- I think they miscast Cassie by hiring an actress who looked so much older than the original actress and with different eye color. It looks like 10 years have gone by, not five.
Yes! Like I said, I had to do the math to confirm the age of the actor was "accurate." To be honest, her most important contribution to this movie was showing us how much time Scott has missed out on while stuck in the quantum realm, so an older-looking Cassie was the direction they needed to go. But I feel like there's a compromise somewhere where we can get that visual cue without being kicked out of the story but what seems like too much aging (even when it isn't.) But to be honest, I didn't even notice the eye color.
- Nebula, Rocket and Rhodey are a fun trio. From the "we work with what we got", to Nebula's thoughts on Thanos to her interaction with Tony, to Rocket's pretty much everything - his "I can't breathe, I can't breathe!" in the end battle always gets to me.
Gillan never won me over. There's probably a dozen good scenes I could point to about the character, but I found her Gamora uniquely grating (meaning I've liked Gillan in everything else I've seen her in). But I did appreciate her role in making Rhodey stand out, something I don't think he'd been able to do before as the "other" Iron Man in all those Iron Man movies. But yeah, Rocket is so good with the Avengers. He was an absolute breakout in an truly packed movie. He's the kind of character that is so competent and cocky, that when you see him break down, you know it's for real.
I think it's super important that not every main character ended in this film - Thor continuing on makes the most sense since he's not mortal. I would have liked to have seen more of his time with the Guardians not directed by Taika, but whoops.
I've the exact opposite opinion. I believe very strongly they should've used Endgame to wrap the stories of all the original characters like Steve, Thor and Tony, and left the newer characters like Wanda, Strange and T'Challa to bridge the way into the next Saga.
For the most part, that's what they did, but aside from Bruce and Clint sticking around to launch their replacements, it was Thor who just refused to stop. His Endgame ending was not what I would've picked for him, but I still respect what they did, and I would've been very satisfied if that was his swansong as he went off into the universe, free of the responsibilities of the throne. But then he gets a 4th movie, does an about face on his responsibilities, and generally undoes the character development they'd done over Dark World, Ragnarok and Endgame. Hell, they even reverted him back to using Mjolnir at the end of Love and Thunder. Just a big step backward.
I am inevitable. And I... am... Iron Man.
I had thought that was improvised by RDJ, but can't actually imagine a version of the script without it. I may've heard wrong and haven't seen any of the deleted footage, so possibly apocryphal.
Wait, I take that back. I have seen some footage of everyone kneeling next to dead Tony, usually by some internet goober trying to be deep about it. I hate it so much that I was bracing for it when we got to that part and was ecstatic it never happened.
What If Wanda was conjuring a vision of Vision when Clint walks up to her and she tries to hide it.
Oh shit. When she said "they both do," I had been assuming she meant Pietro. Forgot all about Vision there.