{"id":1118,"date":"2018-06-05T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:13:28","slug":"movie-avengers-infinity-war-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/05\/movie-avengers-infinity-war-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Avengers &#8211; Infinity War (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4d\/Avengers_Infinity_War_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Avengers: Infinity War\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Avengers: Infinity War<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 149 minutes \/ 2.48 hours<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to codify something like\u00a0<em>Avengers: Infinity War<\/em>\u00a0(2018) without including everything that led up to it. In reality, it\u2019s probably more along the lines of the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0episode of a television series that\u2019s taken ten years to realize fully. Because of the interconnected nature of these previous movies, it\u2019s difficult to view it alone without the backstory tied to it. However, there are enough brief moments of exposition to help most people fill in the gaps as to what is happening. Still, as is the case with many finales for television shows, the epic nature of\u00a0<em>Infinity War<\/em>\u00a0is at a level all its own.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of such an endeavor is daunting, but with as little backstory as possible holding it back,\u00a0<em>Infinity War<\/em>\u00a0moves at a pretty good pace, jumping between a couple of groups of Avengers. Of course, we can\u2019t just directly jump to fighting the main villain, so the \u201clesser\u201d bad guys stand in the way for a moment, but mostly fill time until the penultimate battles. At least during this waiting period, we get to learn the motivations of the heretofore mostly mysterious Thanos (Josh Brolin), which ends up humanizing this terrifying villain who thinks he\u2019s doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>While the action is probably a little too shaky at times, the team-ups are what sell this movie. No longer are there coy little cameos and winking nods to references from other Marvel films (although, there is a somewhat shocking cameo about half-way through), but instead full-blown connections that expertly ties up the disparate parts of the 18 previous films. With an ending as shocking as this one, I\u2019m a little curious where Marvel goes from here, but I have my hunches about what the future will bring.<\/p>\n<p>An ambitious project that deftly delivers on its many promises, I give\u00a0<em>Avengers: Infinity War\u00a0<\/em>4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avengers: Infinity War Year: 2018 Rating: PG-13 Length: 149 minutes \/ 2.48 hours It\u2019s difficult to codify something like\u00a0Avengers: Infinity War\u00a0(2018) without including everything that led up to it. In reality, it\u2019s probably more along the lines of the 19th\u00a0episode of a television series that\u2019s taken ten years to realize fully. Because of the interconnected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[1020,85,1303,1302,84,779,780,13,8,1304],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1020","tag-avengers","tag-avengers-infinity-war","tag-infinity-war","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-mcu","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}