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Enjoy.

Or not.

Trailer didn't quite excite me, but will give it another watch or two.

Damn it, I'm all in. I wasn't, a few of Marvel's recent efforts haven't really done anything for me (didn't like Strange, Spidey was meh, Thor I've not seen but I'm not that fussed about) but this looks to buck that trend. Not sure why I'm surprised, given that the Russo brothers have done my two favourite Marvel films to date, but this trailer has certainly restored my confidence in the franchise.

This needed to be big, epic and grandiose rather than the comedy style they've been really playing up recently, and so far that looks to be where IW is headed.

Still not keen on Thanos losing his armour from GotG though, that looked way more threatening than the vest he has now...

Looks great to me. Was spiderman's costume armored now? Seemed kinda shiney.

Spider-Man was worse than “meh”, but we’ve covered that. This looks awesome. Vision is gonna have a bad day, wearing a stone in his forehead. Cap looks like he’s seen better days, being on the run since Civil War will do that to a man.

 Necros wrote:
Looks great to me. Was spiderman's costume armored now? Seemed kinda shiney.

Spoilers, I guess:




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This is one of those trailers that feels less cohesive and more about giving fans something to dissect for a bit. For example, Thanos clearly gets the Tesseract in the trailer and when he adds it to his gauntlet you can clearly see he's apparently already retrieved the Power Stone from the Nova Corps. This trailer is pretty overloaded with stuff like that to find.

Of course, Marvel has also proven a willingness to toy with CGI a bit for trailers and put a villain in NYC randomly or give a character an little more sight then they have in the final film.

I’d say it’s a safe bet he gets Vision’s bling too.

Right, but when it shows him adding the Tesseract to the gauntlet only the power stone is already there.

Spiderman Homecoming was not meh or worse than meh

Lies! Lies! Scurrilous lies!

Love that film, I do.

Yeah, not sure why the Spidey hate. It was way better than that last slog of a Spiderman movie and didn't rehash the whole bit by a spider thing. Plus Keaton was awesome.

Thanatos in the trailer looks a bit like the aliens from Battleship:

Thank god they have to fight an army of cgi mooks. I was afraid they'd lost that crucial element to the formula.

Well, you have to have something threatening the 'civilians' in order to give the irrelevant heroes something to do.

ASM1 > Homecoming.

Oh, I agree. I love to see the team uh, teaming, and quipping. I was being both snide and truthful; I really am glad to see that cliche again.

Tobey-Spidey 1&2 better than all other Spideys. At least it got all the characters right. Maybe his quips aren’t as good, but at least they didn’t make him a sidekick in his own movies (Amazing), or recycle the Green Goblin in everything except name (Homecoming). Having relevant support characters is more important to Spidey than quips; as long as he’s making them, as they’re his way to deal with insecurities.

I don't agree. Keaton's performance in Homecoming was riveting. They could have cut all the Spider-Man out and just have two hours of Keaton meeting his daughter's prom date and driving them to the prom and it would still be a thriller.

Keaton was great. I have literally no issue with his acting at all. It’s not his fault he got thrown into a rehashed role.

I wouldn't be surprised if the other stone in the gauntlet is orange in the final film. Loki clearly gives him the Tesseract and for those that are keeping track:

The Ragnarok trailer clearly edited some things that we quite different in the final film, so why not here too.

Although, it could just as well be the power stone taken from Nova. Nothing is on that world that we care about, so he could get it without needing to see it on screen.

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I assume the Soul Gem is being reserved for last for a reason. Traditionally its been the central stone on the gauntlet and often the lynchpin/weakness of it. If Thanos retains any ties to his love for Lady Death its also thematically relevant to the end of his quest.

I guess I'm just finding the eternal flame angle unlikely at this point. They've gone so far out of their way to not touch upon it, it seems pretty lame to have Loki have used it to bring back the giant flame demon and somehow run off with it without anyone noticing. Doubly true if he's just going to give Thanos both and make its existence doubly irrelevant.

Mostly, I just hope they don't do like Harry Potter and spend 80% of the final story hunting down a single Horcrux before randomly destroying over half of them in the last few chapters.

True. And there is also the line at the end of Thor 2 that "it is not wise to hold 2 infinity stones in the same place". That alone could disprove my theory.

So, is this one of those silly 2-part movies, or is it 1 movie and IW is done?

There is this, and another Avengers movie being shot at the same time. I'm excited for both.

 Easy E wrote:
So, is this one of those silly 2-part movies, or is it 1 movie and IW is done?

I was originally slated as a 2 part, but the name was changed. IW is Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 is now called something yet to be released. But yeah, the story is undoubtedly a 2-parter
Likely Cap and/or Iron man dies in the first or second part.

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 LunarSol wrote:
I assume the Soul Gem is being reserved for last for a reason. Traditionally its been the central stone on the gauntlet and often the lynchpin/weakness of it. If Thanos retains any ties to his love for Lady Death its also thematically relevant to the end of his quest.

Speaking of which, does MCU Thanos have even a glimmer of a motivation yet? We've known he's the forthcoming Big Bad of the entire arc of movies for years, and he's wandered on screen briefly in several of them but... I can't think of a single thing that illuminates why he might be doing... anything. Including sitting on a throne in space with an easily defeated army.
There is a brief line in the trailer about 'balancing the universe,' but, well. Balancing it between... what?

As for the trailer... eh. Ensemble assembles. I figure half the movie will involve getting everyone pointed in the same direction, some needless internal conflict, then bam! actual conflict and done.

Are they stomping Wakanda? That seems as bad as the 'stomping Amazons' discussions during the JLA trailers.

I don't know much about Wakanda, but maybe their advanced tech will be a reason Big Purple wants to attack it? Or maybe the Avengers use it as a place to hide a stone, prompting an attack?

Super pumped for this movie. The MCU has been building towards this since at least the end of Avengers, and while I'm definitely worried about the number of characters that are getting crammed into this I have faith in the Russo brothers after Civil War ended up actually being good despite the huge cast.

Well the end credit sequence in the original Avengers has Thanos' minion telling him that to challenge Earth is to "court death", which made Thanos stand up and smile wryly at the camera. So there is some hint at motivation there.

I kinda wish they had done a Thanos Rising movie, that was an excellent story and would have done a lot to flesh him out as a character. They're gonna have to dedicate a lot of Infinity War to doing that now since we haven't actually seen him do much.

A lot of reports have said that Thanos is a bigger deal in this film than the heroes, and that this is his film.

It kinda neeeds to be. He can't be a one-and-done villain. He has to show up, collect the stones, compeltely feth the heroes over (maybe killing one or two) before we move into part 4.

If there’s a big attack Wakanda thing, I assume they’re holding onto one of the stones. Maybe we’ll see it in Panther.

 Galef wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
So, is this one of those silly 2-part movies, or is it 1 movie and IW is done?

I was originally slated as a 2 part, but the name was changed. IW is Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 is now called something yet to be released. But yeah, the story is undoubtedly a 2-parter
Likely Cap and/or Iron man dies in the first or second part.

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I'm hearing things about Cap being thrown back to WWII till the next event.

 DANGEROUS DICK LONGFELLOW wrote:

 Galef wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
So, is this one of those silly 2-part movies, or is it 1 movie and IW is done?

I was originally slated as a 2 part, but the name was changed. IW is Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 is now called something yet to be released. But yeah, the story is undoubtedly a 2-parter
Likely Cap and/or Iron man dies in the first or second part.

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I'm hearing things about Cap being thrown back to WWII till the next event.

That sounds terrible. Cap beating up normals is dreadfully boring.

How can he get his butt planted in windshields if he's just fighting plain old Nazis?