Looks really good. I will buy my tickets as soon as possible.
Slight Spoilers and Mostly Speculation:
Even though this looks really good, it looks like the story itself may be pretty predictable:
I think Thanos is going to spend this movie kicking everyone’s *** to get infinity stones. And it seems like he’s going to succeed in doing just that:
To refresh, we’ve currently have seen 5 of the 6 infinity stones that Thanos wants/needs to be the… baddest-evilest-guy ever (does motive really matter?):
Cosmic Cube/Tesseract – Space Stone
Scepter – Mind Stone
Aether – Reality Stone
Orb (GoG)—Power Stone
Eye of Agamotto—Time Stone
In the trailer we essentially see the entire acquisition of the Space Stone.
Following the events of Thor: Ragnarok, we know that Thor & Loki are leading Asgardian refugees to Earth. In the trailer, we see Thor Struggling. Thor Alone. Dead Asgardians and Rubble. Loki handing over the Tesseract. And finally we see Thanos with two Infinity stones (and even displaying the power of the Space Stone by teleporting).
The Second infinity stone is the Power Stone, which was last left with Nova Corps, so I suspect that this is how the film may open: An awesome depiction of Thanos’ assault on Xandar… or who knows, we may not actually see this happen.
We also see Thanos arriving in New York where Dr. Strange has the Time Stone around his neck (and I don’t think Vision is too far away either with the Mind Stone Temporarily attached to his forehead).
And lastly we see Wakanda under siege. I suspect this means we will see the 6th and final Infinity Stone, the Soul Stone, come into play in Black Panther when it’s released Feb of next year.
Meaning, the only stone unaccounted for so far is the Reality Stone (Aether).
So my theory is that Thanos is going to curb stomp our heroes and successfully take all 5 infinity stones, and Infinity Wars: PT II would likely center around our heroes preventing Thanos from getting the Aether.
The plot is a bit easy to piece together from the trailer, but I think that’s intentional and not even really that important.
The bigger theme seems to be “loss”.
I think we’re going to see some big characters die in this one. The real mystery is ‘who?’.
Going to be a great movie.