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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.
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.
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I read comics (because libraries) and I keep thinking "You've got the good paper! Why cannot you use it?" That and also "pick a way to run the spread, double page or single, stop changing back and forth you're not clear enough for that". It makes me salty when Artiste Directors are precious against the needs of the audience.
I'm pretty sure the ads are part of the revenue stream, though they may be more of a daytime function, since IM3 was the last time I saw a non-matinee show). My showing had an actual ad in the trailer block, after the admonishments.