The Brilliance of Avengers: EndGame

It all started with Iron Man. Was that a good movie? Sure. It was fine. Without Robert Downey Jr, it would have been a complete mess. But, surpassing all odds, Iron Man worked and worked well. People don’t remember that Iron Man came out the same summer as The Dark Knight. And, yeah, the Dark Knight is a perfect movie, but did it spawn a generation of movies that reinvented the genre? You might think I’m being hyperbolic, but…