Avengers: Age of Ultron- Grading & Discussion (spoilerific)

[urbandefault]

Unlike some, I love spoilers. Keep them coming.

My workload for this weekend is lighter than usual so I'm going to take the wife out for a date night. She gets dinner and drinks, I get a movie.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Lots of city destruction in the Hulk/Iron Man fight, wonder if anyone will get butthurt about that?

It was a plotpoint. Authorities called for Banner's, and by extension the other Avenger's, arrest. They had all but a worrant for him out.
That's why they layed low during the middle of the movie at Hawkeye`s house.

or do you mean the fans?

 

[CaptainCanada]

Not as good as the first, on the whole, but I enjoyed it, and it's remarkable how coherent the whole thing was.

One bit that I found very odd is that the entire film's plot is instigated by Wanda and Pietro's hatred of Tony Stark, but is absolutely zero payoff for this. Even when they switch sides, they don't interact with him.

 

[DWF]

I gave it an A+, it's an epic movie I certainly look for any flaws in the movie, but I thought it turned out better than I thought it might.

 

[Saga]

a solid A. i think i like it better than the first film...though, that may be due to FX showing the first one constantly the past couple months. Spader was great as Ultron. Vision was awesome. always been a big fan of the character. seeing him phase through people and use his forehead lazer made me happy.

thought the mid credits teaser was...ok. Thanos...again. ok.

 

[sojourner]

Finally!!! Paul Bettany gets some real screen time in a Marvel film!

 

[Saga]

also, i wish Falcon had more than just his cameo at the beginning and at the end. but that is just a minor nitpick really.

 

[Awesome Possum]

A+, loved the way they handled Vision.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Lots of city destruction in the Hulk/Iron Man fight, wonder if anyone will get butthurt about that?

It was a plotpoint. Authorities called for Banner's, and by extension the other Avenger's, arrest. They had all but a worrant for him out.
That's why they layed low during the middle of the movie at Hawkeye`s house.

or do you mean the fans?

I think he might mean a certain Wakandan King who is due to show up in Civil War.

 

[Karzak]

I liked it, but not as much as the first. It's also the first Marvel film I've walked out of the theater feeling as though it could have been much better. I get that it's a comic book movie and that it's also an Avengers comic book movie, but it just felt waaaaaay topheavy on the spectacle and very light on the character stuff. Just one big set piece after another, stitched together, culminating in Iron Man inexplicably leaving. Um, why? Throughout the film, there's nothing that happens or that he does to indicate anything near a change of heart about the Avengers, so I'm a little perplexed.

 

[Reverend]

Lots of city destruction in the Hulk/Iron Man fight, wonder if anyone will get butthurt about that?

It was a plotpoint. Authorities called for Banner's, and by extension the other Avenger's, arrest. They had all but a worrant for him out.
That's why they layed low during the middle of the movie at Hawkeye`s house.

or do you mean the fans?

I think he might mean a certain Wakandan King who is due to show up in Civil War.

Was that actually Wakanda we saw though? I guess I took from the line that Serkis's character got away with some of their "trade goods" that they were in a neighbouring country. Mind you there was a lot going on so I may have misheard or misunderstood something.

That aside, I know my Marvel comic knowledge is spotty at best, but isn't Wakanda supposed to be *very* technologically advanced and almost fanatically isolationist? That place just looked like a modern African nation.

 

[Kemaiku]

^Yes, they said Wakanda about 4 times in the dialogue.

 

[The Doctor]

Solid B+

It's easy as enjoyable as the first Avengers but not nearly as good a film as TWS. I did appreciate the humour: the jokes were running a mile-a-minute and I loved that Hawkeye had a larger role (and some of the best lines.) Given how many moving parts Whedon had to keep in order, the film is remarkable coherent. The only miss on that front is that I'd have liked to see Coulson and his team in at least some sort of cameo.

 

[NX74205]

I give this movie a solid A, and in some ways I actually liked it better then the first Avengers movie which I thought was just ok. The Winter Soldier is still the best movie marvel has ever made, but AOU is probably my second favorite marvel movie.

I also think we should really tip our hats to Joss Whedon on this movie. This movie had a lot going on. I mean a whole lot. It was basically tasked with telling its own story, setting up Marvel phase 3 and giving each of the team members there own sphere to shine. This could have easily been another Amazing Spiderman 2, a convoluted bloated mess, but Whedon made everything surprisingly coherent. After watching this movie I can see why he stated he was just exhausted and needed a break from the marvel universe. I can just imagine the Disney overlords on his back saying, plug this, put that in there, oh yeah refer to this upcoming movie. It has to grate on a guy.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I just wanted to share a link to Eric D Snider's entertaining review of this movie: http://www.ericdsnider.com/movies/avengers-age-of-ultron/

This is just an excerpt:

In “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the 43rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe®, Earth’s mightiest heroes™ must band together to squabble amongst themselves, and also to save the world from a deadly threat unleashed by, uh, themselves. The Avengers’ ultimate goal is for the world not to need them anymore, but it seems like the world will always need the Avengers as long as the Avengers are around.

 

[Jeyl]

In “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the 43rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe®, Earth’s mightiest heroes™ must band together to squabble amongst themselves, and also to save the world from a deadly threat unleashed by, uh, themselves. The Avengers’ ultimate goal is for the world not to need them anymore, but it seems like the world will always need the Avengers as long as the Avengers are around.

To be fair, that opening assault on Hydra was no fault of theirs.

 

[sojourner]

In “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the 43rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe®, Earth’s mightiest heroes™ must band together to squabble amongst themselves, and also to save the world from a deadly threat unleashed by, uh, themselves. The Avengers’ ultimate goal is for the world not to need them anymore, but it seems like the world will always need the Avengers as long as the Avengers are around.

To be fair, that opening assault on Hydra was no fault of theirs.

The above sentence is poorly phrased. The assault on Hydra was committed by the Avengers, therefore it was their fault, but we get what you were trying to say.

 

[Reverend]

^It kind of is in a way. Had Thor confiscated the sceptre the same time he took Loki & the Tesseract, all this would have been avoided.
Of course that would also mean that right now Loki would be secretly ruling Asgard with *two* infinity stones in his possession instead of just the one, so probably on balance it was for the best.

 

[Kemaiku]

^It kind of is in a way. Had Thor confiscated the sceptre the same time he took Loki & the Tesseract, all this would have been avoided.
Of course that would also mean that right now Loki would be secretly ruling Asgard with *two* infinity stones in his possession instead of just the one, so probably on balance it was for the best.

Heimdall holds the Tesseract, and could well have it somewhere that even Loki cannot immediately get to, and would raise far too much suspicion asking him about it.

Should Heimdall's Allsight work better up close or something.

 

[M.A.C.O.]

Just got out of the theater. Idk, does anyone else feel the film could've been stronger if there were more civillian casualties? The first trailer made it look like Marvel was finally going dark, but in the film they went out of their way to illustrate that everybody in danger made it out ok. The lack of menace from the cannon fodder Ultron bots didn't help matters. The final battle in Slovia felt tensionless because you knew every body would be saved. Even the dogs!


That battle in Wakanda or Africa, or wherever. That had me on the edge of my seat. Just wondering how Tony was going to juggle saving people and fighting a berserker Hulk, in a suit that Hulk keeps ripping to pieces.