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CB-Musings Episode 102: Infinity War
Going back to the beginning
Of the MCU!
After Ten years Its time for the beginning of the end
Movie #19 = Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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It all started in 2008 with iron man. One. We are now on. Avengers infinity war, the culmination of 10 years worth of movies. Wow. It's all led to this and it did not disappoint. Let's just go through the cast list. Right. I'm going to go to the cast list as fast as I can. Robert Duntroon. Chris Hemsworth, mark ruffle. Chris Evans, Scarlett Johannson, Benedict, Cumberbatch to hunt. Sheetal Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan. Then I GRA. Latina right Dave. Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt. Are you kidding me? That's crazy. What a lineup. You know, those kind of, um, I don't want to say lame, but. Uh, those ensemble romantic movies or romantic comedies that we always see where it's like a huge cast and they all have these like little roles. This puts all those to shame. The sheer volume of superstars in this film. It's something that I don't think we've ever seen at this point. Wait till secret wars comes out. And the best part about it is I don't think one of those. Characters were wasted. Every performance. Was excellent. Every performance mattered. It was just such a good fit for all of them. Can you imagine what the Bach, the budget for this movie would be though? It was$400 million.$400 million. A lot of movies would kill for that kind of box office. And the budget for this film was that big. But do you know why when you're doing something of this magnitude, like there's never been a sh. I shared universe there that was as big. As the MCU, never, no one's ever been able to do it at this level. The sheer volume of movies box off at successes leading up to this point, you had to do this, right. You had to put all the money. You could. To make this film. Right to make it work the way it has to work. But at the same time, when you have a budget that big$400 million, you need to crush it at the box office. Was there anyone's was there a doubt? Anyway. Was there ever a doubt that this film would crush at the box office though? Let's be real. There was no way it wasn't going to pass a bill. But. Did we expect this past to bill? I don't know. I don't think I did. But it CA it past.$2 billion. It finished with the box office of 2,000,000,050 2 million bucks. Smashing success. This movie was everything the fans wanted it to be. It was everything the studios wanted to be. It was a win across the board. It kicked, it started off like really messed up with finals coming in. He just killed all the Asgardians. Most of them. Snapped. Um, Loki's knack. That was so graphic. I remember that movie being really, really graphic and it definitely holds up to that now. Holy crap. From there, it's just a movement, movement, movement, breakneck speed. From there to the finish. I loved. Josh Brolin as Thanos. He was so good as a villain. It's amazing how with the mocap suit he put on, you could still capture such great emotion in his face. And at the heart of this film. At the core of it was the O G Avengers cap. Iron man. You had the hall coups, all the Hawk wasn't coming out. So. Bruce banner trying to get the Hawk to come up, but that was a great dynamic Scarlett Johannson. They were just so good haka was missing from this film, but he comes back and end game.
Microphone (USB Audio CODEC )-1:when I look back on this film, I think what stood out to me was. Just the sheer volume of important characters, they were able to successfully fit in. You'd think with so many people, like I've mentioned, they would, they would feel crowded or there would have been enough time for the O G Avengers to shine. But not everybody's just fit in perfectly. And infinity war or end game, which we'll get to later on. End game is just the OG characters really. All the other people come out at the end of infinity war was kind of everybody. Oh, and when I, I don't know if a lot of people remember this, but the trailer and the kind of buildup to the film was just that one scene of mark. Uh, Bruce banner falling into the sanctum Santorum or whatever it's called. And it's just like, this is calming. Donald was this coming? Oh, that was sick. I don't even know where to start. The song had so many. Sick. Plot points in it. Oh, Thanos for, as a villain is way more sympathetic than I think people realize. You definitely feel from even when he has to kill Gomorrah to get the soul stone. He's. Especially when he has to kill Gomorrah to get the soul stone. I mean, you really get that emotional side of him. He's doing what he thinks will save everybody because the analysts, his planet was destroyed. Because of overpopulation. The way the analyst went about it was obviously sadistic and crazy, but he has some truth to it. It's something. We see a lot in the Falcon, the winter soldier, too. And seeing, seeing Tony starches have everything he wants, and this is when it all goes to shit. It was just, it hits your heart, man hits your heart, but he was so good in this movie. Robert Downey Jr. Never gets enough credit as Tony star. Dr. Strange killed it. Like. The whole magic fight on Titan with anos. This was crazy. That's gotta be one of the best magic fights. Ever. I keep saying it's one of the best ever. It's one of the best ever for all these different things. But truly infinity war had everything. The action was awesome. The humor was so good. How many people laughed when DRAC said, why is Gomorrah. Come on. So good. I w I think the spine of this film, what really made everything work together and we made everything feel as powerful as it did was the stakes. You could feel like the desperation of everybody. To stop that house. You felt that everything was building up to him, getting the gauntlet. And now in this movie, he was getting the gauntlet. Are getting all the stones for the Gottman. I mean, like you felt it, it was crazy. It's not something that you can just do in one movie. The reason we felt that was because they built the stakes throughout all these other films. It's something that I don't think. I don't think it's something that I don't think Marvel has been able to capture. Since. Because right now we've moved past the infinity saga and we're in the multi-verse saga. But I don't feel like secret wars will have the stakes that we have an infinity war. Or I should say. I don't know for sure. I'm just worried that it won't. Because, how can you possibly build up to that? The way you were able to build up to infinity war. Marvel was doomed from the start. Like maybe they'll the last movie before the team up. We'll have a tie-in. But in. In a infinity war, all these films tied in. Too. infinity war. They all like led to it in a, in a way that was coherent and well structured. Even the worst films of the saga, like dark world. They had the stone, like the stone was the main thing of that film. It feels like Marvel's lost its magic. I don't know what happened. Honestly, I think. What they should have done is taken a breather five years. Uh, long break. And just figure out what you want to do. And plant everything. Leading up to this, uh, Avengers. And the next Avengers film. It's just not, it's not there. I don't feel it anymore. And going through this phase of Marvel, like phase three, it is the best Marvel phase. Even when Marvel wasn't at its best, leading up to infinity war, at least you felt the vision. We knew what it was leading to. And it worked. I have no idea what they're doing. Even after Deadpool, Wolverine, which I loved, I still have no idea where they're going and it kind of makes it hard to get into the world when you don't know what the direction is. I guess we know what the direction is, but we don't really, and now they introduced anchor beings, which I, I'm not a fan of anchor beings at all. Here's my hot tech. If Marvel lowered their output and focused on. The best, like the best products of this current phase, it would be on par with Marvel's best face infinity war was the best of them though. This was peak Marvel. Don't even need to go through the list. Really? Infinity war obviously takes a top spot in the MCU power rankings without a question just zooms right up to the top. This movie was everything. It, it. There were some people that I saw a tweet recently where it's like, nobody expected them to lose an infinity war. Please everyone expected them to lose an infinity war, everybody. I knew they were going to lose. And obviously they were going to lose there's two parts to it. You think they win and then they somehow do a second part? No. To sum up infinity war had. I don't sambal cast from top to bottom that killed it. The action was amazing. The humor led by Drax was so good. The O G Avengers cast really stood out and drove the plot. Josh Brolin is a villain. I just like the cherry on top. Excellent performance. I'm your host, mark savvy of savvy geeks. Thank you for listening tune in next week for admin and the wasp.