The more
Marvel movies come along, the more the format can start to feel formulaic. As such, it’s important for the films to find
a way to stand apart from each other while still fitting into the Marvel
mold. I’ve already looked at one way the
films do that, by playing with different genres. Today, I’m looking specifically at the final
battles, the big blow-outs at the end of the movie where it all goes down
(spoilers, of course.)
The
Avengers
The first
team-up movie, and everyone gets a turn to shine during the climactic battle
with the Chetauri. Tons of cool stuff,
laughs, heroic moments, and my personal favorite: Avenger tag-teams. After the team’s growing pains earlier in the
film, it’s so satisfying to see them all together in the end and kick some
serious alien butt.
Thor: The Dark World
Despite
my love of Thor, in looking at the Phase Two films, The Dark World wouldn’t top many of my lists. However, I really love how the final battle
uses the Convergence (and Jane and Erik’s manipulation of it) to do all kinds
of crazy wibbly-wobbly physics things.
It’s so much fun to watch Thor and Malekith battle across realms,
blinking out of one planet and showing up on another. I especially love Thor getting transported
into a London tube station and Mjolnir flitting through several worlds trying
to get back to Thor.
Captain
America: The Winter Soldier
This is a
nice team effort with a lot going on.
There are some different moving parts to it – Sam’s aerial badassery,
Natasha and Sharon both kicking some butt inside SHIELD, and Maria coordinating
everything. But of course, it comes down
to the emotional fight between Cap and Bucky, with Steve desperate to complete
the mission but at the same time trying to figure out how he could bring his
friend back to him.
Guardians
of the Galaxy
Not so
much the dance-off-ness of it all, but this is another one where I like the
cooperation and the different elements to it (you sense the theme? I like teamwork, okay?) Enlisting both the Ravagers and Nova Corps
for help is cool – I love the image of the Nova Corps ships blocking Ronan’s –
and onboard Ronan’s ship, you have great scenes like Gamora’s fight with
Nebula, Drax’s dubious mastery of the term “metaphor,” and, of course, the
lengths Groot goes to to protect his fellow Guardians. Awesome!
Ant-Man
The film
does a great job throughout using Scott’s powers to make his training, fights,
and missions really visually interesting, and in particularly does a bang-up
job with the final fight between Scott and Yellow Jacket. I love, love, love the miniaturized fight and how the camera pulls back to show
the actual ridiculous scale of the seemingly-epic things (like Cassie’s toy
train “going off the rails”) happening during the battle.
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