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.