My brother-in-law had this on the TV when I was over to visit. It was just there while we hung out. No one was watching it, but I found myself time and again being drawn to it in my periphery and checking out specific scenes, since it has been a good couple of years since I revisited it. This is one of my favorite of the MCU films and is the one I consider the best of all the AVENGERS (including the first one and ENDGAME). It truly is a movie that is the closest thing we’ve ever gotten to something like IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD where a truly endless number of A-Listers get the chance to not only have enough screen time, but get to play and fight with one another in all the great ways. Did I know I needed to see Dr. Strange and Spider-Man fight the Guardians of the Galaxy? No. Am I happy that I got to see what that looked like? Oh yeah. The other amazing thing about the film is that it is structured around the idea that the main character of the film is the villain, which is a bold thing to do for the 3rd film in a series of films within a series of films with established, beloved characters. It is something that I really appreciate.
