Thread:Notatruename/@comment-25620113-20180430123342

I'm posting this on your wall for two reasons. 1) I don't really want to use the spoiler tag and 2) I am almost certain that this will turn into some big argument and I don't really want to clutter up the comment section with that:

"Why didn't Heimdall also save Thor and Loki denying Thanos the Tesseract?"

Because he was dying and was crushed under some metal meaning his movement was very limited. He only really had enough power for one shot and Hulk was the best bet.

"Why couldn't Strange explain how important the Time Stone was and turn back?". This is probably the most flawed piece in your argument. He did explain how important it was at the start of the film prompting Stark to suggest they "throw it into a garbage disposal". Tony knows how important the stone is and Stark doesn't turn the ship around because he knows that Thanos will come for it anyway hence the "fight him on his turf or ours" comment. The reason he doesn't is to prevent another incident like New York and risk endangering millions of lives plus the element of surprise.

"Why did Gamora go after Thanos?"

Yeah that was a blatant error in judgement and Thor addresses this when the Guardians split up. They never seem to consider the possibility that Thanos may already have the stone and Gamora knows she's risking him finding the Soul Stone if she goes. She even makes Peter promise to kill her but there really wasn't any justification for them going to knowhere in the first place.

"Why open Wakanda's shield?"

Because the alien swarm was getting through the barrier anyway and they were circling around the city. If they hadn't Shuri would've had to face off more than one alien invader and Wakanda would be facing a massive army from every side. This way, at least all the invaders are in front of the defense line. oddly there is a bit of a plot hole as the alien doesn't even get through the barrier that way anyway. The other two claim he's dead so as to feint the Avengers out.

"Thanos' obsession with killing half the universe is never explored"

... Did you even watch the film? Its explained twice. The first time is in that seen when Gamora is in his lair where he justifies killing half of Gamora's race by saying that due to overpopulation, Gamora's specie was on the brink of collapse because they didn't have enough resources. "Ever since then, the children have only ever known blue skies and full bellies". The second time is when Thanos reveals to the Avengers on Titan that his world used to not be an apocalyptic wasteland but like Gamora's race was overpopulated. Thanos presented the idea of genocide and was cast out yet both the outcome of his race (total extinction) and the outcome of Gamora's race (peace through a culling of the population) have only solidified Thanos' belief.

The other two complaints are purely subjective so there's no point arguing them. There's nothing wrong with hating the film; that's your opinion but a lot of your justification just makes it seem like you weren't even paying attention to the film in the first place. I mean three of your points were outright explained in the film.  