Iron Man 4: My Thoughts on Avengers: EndGame

I wasn’t really planning on writing a review prior to watching Avengers: Endgame. However, after watching it with my friends — Miguel, Nicole, & Cathy — I was left with several thoughts on it that I expressed to my friends after the movie. Here are some of those thoughts below.

For starters, even though this was an Avengers movie, it simultaneously felt like what could have been an Iron Man 4 movie as well, as Tony Starks settled down with Pepper Potts & had a five-year-old daughter — both events of which I’m not a fan of, by the way, as I’ve always liked the playboy-billionaire version of Tony Stark more, but I get that Marvel/Disney wanted to portray Tony as “family-friendly,” & raise the risks that Tony was taking by coming out of retirement to restore the world.

The cheeseburger scene with Tony’s daughter & Happy was a nice touch because it touched on Robert Downey Jr.’s past, & his role of Tony Stark. I have to admit, even though Iron Man was the cash cow that eventually glued the cinematic universe together, I did expect Disney/Marvel to kill him off, so that they could further the story by introducing a new era of heroes.

My favourite scenes were when Tony got to speak to his father, when Thor got to speak with his mother, & when Captain America got to see his lover.

I really disliked how they used the Hulk — not just in this movie, but in all the previous ones aside from the standalone, because they turned him into a pussy. He was poorly utilized in the Marvel cinematic universe. I hated his weird little romance with the Black Widow: it was forced, & random.

I expected a rematch between the Hulk & Thanos because we were deprived of that in Infinity War, but I was let down yet again. Furthermore, the Hulk in Endgame was pretty much just Bruce Banner with green skin, & the humour of that got old really quick. Some of the jokes in the movie were funny, but a lot of them were forced & unnecessary. To make matters worse, they turned Thor into a fat, lazy, deadbeat, insecure, drunk pussy as well, & it didn’t stop there — practically all the guys were more or less like that, while the women were portrayed as tough, hard, & masculine: obviously, because this movie was littered with feminist propaganda — especially in that one scene where they brought all the women together to back up Captain Marvel against Thanos.

Speaking of Captain Marvel — I have complete disdain for her character. She was horrific to watch. I have absolutely no desire to watch her movie, nor see any more of her in the upcoming films.

I also didn’t like how little we saw of Drax & Groot.

I think that the future of Marvel has potential, but it lies on an excellent execution of Black Panther, & the reboots of Fantastic Four & X-Men. Failure to do so, mixed with this continuous feminist propaganda, will probably lead to a steady decline in interest in Marvel.

Finally, I actually like that there was no post-credits scene, because it brings the era to its conclusion, & is a perfect setup for what will come next.

Check out my review of Avengers: Infinity War HERE.