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We as a community need to recognize that as far as story writing goes, Infinity Wars was bad

Loki, trickster god, dying because his ‘sneaky machination’ was literally just a frontal stabbity assault on a guy with two Infinity Stones? Bad. Valkyrie just straight up not existing? Bad. Gamora being tortured and abused by Thanos her whole life, only to be killed at her abuser’s hands because he ‘really loved her’ in order to give her abuser “’complexity’”? EXCEEDINGLY BAD. Said ‘love’ and ‘grief’ being the reason the closest attempt at stopping him fails? Salt on the wound, super fucking bad. Wanda letting Wakandan soldiers give their lives to stall and risking the fate of Wakanda as a whole and trillions of other lives across the universe because she doesn’t want to POSSIBLY kill her Mark Hatsune boyfriend? HIGH TIER IMMERSION-BREAKING BAD. Thanos just, in general, having years to formulate a plot and deciding that killing off half the universe was what was going to save it instead of using infinite power to provide resources or stability that he was worrying about or just really doing anything else with THE POWER TO REMAKE THE UNIVERSE that wasn’t absolutely moronic because of different repopulation rates in species and the fact that a randomized 50% kill snap could end up destroying people who want to help maintain the universe and letting those who want to actually harm and harvest it flourish and just, like, it was so stupid there was absolutely no reason that his choice stands up to his under any amount of rational thought and it was just done to make their villain seem Deep and now has allowed reddit eugenicists to crawl out of the woodworks in support of this moronic choice? Really. Fucking. Bad.

Infinity Wars had some good humor but God damn the story writing was so fucking bad and we need to admit that

FUCKING THIS.

THANK YOU OP.

Couldn’t have said it better

This! It wasn’t just lazy; it was bad. You can’t cover up a poor story with flashy action and think people won’t notice.

I never expected any of my favorites getting much screen time but I thought the movie itself was going to be epic. It wasn’t.

Thanos idea of halving the population doesn’t hold water so he would either be delusional or plain stupid to think it would work but the movie doesn’t give an answer to which. It doesn’t explore his psychology at all, despite the claim that it’s “his” movie. And relatable? To whom? There is nothing there. Just the same, flat, old villain all over again.

Next time, try putting some thought into it.

Even if you ignore the content issues, this movie has glaring technical issues. The pacing is off, there are too many characters and too much time wasted on jokes that aren’t even fucking funny, it suffers from tonal whiplash, it plays out like a logic puzzle (”we need x character in y location because z, so let’s come up with a contrived reason they’re there”). 

And the most obvious fault? This movie doesn’t have a plot. Summarize it! I challenge you to do so. It’s contrived battle after battle with no heart, energy, or thought put into it. A checklist of destruction, death, and lost potential. 

You can’t summarize it. It’s nonsense covered up with bad CGI and noise.