Spoilers
Thanos demands my silence no more.
As a Marvel Fan (capitalised to show fanatic intensity) it's not really possible to say anything other than I LOVED this movie.
This truly was the culmination of every success of the MCU over 10 years.
The timing of action, comedy and sadness was perfect, the was never a time where I felt it was taking too long, nor any moment where a scene switched to another and I wasn't just as enthralled to see how the other characters were progressing.
Every hero had at least one significant action scene and many of them had some fantastic quips that were spread throughout without being forced .
I'd compare this film to Civil War, which I enjoyed a lot, but had the issue of putting so many characters together for the first time, had one major battle scene (the airport) and other scenes interspersed between some slightly slower moments. It was a decent story with a different antagonist style to most other superhero movies, and the airport battle made everything worthwhile if that was the whole movie.
But that's why I'm so impressed with Infinity War, they took the scale of characters and more than doubled that and made it work seamlessly.
The villains were shown well enough as well. Thanos clearly as a well fleshed out character, we get to know him and understand his motivation, as well as seeing such emotion in the journey that he has taken to fulfill his plans.
The rest of the Black Order were a little forgettable perhaps, in that I think apart from Maw I'm not sure they were even named on screen. But they were there throughout until their end and each showed as a formidable adversary.
I particularly enjoyed Ebony Maw's zealous verbosity. Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive did somewhat blend in to being the same character in a way that they were just spear welding warriors, and Cull Obsidian came across as a super grunt... But in the end the were just the extension of Thanos doing his bidding, so character wasn't really a focus there.
It was hard seeing that ending, I wasn't too surprised knowing that Avengers 4 was coming relatively soon afterwards and knowing the potential of Thanos that there would be a hard end but it was still a shock to see so many characters lost, leaving us completely at a loss for where the characters go from here.
I'll write some more specifics about some of the characters and theories in future posts.
Seen it twice now, still too much to process...
