If I'm going to convince the world that this movie sucks, the first thing I need to do is tackle is the most pervasive argument from its apologists, which is that the movie had an inordinate number of main characters and so even just putting this many characters in a movie is a triumph. On the surface, this seems to make sense. After all, if the audience doesn't have a character they can identify with, it's hard to be invested in the movie. In fact, this is the truth with Avengers , but people tend to compare it to an idea in their head about how bad it could have been (perhaps because this line about "fitting in so many main characters" has been repeated so often.) But, here's the thing, when you make a movie, there are no rules. Yes, you have four characters in this movie who starred in six of their own movies up until this point, that does not mean that they are all protagonists and that they should all get equal screentime. Not true, and not eve...
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