With Avengers: Infinity War only a little over a month and a half away, I realized it was time to start going through all the previous movies to prepare for the big massive event on April 27, and in case you didn’t hear, Avengers: Infinity War’s release date was moved from May 4 to April 27. That means I need to start watching all the movies sooner, and since I don’t like to binge watch a ton of stuff in one sitting (17 movies would be way too much), I wanted to spread them out.
Anyway, I obviously started with Iron Man. What really
sticks out is that this came out 10 years ago in May, and just reflecting on
how much everything has changed since. I remember first seeing the trailer late
2007, and I was just not that impressed. We had a lot of not so great superhero
movies before that. I really liked X-Men and Spider Man, but many of the others
just were not impressive, anyone remember (get your barf bags ready) Daredevil with
Ben Affleck. I saw this trailer and did not think much of it. I wasn’t thinking
much about it, not even until a few days before it was released.
There was something very unique about that weekend as well,
I got a job at a movie theater and my first weekend was when Iron Man was
released, that’s right, I started on May 2, 2008, and during that time, our
theater was allowed to see movies before they were released, this was called
previewing a movie, I am pretty sure the rules have changed since and only certain
managers can see it now, if that. Anyway, I was invited to preview this movie
with the crew I was about to work with, this was a Thursday morning, and for
some reason, my excitement for the movie started to grow. I watched the movie
and was just really impressed with it, more so than I thought I would be, this
was a great superhero movie.
The biggest shock was when Tony Stark revealed that he was
Iron Man, I just sat there and was stunned, I never thought I would see that in
a super hero movie, I mean we saw people find out that Peter Parker was Spider
Man, but I just didn’t think that would happen, and that changed everything.
Credits rolled and I walked out the theater and went back to
my daily things……yes, that’s right, I didn’t stay till the end of the credits,
because this was the first official movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and
I was not aware that anything would be at the end of the credits, honestly I
really didn’t have any movies before this that would have end credit scenes. Anyway,
after the movie, I walked out and thought we would see a sequel in a couple of
years and it would still be fun. I found out a couple of weeks later when I was
talking with an employee at the theater and he mentioned that there was an end
credit scene, at that moment I was stunned, and he agreed to bring me into a
theater during the credits, and at that time I don’t recall anyone being in the
theater during the credits, and this was during the day too, so I got to see
the sequence, and it was cool, since I was not an avid comic book reader, I did
not know the significance of this scene, it was explained to me about all these
superheroes and that they were working to create the Avengers. I was not
familiar with all these superheroes since I was not a comic book reader, but I
was getting the idea of what they were trying to build towards, and that
changed everything.
This was a great movie that simply had a key at the end that
unlocked a universe that I was not even thinking was possible. Honestly, I am shocked
by how big this universe really is, and I thought the first Avengers movie was
big back in 2012, now forward to today, and those words that Nick Fury says,
“you just became part of a bigger universe, you just don’t know it yet.” I
heard from someone that they were working towards releasing The Avengers in
2012 (which of course became the release date), so I was very intrigued in
where this was going. We also got The Incredible Hulk, which featured a scene
before the end of the credits with Tony Stark, but nothing after the credits,
and I actually stayed that time.
