Perhaps. Is that a complaint? 
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You gotta remember that the overwhelming majority of people going to see these films are not comic book fans. I’d wager that most, probably at least 90%, have never opened a Marvel comic n their lives (or if they did it was out of curiosity after seeing the movies). We just don’t care about original storylines. We do care about incredible, epic film-making delivering a hugely enjoyable story. That’s why ratings are through the roof from critics and public alike.
Of course there’s the odd media outlet who wants to look cool and edgy, there’s the odd comic fan who doesn’t like that fact that an adaptation isn’t a carbon-copy, and there are a bunch of people who will nitpick every tiny detail just so… well, actually I never found out why these people deliberately sabotage their own enjoyment. But the rest of us went there for an outstanding superhero movie, 3hrs of enjoyment. We got it!
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I know, right? Everything’s so awesome in the world today that anybody seeking a little escapism is clearly daft.
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And the MCU flicks that were most wifey loved and considered the best…stuck close to the source material. This isn’t coincidence.
It doesn’t have to be exact. Anyone suggesting so is foolish and delusional.
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Not necessarily, not if it gives a us a break from people from quibbling needlessly.
It gets rather tiresome when all some folks do is complain, no matter what the topic may be.
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Yes we are because although we can accept a talking racoon or a tree or an alien with two hearts flying through time and space in a police box surely it has to remain internally consistent? If it’s not consistent based on its own rules then i do think it’s fair to complain about it and praise those works which get it right.
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Or you could just… have fun.
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What’s funny is, I was surprised by how “small” and un-CGI feeling the film was. Yes, there’s a set piece battle. But, really, it’s not incredibly action heavy. If anything, this one will translate really well to the small screen.
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It took the best turn, because really, all we’re talking about is America’s ass.
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Makes me wonder what the average BMI of those whooping was.
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And this is the time when I come to the comments to rail at the entire world for being utterly wrong and stupid for using box office dollars and not number-of-tickets-sold as a meaningful measure for the success of a movie. It’s one of the most wrong things that people do and it fills me with unexpressable rage.
I said it before, but am willing to repeat it:
The alcoholic/PTSD rehab references in this film? Plenty. Mr. Downey surely knew was he was playing in his wheelchair scene. I’m completely sure about the other actors, but the Evans/Johanson scenes, everything Renner depicted, and of course the whole Hemsworth stuff indicated that they all know first hand about addiction.
It actually made the movie worth seeing.
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Great, now people are upset about the “fat shaming?”
Thor wasn’t being mocked for being fat. He was clearly going through some awful PTSD for (in his mind) failing to stop half of the universe from being destroyed and dealing with it by drinking kegs of beer and falling apart. I was laughing at the sight of him playing Fortnite with Korg (in Taika Watiti’s shirt, nice touch) and trying and failing to be coherent. Lebowski Thor was funny but was able to pull himself together.
I saw the film with two fat guys and some fat friends and nobody was offended by Thor’s beer gut or people laughing at his goofiness. He’s Thor. Chris Hemsworth is a funny guy.
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I’m weirdly amused by reading this thread without unblurring the spoilers. It’s like internet-only poetry or my mother-in-law recapping the plot of a Japanese drama, replete with cultural concepts that she can’t really translate into English.
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There are lots of ways to measure things. How big it. How much money it makes. How it impacts our culture. How we think about it fifty years later. But for immediacy, the only one that matters in defining a success for Hollywood is how much money it makes. The rest is all to be argued far down the road.
Iron Man and the first Avengers film had a far greater cultural impact and changed the movie market. For the better or worse, I can’t say. I certainly appreciate our current era of action movies far more than I did the 80’s and 90’s films (with exceptions for genre re-defining titles like Die Hard). I don’t think this one will have the same impact down the road a decade or two from now, but as the capstone of a 22 series movie arc, it’s still a pretty damned huge accomplishment, one that others are trying (and failing) to imitate.
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Well, if you’re measuring number-of-tickets as the barometer of success, Endgame is doing pretty spectacularly well.
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He just used the stones to return themselves and make everything right
Why would the studio that financed the film care more about the number of tickets sold than the amount of money it brought in?
If anyone wants to garner a ridiculous number of hits on YouTube, make a video called “Avengers: Endgame (2019) - WTF Happened to this Movie?”
The content can be anything, 60 seconds of gargling, whatever.
How do you define success?
