Post by Salzmank on May 14, 2019 18:23:49 GMT
May 14, 2019 17:46:52 GMT @cat said:
Solid observation about Thanos. It's true, the Thanos that had been built up the entire time was killed almost immediately. Very interesting choice. You can tell by contrast that he's wiser than his 2014 counterpart.
The 2014 Thanos is (for me) a less satisfying villain than his 2018 (Infinity War) counterpart, let alone his 2019 counterpart, one of the few disappointments I had about this movie. What made Thanos interesting was his lack of brutishness, his thoughtfulness, his desire only to use force when absolutely necessary. His philosophizing might have been of the college dorm-room kind, but, despite being a big purple CGI monster, he was closer to Hannibal Lecter than to a hulking monstrosity like Doomsday in Batman v Superman.
With that said, you make a good point that 2014 Thanos would logically be less wise than 2018-19 Thanos. Still, from a writing perspective, it disappointed me that a complex character, or at least an attempt at a complex character, became a walking cliché.