In search of the new Noël Coward? You should probably give a wide berth to the Twitter mentions of critics sceptical about Avengers: Endgame. “Eat dirt and die, trash!” is typical feedback. Likewise: “I hope Stan Lee haunts you, slut” and “Fuck you, bro, fuck you”. Fanboy ire is not new. But its power – both in the moment and over the longer term – is on the rise. Not that Avengers: Endgame is necessarily the best example, of course. The final instalment in a 22-film cycle has earned almost universal five-star reviews, including in this paper.
Tony Stark’s climactic battle with Thanos and his Infinity Stones may well be up there with the best of Kubrick, Hitchcock and Kurosawa. If a professional believes this to be the case, it is their job to tell us. The certainty of being slagged off on social media as being bitter, angry, moronic, whiny, bitchy, brain-damaged, drug-addled, outstandingly incompetent and unloved by your mother should you suggest otherwise would not sway most of those critics I have come across.
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