I'm over it

Rating: 4/10 (26 April 2019)

Marvel keeps raising the stakes to impossibly huge proportions, catering to fans with winks and nods because they know they're guaranteed ticket sales from fanboys/girls who just want to catch every Easter egg. This isn't good storytelling at all. The bigger the villains are, the bigger and more overpowered the heroes have to be (Vision, Captain Marvel, Cap swinging Mjolnir, etc) or the more characters they have to cram into the film. Endgame did both! Wow! I'm done seeing Marvel movies.
Things I genuinely enjoyed:
Hawkeye. I would've watched this movie if it was JUST a Hawkeye movie. Badass. In fact, I think that would've been a really cool way to handle the Decimation aftermath and Endgame in general. Challenging, maybe impossible, but cool.
Black Widow. A female character who's somewhat complex and doesn't have unexplainably magical powers to conveniently save the day (looking at you, Danvers). Also, somehow her relationship with Clint is just platonic (or is it, because of the implications of the sacrifice? But honestly, Clint's already lost everything else so it's a moot point). This is cool, since the bombshell is normally "required" to have a romantic relationship in every movie, and here she doesn't.
Lebowski Thor. Especially his sweaters, and the fact that Tony Stark actually made a joke that adults like myself find funny. Wow. It's been a running joke that Hemsworth's contract includes a shirtless scene clause as the stereotypical hunk. This was delightfully subverted.