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let's go get this son of a hi everyone is Charlie this is going to be
my Avengers end game full review hopefully you've had a chance to see the
movie everything we've been doing the last 10 years in this universe has been
building to this so we got to talk about everything about these character arcs
how we feel like they left these characters how well their character arcs
work in general how well the movie works just as a movie by itself because it is
a crazy big movie there's so much stuff going on during this be sure to
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for spoilers for Avengers end game if you have not seen it yet because we'll
be talking about very specific parts of the movie so here we go Avengers end
game part of the story is the end every story has an end that's why Kevin Feige
said that the biggest idea that they had for this movie is wouldn't it be
revolutionary for superhero movies if we actually had an end to their story
whereas in the traditional comic book genre what you'll find is they'll just
reboot titles when they bring on new artists or they'll have a big universe
reboot when they feel like things aren't working or people aren't really
interested in the stories that they're telling anymore like we're bringing in a
bunch of new artists we're just going to wipe the slate clean and pretend like
all the things that happen to these characters did not happen we're going to
start fresh from square one where they really can't do that with the movies
like you have actors that are slowly aging out of their characters people
like Chris Evans that are ready to stop playing their characters so how do you
give them an ending to their story that feels definitive and feels like the
right ending that fans won't just assume you're going to roll back with the very
next movie that you released like spider-man far from home is the next
movie that's coming out after this but Kevin Feige is calling it the tail end
like a little holdover from Marvel phase 3 and not technically part of phase 4
that's a whole other thing there are a couple plot twists during the movie that
leave you with a couple really big questions coming out in terms of
Avengers movies every once in a while you'll see something that seems like a
plot hole there are a couple moments like that during Avengers end game but I
don't think of them so much as plot holes just more unanswered questions
that they'll answer with the future movies like Spider Man far from home
will answer all of your spider-man questions that you have after avengers
endgame so the movie has a book in for the last ten years of Marvel films what
they're calling the infinity saga the last 22 films I feel like they did
provide a fairly definitive end it definitely feels like an ending the way
they leave the characters but as a longtime MCU fan not just a general
movie goer I feel like the movie was a little more rewarding for me
because I recognized all of the Easter eggs and references they baked in there
are a lot of moments during the film when they're jumping around to different
points in the other movies from the MCU where people might not recognize
references like why is the audience laughing so much when Captain America
makes this very specific reference there are even references to deleted scenes
from other Marvel movies that people wouldn't recognize unless you're a
hardcore Marvel fan and you actually watch all the deleted scenes and bonus
features from every single Marvel movie so as an audience member going to see a
movie your mileage will vary depending on how long you've been a Marvel fan and
how deeply you've been a Marvel fan I've had a chance to see the movie again
since I posted my non-spoilery review earlier this week after the premiere and
I will still say I double down on the fact that it is a love letter to the
characters the original six Avengers particularly and a love letter to the
fans but as a movie it feels a little bit more like a big event piece like you
go to a theme park like Disneyland and you experience the world of Marvel it's
kind of like that but put into a movie and it's so different in terms of tone
and pacing than infinity war then a lot of people who are just casual Marvel
fans might actually like infinity war more than Avengers end game because
there's so much more character work being done during Avengers end game
they're actually long stretches to the film where there is no action scenes
it's really not too like the third act so they get to the really big infinity
war level action but when they do it is over the top and I will say that they
are getting a lot better at handling those everybody at one scenes when
things get so crazy on screen so even though it seems like they have hundreds
and hundreds of characters on screen at the same time it still feels like you're
able to orient yourself and understand what's going on and follow the action of
the main character that you're supposed to be following during the scene so
here's where we got to get really specific about the characters talk about
their arcs how we feel like they left them up so we'll say careful for
spoilers one more time because we'll be talking about the endings of these
characters starting with Captain America one of my biggest surprises of the film
is that they did not end Captain America because Chris Evans had been
talking about leaving the character for so long like he wanted to just go up and
do other things before the film came out the Bruce's are like well you know Chris
Evans might not be playing Captain America anymore but he might not be
completely done in the MCU you'll understand what that means after the
film comes out now we actually know what that means he's actually going to
participate in a special Marvel what-if TV show I'll talk about that when I talk
about more phase four stuff but he'll continue to play Captain America in the
past in other projects so Chris Evans will still be a version of Captain
America just not the one in present-day because now we have old man cap and I
know there are a lot of questions about the logic of how we wind up with old man
cap at the end of the movie because of the way they use time travel during the
film I'll talk a little bit more about the logic of the time travel when I do
Easter eggs and breakdown videos but I do feel like they gave him a good ending
even if it wasn't the ending you wanted it was a definitive ending for the
character they gave him a version of what he'd been fighting for this whole
time like he has the conversation with Tony during the film where he tells him
to get a life he has the kid he has Pepper Potts you need to get a life like
me so he's sitting there thinking about it and during the film he comes to the
conclusion so at the end of the film when he goes back to be with Peggy
Carter it feels like something that he'd wanted this whole time but just hadn't
been willing to let himself have for the most part I've been seeing two reactions
to that story either people are happy that he got that happy ending of sorts
or two they're just confused about the logic of the time-travel talking about
Iron Man though obviously the other big character of the film I said it earlier
this week all the actors bring their a-game their performances are fantastic
and I think a little more rewarding for longtime MCU fans like you have the cap
versus cap moment that really is America's ass I could do this all day
yeah yeah I got it I know I've got eyes on Loki that was actually the moment
referencing the Thor the dark world deleted scene when Loki turned into
Captain America that I mentioned earlier my opinions about the Iron Man arc are a
little bit different just because their take on the Iron Man character in the
MCU is so different from comic book Iron Man
so comic book Iron Man does not get married he doesn't have any children
he does have successors but it's a very Batman battle for the cowl situation
where people try to take up his but nobody can ever quite measure up so
eventually Ironman himself finds a way to come back like during Civil War to
where he winds up going into this weird trance-like coma state then coming back
after they rebooted all the titles so a lot of people went into the movie
expecting to see some twist like that whereas dr. strange said there was the
only way that things could go down I can't tell you what's going to happen
because if I do it won't wind up happening and because Robert Downey jr.
is getting older and more expensive for them to hire so I think part of the
reason for the way they let Iron Man go out was to solve a bunch of practical
problems and to give him a definitive end to the character a situation that he
would not try to weasel out of using his intellect
maybe I'll wisecrack my way out of this situation so I do commend them for
trying to do the revolutionary thing of having consequences stick he uses the
gauntlet and they stick to the rules that they set up during the movie it
almost ends Thanos to use the gauntlet twice like you see him hobbling early in
the film like he's barely alive anyway he's so weak then when the Hulk tries to
use it Hulk is completely messed up Fano style like he doesn't heal the way Hulk
would normally heal so when you see a normal person like Iron Man use it there
have to be consequences of course he's not going to survive that moment and the
twist that they send him out on is just as subversive as the twist that they
brought him in on like it was a really big deal that a superhero would reveal
his identity openly to everyone I am Iron Man and the press just explodes oh
my god he revealed his secret identity it's a big deal that they actually stick
to consequences and let him go out using the logic that they set up earlier in
the film comic book movies are famous for ignoring the own rules that they set
up during films so I know there's a lot of questions about the logic of certain
twists of the film but like Kevin Feige said after infinity war we felt like we
never seen the heroes lose before people feel like comic-book heroes always win
the heroes will always win well what happens when they don't win
so that's your infinity war Empire Strikes Back ending but like he also
said we also feel like people have never seen an ending for these characters
would it be revolutionary if there was an ending to their story so even if
you're not really happy about what they did with the Ironman character and you
wanted it to go down a different way I do give them extra points for trying to
do something so subversive like wow I thought we were just going to keep
seeing versions of this character till Robert Downey jr. was a hundred years
old how crazy that they would do it this way one of the greatest lines of the
movie I love you 3000 I love that moment with Iron Man and even if it is kind of
weird to see the character with the child like I said very different from
comic book Iron Man I feel like he completely sold those scenes with that
child actor largely I think that's just because Robert Downey jr. is such a
fantastic actor and sold that stuff so well for was also one of the more
controversial characters during the movie your mileage will vary on Thor
depending on how much you like comedic Thor some people just like really a
serious badass Thor some people like the more emotionally accessible Thor that
gets to tell jokes and sort of be in on the fun with everyone else I was
surprised at their choice to go with thick Thor
thick with two seas you could give him three seas he had a pretty big gut but I
feel like by the time they got to that third action scene where you see him in
the background of shots they sort of slimmed him down a little bit with CG
you probably been watching the movie and watching Chris Hemsworth do all these
fitness videos on his Instagram the past couple of weeks so it's really ironic to
watch it and see beer belly Thor while Chris Hemsworth is being super fit in
real life I'm assuming they just used a combination of prosthetics and special
effects to make him look fat during the film it wasn't like Chris Hemsworth
gained 60 pounds during the span of a couple weeks just to film these scenes
I'm really excited about the idea of as guardians of the galaxy in future movies
I get what they were going for with his character they wanted him to be just
completely dejected depressed not being able to deal with what happened during
the movie not getting past his grief I loved all the scenes that he got with
his mother obviously I loved all the action scenes towards the end of the
film where he's duel building and then we'll talk a little bit more about that
when I talk about the big action scenes because some of the big twists like the
one with Thor's hammer was things from the comics that we've been waiting for
this whole time so the movie tried to pay off a lot of things that have been
happening they've been setting up for the past 10 years
so that's why it feels like more of a big event for the fandom instead of just
a traditional movie so I will rank this with my top 5 maybe top 10 Marvel films
at the end of this I was a little upset about what they did with the Hulk during
the film I loved professor Hulk Mark Ruffalo is great as Professor Hulk just
like a very chatty more emotionally accessible version of the character
because remember it's a blending of both of their personalities so you get the
mind of Banner but he also gets some the baser instincts of the Hulk which is
why he feels so chatty and he's telling even more jokes because typically banner
is a little more reserved but there were a couple of things during the movie that
they just completely sped through and one of them was Professor hook like you
just show up and he's already Professor Hulk they don't give you that moment he
explains it rather than them showing it to you there were a couple moments
during the film that sort of drugged and slowed things down a little bit that I
felt like they could have gotten rid of in favor of giving you more big payoffs
with the characters like it would have been better to spend more time with the
Hulk setting up the professor Hulk twist than to watch ant-man walk all over the
place learning about what happened after the
snap I feel like after he came out of the quantum realm he could have just
gone straight to Cassies learned what happened then gone straight to the
Avengers you don't really need all those other scenes of him just wandering
around on the street looking at all the devastation so it felt like they spent a
little too much time early in the film waiting to build up to the team coming
back together but some of those early Iron Man scenes when he first comes back
and he's still just a little bit crazy from being stuck in space were fantastic
so I was happy that they included a little bit of that the Black Widow
Hawkeye stuff during the film probably the best scenes that we've gotten with
those characters in the last 10 years their emotional arc during the film was
great Scarlett Johansson's some of her best Black Widow especially early in the
film and then when she and Hawkeye are arguing about who's going to take the hit
so that they can get the soulstone that was perfect
and thankfully Hawkeye was not a joke during the film there are a lot of
Hawkeye Easter eggs that we'll talk about because he has that Marvel phase 4
TV show that's coming up that I think that they were seating during this all
the cameos were great I loved the Stan Lee cameo make love not war the funny
thing is is they dressed him up to look like real-life 70s Stan Lee because Stan
Lee was very active during that period the early 70s was when he transitioned
from working on regular comic books every week to becoming the Marvel
publisher in Joe Russo's cameo was a big surprise to jim Starlin also within the
same breath like you're on Joe Russo then boom jim Starlin also in that same
support group I know there a lot of questions about the logic of some of the
twists like they've sent some characters out in a very definitive way but then
characters from the past come back into present day so technically you still
have some versions of characters running around so why then couldn't they go into
another timeline and gray a past version of Iron Man in Black
Widow and bring them into present day like us I'll talk about that more during
Easter eggs but I think mostly it's in favor of giving them a definitive ending
and if they'd gone right back and got another Iron Man in Black Widow it would
have completely trampled on the endings that those characters got I was fine
with the way that they handled time travel but you need to understand that
they're going with Dragon Ball Z Future Trunks time travel rules they're not
going with Back to the Future or terminator rules every time they go back
into the past and change something it only creates another timeline it does
not change their future so the futures that they go back to will always be the
same even though there were a lot of questions they did not answer at the end
of the film and so much was happening I'm sure you have a billion questions
about the ending of the film I did feel like they stuck the landing they gave
all these characters a nice bookend it feels like an end for the Avengers even
though there will be more Avengers films it'll just be a new roster of characters
with some of them coming back and some new ones being cycled in so he is it was
a great film I had a lot of fun watching it I'll watch it a couple more times
just to catch all the Easter eggs but I feel like just a lot more rewarding for
a longtime hardcore MCU fans as opposed to casual movie goers that probably
enjoy infinity war more just for its level of action and pacing so here's my
top 5 Marvel films after seeing Avengers endgame a couple times starting with
number 5 the original guardians of the galaxy film still feel like that's
better than guardians of the galaxy vol 2 for Avengers infinity war 3 avengers
endgame - the original Iron Man movie there be no MCU if there was no
successful Iron Man I am Iron Man they even sent him off on that very iconic
moment in then one my favorite is still Winter Soldier which they referenced so
many times during the film so many of the moments even when they were in 2012
were referencing Winter Soldier moments hail Hydra
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