From midnight this thread is a spoiler zone. Do not come in this thread if you don’t want to be spoiled ya idiot.
Personally not that excited as I found Civil War underwhelming. The Russo Brothers don’t have the visual flair that Whedon does in my mind. People reacted to the Avengers splitting up like it was some big deal, when it will clearly be resolved in this one. Obviously I’m still going to see this ASAP because I’m a sucker.
It’d be cool to have one of the films end with a huge retcon event. I reckon that’s what happens at the end of the second one. Thanos kills half the universe at the end of this one, then the remaining heroes band together, fix the universe but change some history in Part 2. Iron Man or Captain America stay dead. (This is all speculation).
Spiderman and Black Panther guaranteed to survive in their present form I bet.
I read a review which said there is no recap, they jump straight into the story, but how much do you need to know really? Asgard has been destroyed so Thor is floating in space with a bunch of refugees, Dr Strange does magic and has the time stone, literally nothing happened in GOTG2, Spiderman is Spiderman.
I don’t know what you really need to know in general. People have made a lot of fuss about the Marvel films telling a long story, but I doubt you need to know anything else other than Thanos the baddie is after some scattered Macguffins and your favourite wise cracking heroes are going to try to stop him.
They were filmed back to back and originally titled Pt 1 and Pt 2, it’s just a marketing move to get people excited when they announce the new title, or the new title is a spoiler.
I reckon Marvel changed tacked with the “part 1” and “part 2” naming after seeing how it didn’t work out for The Hunger Games. Public bored with that.