I’ve written a few times this weekend that it is the most unapologetically comic book movie ever.

Did he expect to sit there for another 2.5 hours to see how shit resolved?

That was my first thought after seeing it. All the previous films have been movies of comics and you can see where they’ve made alterations to make these stories work as a film. For example, and most obviously, no spandex (except Spider-Man?). Infinity War is a comic book event that happens to be a film.

Not just character development, but casting. I’m hard-pressed to think of a single MCU character who was seriously miscast; there have been a few who were written badly (I’m lookin’ at you, Malekith), but pick “wrong actor for the role” and I just draw a blank.

Until Infinity War, I had never realized how much emotional investment I had on the Marvel characters. Most of the emotional moments of the movie hit me pretty hard. It really did solidify my opinion that character development is one of the things that Marvel does best.

This was hilariously savage. So many good moments. “Mike Pence is the kind of guy who brushes his teeth and then drinks orange juice and thinks, ‘Mmmm.’”

I’m not a huge fan of Age of Ultron but the one thing I liked most was Ultron represented a sort of twisted version of Tony Stark. All his insecurity and hubris wrapped in an high tech, near invincible death bot, perfectly voiced by a convincingly even more arrogant and smarmy James Spader.

It’s not your fault girls don’t like you.

What happened? I thought you were a liberal? Need your safe space there neckbeard? Bet you have all kinds of empathy for the waffle house guy and his sadsad incel fee fees. Awwwwwwww. Bless your heart.

Yeah. Real fucking done with Ye. Bought all his previous albums even though quality was starting to dip after MDTF, but nah. You now officially get no money or support from me. I’m out.

After seeing Infinity War, I definitely want to fast-forward to Captain Marvel and Avengers 4.

It’s almost impossible to make a universal threat something relatable on a personal level.

Yeah, the very few negative nancy reviews I’ve seen (and this middling, uninformed critique is the worst from anyone serious) all list a bunch of “negatives” that I consider obvious givens (lots of characters) or bonus factors (rewards folks who’ve been paying attention).

So it’s a B+ per a regular reviewer.

“Too many characters?” that’s basically what Marvel has been going for since the first Avengers. It’s a crossover event in the spirit of the original comic.

This sounds like a Pitchfork review, in that it takes something that’s recognized as good and shits on it for something so trivial

I think we were lucky to get any more Evil Dead at all.

I’m the first person to tell you that I do believe there’s a bias with critics when it comes to all things Disney, but I have a feeling these analysts probably just took a look at pre-sales, which are currently projecting that everyone in America is seeing this movie, and probably bringing their pets, too.

Part of it is that Sony has no benefit of the doubt after the Amazing series crashed and burned.

So did they throw you out of the building immediately after you asked that dumb-ass non-question, or did you at least have time to go to coat check?