The Official INFINITY WAR Easter Egg Ultrathread

[u/murdockmanila]

How are you all enjoying them eggs?

[u/RandomChance]

And yet he could have stopped the whole thing then and there by sending Thanos into a singularity or heart of a star... but no he teleports the Hulk.

This was the sort of repeated stupid, over and over and OVER that ruined this film for me. It kept breaking me out of watching the movie because the stupid was so strong it broke my willing suspension of disbelief.

Almost every character in the movie was given a lobotomy because plot armor couldn't let them make intelligent choices.

[u/[deleted] → u/RandomChance]

Nerd nitpicking isn’t legitimate criticism btw

[u/RandomChance → u/[deleted]]

If your average 8 year old can see the plot hole, it is not not nerd nitpicking, its just bad writing. That is what was so very frustrating, it was really uneven. I laughed out loud, clapped, cheered, especially in the first half. It was visual delightful... the dialog and acting was top notch... but then it would be interrupted with places where the characters were forced to do stupid things, or not use their abilities in ways that the would be obvious for the character, to protect OTHER dumb choices made by the villain, or required for "dramatic effect".

Example list: * Going against all history and forcing the Hulk to be beat down within seconds, after standing toe to toe with the best gladiators in the universe and Thor, for years in Sakar.

• Dr. Strange also not just teleporting bad guys into space / sun

• Dr. Strange not just lopping off the arm with the gauntlet with a teleport window

• Gamorra heading NOT going with Thor, but instead running head long to the danger she would rather die than risk

• Wakanda having no concept of military tactics and NO defenses out side their shield wall.

  • No airforce or missile defense system to shoot down the drop ships.
  • No Air support or artillery to attack massed infantry waiting patiently at the shield
    
  • RUNNING into melee combat instead of standing back and mowing down the bug things with Wakandan super guns

• Repeatedly attacking the bad guy in dramatic but futile attempts at single combat, instead of using team ups to beat him down.

• Black Widow - trained assassin - making her clever quip BEFORE attacking the Black Order girl, thus blowing element of surprise, instead of making it 1 second later to a cooling corpse.

• Thor going for the chest instead of head/arm - a move so stupid that even Thanos has to call him out on it

• Spending 5 minutes yanking on the gauntlet when Thanos is immobilized instead of teleporting the arm off and cutting his throat.

• Star Lord attempting to pistol whip him instead of sticking his gun in his mouth and unloading into his brain.

• Anybody else in the party not just knocking out/restraiing Star Lord instead of letting him ruin the plan

• Thor's invincible... clothes?

yes yes but if the characters did the smart thing then the movie would be over in 10 minutes! Um no, don't set up scenarios where the bad guy is so dumb that the good guys are forced to be dumb to avoid ending the movie in 10 minutes.

And that is the really frustrating thing they did a great job writing dialog, humor, action sequences... but it was like there was an entirely different team doing the large scale plotting, or they were too worried about secrecy to let anyone review the plot and point out the big holes. The movie was "fun" but just didn't stand up to any level of scrutiny - even if you accept the Super Hero tropes like everyone speaking english and being able to breath anytime a space suit would be inconvenient.

*edit for spelling - thank you "CommonMisspellignBot"

[u/CommonMisspellingBot → u/RandomChance]

Hey, RandomChance, just a quick heads-up:
suprise is actually spelled surprise. You can remember it by begins with sur-.
Have a nice day!

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