I felt like someone could have saved the universe a lot of pain by just asking Thanos "If you've got the power to reshape the universe, why not just double the available resources instead of halving the population? Mathematically it works out the same, only nobody dies."
And the real world proves you wrong. Rich nations tend to have a low or even negative population growth despite easily being able to support more people while the poorer a nation is the higher the population growth tends to be.
You mean like the Scarlet Witch doesn't actually love Vision, because she sacrificed him to get what she wanted?
I am pretty sure that his methods are pretty flawed, but one thing to consider: When the resources are low, what happens?
- People die of starvation or thirst, leading to great suffering
- People fight over the resources, leading to violence, death, loss of more resources as they get destroyed in conflicts or used up to continue conflicts, and more suffering.
Thanos basically just removes enough people so there is no need to fight over resources. And he can repeat it, if the need arises again.
I think you've completely missed the fact this this story is not done. This is like reading the 1st several issues of an Infinity comic series. Or watching 1/2 of a 5 hour show. And then complaining that everything's not all wrapped up.
Tune in next summer for IW pt2 (or whatever they've changed the name to).
Which is a temporary complaint. Because it's a year until the next one. Eighteen months from now, this complaint is moot.This is exactly my problem with this film. It's not an actual film, it's half of a 2 part TV series finale. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it, I did. I just expected much more.
Thanos motivation is far from silly. Sure, there are better ways to solve the problem of overpopulation when you have the power of the gauntled but the general idea that in face of limited resources a low population will enjoy a higher living standard than a high one is sound.
And imo the sacrifices of Thanos are as interesting to see as what the Avengers have to sacrifice. The Soul Stone part was quite a character building moment.
Personally I really liked that Red Skull is back. Ever since The First Avenger I have been saying that he was teleported and not killed.
I wonder if the Captain Marvel movie will play before or after Infinity War.
Given the post credits bumper, I think that Captain Marvel will have to come before the next movie in this series. When I saw it today there were an awful lot of people wondering aloud what the symbol on Fury's "pager" meant and no one was saying, which rather surprised me. A lot of movie fans and not so many comic fans, I guess.
Pretty sure the Scarlet Witch sacrificed Vision because it's what he wanted, not what she wanted. If Gamora had begged Thanos to kill her so he accomplished his goal, that would have been tragic and heartfelt..
yeah the Thanos loves Gamora thing wasn't very well established, and even the "saving the baby gamora" scene didn't show Thanos being merciful as much as him taking another child soldier on a whim. The story needed something more to show that Thanos actually cared for Gamora so that his choice to sacrifice her was tearing at his Soul instead of just another resource transaction.
A lot of that going on, while there were some nice character moments, they didn't really achieve the deep emotional feels that they should have.
I liked it a lot but the movie was a series of interelated vignettes and the ending while suprising was more surreal than emotional
-I liked the return of Red Skull
-DUnno what was up with Hulk
-and Star Lord losing it and attacking Thanos while the others were mid-assualt was just dumb
Right, because rich nations also tend to be well educated and use reason and science to confront the problems of limited resources.