Avengers: Age of Ultron |OT| If you open this thread, you're an Avenger

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What i'm expecting is an incredibly fun romp with superhero's, largescale spectacle and hopefully a good soundtrack.

I'm not expecting lifechanging superdeep cinema.
 
More_Badass said:
Was anyone expecting that?
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Yea, me. I was expecting this to be Citizen Kane 2 and The Godfather 2 Part 2 with a tinge of 2 Gone 2 Windy.

Kinda disappointed it's not to be honest. I should've known from the trailers when that guy said "you didn't see that coming" I guess.
 
Can't wait. It feels so close but so far. Guess I'll start watching Daredevil or something to get me through the time. Hope Ultron is as badass as the trailers make him look. That voice.
 
I'll go see it in 3d, because I do like the 3d effect... but it won't be my first viewing. For my first viewing, I'm going to a local theater that is like the Alamo Drafthouse chain. Big, comfy seats, and food served throughout the movie.
 
Some of Faracci's thoughts from his review (No spoilers in the excerpt here except maybe the one call back to a plot point from the first film that I spoiler tagged below):

Let’s just get this out of the way: is Avengers: Age of Ultron as good as The Avengers? The answer, very simply, is ‘sort of.’

Age of Ultron is a better movie than The Avengers. From beginning to end Age of Ultron works, is tightly plotted (despite being long and incredibly packed with incident) and has wonderful character moments. The first film took almost a half hour to begin pulling its shambling pieces together, and it was at almost an hour that the movie truly hits its stride. But once it does, The Avengers, shaggy as it is, has something Age of Ultron doesn’t: a bunch of absolute fist pump stratospheric high moments. Age of Ultron quite simply doesn’t have a
“Hulk… smash” moment.

But a movie isn’t made of high moments, and if The Avengers has some spikes that exceed Age of Ultron’s highs, Age of Ultron operates at a steady level that is much, much better than most of The Avengers.
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This film feels nothing like Thor or Captain America: The Winter Soldier; it even feels notably different and evolved from The Avengers. I thought that first movie was the first true 'comic book movie,' but I was wrong - this is.
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Sounds like the quality of AoU is more consistent than the previous film, but doesn't reach the same highs.
 
Yeah....I can't stop reading this thread even though I'm not seeing AoU until next Thursday. Damn you foreigners for getting this movie a whole week before us.

I know I'm going to get spoiled on something like last time. Oh well. Nothing stops this train.


Corpsepyre said:
I have a feeling everyone's going to take a dump on this. Whatever the movie gets on RT doesn't matter because GAF has it's own Metacritic going here. The Dark Knight Rises is something like 86 % over there, but here, it's the most pitiful abomination ever conceived, or close to it. If it disappoints a bit, and doesn't stand up to the first film, boy, we're in for some trouble.
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eh, there's already a dedicated group of anti-MCU people on GAF. This movie would have to absolutely bomb for the discussion to be any different than now.
 
guek said:
90% at 30 reviews so far, looking good. Average rating so far is lower than the first though at 7.5/10 vs 8/10. Really early though since the first Avengers has more than 10x the reviews :-P
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This is probably gonna grade worse than the first.

I wanna say much worse but we'll see.
 
Cheebo said:
The most common complaint wasn't that Hawkeye was a bad character/performance well in the first but that he was under-used I thought?
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Well that's the reasonable complaint. But the common complain was something to the effect of "Ratface Renner was such SHIT in that movie, most useless/boring Avenger by far and Renner sucks!!"

Hence, the crow.
 
Blader said:
Well that's the reasonable complaint. But the common complain was something to the effect of "Ratface Renner was such SHIT in that movie, most useless/boring Avenger by far and Renner sucks!!"

Hence, the crow.
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can't wait!


also the movie sounds like absolutely everything I wanted. hyyyyyype
 
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If this movie is setting up Civil War, I just hope we see the divide really tense up between Cap and Iron Man throughout the movie. I want to see their relationship disintegrate as the movie goes on and not at one moment all of a sudden they are enemies.
 
IndoAssassin said:
If this movie is setting up Civil War, I just hope we see the divide really tense up between Cap and Iron Man throughout the movie. I want to see their relationship disintegrate as the movie goes on and not at one moment all of a sudden they are enemies.
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But do we know that they are following the comic at all with that movie?
 
IndoAssassin said:
If this movie is setting up Civil War, I just hope we see the divide really tense up between Cap and Iron Man throughout the movie. I want to see their relationship disintegrate as the movie goes on and not at one moment all of a sudden they are enemies.
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I probably wouldn't expect a real set-up or their relationship disintegrating or anything to that extreme, given how much Whedon said he wants this movie to feel like a self-contained story. But I do think there will be some more heated disagreements, differences of opinion, etc. that kind of run under the surface without bubbling into actual plot points.
 
So many reviewers do bad reviews just so they stand out and get views. Happens all the time.
 
Can someone spoil the end credits scene for me? We don't get them here in the cinemas. They shut the movie immediately when it ends.
 
IndoAssassin said:
If this movie is setting up Civil War, I just hope we see the divide really tense up between Cap and Iron Man throughout the movie. I want to see their relationship disintegrate as the movie goes on and not at one moment all of a sudden they are enemies.
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Amc review actually said that there are actually not a lot of civil war setup in the movie and he was hoping for more. although they also think character interaction between cap and tony are great.
 
It appears that this doesn't go the "the same but bigger" sequel route, instead going more the Star Wars > Empire Strikes Back route.
I don't mean that in terms of quality, as I haven't seen AoU. I more mean in tone, structure, scale.

ESB compared to SW is still recognizably Star Wars, but it's much darker, stranger, puts its characters through a ringer, and has a completely different structure than the first film, including ending on a downer cliffhanger.
On a superficial level (comparing with TA > A:AOU), it also covers far more locations, has more characters, and a greater emphasis on the villain, like AoU does.

But the core is that ESB in the Star Wars trilogy is the darker, weirder middle film. It appears AoU is the same for the Avengers films.
Now those elements combined in ESB to make the best film of that series, which remains to be seen for AoU, since I have not seen it yet, but I appreciate it went in a different direction, at least.
 
I'm OK with the film not setting up future films:

Buzzfeed interviews Whedon:
Whedon chuckled bitterly. “Somebody said, ‘Well, that was a great setup for the next thing!’ in one of the test screenings, and I died inside. [Marvel executives] were like, ‘No! They say that all the time, it’s fine.’ I was like, ‘No, that’s the worst thing I could have heard.’ I want people to come out feeling done.”
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Chill, people. It's not going to be worse than Iron Man 3. It just can't be. You'll get your dollars worth. Whedon knows his shit.
 
Dies Iræ;161050063 said:
I'm OK with the film not setting up future films:

Buzzfeed interviews Whedon:
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The story doesn't necessarily have to set up future films but the events the characters go through should be felt through future films. Couple reviews i have read, feel as if the events of Iron Man 3 and Winter Soldier have no effect on the characters whatsoever. As if the those films didn't even happen.
 
mgarnica89 said:
The story doesn't necessarily have to set up future films but the events the characters go through should be felt through future films. Couple reviews i have read, feel as if the events of Iron Man 3 and Winter Soldier have no effect on the characters whatsoever. As if the those films didn't even happen.
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In that quote, Whedon's referencing the notion that Avengers 2 is a "stop-gap" film designed as a set-up for future films. Scott Mendelson's review, for example, charges that "Avengers: Age of Ultron plays like an obligation, a box to be checked off on a list before all parties move onto the things they really want to do," which is exactly the type of reaction Joss' quote suggests he was trying to avoid eliciting. Whether or not Ultron reflects developments in past films, like IM3 and Winter Soldier, is a separate matter.
 
Sounds like it's a solid movie and...well, just that. Which is fine, though one always wishes for something beyond that. Increasingly TV has become the go-to place for that, not film.
 
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