOR DRESDEN FILES SKIN GAME:
In a similar vein, Nicodemus sacrifices his blood daughter to gain access to Hades' vault. It's all part of his greater plan to do something (we the readers don't know his long term plans). His daughter was in on it and willing to be sacrificed for this. It all makes sense in-universe and though they are evil villains who are worth hating, it's still an incredibly touching moment.
Now then.
Where do they go from here?
Dudes. I have no clue.
What will [Character Referenced at the Post Credits] bring to the table that can turn the tide?
If the Hulk can be cowed by Thanos htf can anyone stand against him?
Hulk.
STRONGEST THERE IS.
I would have sent Strange and Vision somewhere the fuck else - opposite ends of the universe for all the good it wouldn't have done.
What did I expect though? I was waiting for Tony or Cap to get killed. I mean, they're not exactly safe what with a whole 'nother movie coming up. But still.
So, yeah.
I definitely have to see it again. At least one (hundred) more times to wrap my head around it all.