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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2019-05-18 09:04 pm

Endgame

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.