Endgame: Encore

By: Abigail Murphy '32

The Marvel industry has given us countless action movies, the most popular of them being the Avengers movies. The Avengers movies follow an elite group of special individuals. They have unique skill sets; such as Tony Stark, Iron Man, a genius who built a special suit to help him fight opponents; Captain America, a superhuman with a shield of the strongest material in the Marvel universe, uranium; and Peter Parker, Spiderman, a teenager bitten by a radioactive spider, turning him half spider, half human.

In the series they fight out-of-line artificial intelligence, themselves and the worst of all, Thanos, an alien determined to wipe out half of the population. His story starts in infinity war. To complete his goal, he must find the six infinity stones. So, the Avengers go on a perilous quest to ensure that Thanos doesn’t find all six infinity stones. This is the premise of Infinity War. End Game is the sequel, following the aftermath of this great quest. The end battle scene is a highlight of this movie. Almost all of the supernatural and highly trained individuals and armies we’ve seen so far in the Avengers series come together to fight Thanos and his team. Viewers say this scene sends chills down their spines. 

With End Game (Encore) in theatres, fans can see this movie with the full experience of movie theater sound systems and big screens. Which is good because this experience doesn't offer much more. In the beginning, Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans offer an introduction to the movie. Other than the quick reference to the movie, “love you 3000”, it is very generic and nothing special. The new experience also included an exclusive sneak peek into Avengers Doomsday, which is nothing more than a glorified trailer. Some viewers just went for the experience of full visuals and sound, so it didn’t matter, but others went for these clips and were deeply disappointed. 

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