Over the weekend I saw Avengers End Game and I went into it with low expectations, mainly due to the epic nature of Infinity War. Frankly, it’d be hard for any capeshit movie to beat Infinity war and it’s the same damned reason why Transformers the cartoon movie was so fucking good.
Everyone dies.
When a story is unshackled from corporate greed — it can truly be great. In the case of Transformers, they wanted to produce new plastic toys for retail — so they ended up killing most of the main characters. As a boy, this shocked me — but also made the story great. It was great, not just because Prime and Megatron died, but because it was least expected. The story tellers truly surprised me and I appreciated it. Same went for Infinity war. After that movie ended, the people in the theatre I was in was so shocked — they couldn’t leave their seats. End Game could never deliver that brand of shock value and it didn’t — instead opting for preservation of characters, story book endings, and corny and long drawn out memoriam for those killed. It was entertaining — yes, but not really a great film. It was okay and anyone saying it was great is full of shit.
Now the issue with Game of Thrones, episode 3, is an entirely different issue. The writers have nothing to lose, this being the final season and all, so the story is without boundaries. Anything could happen. The battle scene and the soundtrack was perfect and the story telling did not disappoint. Part of me wanted the Night King to win and to travel south to eat Cersei’s face — but this’ll do. I’m perfectly fine with this outcome. It should be noted, the dragons were entirely useless at night and Mother of Dragons was for nothing on the battle field. Her band of savages were dispatched in short order and were of course no match for the zombie hordes. Truthfully, seeing myself just write that just made me cringe, so I’ll end the blog here.
5 out of 10 for Avengers, 9 out of 10 for GOT episode 3.
Futures are slightly higher — which will most likely extend during the morning session.
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You’ve mentioned Transformers the Movie quiet a few times over the years. I laugh every time because I agree. The first 10 minutes of that movie was an absolute bloodbath in cartoon form. I remember being a little kid and my world getting rocked after seeing that. They *did* bring Prime back though in the series a year or so later. Generation 1 was the greatest cartoon ever.
It had some incosistencies. But it was very well directed and the actors are great. I do not get your criticism regarding Daenerys’ character and the uselessness of the Dragons. I now feel the same cringe. We’re discussing dragons! Call Jeff Macke, you probably have his number, I either missed his anlysis of the episode or he’s too busy to remark on Twitter.