Okay. Buckle your seatbelts, folks, I have a couple things to say.

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

I've got a bone to pick with the Russo brothers and Marvel. I didn't like how they ended Endgame. I know me ranting won't help matters but I need to get my thoughts out somewhere.

So at the very end of the movie, we see Steve volunteering to go back into time to replace the infinity stones, right? He does so, but then when he returns, he's old. We're told that he left to live a life with Peggy in the past, and that's that.

Let's unpack this.

My first and main reason why I hated this: this act completely goes against everything we've worked up over the years in the movies. Well, I say we, I really mean the creators of the franchise.

Steve, after all the fighting, decides to go back and "live his life". The thing is, it was established in CA:TWS that Peggy lived her life. She moved on. She literally told Steve "none of us can go back. Sometimes the best that we can do is start over". I loved that moment, because from then on I really felt like Steve was adjusting to the new world, accepting his new life.

After that, he found Bucky again -- brainwashed, sure, but still there. He decided to get him back, which was another action to live his life. He accepted that Peggy was gone.

It was also established that Peggy had a husband, she had a life, she had kids. With Steve going back in time to live with her, that means he completely disregards all of that, essentially takes her kids from her, because he can't live without her. That was the thing, though; they were going to build to how he could learn to live without her. Instead, they had him cave and conveniently go back in time to her.

Secondly, how does it work in the timeline? If he stays with Peggy, that means he never goes into the ice, he never finds Bucky alive, he never meets the Avengers -- and all the while fighting is still happening in the world, and he decides just not to help out -- he'd rather be with her.

I'd also like to think that maybe he wouldn't just abandon his best friend like that? Leaving Bucky to be tortured for years when he could stop it?

The way they left the relationship really bothered me, too. I might be biased as a stucky shipper saying this, but in this movie their relationship was flat and non-existent. We were left with a "gonna miss you, bUDdY" and a two-second hug. The relationship, friendly or not, that had been built up over the first three CA movies was ignored and passed over.

I can't even wrap my head around how he was supposed to return the stones without completely botching the timeline. They also conveniently left that out.

Essentially, I'm bitter that they did my boy dirty by giving him a frankly lame ending when they could've done so much more with his character -- instead, they opted to show us an old man who abandoned his life for a woman who already had hers.

This is just my opinion. I'm always open for debate on this, but if you're going to leave a comment, please do so respectfully -- it's a sensitive movie for all of us, for different reasons, and this was one that just disappointed me and struck a cord.

Also: Thanos' death was so disappointing.