Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1st, 2015)

[Rambler]

Watched AoU after I got home from work last night and as far as I'm concerned it's fun, exciting and a solid movie... it's a comic book come to life.


Everyone has different opinions on this movie; my opinion is the only one that matters to me.

EXACTLY!!!!

 

[Bo Shrek]

Blu Ray is being released in October. I have read that there is a extended cut. Im not a Marvel guy but I enjoy the movies and I have most in my collection. I do plan on getting this but wondering if I should hold off for a possible extended cut!

 

[jye4ever]

No extended cut on this release........for now anyways.

 

[MaulFan]

There is no extended cut, it's been confirmed.

Thinking about this movie, I wonder what impact Infinity Wars will have on perception of it, will this movie end up just a stepping stone from Avengers to Infinity Wars and once you have that final piece it'll seem better and only looks weaker now seen just as a sequel story to existing films, or will it always feel the same to people.

I was thinking about the comments about how characters were all similar and I was thinking about Barton's extra story here and why people don't like it. I think part of it may be because they're trying to give Barton story without giving him his own movie, but, unlike Thor or Captain America, Iron Man or Hulk, where their back stories set up their motivations and explain how they are the way they are today, Barton's family life and how he is on the team have no connection outside of a forced speech to Scarlett Witch, he doesn't act fatherly towards the team, he doesn't act like he's fighting to save the world for his family, he just acts like a SHIELD employee. I feel like if his backstory enhanced our understanding of what he's done to date and through Ultron, it would be more accepted, I think people don't like it because it doesn't really add anything to him.

 

[a-dev]

Everyone has different opinions on this movie; my opinion is the only one that matters to me.

Well you know what? Your opinion doesn't matter to me! Hrmphh!

No one will take my negative feelings about this film away from me! NO ONE!

 

[Khev]

AoU is damn exciting but I think the toll it took on Whedon did show some of his limits as a filmmaker. Scarlet Witch's big moment where she steps outside and starts blowing away drones for instance. The music, the slow motion, choreography, all spectacular. But then the scene just kind of fizzles out and the film cuts to other people doing their own thing, talking, fighting, etc. Right as she gets going and you're on the verge of standing up and cheering the movie just kind of moves on. A better filmmaker would have tied her actions to the climax itself, like we saw with Han Solo and Boromir.

Imagine instead if Hawkeye made his little speech, "If you step out that door you're an Avenger," he goes outside...and nothing. He fights and we don't see Scarlet Witch emerge. Then at the end in the church when Stark says, "Like the old man said...together." Everyone starts fighting the swarming drones in slow motion and then BOOM Scarlet steps through the arches, same music, same slo-mo, and joins the fray. That would have been freaking awesome and an already euphoric scene would have been taken to the next level.

I do love the entire Sokovia battle and look forward to watching it again and again but I can't help but notice those little things that (record breaking box office aside) do show that Whedon is no Lucas or Jackson in their prime.

 

[RIDDICK]

No one will take my negative feelings about this film away from me! NO ONE!

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Well you know what? Your opinion doesn't matter to me! Hrmphh!

No one will take my negative feelings about this film away from me! NO ONE!

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[MaulFan]

This thread....

 

[spindrift]

AoU did not suck- it was just a huge disappointment

 

[jye4ever]

That was TDKR for me.

 

[YoNoSe]

I loved AOU after two viewings. It only suffers in comparison to the first Avengers, which was one of the best theater-going experiences of my life.

 

[jye4ever]

Glad to see that another on this forum had the same great experience watching Avengers with an enthusiastic crowd.

My Avengers midnight screening is still the best time i've ever had in a movie theater, the participation was insane!

 

[MaulFan]

I loved seeing the first Avengers in theaters, I was all fired up after from the movie itself, but the theater experience sucked, I thought I was seeing it in IMAX and turns out it was one of those fake IMAX theaters, and the seats were very tight so I was squished against the guy next to me.

 

[jye4ever]

You're not a small fella to begin with.

 

[MaulFan]

You're not a small fella to begin with.

No, it's like sticking the Hulk between Black Widow and Hawkeye .

 

[Collectorcol]

I hate the cinema experience and always wait for the blu-ray on my home setup.

Finally got to watch this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised, really enjoyed it.
Opening scene had me really worried but it progressed into a very well executed story.
Really hated the romance plot though

 

[RIDDICK]

Opening scene had me really worried...

Yet it was the best thing in the entire... thing. Sorry, I just can't say "film" while talking about this... project.

 

[MaulFan]

Visually the opening is fun, storywise, I get wanting to jump into them working as a team, but between the plothole of Loki's scepter not having gone back to Asgard is Avengers and them supposed to be working missions to find it for a long time after multiple large stories have happened to them individually since their last gathering, it would have been nice to have some story to explain what brought them back together when we're supposed to accept their absence in Iron Man 3, Dark World and Winter Soldier.

I dare say, some continuity issues and "laziness" seem to be coming into play which affect the overall MCU.

I really enjoy this movie as a stand alone film, but as far as how it connects into the MCU, it falls a little flat tying up Phase 2 compared to how everything came together in Phase 1.

 

[jye4ever]

Correct MF, just a mention of tracking WS wasn't enough for me.

They promised a connected universe so give it to us dammit, don't shy away from it, stop with the laziness!

I don't want the Nova version of a connected universe, his version is boring as hell.

Stuff that needed to be touched on was too easily dismissed/ignored.

But nooooooo.....we get more shirtless Thor instead!