@spartanx169x: Fair enough dude. I've heard Red Dead Redemption does look great on the XboxOneX and many do consider it one of the best games of the last decade or so, if not of all time. I can certainly see the game being a factor for purchasing the X if you never played or it's one of your favorite games.

For me personally, I need to see some more quality exclusives for XboxOne to compel me to upgrade. It's one of the reason I didn't mind going from a OG PS4 to a Pro (the biggest factor being that I only had to pay about $100 after trade ins). I've been loving the Sony exclusives so I didn't mind upgrading to play the games at their best.

But to each their own. You got a good deal and are satisfied. I'm glad you are enjoying your purchase. Hopefully it continues to deliver for you.

@spartanx169x: that just sounds crazy to me. I'm going to buy a $500 console so that I can play an improved version of a game that came out 8 years ago?

Of course the main selling point is that it'll be the best place to play new multiplatform games but, for me at least, that just not enough to get me to pay the price to upgrade. I stick with my PS4 and OG XboxOne for now. Id be more compelled to get the X if Xbox got some better exclusives.

@ardenes: "Watchmen was intended as a subversion of superhero tropes whereas the Avengers stick to the traditional. To me the former is more interesting."

Absolutely agree but that comes from the book and mind of Alan Moore. I can't really give credit to the movie or people that made Watchmen for making an accurate live action adaptation of the book.

What the MCU did is far more impressive and ambitious to me. To bring a good chunk of the Marvel universe and characters to the big screen with a combination of individual and team up movies to create an interconnected movieverse with overarching stories that's been going strong for roughly 10 years is an amazing accomplishment. They might not be hitting us with ground breaking material or thought provoking ideas but they've brought comics to life in a way that most people never thought possible.

@Terminator95: there were a ton of jokes, though it's to be expected at this point (I've long accepted comedy is just a part of Marvel's money making formula). Nearly every scene not featuring Thanos was the heroes interacting and riffing off one another. It was cool because we saw a lot of these characters meeting for the first time and, like I said in my previous post, there were some moments where I was literally laughing out loud, but I would have liked to see it toned down a little bit and for the heroes to be a little more serious at times.

@ardenes: yeah but this wasn't a direct adaption of the book. Infact the Infinity War movie has more in common with the "Infinity Gaunlet" story than "Infinity War" (where the main protagonist is Magnus/Adam Warlock who now possess the Infinity Gauntlet). And still, the movie is more inspired by these books than direct adaptations, where as the Watchmen movie was nearly a 1 to 1 recreation of the book

To me it's more ambitious that the MCU loosely adapts the source material for stories and fits comic arcs into the world and characters they've built instead of copying specific storylines as closely as possible. To me it's basically the difference between a band or singer performing a cover for a song and writing a completely new song that might be inspired by another.

@Terminator95: there were a few times where I thought "ok this is the moment the tide turns and the good guys defeat Thanos" and everytime the movie responded with "not this time!" And I loved it.

The movie was still a little too humorous for me, especially considering the stakes, but that might have been intentional to offset the darker moments. I also kind of took it as some of the heroes being over confident (they always win so why should they think this time will be ant different?) And other heroes having a bit of nervous humor (like when Thor's talking to Rocket and you can tell how concerned he really is). I also did legitimately lol at some of the jokes so I can't complain about that.

@quis89: DC has shown us what happens when you take the opposite approach. When you don't take the time to build the movie-verse and characters with solo films and instead rush into the team up type movies the impact isn't the same.

Infinity War works because of everything that came before it. If you didn't watch any or most of the MCU movies before or if Marvel didn't build up to Thanos like they did then Infinity War loses a lot of what makes it work.

@pongman75: and for most of the heroes they simply didn't know or see enough from Thanos to think he would be any different than any of the other villains they've encountered throughout the films. Besides Thor, Banner/Hulk, Loki (dead), Gamora, maybe Drax, and possibly Dr. Strange which of the heroes really knew the extent of Thanos's strength and power before he attacked Earth? Even then I think the heroes, understandably, assumed they'd be take him on based on their team.

@PlatinumPaladin: Infinity War, to me, showed just how rewarding the payoff is when you build up the universe, story, and characters correctly. The first Avengers accomplished a similar goal but this was to another level.

At the same time, it also reinforced just how poorly the DCEU has been planned and executed thus far. I cared about the characters in Infinity War so much more because of the build up and movies that came before it. Thanos felt that much more important and special because of the previous films. The stakes felt real and enormous because of everything that lead to the conflict.

I don't know how they'll do it but DC/WB needs to find a way to bring this type of relevance to their franchise.