10 Genius Blockbuster Movie Subversions
1. Avengers: Endgame
What You Thought
What a moment. After a year of anticipation and theories galore, we finally made it to April 2019 and the conclusion of a story 10 years in the making.
One key event we were all eager to witness was the inevitable demise of the villain responsible for decimating half of the universe with a click of his, Infinity-encrusted, gauntlet. Tony Stark could blast him into oblivion with a new form of technology, The Hulk might finish the job on his second attempt or Ant-man could shrink so small that he could fit into Thanos'...
What It Actually Was
What we weren't expecting, was for it to happen in the first 20 minutes! When Thor exacted his revenge with a chilling swing of Stormbreaker, the audible shock in the cinema was palpable. Was that it? Surely, that wasn't all Earth's mightiest heroes could muster up?
The Russo Brothers set the tone for a bleak and reflective first half of the movie. Endgame succeeded in throwing its audience completely off centre (quite a feat in the age of spoilers) in dispatching their big bad so soon and enabled us to believe that our heroes had a genuine mountain to overcome if they were to avenge their fallen friends.