Watched Endgame last night and, whilst I know Far From Home comes after this, I'm considering Endgame to be the true end of the series (FFH will be like a lonely epilogue, I'm guessing).
Until 'the lockdown', I'd watched some of the films in isolation - Iron Man (brilliant!), Thor (bit shit), Iron Man 2 (bit shit), Captain America (daft but good - and I used to park next to where they filmed that bit in Manchester), Hulk (I thought it was fairly good despite popular opinion), along with bits of a couple of other films.
I'd had a vague intention to watch them all, given the hype, but never got round to it. Then eldest daughter (16) tells me sometime round April that she'd like us to watch them all - and in their chronological order, suggesting we do this while we're all 'off' with the Covid thing; younger daughter agrees, and off we set on the long journey, with many packets of microwave popcorn.
It's taken much longer than planned as we've spaced them out, and the enjoyment has oscillated a bit film-to-film.
Favourites would be Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians 1, Ant Man, Guardians 2, Ragnarok, Captain Marvel.
Anyway, determined to get the series done before they went back to school, we watched Endgame last night. Hmmm. I have my issues with plot aspects of Infinity War*, but this one was a bit all over the place. Still, put that to one side and it was enjoyable enough - and the prolonged ending pushed the right emotional heft buttons. Was most disappointed with Captain Marvel, though; she's the most powerful Avenger yet ultimately was easily swatted away by Thanos (power stone?).
The problem now is that the youngest goes back to school tomorrow, the eldest next week. It already feels like the end of an era - lockdown - and as the MCU has been a sort of companion through this, and as something me and the kids have discussed a huge amount, it only adds to the sense of the closing of a big life chapter. I hate feeling like this.
* why the frig, when he was sedated by Mantis, didn't they just put a blast through Thanos's brain, or blown his arm off? Yeah, Endgame and another $1bn is why, but a puny pistol-whip by Quinn was out of character and stupid)
