CB-Musings Episode 102: Infinity War

Going back to the beginning 

Of the MCU!

After Ten years Its time for the beginning of the end

Movie #19  = Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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Episode Transcript

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It all started in 2008 with iron

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man.
One.
We are now on.
Avengers infinity war, theculmination of 10 years worth of
movies.
Wow.
It's all led to this and it didnot disappoint.
Let's just go through the castlist.
Right.
I'm going to go to the cast listas fast as I can.
Robert Duntroon.
Chris Hemsworth, mark ruffle.

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Chris Evans, Scarlett Johannson,Benedict, Cumberbatch to hunt.
Sheetal Tom Holland, ChadwickBoseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth
Olsen, Anthony Mackie, SebastianStan.
Then I GRA.
Latina right Dave.
Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt.
Are you kidding me?
That's crazy.
What a lineup.
You know, those kind of, um, Idon't want to say lame, but.

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Uh, those ensemble romanticmovies or romantic comedies that
we always see where it's like ahuge cast and they all have
these like little roles.
This puts all those to shame.
The sheer volume of superstarsin this film.
It's something that I don'tthink we've ever seen at this
point.
Wait till secret wars comes out.
And the best part about it is Idon't think one of those.

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Characters were wasted.
Every performance.
Was excellent.
Every performance mattered.
It was just such a good fit forall of them.
Can you imagine what the Bach,the budget for this movie would
be though?
It was$400 million.
$400 million.
A lot of movies would kill forthat kind of box office.

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And the budget for this film wasthat big.
But do you know why when you'redoing something of this
magnitude, like there's neverbeen a sh.
I shared universe there that wasas big.
As the MCU, never, no one's everbeen able to do it at this
level.
The sheer volume of movies boxoff at successes leading up to
this point, you had to do this,right.

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You had to put all the money.
You could.
To make this film.
Right to make it work the way ithas to work.
But at the same time, when youhave a budget that big$400
million, you need to crush it atthe box office.
Was there anyone's was there adoubt?
Anyway.
Was there ever a doubt that thisfilm would crush at the box
office though?

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Let's be real.
There was no way it wasn't goingto pass a bill.
But.
Did we expect this past to bill?
I don't know.
I don't think I did.
But it CA it past.
$2 billion.
It finished with the box officeof 2,000,000,050 2 million
bucks.
Smashing success.

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This movie was everything thefans wanted it to be.
It was everything the studioswanted to be.
It was a win across the board.
It kicked, it started off likereally messed up with finals
coming in.
He just killed all theAsgardians.
Most of them.
Snapped.
Um, Loki's knack.
That was so graphic.
I remember that movie beingreally, really graphic and it

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definitely holds up to that now.
Holy crap.
From there, it's just amovement, movement, movement,
breakneck speed.
From there to the finish.
I loved.
Josh Brolin as Thanos.
He was so good as a villain.
It's amazing how with the mocapsuit he put on, you could still
capture such great emotion inhis face.

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And at the heart of this film.
At the core of it was the O GAvengers cap.
Iron man.
You had the hall coups, all theHawk wasn't coming out.
So.
Bruce banner trying to get theHawk to come up, but that was a
great dynamic ScarlettJohannson.
They were just so good haka wasmissing from this film, but he
comes back and end game.

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when I look back on this film, I
think what stood out to me was.
Just the sheer volume ofimportant characters, they were
able to successfully fit in.
You'd think with so many people,like I've mentioned, they would,
they would feel crowded or therewould have been enough time for
the O G Avengers to shine.
But not everybody's just fit inperfectly.

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And infinity war or end game,which we'll get to later on.
End game is just the OGcharacters really.
All the other people come out atthe end of infinity war was kind
of everybody.
Oh, and when I, I don't know ifa lot of people remember this,
but the trailer and the kind ofbuildup to the film was just
that one scene of mark.
Uh, Bruce banner falling intothe sanctum Santorum or whatever

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it's called.
And it's just like, this iscalming.
Donald was this coming?
Oh, that was sick.
I don't even know where tostart.
The song had so many.
Sick.
Plot points in it.
Oh, Thanos for, as a villain isway more sympathetic than I
think people realize.
You definitely feel from evenwhen he has to kill Gomorrah to
get the soul stone.

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He's.
Especially when he has to killGomorrah to get the soul stone.
I mean, you really get thatemotional side of him.
He's doing what he thinks willsave everybody because the
analysts, his planet wasdestroyed.
Because of overpopulation.
The way the analyst went aboutit was obviously sadistic and
crazy, but he has some truth toit.
It's something.
We see a lot in the Falcon, thewinter soldier, too.

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And seeing, seeing Tony starcheshave everything he wants, and
this is when it all goes toshit.
It was just, it hits your heart,man hits your heart, but he was
so good in this movie.
Robert Downey Jr.
Never gets enough credit as Tonystar.
Dr.
Strange killed it.
Like.
The whole magic fight on Titanwith anos.
This was crazy.

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That's gotta be one of the bestmagic fights.
Ever.
I keep saying it's one of thebest ever.
It's one of the best ever forall these different things.
But truly infinity war hadeverything.
The action was awesome.
The humor was so good.
How many people laughed whenDRAC said, why is Gomorrah.
Come on.
So good.

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I w I think the spine of thisfilm, what really made
everything work together and wemade everything feel as powerful
as it did was the stakes.
You could feel like thedesperation of everybody.
To stop that house.
You felt that everything wasbuilding up to him, getting the
gauntlet.
And now in this movie, he wasgetting the gauntlet.

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Are getting all the stones forthe Gottman.
I mean, like you felt it, it wascrazy.
It's not something that you canjust do in one movie.
The reason we felt that wasbecause they built the stakes
throughout all these otherfilms.
It's something that I don'tthink.
I don't think it's somethingthat I don't think Marvel has
been able to capture.
Since.

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Because right now we've movedpast the infinity saga and we're
in the multi-verse saga.
But I don't feel like secretwars will have the stakes that
we have an infinity war.
Or I should say.
I don't know for sure.
I'm just worried that it won't.
Because, how can you possiblybuild up to that?
The way you were able to buildup to infinity war.

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Marvel was doomed from thestart.
Like maybe they'll the lastmovie before the team up.
We'll have a tie-in.
But in.
In a infinity war, all thesefilms tied in.
Too.
infinity war.
They all like led to it in a, ina way that was coherent and well
structured.
Even the worst films of thesaga, like dark world.

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They had the stone, like thestone was the main thing of that
film.
It feels like Marvel's lost itsmagic.
I don't know what happened.
Honestly, I think.
What they should have done istaken a breather five years.
Uh, long break.
And just figure out what youwant to do.
And plant everything.

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Leading up to this, uh,Avengers.
And the next Avengers film.
It's just not, it's not there.
I don't feel it anymore.
And going through this phase ofMarvel, like phase three, it is
the best Marvel phase.
Even when Marvel wasn't at itsbest, leading up to infinity
war, at least you felt thevision.
We knew what it was leading to.

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And it worked.
I have no idea what they'redoing.
Even after Deadpool, Wolverine,which I loved, I still have no
idea where they're going and itkind of makes it hard to get
into the world when you don'tknow what the direction is.
I guess we know what thedirection is, but we don't
really, and now they introducedanchor beings, which I, I'm not
a fan of anchor beings at all.

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Here's my hot tech.
If Marvel lowered their outputand focused on.
The best, like the best productsof this current phase, it would
be on par with Marvel's bestface infinity war was the best
of them though.
This was peak Marvel.
Don't even need to go throughthe list.
Really?
Infinity war obviously takes atop spot in the MCU power

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rankings without a question justzooms right up to the top.
This movie was everything.
It, it.
There were some people that Isaw a tweet recently where it's
like, nobody expected them tolose an infinity war.
Please everyone expected them tolose an infinity war, everybody.
I knew they were going to lose.
And obviously they were going tolose there's two parts to it.

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You think they win and then theysomehow do a second part?
No.
To sum up infinity war had.
I don't sambal cast from top tobottom that killed it.
The action was amazing.
The humor led by Drax was sogood.
The O G Avengers cast reallystood out and drove the plot.
Josh Brolin is a villain.
I just like the cherry on top.

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Excellent performance.
I'm your host, mark savvy ofsavvy geeks.
Thank you for listening tune innext week for admin and the
wasp.