Going to the movies was is a rare experience for me. I, like many other people my age am used to streaming things at home as opposed to going out to see a film. Before this assignment it had been months before I had last gone out to see a movie. I remember the last time I saw a fim was in wine country with my grandmother. It was a rainy day so we decided to cancel our plans to go to San Francisco and stay local to have lunch in Napa before seeing a film. We decided on seeing Beauty and the Beast, a film both of us were looking forward to. That was months ago and I had not seen a film outside of my room since.
When I asked my friend last week if she would like to see the new Avengers movie with me she jumped at the offer. After her short burst of excitement she settled down and told me she was not sure if she could go. I questioned her, asking her why. She told me her boyfrined was visiting memorial day weekend and she did not think it was possible. I told her not to worry about it. I could find someone else. I went back to my room to return to my rigorous Netflx watching. Within five minutes she walks through my door with her boyfrind on facetime and hands me the phone, “Alex wants to talk to you.” Alex and I talk for a few moments saying hello before he goes, “So I hear we are all going to see Avengers this weekend.” To which I replied, “Yes Alex you do know how much I love being a third wheel.” Right then my friend Hannah chimed in, “What if we got all the couples and Emma to go to the movie? You could be a 9th wheel!” Now at this point Hannah was smiling because she thought she was funny. I looked Hannah directly in the eye before saying, “I would sooner jump off the Golden Gate Bridge then 9th wheel with our dumbass friends.” But before I knew it Hannah had prosed the idea in our group chat and everyone agreed it would be fun. I now had eight assistants about to help me do my writing assignment.
Before seeing the lastest installment of this film franchise I had fully intended on watching all the
Marvel movies leading up to this point. Unfortunately since this was a suprise, I was not able to do the full recap that I had wanted to. When we arrived at the theater we decided to not get any snacks
because we did not want to risk the possibility of needing to get up duirng the film to use the restroom causing us to miss crucial parts of the film. We all bought our tickets, wathced them be torn, and headed into the theater. The lighting was dim, we had arrived a few minutes after the movie was scheduled to begin so we missed seeing all the previews for other new films debuting soon, but arrived just in time for the last of the “turn off your phone” messages to be playing. Looking up that the rows of seats I lead the way and chose a good viweing area where my friends and I could all sit. Once seated we all talked for a few minutes making our final predictions about what we were about to see. The lights dimmed futher until they were off completely. The movie was beginning.
The movie was amazing, angering, and amazing again. It began with Thor and Loki battling Thanos, the galaxies biggest asshole pretty much ever. The opening scene involves shots of the incredible amounts of death that follows Thanos wherever he goes, as well as our first official introduction to him as a chacter in this franchise. He has been mentioned in the Gardians of the Galaxy films before as the father of Gamora, the person both her and her sister hate most. The last time we had heard of Thanos before this, was when Gamora’s sister set off at the end of the second Gardians of the Galaxy movie to kill him. Within the first scene a lot happens. Loki and Thor look defeated, before Hulk comes into the picture. Hulk offers the audience. A slight glimmer of hope at first before Thanos imposes his massive amount of power onto Hulk. Hulk looks defeated and is quickly sent back to earth via super dope space tech to warn the others of what is coming. Thor, Loki, and Thor’s friend stay behind unable to beat Thanos or escape. Thanos then preceded to kill Thor’s friend and his brother Loki in that order, before throwing Loki’s lifeless body down in front of him. He leaves Thor trapped there as he exists, setting the space thing on fire and leaving Thor to die in it. Thor does not die, and the movie begins.
The film was amazing after this point. It incorporated all the major Marvel characters seen thus far in the franchise with the exception of AntMan. All the stories somehow found a way to intertwine and create one amazing mashup of all the characters fans have spent a decade loving and following. Then ending of the movie was the most frustrating part. Thanos gets what he wants and the audience is forced to witness half of their favorite marvel characters turn to dust. While extremely sad, it sets up the franchise to produce a whole other avengers film to fix everything that went wrong at the end of this one.
After the film was over all nine of us walked outside talking about how great the movie was. We then proceeded to make plans to see the next marvel film all together. That will be Antman and the Wasp. Altogether this movie going experience was a lot of fun and the movie was very much enjoyable.
