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Well, that was a night out.
Now, I feel extra puny.
She is curled up in a chair, repeating, What the f just happened?
Her eyes are still red from crying.
She begs me to do the movie justice.
How do I do that?
I cant say anything about what happens, really.
People would hate you forever.
I mean, people who dont already.
So what would you have me tell readers?
Tell them, Dont know anything going in.
Dont look at any article.
What about this one?
I mean … She thinks a bit, shrugs, walks out muttering, What thehell.
So much pain over a movie with overpaid actors in costumes surrounded by various combinations of ones and zeros.
Plainly, Marvel has done it again only bigger.
As an exercise of studio might, however, it has no peer.
Flagrantly, bombastically extravagant, it plays its audience like a hundred million fiddles.
Marvel does this by adjusting course, which its shockingly good at for so vast a corporate entity.
But word got out quickly that inAvengers: Infinity War,There Will Be Blood.
And there is, though its PG-13, which means the violence sounds squishy but is light on gore.
His pet peeve is overpopulation.
It doesnt occur to him to make a large donation to Planned Parenthood.
He would like instead to wipe out half the universe with a flick of his fist.
The point is that his powers seem to bloom organically from his temperament.
My daughter adores Tom Holland as Spider-Man for the same reason.
Hes so naturally buoyant and bouncy that the webs are the extension of his giddy worldview.
Man, Strange knows how to hurt a guy.
Theres an added joke inAvengers: Infinity Warthat I wouldnt dream of spoiling.
Not every return is so happy.
The relentlessly lame one-liners of those poor galaxy guardians are the movies low points.
Saldanas Gamora is the exception, doing much of the histrionic heavy lifting.
Saldana carries on her shoulders the weight ofmanyworlds.
(The punch line is a goof on a sci-fi action classic.)
The thousands of fallen bodies have all the weight of computer-game figures.
People applaud at the first sight of Wakanda, as if cheering its very existence.
Marvels triumph is not that we are loyal audiences, not even loyal fans.
Avengers: Infinity Warwas nominated for a 2019 Oscarin Best Visual Effects.
