Thursday, April 26, 2018

In Theaters: April 27, 2017

There can be only one.

Avengers: Infinity War


That's right, ladies and gents.  Infinity War is here.

By the way, I didn't bother with the blog last week for two reasons.
1) I wasn't feeling it
2) There was nothing coming out that looked any good

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Almost ten years ago to the day the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off pretty quietly.  Sure, Iron Man was a big hit, but nobody expected it to be.  And even after it was a bona fide hit, I myself had no idea they were serious about that "Avengers initiative" line after the credits.  And when I heard two years later that they were actually gonna go for an Avengers movie, I scoffed.  I did not believe.  I've never been so wrong about anything movie-related in my life.

Anyway, you know the story.  First came Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk in 2008, Iron Man 2 in 2010, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger in 2011, and Marvel's The Avengers in 2012, which really shook things up.  Somewhere in that first phase, Disney bought Marvel, and that has worked out pretty well.  Phase two started with Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World in 2013, then came Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, followed by Avengers: Age of Ultron, and then Ant-Man, closing out phase two in 2015.  I'm still confused about why Ant-Man is the official last movie of phase two, but it is.  2016 brought us Captain America: Civil War, and Doctor Strange, and in 2017 they made the switch to three movies a year with Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Thor: Ragnarok.  2018 will also have three.  We already got Black Panther.  And now Infinity War.

In ten years it's already become the most profitable franchise ever, and the second most prolific.  And it all comes down to this.

JUST KIDDING

There is an untitled fourth Avengers film that will come out next summer.  That is the true end of the current MCU as we know it.  They say the title itself is a spoiler, which is why it hasn't been revealed yet.  So brace yourself for some probable cliffhangers.  Big ones.  At the end of Infinity War.

Still, this is a big event movie.  If I had to guess, I'd say it's the second biggest event movie of anyone's life that was born after May 1977.  The first being the untitled movie slated for next summer.

Avengers: Infinity War is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references.

I had the chance to talk with someone who has seen the movie.  I only asked him one question:

Does it deliver?

He said yes.

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