I didn't come out of Infinity War saying "oh god, why did I watch that?" like I did with Civil War , but I was unfavorable toward it. There was something almost appealing about the scale and breadth of it. In the ten years between Iron Man and Infinity War many moving parts were incorporated into the MCU and Infinity War promised to be the one to bring the most to the fore. Thanos's apparent invincibility was more important than anything he says or does, something that created a puzzle of how all the different pieces could come together to take him down. Yes, it is a commercial movie, so it's no surprise that it was unsatisfying to critics with more outsider interests, but it doesn't always matter how every element of a movie was motivated. But Infinity War featured too much inane navel-gazing from Thanos. Like Civil War , it traffics in too many ideas that don't make sense if you think about them for two seconds, which is actually dist...
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