Everything Avengers: Infinity War Fixes About The MCU
Bad villains? Not any more.
What Marvel Studios and the Russos have achieved with Infinity War really can't be overstated. The film is critically acclaimed (though the inevitable contrarian backlash has pulled its RottenTomatoes score down a little) and the immediate box office performance has been stunning.
When Disney count up the returns when the dust settles, the gamble of bringing together so many characters and being so bold with the story will be completely justified. And this is no mere cash grab: it legitimately ties up long-running narrative threads in the MCU, builds on character development that is years old and escalates the drama in a way that justifies the vast sequel's existence.
And even more impressive than its achievements in their own terms, the film actually fixes some issues that have blighted other MCU movies in the past. When Kevin Feige and the Russos promised that this was a film about closure, they meant it in more ways than one...
9. Thor's Terrible Missing Eye CGI
In the climax of Thor: Ragnarok, just as he's about to have his revelation about his powers being inside him all along, Thor is overwhelmed by his sister Hela who toys with him and plucks out his eye, leading to that very fetching eye-patch he has on at the start of Infinity War.
The eye-patch was actually doubly functional at the end of Ragnarok, because Taika Waititi's effects team had obviously run out of money by the time it came to doing the plucked out eye. Well, either that or they tried to consciously not be too gory. The result was a weird black scorch mark that removed Thor's eye-socket and lid entirely and it looked very bad.
Luckily, the Russos were more committed to realism and when Thor removes the patch in Infinity War to put in the spare eye Rocket gives him, he just has a normal closed eye. No scorch, no cavernous vacuum. It's a huge improvement.