Yeah you really don’t need to understand and know every character and movie in the MCU to understand Infinity War and that’s a stupid ass thing to insinuate. Like if you have any pop culture knowledge of these characters and have seen even one other movie it’s great. And it’s really not terrible for Marvel to assume that because really.. it’s been long enough. It’s not unreasonable to assume that you have passing familiarity with Marvel characters. Not even being able to name them all, I sure as hell can’t, but just knowing certain groups or heroes exist. And really, it’s not like you have to have been a fan since Marvel’s inception to follow the movie. My mom has barely seen any of the movies, and I haven’t either (or I’ve seen them and couldn’t follow them or don’t remember them)(I remember Ragnarok, Homecoming and Black Panther incredibly vaguely despite enjoying all three. They go on so long it’s hard), and we both enjoyed it. It also uses recent stuff incredibly intentionally, and the jist of the movie can be understood without massive background knowledge. Good guys, bad guy. Good guys try to stop the bad guy. Pretty simple. Plus.. movies that assume prior knowledge are allowed to exist, it’s not an attack on you personally, lol.
I wasn’t fully aware who Vision was (Hadn’t seen Age of Ultron, oops) And I only had vague knowledge of T’Challa and the others cause I didn’t watch Black Panther either, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying Infinity War!
Yeah you really don’t need to understand and know every character and movie in the MCU to understand Infinity War and that’s a stupid ass thing to insinuate. Like if you have any pop culture knowledge of these characters and have seen even one other movie it’s great. And it’s really not terrible for Marvel to assume that because really.. it’s been long enough. It’s not unreasonable to assume that you have passing familiarity with Marvel characters. Not even being able to name them all, I sure as hell can’t, but just knowing certain groups or heroes exist. And really, it’s not like you have to have been a fan since Marvel’s inception to follow the movie. My mom has barely seen any of the movies, and I haven’t either (or I’ve seen them and couldn’t follow them or don’t remember them)(I remember Ragnarok, Homecoming and Black Panther incredibly vaguely despite enjoying all three. They go on so long it’s hard), and we both enjoyed it. It also uses recent stuff incredibly intentionally, and the jist of the movie can be understood without massive background knowledge. Good guys, bad guy. Good guys try to stop the bad guy. Pretty simple. Plus.. movies that assume prior knowledge are allowed to exist, it’s not an attack on you personally, lol.
Actually, this is good scientific thinking. You have a problem, you don’t start with the most complex solution, you start with the simplest solution and see whether it would work. If not, you move on to the next simplest solution and so on and so on.
So, in this situation: The problem is that Thanos needs all 6 stones and they don’t have a lot of time to find a solution. Easiest way to fix the problem is to deny him 1 or more of those stones. Easiest way to deny him a stone in a short space of time? Destroy it.
Given that Tony has dealt with 2 infinity stones thus far, I doubt he thinks it would actually work but the other part of science is the concept of ‘there is no such thing as a stupid question’, especially when presented with new and/or unknown variables. So, even if he doesn’t think it would work, he’s dealing with an object that’s a little bit outside even his breadth of knowledge and he’s talking to people who have abilities he doesn’t, so… you ask the stupid question. Can we destroy it?
Like, even critiquing it solely on a technical level should be enough to see why “you have to have seen 20 spectacle movies and devoted more than a moment of ‘oh neat’ to them to enjoy this film” is actually not a good thing
IT IS A FRANCHISE
Do you expect to walk into harry potter part 7 part 2 and just know wtf is going on? Or what about Star Wars Return of the Jedi, can you just waltz in and know what’s happening without seeing the other movies? Of course not. It’s a serialized story. Serialization does not make something bad, and if you think it does, you have a very poor grasp on the concept of narrative. The fact that they can have a 19-movie-long story all with internal consistency is an absolutely incredible thing, but you can’t enjoy it if you don’t watch the previous movies.
You’re like insufferable little brats – is watching movies too much work for you now? Seriously?
“you have to know the other stories to appreciate this one” huh almost like
ifesbob 