
I was thinking this can’t be it because it didn’t feel like an ending. But I wasn’t thinking this can’t be it because I was sad about who died, or because the Avengers failed, or because I know the heroes will actually end up coming back, or because 149 bladder-busting minutes wasn’t enough for me.
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And it’s hard to believe any of it will stick, with Black Panther continuing to break box office records and the next Avengers movie just 53 weeks away. It’s an incredibly bold move for a $300 million blockbuster to make. Half the universe was dead, and the Avengers had just well and truly lost. No wibbly wobbly time games, no jk lol goofs. I mean, video games do it all the time.īut, nope. Like, they knew that people sit through the credits for every Marvel movie, so they were going to have Doctor Strange turn back time and have the “real” final act of the movie start there. (I mentioned there will be spoilers, right?)īut then the final credits rolled, and I thought: “ this can’t be it.”Īs the first few names in the stark credits sequence flashed across a black screen, I wondered if the Russos were pulling one over on the audience.

In the tradition of comic book crossovers, there’s not much learning or change, just a lot of punching, explosions, and character deaths. It’s like all the individual movies were acts one and two of MCU’s overarching story, and Infinity War is one giant Act Three. Since they’ve already overcome their own challenges, they’re all at the top of their games, using all their skills to fight the greatest challenge they’ve ever faced. We know who these heroes are, we know what they’ve been through, and they show up to go balls-to-the-wall against Thanos for two and a half hours.

So when all the heroes come together in Infinity War, there’s not a whole lot of time or room to give them all satisfying arcs.
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In each of their stand-alone films, these heroes went through their own arcs - Captain America becoming the country’s greatest soldier, then struggling with his lot as a tool for a government he can no longer trust Peter Parker learning how to balance protecting his loved ones, protecting New York, and protecting the world as a semi-Avenger T’Challah coming into his own as the King of Wakanda and deciding to reveal his hidden nation to the outside world in order to do more good and that’s only a few. The only ones missing are Ant-Man, Hawkeye, and Howard the Duck.

Infinity War is a Sizzler All-You- Can-Eat Buffet of Marvel’s heroes and villains - almost everyone we’ve been introduced to in a decade of MCU movies. The first two Avengers movies were nice amuse-bouches for what it would be like to have a bunch of heroes together on film, and Captain America: Civil War was an even more satisfying crossover meal, pulling in the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Ant-Man and Black Panther. Avengers: Infinity War was made for comic book fans like me.
