I liked the first part but this one I couldn’t take seriously. Without getting into the films numerous plot holes (all over the internet), its often fun cheesiness (neither here nor there), and inability to be truly “serious”, even when you think it is, just a few quick notes:
Avengers: End Game exposed to me what’s wrong at the very core of the super hero sub-genre of epic films, thrills at the expensive of sense and reason. It has the simplest goal, to deliver the most “emotion” and excitement it can, sacrificing depth of thought for the simple and easy. Perhaps this is a reflection of us the audience as consumers. So many today wish for immediate gratification. We’re sold on this idea since we’re children, to consume without thought, to feel good, and not to “think too much”. It’s on TV, it’s on the radio, and where does that leave us? Hedonism and the like. Jeez, what has Disney done?
They use the “quantum realm” as the place which makes anything possible, magical, a Disney land of sorts. Specifically, bring back “the dead” (one Ironman’s more than enough sacrifice for us junk food junkies), and reverse a great tragedy (yes we can), and let’s try and make sure we don’t mess up all the fun for those occupying alternate time lines (our heroes are the “good guys”). If only life was so simple, and all our terrible tragedies could be repaired with a bit of time travel. What utopia’s may come in absence of dreams. Perhaps now we can get an emotionally complex Hulk story. They gave us a taste of it, enough I think to see that Mark Ruffalo AND the Hulk are better than that.
Cheers to another billion dollar franchise, and another three hours of unrestrained enjoyment. Anything IS possible, except of course a major social transformation, that’s just not gonna happen, so you might as well feel good, because life is short.
our very serious heroes
