I don’t hate MCU. I guess I just never had the chance to
appreciate it in the past. While my brothers (or friends) watch and talk about
marvel, I’d be preoccupied with my own movie/novel addiction.
It was only recently that I came to realize how impactful their
universe is. When Avengers: Infinity War was released last year, the
movie was all over the place. The hype was never-ending, mind you. While I’m
not one to easily jump into the bandwagon, I couldn’t help but be curious. A
close friend of mine always talks about the movie. ALWAYS. My gosh, I lost
count. He even rewatched it a million times already. Legend says he’s still
watching it. Haha.
Anyway, he would send me videos and links to some fight scenes in
the movie and I would watch them without a clue as to why and how these scenes
came up to be. So, with so much curiosity, I finally succumbed to the pressure
and watched Infinity War.
It was great. But damn, I was so lost half of the time. Why?
Because I have never watched a full movie of MCU. Not Iron Man, Thor,
Captain America, or any of it. What a cavewoman. Haha. I remember asking
a lot of questions while watching the movie at home. My brothers were so
annoyed.
Wait, what happened to Thor? DID THIS THANOS GUY JUST KILL LOKI?!
Why does the start of the movie feel like a climax already? What are these
stones anyway?
See, I would be annoyed too if I were my brothers. But it took me
a year to completely dive into MCU. When Endgame was released this year,
I couldn’t stand the lack of understanding for each character. Not anymore.
So, I looked for a list of movies I should watch before Endgame.
And I found it in Wikipedia. They listed the movies from phase 1-3. With
some happy coincidence, some movies were in Netflix already so I didn’t have a
hard time downloading all of them.
Then, there began the journey. I would watch 1-3 movies a day not
only because I wanted to keep up but because I was slowly sucked into the
stories. I was beginning to understand every character’s back story. And why
they did what they did in Infinity War. Except maybe Quill. That one I
still couldn’t get over with.
Speaking of, my most favorite movie/s of them all would have to be
Guardians of the Galaxy! Man, I love their dynamics as a team. How they
sort of accidentally formed into one big group of random people and bonded as a
family. That gets me every time. And the story about how they portrayed Yondu
in Vol. 2 as Quill’s father figure all this time, that was the best! Not to
mention the awesome soundtrack in the movie. And the cuteness of baby Groot. I
mean, you just never ran out of things to love about Guardians.
So then, I rewatched Infinity War and you know that feeling when
every minute, every frame, every conversation finally made sense to you?
Multiply that by 9, that's how I felt about it. Haha. After I watched phase
1-3, I still ended up downloading them all anyway. And watching them all over
again.
I also found myself buying avenger lego toys and an avenger
tumbler. Oh no. I hope you Marvel fans out there welcome me with open arms as I
curl into your bubble of established fandom, yes? Yes. Thank you. 😊
