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]

I think Cleopatra had two?

It was less a cliffhanger payoff and more "the car door is no longer being closed on my hand" relief. The three hours and two minutes is pretty long but then tack on the trailers...

[melannen]

That is a good summary of why I never watched it: I didn't see much point in volunteering to get my hand slammed in a door for a year when I could just wait (and a movie that was obviously going to be retconned immediately didn't seem likely to catch hold in fic writers' imaginations either.)

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

My meta engagement was high enough to get me into the seat. Of course, I didn't know how trying RL was going to toss into the mix...

I will say Infinity War is less of a fork in an electrical socket that IM4 (CA:CW by any other name) was.