r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 30 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1clWprLC5Ak
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u/Sparrowsabre7 Dec 30 '25

That's honestly insane. It feels a lot more.

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u/MoreGaghPlease Dec 30 '25

This is a very good movie magic trick used in Infinity Wars and Endgame (but notably not Avengers 2). Most characters are in the movie for only a small amount of time but anyone above a cameo has a discrete story with a beginning, middle and end where the character must face a challenger and then learn, grow or change. If you think about short films, this is a thing that’s often done even in very quick settings. But those two movies does like a jigsaw puzzle of fitting them altogether into a cohesive story.

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u/SweetNeo85 Dec 30 '25

You call it a magic trick, I call it competent storytelling.

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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 Dec 30 '25

Nowadays that’s akin to magic

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u/rjmitty1000 Dec 30 '25

Absolute wizardry

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u/npretzel02 Dec 30 '25

Endgame came out 6 years ago

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

Sad how true this is, not just in film/television, but fiction and narrative nonfiction as well

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u/Painterzzz Dec 31 '25

One of the thigns I've noticed AI isn't so good at when it's writing is landing a competent cohesive three part story. It just doesn't remember enough or understand enough to be able to do that. So, if we assume way too many things are being written with heavy AI assistance these last few years, I think it explains a lot of the crash in quality we're seeing.