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Some more Infinity War thoughts (still very negative, sorry, and still very spoilery)

  • Virtually every man in this film cannot help but get into a dick-measuring contest whenever he meets another man. Quill and Thor, Tony and Strange, Quill and Tony… okay, that was it I suppose, but it got tired real fast. All three of them should’ve evolved beyond that by now.
  • Where was Nakia?
  • It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Steve to watch Bucky turn to dust as though something mildly interesting is happening and little else. I can’t believe this movie was written by the same people who wrote Winter Soldier.
  • I actually did genuinely enjoy seeing Peter Dinklage. Yay, Peter Dinklage!

  • Where was Valkyrie?
  • Scotland was strangely empty. Probably because a horde of angry Glaswegians would have taken Thanos down in minutes and then there’d be no movie.
  • Where was May? Not even a mention of her from Peter? Some resolution to the ending of Homecoming?
  • “Swear to me on your mother” was about the only dramatic line in this movie that I really loved.
  • Thor gets a replacement eye for no relevant reason, Quill mocks Thor in a throwaway line for not being able to keep both his eyes in the first place, and almost every substantial line from Rocket is more of the ableist “steal a prosthetic” nonsense. Great going, guys.
  • Oh, Gamora’s death probably will be undone, if only because Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will be a much harder sell without an A-list female lead. And I’ll rejoice when that happens, but I’ll still be angry about how this movie treated her.