oldandslow wrote:
I think there is a really boring movie to be made discussing how thoroughly Thanos is incorrect. That's why he is the mad Titan. It's still better than having a crush on Death.
For me, “mad” in “the mad Titan” is the key to Thanos. His character is highly intelligent; he must therefore see the “double the resources” option. But the point about him is that he is completely insane, in an ice cold psychopathic way. He chooses the killing option not because it has any inherently superior logic, but because he is a stone cold killer. The resources argument is all his intellectual window dressing to justify this conduct. It’s what makes him such a great villain: the duality.
Just got back from Endgame, having “prepped” (revised, as I prefer to call it) over the last three weeks watching them all except Ironman 3. I’ve watched and read plenty of stories over the years which have been great in the telling but then failed to deliver a conclusion that lived up to the quality of the story telling. Endgame does though. It’s a great piece of cinema and a great piece of story telling. And to have told a story over 10 years and 22 films is frankly extraordinary. I doubt I will see the like of it again in my lifetime.