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I think the way they clearly set him up to be included in a later film is clear confirmation of an Obiwan film in the future. As if we didn't already know it was coming.

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So first off, Thanos goal of wiping out half of life only makes sense if the Infinity Gauntlet cannot just increase resources. We are told they have "infinite power" so Thanos goes from someone who does have a point to someone who just seems unnecessarily cruel.

Character "power levels" are wildly variable. There are a few times Black Widow especially looks too powerful. Some enemies should be too strong from her. Same extends to Captain America. Perhaps nitpicky but it just feels inconsistent.

Whomever organised the tactics for the Wakanda battle kills a boat load of soliders by forcing them through the shields then sends the big burrowing robots in. Send the robots first. Thing is they make a big deal of Thanos and company's tactical prowess.

Wakanda has a force field, that's cool. But their entire military seems to be about a thousand people. But it's okay, Wakanda is super crazy advanced to they'll have machine guns and artillery and air support? No they have laser spears and the entire Wakandan air force is 2 US military guys. I just think that is stupid for them to have no real military at all. Of course, I haven't seen the BP standalone movie so perhaps it is all addressed.

Strange and the Time Stone. Seems like not giving him the stone would have been a viable solution. Might have lost 50% of people on Earth since Thanos was here but still far better than 50% of the universe.

The joke about why Scarlet Witch was not in battle the whole time. She can fly, so have her in battle and have someone else body guard the Vision. Send her back when the stone is out or almost out. She is one of the most powerful on the team by far, though in this movie who knows about that.

Chris Hemsworth nailed the scene about loss when talking to Rocket Racoon. He's a better actor than I gave him credit for before.

The concept of the snap. They laid this one on as if Thanos has to snap his fingers. My interpretation is Thanos can use whatever stone he wants, whenever he wants and this is shown in the movie. In the comic he snaps but I always felt that was symbolic. So strange telling cloaky to not let Thanos movie his first was a stupid gimmick. They were so heavy handed to get this snap in because it's an iconic comic panel.

I enjoyed the film, but compared to the rest of the Marvel films, it wasn't much of a stand alone film. By which I mean it doesn't stand up as a story in it's own right like pretty much every other Marvel film does. I don't think I would have known what was going on without having seen almost half of the Marvel films before it. That's not a problem for me as I have seen them all numerous times, but every other Marvel film that takes cannon from previous ones has always given a quick explanation of what has happened, whereas this film didn't seem to bother. I'm also really not fond of films that don't have an ending and are blatantly waiting for a sequel.

It also felt really disjoined with so much going on in different locations whilst at the same time not showing what Thanos was doing at all. A lot of which would have been good to get a better idea of Thanos rather than having what seemed like a this away line here to give the viewer an idea about what happened but not show us. It all seemed to take away from Thanos's character so I never really felt I saw how bad hr really was, just that his minions were bad (saying that, I loved Maw! A really good villian) but Marvel has done this before with Hela in Ragnarok, who I thought was possibly the weakest character portrayal of a villain in any Marvel film yet until I saw this (although I love the film, probably my favourite Marvel film). I also don't get that if it was his life's ambition to get all the stones, how can he have lived for a few millennia, get the first, then somehow manage to get the other 5 in seemed like a few days?!

I've never been a comic buff so can't compare what literature already existed to what was on film, but without doing some research whilst watching, I wouldn't have understood or enjoyed as much of the film as I did, which really doesn't say much for the storytelling in the screenplay.

I fully agree with mac_d about the super power levels being all over the place. And again, the throw away lines explaining why other characters weren't included. And I really am starting to hate the Tony Stark and Wakanaan tech involved in the MCU! It used to be on the verge of believability, but now it just seems ridiculous the amount of stuff that they are telling is they can do with it - Spider-Man's arms (even though they were really cool!) and all the nano-tech that rebuilds and changes shape Ironman's suit mid battle
. I'm happy to believe that aliens can do all that stuff and I'm kind of ok with the Wakamdan's doing it with their vibranium, but it just seems really OP for Stark to do it without vibranium and diminishes all of what makes Wakamda and vibranium powerful.

My last gripe is simply that I thought Bruce Banner was really badly written in this film. I personally thought that Ragnarok was best we've seen of the Hulk on film and Banner was written in a more commixal role than he had been before, which did fit with the film as a whole, but they kept that way of writing him and turned it up a level for Infinity Wars which I thought didn't fit with the film as a whole - I'm really not wanting to look for Bruce Banner as comic relief!

I'm not saying don't watch the film of you haven't already, I did enjoy it, but it seemed to be lacking so much. Definitely not one of Marvels better films imo. Almost like Black Panther, it just didn't live up to the hype leading up to it for me.

everyone knows venom symbiote first bonds with Spider-Man and Spider-Man removes him when he realizes venoms true intentions as he tries to take over Spider-Man’s body. Well in this movie Spider-Man isn’t even present nor mentioned. Venom comes from space aboard a space ship exploration mission but finds Eddie Brock when Eddie is trying to investigate a story to take down a man who got him fired (not Peter Parker), venom in fact isn’t even a villain in this story they make him out to be some sort of hero that tries to prevent other symbiotes from being brought to earth. Movie is filled with terrible one liners. They tried way too hard to make this movie into something that it’s not and it was really disappointing imo.

it’s great to see when Arthur starts getting his revenge and you see the joker persona come to life when he kills his old co-worker Randell in his apartment. The little moment where he pretends to Lunge at Gary to scare him was classic joker at its best. The scene where he his on the Murray show and fully reveals the joker to the world was a great.

In this version young John Conner is killed by a early model terminator. Sara watches it happen infront of her and dedicates her life to hunt terminators. She comes across a woman named Daniela, who is now being hunted by a terminator. Why is she being hunted and not Sara? Since Sara Conner changed the future in t2 and John was successfully killed off by a terminator Daniela is now a threat to the machines in the future.