The Best MCU Film to Make Your Visiting Family Stop Talking for Five Minutes
The Best MCU Film to Make Your Visiting Family Stop Talking for Five Minutes
Every year, people gather with their families to celebrate the holidays and partake in games, food, and fun. While some opt for music playing or setting up karaoke, most of us have some sort of movie on in the background. Holiday movies are always popular, but sports games are becoming the new thing, with major match-ups being set for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day (it was recently announced that Beyoncé will be performing on Christmas during the halftime show for the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens).
Sports tend to cater to the guys and oftentimes, you’ll get some family members yelling for them to change the channel. But you can’t go wrong with one of the thousands of movies to throw on. With so many options, one genre of flicks that tend to catch everyone’s attention regardless of age is a good ole pick from Marvel. You’ll get the conversation going from who’s everyone’s favorite superhero to who will win in a fight between so and so to even how comic book accurate some of the plots truly are. But with that in mind, the real question comes down to which film from the MCU you’d throw on to get everyone to lock in and stop talking for five minutes. There is only one answer to that: Avengers: Endgame.
While there are so many solid choices over the span of a decade, nothing hits quite like the massive fight sequence in the third act. But we can break it down even further than that and pinpoint the exact five minutes everyone will be tuned in. Captain America wielding the Mjolnir and fighting Thanos are some of the most exciting minutes across any Marvel film ever made for many reasons, but most of all for how we felt when we first saw it. The excitement, the shock, the screams we let out in the theater, it was such a moment in cinematic history, especially for comic book nerds everywhere.
This was a moment that had been brewing for such a long time, spanning way back to the living room scene in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Cap attempted to lift the hammer and it moved slightly, causing Thor to jokingly show signs of worry. The interesting thing about Avengers: Endgame is that, when it is on, it’s hard to turn away. There are so many storylines and so much going on that you want to stop what you’re doing and plop down with your second round of food and just watch. Doesn’t matter what part you tune in to, you know the story well and you know what to expect, that’s why you’ll have your tissues ready for that Iron Man scene.
Now, the question posed was what can get them to keep quiet for five minutes, but if you want one that is so good, it’ll probably have everyone seated for the entire movie, well that’s a different story. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is hands down the best film from the MCU and it has yet to be topped. Sure, we loved the nostalgia that came with Spider-Man: No Way Home and End Game is fantastic, but the second installment to Cap’s trilogy was built different. It had everything from a solid group of characters (no overload, kept it simple), great storyline, and the conflict was worth following along because, well, that’s his best friend and he’s going to follow him to the end of the line. It is a masterpiece from beginning to end and contains its own five minute moment that’ll get your fam to hush: the fight between Cap and Bucky when his mask flies off and Steve is left in shock. The shock value was there and the sequence was entertaining, but it didn’t hit the same level as Thanos getting it handed to him by an unexpected hero that turned out to be as worthy as Thor.
While we’ve made our pick for what to put on the tele to entertain your family and friends this holiday season, the fact is that Marvel packs some heavy hitters that it’s kind of hard to go wrong with any of them, but Avengers: Endgame is a no brainer for us. It appeals to every generation as the older ones will recall when the comic books first released, as the kiddos will light up to see their favorite heroes battling one alongside one another. Not everyone is into movies, but Marvel has some names that everyone will be familiar with, regardless of if they’ve seen the films or not so they’ll glance over when a familiar face appears on the screen. So this holiday season, try it out: turn on Disney+, scroll over to Avengers: Endgame and test our theory. The host might find this to be the perfect time to sneak away while everyone’s watching to begin cleaning so everyone can leave on time!
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