Endgame

[melannen]

I have bowed to the inevitable and been to see Endgame.

Here is my comprehensive, spoiler-free review:

It needed to be a little better, a little shorter, or a little worse.

If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) better, I could have enjoyed it on a thoughtful, detached level without needing to be immersively swept up in the story, but it wasn't quite good enough to sustain that.

If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) shorter, I wouldn't have started NEEDING TO GODDAMN PEE about halfway through, and maybe I could have gotten immersively swept up in the story instead of using half my attention on that.

If it had been a little (or maybe a lot) worse, I might have talked myself into taking a bathroom break.

As it is, if by some chance you haven't seen it yet, my advice is to either see it in a format with a pause button, or go to the drive in, where the cranky old Stan Lee esque dude who owns the place and has a vendetta against Disney is actively advertising a bathroom intermission in his showing.

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Blessings upon that drive-in owner!

I've made statements about where I had to potty break on my own DW. Did not think it was cute having my own bladder weaponized against me. There are scenes I will have to roll around in once it's on dvd. Because I couldn't quite revel in them as I'd have liked. So glad I managed to stay for those.

May all the drive-ins be so smart and may they sell many nacho platters or like.

[melannen]

We are definitely going to the drive in for something this summer, although tbf it's physically taxing in other ways, especially if you stay for the triple feature. Maybe it'll run Detective Pikachu!