So basically, what I'm hearing...If you have younger children, watch Infinity War first and judge of your kids can handle it....it is from what I understand from those who have seen it....brutal.
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So basically, what I'm hearing...If you have younger children, watch Infinity War first and judge of your kids can handle it....it is from what I understand from those who have seen it....brutal.
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I’m taking my kid tomorrow I hope I traumatize him. If it’s anything like the comic I can imagine the cliffhanger. I’ll report back!Originally Posted by Freyaka
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I'm seriously debating not taking my son...
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Makes sense but i would think they have already kind of had a warm up with what happened with War Machine and Quicksilver. They have been warming up to that kind of stuff so im expecting some epic death scenes. Lol
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Yeah I am not too worried unless they are really young. It also depends on the maturity of the kid and of course parental discretion. Even in the darkest Marvel movies the violence is more implied for when they "kill" people or injure them badly, with the most gratuitous violence saved for the masses of faceless aliens or robots they fight. What I like to do with my son after we watch certain movies is watch the behind the scenes stuff so he can see how it was done (hey! the Xenomorphs in Aliens were just guys in suits!).
I know he can't handle things like horror movies or ultra violent R-rated action movies like John Wick or Deadpool, but I push it sometimes with things like the Die Hard flicks or other more fantasy type action movies. Comic Book movies and comic books themselves have always been right on that line and I think if they are old enough to read them the movies are probably fine. I remember reading things like the Killing Joke and even Infinity Gauntlet when I was 10-12 and just enjoying the story and not reveling in the violence or destruction. I think the Marvel movies have done a good job of keeping a light tone even in the darkest movies and to be honest, you have to imagine any major deaths in these movies will be negated or treated with respect moving forward *cough cough Agent Coulson *cough. It's not like we are going to see Thanos waterboard Captain America then decapitate him, but I get not wanting to take the younger ones to see the movie. I held off on showing my son Revenge of the Sith forever because Anakin was his favorite when he was really little and watched the Clone Wars, probably not the best thing to see him de-limbed and burning alive.
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Saw it last night and as far as the ending being "brutal" there are a few scenes that are melodramatic but undercut just by knowing the upcoming movie schedule. The most traumatic part for kids would be. Older kids with any sense of how comic book stories work should be fine with most of it, but it is decidedly a darker movie. I'll write up a spoiler free recap in the review thread and give this thread a few days to catch up but then I'm coming back in here with guns blazing!
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My thought is we should start a spoiler discussion thread. I'm going to go see it tonight, I hope it's freaking amazing.
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This technically IS the spoiler thread. I say we give it a until Monday at least and stick with tags for a bit though. BE WARNED ALL WHO ENTER HERE!
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Yea at least we can spoiler /spoiler it for now. I'm so freaking pumped for tonight!
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Yeah there is no reason to not like this movie if you like most of the MCU like I do. I think all the best aspects of the films are represented in the film and grounded by a truly great villain.
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Thanos looks like the bad ass villain the MCU has been needing for some time now. They have notoriously weak villains.
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Yeah, even though he was a ripoff of Darkseid he was always cool to me because he had some layers. After this they will be hard pressed to find better. Everything else, even Galactus if they go that way, is just your typical world ending generic threat.
Retiree
Even if they present Galactus as one of the constants that must exist for balance? I thought Galactus has some depth to him - but I'm not a mastershake.
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Not recently no...Fox totally crapped the bed with Galactus, but comics Galactus was a step above Thanos on the food chain (he was the same level of Diety as Star-Lord's dad EGO) He's not as good of a villain, but he's super freaking powerful and would make things interesting.
Thanos is basically their ultimate villain. I'm honestly not real sure where they go from here.
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Ah. I just remember him from the comics.
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