More major spoilers below! (Although it’s kinda moot at this point in the thread).

It was good entertainment. It was mostly better than the generic stuff we get these days. Yes it got slow at times but it generally went by nicely and was enjoyable. Still there were too many problems with it to make it great, all mentioned here. Basically if you just sit and let it flow by it’s good. If you start thinking too much, then you have problems.

One thing that bothered me that I didn’t see mentioned...if the Cap figured out how to stay back in time and live with the love of his life, why would he age into an old man? I was under the impression that he as some sort of immortal, like Wonder Woman. Shouldn’t it have been the skinny version of him dancing with her, before he was turned into Superman? Then he would age with her and live a normal life. And wait, if he stayed behind when he got back in time, what happened to the other version of himself that was already there?

Another puzzling moment. When he gave the shield to the dude and said now you are Captain America. Wouldn’t you need to go in the machine to be Captain America? Otherwise, you’re just a human with a shield.

There were 4 times when the theater burst into applause.

When Captain America wields Thor’s hammer. Well that was pretty damn cool, might be my favorite part of the movie.

When Black Panther steps in. Huh? Sorry I’m with Cartman on the Black Panther movie.

When Captain Marvel appears at the fight scene. Cool effect.

The previously mentioned scene when all the females line up to “help” Captain Marvel, who has the powers of 20 Supermen and a dozen or so gods, go 50 feet across the battlefield. This is one of the worst things ever put onto film. I threw up in my popcorn. Came close to ruining the whole movie for me. Pathetic.

The whole theater was bawling their eyes out when the hero died. Seriously you could hear the sniffling.

Exactly! Patronizing is a good word. But, lot of people gobble up that kind of thing so you can’t really blame them for putting it in. Movies these days are primarily about making money and Hollywood is very good at it.

It’s Timecrimes all one word if you are looking it up on Netflix, I put it in my queue at the top, I was running out of things to watch. I mean, I still have Aquaman and Venom coming, but I don’t have high hopes for either one of those.

I put Primer in my queue also, haven’t heard of it before, should be fun.

We have IMAX nearby and I have seen lots of movies there. It’s always cool going there and seeing a movie on a gigantic screen. But the true 70mm IMAX experience has been gone for years now, all of the film projectors have been yanked from the theaters and replaced with digital, or “LieMAX” as some like to call it. I think Interstellar was the last one to be shown on the real projectors in movie theaters. Using different technologies various movies can be shown in the IMAX theaters, but the true IMAX movies shot with the 70mm cameras are gone. Exceptions are the IMAX theaters in various museums.

All true, but the key takeaway is that everything is digital now. There are no more of those 70mm film projectors in the cinemas (only museums). If you have been going to IMAX for a long time, you well know the sound of those projectors firing up from above. You can easily hear the click-clacking during quieter parts of the movie. That's gone now of course.

Now as to whether the current best generation of digital 4K is "better than" the 70mm film, that is something some people like to debate over. But it is splitting hairs probably, the digital looks excellent also, and technology and time march on.

Its all stuff that most of the movie-going public doesn't know about. They just pay their money and go to an IMAX movie and assume they are seeing an "IMAX movie", whatever that is. As flynnibus pointed out, there are many different versions of what is going on there. The whole "LieMAX" was more of a controversy a while back when they were pulling out the last of the 70mm film projectors. The thing is, the industry, including IMAX and the theaters, were not very transparent about what was going on. They tried to hide it, or cover it up, or whatever, depending on your point of view. But then, you had the internet, so the information was there, but you had to go looking for it. It didn't make the general press too much. I remember calling the local IMAX theater several times to ask about their projectors, and I got the runaround, but finally someone admitted that once Interstellar played they would be pulling out the projectots and going digital.

Luckly, my spidey sense kicked in and I didn't go to the theater to see Interstellar. I waited for video. That was a godawful movie.

Its frustrating, isn't it? Maybe when you went last they had dropped in the 2k projectors. These are OK but far from great. It could be that they have since upgraded to the 4k, which should look pretty good. I believe their newest tech is something called laser projection. It may or may not be found in any specific IMAX theater. Its supposed to be even better.

What is annoying is the lack of information for the consumer. There are no clear answers to be found anywhere. If you go to your local theater's website there is no mention of the actual projector technology being used. If you click the link about the IMAX Experience you just get generalized marketing blather about how cool it is. The only way you can find out for sure is by inquiring at your local theater and asking about the exact IMAX projector system they are using. Talking to the general manager would be best. But even then they might blow you off, or give you a half-ass story. You also have to do your research on each specific film to find out how it was filmed. Many of these IMAX films were only partially taken with IMAX cameras.

This is why I didn't bother to go to Endgame in IMAX even though the IMAX theater isn't too far. I just went to a local Cinemark theater and saw it on their "XD" screen. It was fine, but here again, I have no clue what "XD" really means because you can't find any details about that either. But it was big and loud and had reserved comfy seats so no complaints.

By the way, if they were limited in their quest to fix the universe by their supply of Pym particles, why didn't they start out by going back and getting a bunch more Pym particles to give them more breathing room?

LOL the rabbit is front and center!

I also was kinda disappointed with the Hulk. He was nothing at all in Infinity Wars, and then in End Game, well, not much better. This was one thing that I did not think of before the movie and also did not get a spoiler on, so it was kind of cool to see it at first. But, right away I was thinking, now that he is a constant amalgam of both sides, maybe he will channel everything positive from both and do something really kick-ass and awesome. You know, like, Smash. But it didn't really happen.

I think some things are played out. Thus why Iron Man is gone, Black Widow is gone, Hulk is ???. Of course there are prequels, side plots, and in the end, anyone can be brought back to life somehow.

Before I saw the movie I was thinking the only thing that makes sense is that the original Avengers are all killed off. The movie is called Endgame after all. Well, they didn’t all die, but effectively, the original 6 seem to be done for. Why must they die? Different reasons, maybe there isn’t enough story left to milk anymore, or it’s time to move on and let other characters step in, or possibly it just isn’t practical to keep paying these actors $20million+ to keep coming back for more movies.

Iron Man - dead.
Black Widow - dead.
Captain America - very old and apparently weak and dying soon.
Hulk - half-Banner, half-Hulk, apparently no longer hugely powerful, arm mangled possibly permanently.
Hawkeye - will quit again to be with family.
Thor - joining GOTG for comic relief??? He does seem to still have his powers even as beer gut Thor. This one is puzzling.

Saw Timecrimes, it was decently entertaining, especially considering they probably spent more money making Captain America’s shield for the Avengers movie than the entire budget for this one.

Oh, nothing much really. Just reading some stuff.

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