****I was timed out: This is the revision of what I added. You can skip the first one, above, and read the correction, elducidatons and logical deduction in this version.*****
^^^ I did not, any more than I would enjoy Them remaking The Wizard of Oz and making the Wicked Witch of the West sound like Ms. Manners. It's easy to enjoy a change in a fictional character if you didn't know anything about them during their previous 40 years of destructiveness. Or, for a actual real person rewritten for a movie, a likeable Hitler. (Knowing what he's done, could you stomach that? I rather doubt anyone who's old enough being able to accept that Hitler was "rational.") He might have seemed reasonable in 1934. But not by 1937. But if you knew nothing about him (and only those who were alive then would actually remember. And remember: the Millennials did not get much study of WWII by the time their generation was being taught in school, so they use the term "He's as bad as Hitler, without the slightest consciousness/KNOWLELGE of the range and depth of Hitler's hatefulness, vengefulness and plain horrific nature), you might find him a "moderate." This of us with an education in the '50s , '60s and '70s, know better. He hated that the American had a Black man in the 1936 Olympics. Jesse Owens, who, not ironically, triumphed over all Hitler's Aryan "Wonder Boys." And Hitler was such a vile person, he left the stadium rather than watch Owens at the Awards Ceremony. How's that for a bad sport. Should have told the powers-that-be everything they needed to know.
Thanos has ALWATS been evil Incarnate. Marvel simply "gussied up" their chief villain to win favor with the (unwashed and unknowledgeable) movie-goers. They calculated that the hard-core fans would go anyway, just to see the movie. And they did, despite any misgivings. I saw it, but refused to pay Marvel $11. I have a friend who is part of the Actor's Guild. I saw his copy. I'd have puked, because I was angry that this movie was nothing more than a series of action sequences, not close to the sophisticated, precise and coordinated attack plans of the Good Side (the heroes, especially Adam Warlock, who RESIDES inside the Soul Gem and therefore has direct contact with its powers) It's not surprrise that - right in the middle of The Infinity War topping $1billion, Marvel then releases The Infinity Gauntlet (a killer book bound version, and one you should buy, now that you've seen the Infinity War. Problem is, it's $24.99), KA-CHING!!!
And perhaps you're right, he'll change in Part 2. But, as I said, Marvel ALSO, just last week, released the boodbound version of The Infinity Gauntlet, which is actually the series where Thanos - to win the favor of Mistress Death - wipes out half the sentient life in the Universe - including animals, plant life and anything that was "alive," not just humans. In other works, the work being used as the basis for 'The Infinity War.' Which is what makes is so disagreeable to me. The Infinity Gauntlet was an exceptionally COOL series, where Thanos also has to battle all the Cosmic Entities, including Galactus (Eater of Worlds, and a Force of Nature: he is neither good nor evil. He just IS); Eternity (the sum total of everything that exists in THIS REALITY); The Celestials, Lord Order and Lord Chaos; Kronos (The Lord of Time) and several other cosmic entities. In other words, they copped out and took the disgustingly easy way to make a movie that is a screenplay COMPLETELY apart from The Infinity War. They could Simply have named it Avengers: The Thanos (Death) Wars. But they wanted to name it a movie that their fans knew, knowing that their fans would stir up excitement among their non-comic book reading friends about the movie, since we know the plot line. Only, why then release The Infinity Gauntlet, the ACTUAL story that contains the main elements of The Infinity War, but then create a movie not nearly as sophisticated, complex and all-out KICK-ASS? I suspect it would've been too much trouble to actually do the movie the justice it deserves (aka: DOING IT RIGHT). Just like the "X-Men: Last Stand" took the easy way out. I'm not giving them money to rewrite the series, especially if the series if VASTLY superior, not to mention, WORTH MY TIME to see it. And therein lives the difference between those who don't care - and those who DO.
When it is animation, Disney does it right. When it involved humans, Disney (mostly) does the Avengers movies - and ONLY the Avengers movies - ALL WRONG. This is not an opinion. Avengers: Ultron? A travesty! The Scarlet Witch, as I've said many times, is neither telekinetic or telepathic. She is a Chaos Sorcereress (aka Murphy's Law: She can make what MIGHT go wrong, DEFINITELY GO WRONG). Her powers are the same as Jean Grey, the X-Men's Level 5 Mutant (more powerful than ANY other mutant). And there are NO two Marvel characters with the same powers. EVER. Subjectively, I can like it, but assessing by the original elements, it's a failure. (I didn't like Ultron's completely "normal" voice, either. Another "gussied up" villain).
And the Thanos I know would've been not only an accurate representation, he would have been absolutely scary (he IS insane, you know that, right???) He's not called "The Mad Titan" for the fun of it. He kills at whim: both people and planets. So the "revised" Thanos is simply unpalatable, even if he does become scary in Pt. 2.
