Stan Lee Would Not Have Made These Errors! Disney Strikes again!

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2019)

So before i start let me just say not all of Endgame is bad, a 3 hour runtime in a movie with these characters will always have it's good moments. So many are shouting from the rooftops how amazing this movie is, well i'm happy for them that they walked away with a smile on their face, after all in this day & age, we all need one of those, although i don't think that in that last 15 minutes of Endgame their was that much to be joyous about but hey each to their own. Anyway so Disney not content with dismantling Star Wars to a point where it is no longer recognisable from the Classic original trilogy & turning it into what can only be described as one of the biggest cinematic betrayals of it's loyal fanbase, they now have moved on & along with the Russo's & their writers have managed to disassemble 11 years of great movies & resign them to the 'Oh No, it's Crisis on Infinite Earth's all over again' pile. Endgame despite all it's promise it's so unrecognisable from it's predesessor 'infinity war' that one might be forgiven for thinking that movie was made by an entirely different team of people. Not only have they pretty much trashed most of that film with the stupidity of this one, they have also gone back & made so much of their previous cinematic universe irrelevant. Who Green Lit this? did someone just say 'Oh well as long as these great actors get a good send off, no one will notice' & to an extent that seems to be happening. What a wonderful crazy mixed up world we live in. Let's have a look at some of these problems shall we, because many people are & just ignoring them or trying to fit events to suit their viewpoints (Hollywood Reporter, i'm looking at you!)
1. Firstly because actors want to move on, should beloved characters be killed off? i wonder what Stan Lee would have made of the blatant disregard for Tony Stark & Black Widow, yes theirs a case for saying that Tony's story was done but compare his screen time to his history in comics, a few movies versus hundreds & hundreds of comics, storylines, villains, dramas. Is a super-heroe's time ever done. We are in a world with a talking Raccoon so don't give me that we need some realism argument. And Black Widow was just ridiculous, thanks for the warning Nebula? although she may not have known what you needed to do to obtain the stone but now Natascha is Dead will anyone care about her own movie? Girl Power.
2. Captain America & Hulk are now snowflakes. Jeesh! Their is no excuse for what they did to Cap at the end of this film, I Love Chris Evans & he has been perfect in this role & did not deserve this (insert swear word). This non-sensical & weird way to ditch this character was so appalling that words are lost on me. For a start Captain's work is never done, he never thinks of himself, he wouldn't for a second lay down his shield, go back in time erase another person's life so he can fit into it & then sit back & let the wars go on & not get involved. It betrays everything that they built this character up as. Also some of the time travel logic (if you wanna call it that, comes in to play here) if what The Ancient One briefly explained is true & now multiple time lines exist, it would not be possible for Cap to appear in the 2023 timeline at the end. And giving his Shield to Falcon & not his greatest friend Bucky, again not what i would call logic in the scheme of whats come before. Falcon is .. Well Falcon. Bucky is trying to find his identity, surely Steve passing his mantle on to his best friend who sorely needs a new purpose would have been where the money was on.
3. Tony Stark can make an infinity Gauntlet in a mere day? & can use all the stones without getting decimated? if Infinity War taught us anything it' that their is only 1 place & 1 man that can make such a thing, but i guess it would have meant bringing Dinklage back & extending the runtime further to make any bit of sense to this part of the story. So let's have Tony do it, He's smart, no one will notice? will they? after all he figures out time travel in the space of 5 minutes by moving his hands really fast & saying Eureka!! This is a total betrayal to their own movie so the Russo's must have just shrugged their shoulders & let it play out. Ridiculous & insulting.
4. Everyone who didn't get incinerated by Thanos should be 5 Years older now. So are we to assume that In the next Spider-Man movie all of the relevant friends, family etc of Peter Parker were zapped so that's why no one has aged. We will have to wait & see with this one, but judging by the trailer, yes, even though the chances are slim, everyone that's important to Peter's life got zapped. Again possible but ridiculous!
5. Time Travel in general is a bad idea in films unless you have a chalk board like doc brown & lay it all out for those to see. Except in this movie, the entire logic of Hulk's explanation is stupid to the point of holding up a big sign & saying 'Our Audience doesn't care anyway' but the truth is, we do, we have always cared about these films, a little too much, why do you think i'm ranting now, i'm super angry that you constructed such a beautiful tapestry of movies, intelligent, exciting, silly, yes but still logical so to throw logic out the window & stick your middle finger up to all that's come before is criminal. If you are doing Multiple Time Lines, one of them is going to be destroyed by Thanos becuase your returning the stones from where they came, do these guys only care about the people in their time line. Now you have created these time lines, you are stuck with them (Crisis On Infinite Earths anyone?) bad idea!
6. Captain America using Thor's hammer.... what were you thinking? yes, that was a nod to 'Age of Ultron' good one we get it but seriously, it looked wrong, felt stupid & i'm telling you now, way to go to upset Comic Book Fans. Good work!
7. Thanos, you made him such a rich, deep, intelligent character in 'Infinity War' yet here you deconstruct him down to just a generic bland 'i'm going to kill all of you' villain. such a shame but hey worked well for that killer ending battle right? jeesh!!
i could go on & on but my sadness is telling me to quit, no one will care at the moment, fans are swept up in the hype train. My own train of thought on this is that people will start to see all the problems on subsequent viewings. Sadly this is not what we signed up for in 2008, Marvel have let their characters down to give their actors a nice goodbye, something the great Stan Lee never did at his time at Marvel. It's ok to mess up from time to time, but don't do it at the expense of these great comics & don't treat your audience like fools, it will come back to bite you. Star Wars is feeling that now & although Marvel is not done i feel that the new batch of characters you are working with are not strong enough to keep the core fans happy. Give the next movies to Taiki or Gunn & you might do ok otherwise, start using that time machine to go back & sort out all the errors on this one & maybe you will find your own redemption.