Avengers: Infinity War

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This is the beginning of my Cowboy Pete review:

Ten years after the launching of the Marvel movie universe with the astoundingly successful (obvious in retrospect but shocking at the time) box office performance of Iron Man, Marvel has now finally come through on the teaser that they situated at the end of the first Avengers film. Thanos has been lurking around in films ever since, not really doing much of anything except for showing up in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie and just sitting there making threats, none of which he carried out.

Well, that all ends with the latest Avengers film: technically the third but really the fourth since Captain America: Civil War was actually an Avengers movie in all but title. Infinity War gives us the movie version of a story that fans of comics in general and Jim Starlin in particular know all too well: Thanos, the mad god of Titan, wants to destroy half of all lives in the universe. And the Avengers want to make sure that doesn’t happen.

What follows is a blink-and-you-miss it two hours and forty minutes that brings together every dámņëd character in the history of Marvel cinema, with the exceptions of Hawkeye and Ant-Man. Which is fine because a guy shooting arrows and a guy who shrinks or transforms into a lumbering giant wasn’t really going to make that much of a difference in the outcome.

And things happen. Oh boy, do things happen.

The rest can be found on my Patreon account.

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17 comments on “Avengers: Infinity War”

  2. “The rest can be found on my Patreon account.”

    Ah yes, I needed a reason to give up on a few websites, looks like this one wins…

    1. Of course. Why stick with a free website just because the owner, a professional writer, wants to make a couple of bucks on the side with a site that a ton of fans suggested I start. Makes sense.

      2. Yet another fan bails on Peter, and yet again Peter reacts like Stephen Assanti being denied a pizza.
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        User should probably be grateful that the term “ungrateful wretch” wasn’t lobbed in his direction. Of course, Jerry Chandler hasn’t chimed in yet…

  3. This seemed to be a site where the Esteemed Writer gave his common fans access to his opinions and discussed topics. My wife being the librarian she is thought that’s pretty cool. Now more and more it seems the discussion ends at the Patreon account’s door. Your critiques in the past were interesting coming from a writer’s perspective and being able to discuss them was cool. But now it seems even your reviews are to be for pay. We are to be a source of income for a retirement plan, or other vehicles I guess. So I guess this is it. If it makes sense for you, so be it. Go with God

    1. Uh, no, typically the only discussions that continue in my Patreon account are the Cowboy Pete reviews. Freak Out Friday is always here, plus most of my comic book discussions.
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  4. I thought that the internal rationale for the absence of Hawkeye and Ant-Man made perfect sense – they’re the family men of the MCU. I presume that the external rationale for Ant-Man’s absence was to avoid complicating the timeline for the upcomging “Ant-Man and the Wasp” any more than necessary. I predict both characters will appear in Avengers 4. But saying theywouldn’t serve a purpose?? How are either of those characters less effective in a big old battle than the Black Widow? Or Starlord?

  5. May I suggest a link to your Patreon account any time you mention it, and an image link prominent in your sidebar? You’ll get a whole lot more supporters by making it easy for people to sign up.

  6. There was one character with history with Thanos {unless i’m remembering wrongly} who i expected to be here, given a couple of the after-credit stings.
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    But there was no sign of him.

    Also, there was a credit for someone’s work on “Medusa”. Did i miss seeing someone?

    1. Rumor has it that James Gunn has reserved the character whom I think you are referring to, to debut in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. So it may be that, however appropriate an appearance by Anyone Whom you have in mind might be, it just won’t happen before a post-credits in Avengers 4.

      1. I suspect you have, indeed, guessed to whom i was referring.
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        I kept expecting him to pop up at any minute…

    1. Dude, we don’t even know if Ant-Man and the Wasp are alive, since their film is set before the story in “Infinity War.”
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      1. Well, we do know about Ant-Man if we’ve seen the production photos from part 2, or seen the casting list. Wasp is a question mark, though.

      2. well, yeah… But we also saw Hulk fighting in Wakanda and other scenes that never happened in the first film in early promotional materials and trailers.
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        Until five minutes after the next Avengers movie is over, I’m taking nothing at face value.

  8. “Which is fine because a guy shooting arrows and a guy who shrinks or transforms into a lumbering giant wasn’t really going to make that much of a difference in the outcome.”
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    Ant-Man goes super small, rides an arrow to Thanos, goes as far up and into Thanos’s nose as he can, and turns into giant man.
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    Or goes down his throat. Either way.

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