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W<\/span>alking out of the gut-wrenching <\/p>rollercoaster that is Avengers: Endgame<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the fanboy in me could only think of one thing \u2014 watching it all over again. And again, and again. It\u2019s undisputedly the biggest movie event in recent memory, so much so that Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth, in their roles as Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor have become the unofficial mascots of Hollywood this decade. And if there\u2019s one word that perfectly describes this movie, it is \u201cbig\u201d; not in terms of its runtime or wank-worthy IMAX aspect ratio. But there\u2019s something about this movie that is stirring in a way that movies such as <\/span>Lawrence of Arabia <\/span><\/i>or<\/span> The Maltese Falcon <\/span><\/i>are. <\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s a story 11 years in the making, told with a magnanimity rivalling the Hollywood epics of old, movies that cost the GDP of a small South American country. Movies that I\u2019d watched on VHS with my father. Then it struck me: This is a movie I want to watch with my kids someday. <\/span>\n\nMy dad, an old-school Catholic hardass, used to work overseas. So what little bonding time I got with him while growing up was while watching cinematic masterpieces like <\/span>Ben-Hur <\/span><\/i>or <\/span>Cleopatra<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> on pirated VHS tapes from the Middle East. This was the early \u201990s, when Napster reigned supreme over the vastness of the internet, the TamilRockerz hadn\u2019t begun rocking yet, and going to the movies sucked because of bedbug-infested movie theaters that lacked air-conditioning and reeked of the ripe funk of a 1,000 different bodies basking in the fetid darkness.<\/span>\n

It\u2019s a story 11 years in the making, told with a magnanimity rivalling the Hollywood epics of old, movies that cost the GDP of a small South American country.<\/blockquote>\nWe\u2019d often jam a VHS tape into our old tape player and sit in silence for hours as the action unfolded on an old Akai TV. The men would take their appointed places on chairs or wobbly wooden stools, and I\u2019d sit on the floor or my mother\u2019s lap as we watched everything from spaghetti westerns starring Sergio Leone, to reruns of <\/span>America\u2019s Funniest Home Videos<\/span><\/i>. Six-year-old me felt like I belonged to this motley crew of bearded ruffians smoking 555 cigarettes and drinking London Pilsner. They\u2019d teach me grown-up stuff, like the proper way to pour a beer or give me a dab of whiskey off the tips of their pinky fingers as they regaled me with anecdotes about their younger selves. <\/span>\n\nFor instance, there was the time when my uncle told me about his first kiss when he was in school, and they were taken to a screening of <\/span>McKenna\u2019s Gold <\/span><\/i>along with the students from the all-girls school next door. Or the bath house scene in <\/span>Cleopatra <\/span><\/i>when all that stands between Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s exquisite form and the world is a single sheet. Rather than fast-forwarding past it, my dad and uncles took it upon themselves to have \u201cthe talk\u201d with me, whilst painting Elizabeth Taylor as a timeless beauty no man could possess. <\/span>\n\nThis was the \u201cfather-son time\u201d I heard about so often from my friends, but rarely experienced first-hand, until that VHS tape would slide in and my father\u2019s bitter and crabby demeanor would soften a little. He\u2019d tell me about the time my grandfather found him looking at pictures of Elizabeth Taylor he\u2019d secretly stashed in one of his books, or about how Roger Moore was a way better James Bond than all the others combined.<\/span>\n\nIn essence, these movies took them back to a time and place in their past, to their formative years, when they were in a state of flux, stuck between the boys they were and the men they\u2019d go on to become. They passed down their key learnings like a group of Native American elders around a roaring fire, with the flicker of the fire replaced with the glow of the CRT and its rudimentary approximation of ROYGBIV.<\/span>\n\nThis is what <\/span>Endgame<\/span><\/i> is to me. Life has come full circle<\/a> for me from being the geeky kid whooping in excitement when Tony Stark donned the Mark 1 suit, when <\/span>Iron Man <\/span><\/i>came out in 2008. <\/span>\n\nWatching the Avengers\u2019 swansong, a movie that is the realest Marvel movie to date is an experience. This three-hour tribute to the best of the MCU, and of course its creator Stan Lee<\/a>, does a damn fine job of humanising heroes by rendering them helpless and humbled by the one enemy they can never defeat: fate. All of this is punctuated with moments of levity, such as the hilarious, overweight drunk Thor and the creation of the \u201cAsguardians of the Galaxy<\/a>\u201d<\/span> and further made wholesome by the heroes\u2019 quest for love and friendship while they look for a way to undo the havoc wreaked by Thanos<\/a>\u2026 all of this goes toward making this more than just a multi-billion dollar franchise. \u00a0<\/span>\n\nSomeday, when I have kids, I want to be able to sit them down and put on a copy of <\/span>Avengers: Endgame <\/span><\/i>and tell my kids all about the time I lived, worked, and fucked in an economic purgatory, where the world was blowing up one car bomb at a time, the right wing was on the rise, and climate change was an imminent danger. Hopefully, they\u2019ll live in a better tomorrow, and I have stories to share with them, beyond just the ones about Thanos and Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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