hey everybody it's Charlie this is going to be my full review for infinity war
careful for spoilers if you have not seen the movie yet because we'll be
talking about very specific things and there is a new round of that Infinity
Gauntlet giveaway that I'll explain at the end of the video too so be sure to
subscribe to get everything I will be doing Avengers 4 videos really
soon - I'm just giving people a little bit more time to see the movie before we
start on Avengers 4 stuff but since my non-spoilery review I've had a couple
more chances to see the movie so I've changed my mind about a couple things
but for the most part the ranking of this movie in my top 5 Marvel movies
hasn't changed a whole lot so I will explain why I ranked it the way that I
did so even though Avengers 4 is part two to this movie they tried to use
infinity war 2 book and a lot of character arcs because there are just
too many characters to fit them all in an infinity war which is why there were
some notable absences like ant-man and Hawkeye like they just didn't bother to
include the ones that weren't critical for this part of the plot but I think
for all the plot that this movie had to handle it really did try hard to give
everybody those character moments in a way that you didn't get those during age
of Ultron so I feel like Infinity Ward did a really good job of correcting a
lot of the mistakes and the flaws of Avengers age of Ultron which was mostly
a plot based film at the expense of character moments so a really good
example of that is the legwork that they try to do with Scarlet Witch envision
even though we haven't had a whole lot of their relationship like the last big
scene that we had with them was the paprika when they were cooking together
that implied that there might be a relationship with them so you get to
this movie and they're just together like they just expect you to get that
but they give them some of those deep character moments before the big twist
at the end of the film we can talk about the end of the film in a second - but
for every big CG action scene they did try to give you a really emotional
moment that made you care about what was happening during all that craziness like
when Thanos was throwing the moon at all the Avengers in the guardians on Titan
they still tried to get you to a moment where you cared about what was going on
there instead of just focusing on all the action it feels like some of the
Black Panther characters were a little under written you don't really go to
Wakanda to the very end of the film and when you show up it's bang bang bang
into big battle there's a very few character moments they tried to give
surety a scene where she sort of undercut the intelligence of some of the
other Avengers like how come you didn't think to do this when you were building
vision and we just didn't think of it it's just a funny moment to show you how
smart she is but the thing about that is is that it's almost a completely wasted
moment because she doesn't finish the job they have to take vision away so it
was almost a waste of time like why did you even do that if this was going to be
the end result he was going to be ripping it out of his forehead anyway like I
said I think the only reason a couple of scenes existed was to give people
character moments in we could talk about Pepper Potts and some of the other
secondary characters Wong was a really good secondary character like he's in
and out the sanctum is unguarded so I'm going to go back there see you guys later
and then he just doesn't appear for the rest of the movie you may have detected
a couple moments during the film where they were setting up payoffs for
Avengers 4 we call those like teases for Avengers 4 one of them was Pepper Potts
with Tony where he's talking about having a child with her
this is them setting up stakes in their relationship that they'll pay off in
Avengers 4 also did the same thing with Iron Man and Captain America's character
which is you know we can talk about that when we get to Avengers 4 predictions
but a lot of that gets into some of the mechanics of the way they explain how
the Infinity stones work the way you had to sacrifice someone for the soul gem
but like I said even though this was like a series of big action scenes
strung together they strung those together with really good character
moments do you concur doctor all the Doctor Strange Ironman scenes with one
of my favorite pairings in the film I think I said it during my non-spoilery
review Thor in the guardians in Iron Man and Doctor Strange were my two favorite
pairings I think for a lot of the other relationships because this movie had to
accomplish so much the writers and the producers hope that you just come into
it knowing how certain characters work and what the pre-existing relationships
are you don't have to give every single character a really long scene re
explaining what their relationship with each other is so like Winter Soldier in
Captain America don't spend that long getting back together it's just like hey
man how you been you just see them do that and you get it so that was also
kind of the same thing with spider-man in Iron Man so that at the end of the
film you get that emotional turn Tom Hollands performance in that final scene
his doctor who moment I don't want to go probably
the most emotional ash person of them all not the most emotional death I still
give that to Thanos and Gomorrah because Josh Brolin's performance was fantastic
in the way they redesigned Thanos his face look if you go back and you watch
that original Avengers film look at the Thanos post-credits scene it looks
laughable compared to how good the nose looks in Avengers infinity war so you
can tell they've been working on getting the textures of his face just making it
look more human-like so that when he cries you can actually tell what's going
on and you get that you see the emotion on Josh Brolin's face underneath the
motion capture they've even nailed some of the
nonverbal reactions to like when Thanos smirks or when he narrows his eyes like
just little tics of Josh Brolin's face the things that you see Robert Downey
jr. doing a lot like when he's looking at spider-man like oh come on kid he
doesn't have to say that you just read it on his face so of all the motion
capture characters Thanos was the best which was important for the film because
this was really Thanos his film that was a bit of a cheat at the marketing
although to be fair the Russos did tell us that this was a Knossos movie but
then you kind of see how he gets this full arc during infinity war it's really
about Thanos's arc completing the gauntlet he snaps his fingers he
accomplishes his mission what does that mean for his role during Avengers 4
there are a lot of unresolved arcs for the Avengers because Doctor Strange says
this was the only way the only way we could win the one plan that they could
undertake in millions of possibilities that he foresaw that would lead them to
victory losing the initial battle so that they
could win the war what does that say about Thanos during Avengers 4 is he
even going to be a main character they have to get the gauntlet from him but I think
that's why Kevin Feige in the Russos changed the title of Avengers 4-2
untitled and it's going to be something different because infinity war is
Stannis's arc from start to finish he has nothing more to do like he's
chilling out on what looks like gamora's planet which he said had become a
paradise since he destroyed half of all life they're just sort of marveling at
his accomplishment I'm happy I can finally relax and enjoy myself
that's them telling you that he's done he has nothing more left to do I think
the reason that a lot of the mainstream media knocked the movie down a little
bit is some of the table setting that they did in addition to that so
there's all these strings in the background to like you have to setup all
the Avengers arts this big tease of dr. Strange's his secret plan with Iron Man
we're going to lose this battle so that we can win the war in pursuit of that there
are a lot of cheats that the movie just expects you to be on board with which I
was totally fine with but it's kind of funny the second or third time you see
the movie you pick up on those things a little bit more like scarlet witch's
accent this is what she sounded like during age of Ultron when she first
debuted but I saw Starks fear I knew it with control him make him self-destruct
during Captain America Civil War she still kind of had that accent a little
bit but then during infinity war the funny thing you may have noticed is that
she doesn't have an accent at all it's almost like they just decided to drop it
like you know what who cares let's not do the accent it's kind of weird anyway
and then I know a lot of people were also disappointed with the Hulk what was
the deal with the Hulk not being able to Hulk out I think that was mostly in
favor of giving Ruffalo performance because you just did a big movie with
him being hoped for most of that so they wanted to give you a lot of Ruffalo and
hold back Hulk for Avengers 4 so they just kind of asked you to be on board
with some of these funny cheats like oh you know what you can always be the Hulk
except now he doesn't want to be the Hulk the Hulk won't let him be the Hulk
which doesn't totally make sense they'll probably be some silly explainer for it
during Avengers 4 like the Hulk is afraid of Thanos or something like that
I haven't changed my mind about some of the things that I think did not work
like the Black Order for instance some of the CG just wasn't great
evany maw was amazing of all the black order he was definitely my favorite the
Russos even said before the movie came out that he had become an early fan
favorite but Proxima midnight SMO ssin capture was not good at all Carrie Coon
the actress that was doing the voice for her is an amazing actress but for
whatever reason the motion capture just was not on point
my other mild disappointment was Peter Dinklage's character he's amazing he's a
great actor but I just felt like what they did with that character wasn't that
great they didn't write him that well and it wound up taking me out of the
movie a little bit even though all the stuff that they did there the forging of
Stormbreaker all that stuff was great I just feel like the stuff that they did
with Peter Dinklage's character could a little bit better loved all the Gamora
Thanos scenes you really do feel like they cared and loved each other despite
their relationship like Gamora says I hate you you're terrible but she still
cries for him the first time she thought that she killed him
so I know there's a lot of questions about everything that happened relative
to the soul gem what's going on with the Red Skull surprise that's actually not
Hugo Weaving underneath that motion capture its Ross Marquand from The
Walking Dead that's why his voice sounded a little
bit different and I know there's all kinds of questions about the soul world
and where Thanos went when he snapped his fingers at the end of the film so
that's like a separate video there's more Avengers for teaser related stuff
getting into the mechanics of how the Infinity stones work but don't worry
just be thinking soul world something's still alive inside the soul gem I think
for the most part they did earn their ending where everyone turns to ash like
I said this was meant to be the culmination of Thanos arc his goal was
to snap his fingers in a race half of all life so they reminded you of that at
least like three times during the film they kept referring to him snapping his
fingers and so of course he was going to snap his fingers at the end but you do
kind of have to laugh if you follow a lot of these movies you can kind of see
the table setting they're doing so they're wiping a lot of characters
literally wiping them off the board so that there are fewer characters to deal
with in Avengers 4 and going to be a little bit more personal and they can bring
characters off the bench like ant-man and Hawkeye and Captain Marvel now so I
think a lot of the mainstream media is knocking the movie for being very
obvious about that like they wiped Black Panther away we know he's getting a
sequel so you know he's coming back you know spider-man is coming back because
they're filming spider-man 2 this summer so there are a couple big comic book
movie moments that you just asked to accept like okay yeah we know they're
coming back we know how this works but they still earn those emotional turns
you still cry a little bit when Spiderman says I don't want to go mr.
stark but of course some of my next couple of videos will be explaining some
of the bigger twists the mechanics of the soul gem why I think the soul world
is a very important thing in why I think the Captain America is going to be the
person that Iron Man has to sacrifice to wield the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers
4 so I will say after they explained Gamora in half an
had a sacrificer Captain America shot to the top of my death predictions list for
Avengers 4 because if they're going to fix the universe they have to wield the soul
gem amongst the other gems meaning that whoever wields that gauntlet has to
sacrifice someone to the soul gem in because of the parallels between Tony
and Thanos's arcs I too have had visions of you Stark Thanos saw Starks so
they're putting them on this parallel arc so if Thanos wore the gauntlet in
this movie that is probably going to be Tony to wear the gauntlet and Avengers 4
but just be thinking about that don't worry those videos will post over the
course of the weekend leave all your requests in the comments below and
you're all asking where I rank this now in my top 5 Marvel films so Winter
Soldier is still my favorite but infinity war is now my second favorite
close second then Black Panther then the original Iron Man film still holds up
still an amazing film then Captain America Civil War so for the most part
pretty quality all around but these are just my top 5 this stand above the rest
right now big question for you guys though where do you rank infinity war in
your list of favorite Marvel films now this is a new round of the Infinity
Gauntlet giveaway all you have to do to enter that is be a subscriber and leave
a comment on the video congratulations to the winner from my last video Michael
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thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome we'll see you guys tonight!