Avengers: Infinity War

I watched the movie thrice, on 27 and 30 of April and also 1 of May. It's suicidal to watch so many times, I understand how it feels. I'm not a professional nor a critics, neither have I properly review a movie, so below are just my own experience and feelings.

I'm actually having my finals during the week Infinity War came out. I struggled to study and catch up on the film. The movie opened in Malaysia on 25 of April which is one day earlier than scheduled, and on that day I was having my second paper, I thought I should watched it after that paper, but I didn't because my friends convinced me not to as I have one more paper to go on 27. So I ended up watching the movie with my friends on 27 night.

There's a world premiere on LA at 8.30am, 24 of April in Malaysia time. I was watching the livestream while waiting outside the exam hall as the paper starts at 9am, that's crazy I know, because everyone was reading their notes, trying to squeeze everything in their head in that few minutes of time and here I was ears on earphone, smiling and occasionally speaks to myself looking at the small screen of my phone watching the livestream. That's the day where the movie is shown the first time around the world and the Russo's brother trended the hashtag #ThanosDemandsYourSilence, to warned every people who watched the film to keep their mouth shut, because they'd put in so much effort to keep the plot a secret, even the cast doesn't know what's happening in the movie.

I saw that many of my mutual or fans went offline or go low in social media to avoid spoilers, because you can't really believe anyone. Then on Tuesday, I accidentally saw that one of my mutual got spoil by some brat on Twitter, and I got nervous. She was ruined, she couldn't watch the movie on surprise as everyone waited 10 years for the movie. I quickly went offline, literally from every social media, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. I only used WhatsApp and Snapchat to connect with my friends. Even on Snapchat is sometimes dangerous because I keep seeing my friends snapped about watching Infinity War. Damn. I was offline for at least 3 days till I watch the movie on 27, to avoid spoiler, and my friends said that I was too much.

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I was really anxious when I went into the cinema hall. The hall is fully full, from the first row to the last row. I expected that, it's the biggest crossover movie, what do ya expect really. I already felt heartbroken in the first 10 minutes of the movie, just like what the directors have been telling us. Damn. I love Thor and Loki so much, they're the perfect brothers there ever had. No matter what they did to each other, they still address each other as brother. And when Thor met the Guardians of Galaxy, it was funny where Quill tries to imitate Thor and how he get roasted by his own family. Thor is in deep sorrow, he mourns, but he still tries to keep himself up, to smile. He lost his brother again, but he might really be dead this time. He watched his family dies, his home, his people, his friends. And when he said "What more could I lose?" I lost it, the tears betrayed me. That's such a broken thing to say.

Tony's bleeding edge armour is literally some new invention, it's so cool okay. And how Doctor Strange just call him a douchebag. And the science bro finally united and the hug! Peter's new suit too. And the squidward reference is gold. And so they blasted into the space. Thanks to Peter who watched many movies, they saved the supreme sorcerer. I knew it when Tony said Thanos had stuck in his head for 6 years since the battle of New York. He send the nuke into space and saw him, saw death coming, that's why he wanted to create Ultron to save the world. And to think of it Ultron is not all wrong about wiping out the humanity, somehow. Reminder to y'all that when Bruce said to call Steve, Tony literally took out the flip phone that Steve sent to him during the end of Civil War. He brought it all along with him all the freaking time. I'm not okay.

Thanos then took Gamora, threatened her with Nebula's life to tell him where's the soul stone. When Gamora asked Quill to do her a favour of killing her when Thanos gets her, I knew that something's wrong. And the soul stone happened to be guarded by an unexpected person, the Red Skull that appears only in Captain America: The First Avenger. Such plot twist especially when the soul stone demands a sacrifice. I do believe that Thanos loves Gamora out of all his children, he loves her. That's cruelly undeniable.

Next, is where Vision and Wanda met up secretly to spend some time together. I wasn't really fond of this pair at first, but after the movie, it grew on me. Wanda is really powerful. And when Steve Rogers appears on the screen everyone just cheer, me too. Steve with beard is everything you need. Steve said "We go home.", and he means Avengers base. Yes, they never really forget each other. Just that Tony is not there anymore.

"I'm not here to ask for forgiveness and I'm way pass asking for permission" good one Cap, not Cap anymore.

And the awkward moment between Bruce and Nat...

They flew to Wakanda to help to get the Mind Stone out of Vision head. Steve finally reunites with Bucky! The battle of Wakanda is such a huge scene and T'Challa is giving all out to save the world. The fight with Black Widow, Scarlett Witch and Okoye is really the best. And the entrance of Thor with his new axe is really really awesome. Yes, he almost die when building his new Thanos-killing-weapon, and Groot kind of save him by providing him the handle. Groot is always useful at drastic measure.

"New haircut?"
"You'd got my beard?"

Up on space, Tony lead them to fight Thanos. Yes, Quill lost at it when he finds out Thanos killed Gamora. I was mad at him at first, as the others almost got the gauntlet of his hand, and ruined it all, but there's nothing much he could do. Please don't blame him. In the end, it's just a fight between Thanos and Tony. When he stabbed Tony, I gasped, something shattered, I thought he is a goner, I cried, fuck. Everyone gasped and went utterly silent. Then Doctor Strange offered the time stone to save Tony's life. He had saw 14,000,605 different outcomes and only had one way they would win, and I literally thought there will be no way for them to win.

"You're not the only one burdened with knowledge."

10 years of MCU, the only fucking person who respected Tony is Thanos, (probably except Peter, Parker I mean) how irony. Such coincidence that Thanos and Stark knew each other? It's probably the incident that happened 6 years ago in New York.

Thanos arrived at Wakanda and fight the Avengers. Everyone is down. Wanda brokenly successfully destroy the mind stone on Vision's head, but Thanos reversed time to get the stone. How unfair right? Don't blame Wanda, she did her part and have to watch Vision died twice. Thor almost killed him but he snapped his fingers. And everyone started to vanish into thin air.

"Steve...?"

Bucky, Black Panther, Wanda, Falcon, Groot

"I don't feel so good..."

"I'm sorry"

Mantis, Drax, Quill, Doctor Strange, Peter

That's fucking hearbreaking and no one see it coming. That's an unexpected surprise no one ask for. And Tony is left alone again in Space. And we have to wait 1 year to see what happened next. I was like "WHAT THE FUCK" like everyone else in the hall as the screen goes black and showed "Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo"

Everyone is in disbelief. What is that? What happened? I can't believe the ending. As many fans theories I'd read, none of it predicted this to happen. I thought the trailer and the TV spots showed too much, but none of those scenes are critical because it happens the way we didn't expect. Everyone thought it could be the dead of Steve Rogers or Tony Stark or the OG, but it didn't happen, instead all the new characters are dead, such a twist.

The fear of what happen in Avengers 4 is real, because that will be the real death of the OG characters. Captain Marvel will save the world and Hawkeye and Antman and Wasp and Valkyrie didn't even appear in Infinity War, so for sure they will have something to do in Avengers 4. Look forward to watch Antman and the Wasp to get a clue of what happen to Scott Lang.

It's a great experience to watch movie with fans as everyone has the same reaction, we cried and cheered and laughed. But when I watched it the second and third time, mostly are families and such non-fans, they didn't give reaction, and it looks like I'm the maniac who talk to myself, and they left as the credit rolls, they didn't even wait for the post-credit scene. Hate it when I watched it with non-fans.

Plus, the whole cinema is only showing Avengers: Infinity War the whole time as they only have 8 halls. That's really crazy. There's a panel to show the showtime for movies and there's only 1 movie showing, and loads of time slot. That's how Marvel becomes the highest grossing movie all time and breaks all the records.

I have my own theories and read many theories as I finally go online again on social media. I really don't know what to do next. Every morning I woke up to the scene of Infinity War, thinking of it. Maybe that's too much, but it happens.

Thanks to everyone who worked hard on producing this movie and keeping it a secret, appreciate it very much, Thank you. And to those who spoil people intentionally, you're such a douchebag.