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SPOILER ALERT: MCU Thread (Quantum-Ant-Man-ia)
UncleBob:
--- Quote ---I really liked how they built up Thanos. It worked and worked well. You understood his stance, but he was still wrong. He was absolutely the star of the film.
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ehhh...
Don't get me wrong, I liked Thanos as the villian... but his motivation is so flimsy to me.
Finite resources in the universe. Sure, with you so far.
Life cannot continue to expand uncontrolled and be substained on the finite resources. Okay, I'll accept this premise.
Thanos plans to gather a source of limitless control over all time, space, reality, etc. Makes sense.
Thanos then plans to kill half of all life... instead of using this reality warping device to, I dunno, create more resources?
Like, dude, you killed your daughter and it made you all weepy eyed. Bring her back and alter reality so that life doesn't even need food to survive. Look, I just cut down on the resources needed.
Also, I'm gonna need some more background on this "extinguish half of all life" thing. Did he just kill half of the plants and animals as well? Half of all bacteria and microbes? Seems like that would dig into the finite resouces pretty bad.
Oh, and that helicopter (Thanoscopter?) crashing at the end... that probably killed some people. Are they counted in the half that died? Stan Lee has a bus full of kids going down the bridge when he disappears, causing the buss to veer off the side od the bridge and the 50 kids onboard to drown (sorry Spider-Buddy). Do they count towards the half? Ohhhhh.... a pregnant woman turns to ash... the fetus? Is it a person? Does it count? Might have just solved the abortion debate here.
BlackNMild2k1:
Being able to dig into the reasoning of everything that happened. Thanos was beautifully developed and executed in this movie. We know where he was coming from, where he was going, and why he was trying to get there. We even knew he was willing to sacrifice it all (except himself) to see this through.
And even though he essentially had the power to be the one true God, he was still fallible and certainly killable.
Now if The Russos can pull off Avengers 4 in the same manor if not even better than the previous 3 MCU movies they have done (which all 3 fit into most people's Top 5.... I should make a poll), they will have cemented themselves as some of Hollywoods top grossing directors *for only having done 5(?) movies. They will basically be able to pick their next project and get the blank check to make it as well. LOL
Hopefully Feige continues to bring them back for future projects as well.
UncleBob:
>They will basically be able to pick their next project and get the blank check to make it as well. LOL
Justice Leage 2: Mustache Moar.
Stratos:
I get that he could have created life/space instead, but I view him similar to a zealot of sorts, maybe someone like Judge Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame. He thinks he is a force of nature doing the will of the universe to "balance" things and believes that this is the only way. The argument with Gamorra settled that for me. He was the only one who "saw what needed to be done"... or at least of those that knew he was the only one with the gonads to attempt to pull it off. I wouldn't expect a person like him to even consider any alternatives just like someone who is a flat-earther would never consider an alternate truth, as every argument you put forth has some sort of flaw in that person's mind.
ThePerm:
Thanos has the same character flaws I pointed out in the Iron Fist. Zealots usually end up being bad guys.
This movie was really really good.