I would too if someone started asking personal questions about my life. Fuck that reporter. Guy's a general asshat along with the rest of the Channel 4 folks.
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I would too if someone started asking personal questions about my life. Fuck that reporter. Guy's a general asshat along with the rest of the Channel 4 folks.
lemmykoopa
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Watch more movies dude.
ReplacementPelican
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I don't know why he wants to know whether he's a liberal or not so badly. I defended this guy after the Tarantino thing because at least those questions were about the movie but this seems a bit bullish.
What did RDJ say as he was leaving? Didn't quite catch it.
Scorpion Soldier
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Would've done the same thing. What a jackass...
Miles Quaritch
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Murthy is a tremendous cunt. Don't know why C4 news keep him on, but then most of them are cunts outside of Snow...
sti4thewin
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LMAO "it's getting a little too much Diane Sawyer and your kind of a shmuck."
RDJ is the man
EroticSushi
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He even laughs when Robert gets up to leave. Wow.
George Oscar Bluth II
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I hate that asshat and his smug face. Always skip right past Channel 4.
Vampirolol
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He's not the best cahracter in the movie though.
He's trying to stir up some shit because he knows Downey leans right.
Did you like the other Marvel movies?
piratepwnsninja
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What I find most interesting about this thread is that people continually quote the bad impressions, while seemingly ignoring the good ones.
brandonh83
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Score sounds pretty decent but the very end of this track sure does remind me of something
But my hype, I'm losing it. It's escaping like RDJ from that interview.
That reminds me, I've just come back from seeing your post.
More impressions later
I'm joking. Elaborate?
I loved all of them, except for the first Captain America. This was just as bad, but with a much bigger budget and more hype. God it was so bad, inconsistent and they were trying soo hard to be cool, to be hip and funny...
But, explain. Been in the spoiler thread? Might be worth expanding on particularly what scenes and such
I'm on the phone; it takes several minutes to write a small paragraph because the keyboard and screen are so small and I have to fight autocorrect all the time...
brandonh83
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I can almost spell "AVENGER" with your username. It's almost an anagram.
That's all; carry on.
Manmademan
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pretty sure the "collateral damage" question re: Avengers 1 was answered conclusively during Daredevil, too.
SirJackDaniels
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Yeah guys. It was mediocre at best. Just exited the cinema.
Avengers 2 got nothing on avengers 1, ca2 & gotg
Avengers 2 got nothing on avengers 1, ca2 & gotg
The_Endless
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Just got back from the midnight showing in Singapore. Really, really liked it, but slightly short of LOVED it because of what the editing room did. Would love a Director's Cut version; feels like so many bits were missing to keep the run time down.
It's slightly darker than the first, but still has that awesome comic-booky action KAPOW action. Yeah, Winter Soldier's action sequences were more visceral and satisfying, but Captain America is Captain America and the Avengers is supposed to be colourful, over-the-top fun. There's space in the MCU for both types of action.
What I really liked:
What I thought could have been done better
It's slightly darker than the first, but still has that awesome comic-booky action KAPOW action. Yeah, Winter Soldier's action sequences were more visceral and satisfying, but Captain America is Captain America and the Avengers is supposed to be colourful, over-the-top fun. There's space in the MCU for both types of action.
What I really liked:
- Whedon got a new love for his long, single-take action beats. The opening stomp through the snowy forest was F-awesome, ending in that fantastic slow-mo team moment. The pan around the team in the Sokovian church was brilliant too.
- All those team up moments! Thor striking a lighting blast off Cap's shield! Widow and Cap ping-ponging drones!
- That the Infinity Stones were so explicit in this one. So this is why Thanos will come to Earth in Infinity War Part 1; to retrieve the Mind Gem from Vision.
- Hawkeye. My second favourite part of the movie, after the cool chill-out vibe of the party scene. I felt it really grounded the team and gave a lot of depth to Hawkeye, and cemented how close he and 'Tash were. He got the best line of the film too.
- Really liked that Ultron was more than just a menacing vision, but a warped version of Tony's personality. He felt like a petulant, misguided child. I thought it gave depth to the character, even if he turned out to be less of an actual threat that before.
- So THAT's how Ulysses got his Klaw!
- The establishing of the Avenger's Academy! Falcon! War Machine! That new Scarlet Witch costume!
- All those team up moments! Thor striking a lighting blast off Cap's shield! Widow and Cap ping-ponging drones!
- That the Infinity Stones were so explicit in this one. So this is why Thanos will come to Earth in Infinity War Part 1; to retrieve the Mind Gem from Vision.
- Hawkeye. My second favourite part of the movie, after the cool chill-out vibe of the party scene. I felt it really grounded the team and gave a lot of depth to Hawkeye, and cemented how close he and 'Tash were. He got the best line of the film too.
- Really liked that Ultron was more than just a menacing vision, but a warped version of Tony's personality. He felt like a petulant, misguided child. I thought it gave depth to the character, even if he turned out to be less of an actual threat that before.
- So THAT's how Ulysses got his Klaw!
- The establishing of the Avenger's Academy! Falcon! War Machine! That new Scarlet Witch costume!
What I thought could have been done better
- Ultron didn't seem like a threat at all. He had an army of drones... Yay! Which the Avengers tore through in 2 minutes.
- Quicksilver's death. Sadface... I liked him and you lose a lot of the dynamic with Wanda without him. Still, no burial and they can always resurrect him. Maybe with Dr Helen's advanced machine? She was shown at the Avengers Academy in the End.
- Mid-credits sequence..... after what has come before... meh!
- Vision looked kinda weird. Like a red-yellow variant member of the Blue Man Group. He didn't have a lot of presence either. His first moment with the hammer though, got the greatest reaction from the cinema.
- Editing. Made the fight sequences kinda choppy. Some scenes were just so short and didn't flow, like Thor's cave scene and Tony's five seconds at the Nexus building.
- Music. Thought Danny Elfman would lend a better hand to the score, but apart from the Avengers theme from the first film, I can't remember any tune from the show.
- Quicksilver's death. Sadface... I liked him and you lose a lot of the dynamic with Wanda without him. Still, no burial and they can always resurrect him. Maybe with Dr Helen's advanced machine? She was shown at the Avengers Academy in the End.
- Mid-credits sequence..... after what has come before... meh!
- Vision looked kinda weird. Like a red-yellow variant member of the Blue Man Group. He didn't have a lot of presence either. His first moment with the hammer though, got the greatest reaction from the cinema.
- Editing. Made the fight sequences kinda choppy. Some scenes were just so short and didn't flow, like Thor's cave scene and Tony's five seconds at the Nexus building.
- Music. Thought Danny Elfman would lend a better hand to the score, but apart from the Avengers theme from the first film, I can't remember any tune from the show.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I liked it. Liked it a lot, thought it was bloody great. As good as the first avengers, not quite as good as Winter soldier.
Just came back. I really liked the movie. It was everything I hoped it to be. Nothing more, nothing less. There is only one big reason I could rate Avengers 1 higher: this is more of the same, but of course I can't blame them on it. I'd say it's definitely on par with Avengers 1.
I normally really dislike villains in superhero movies, but Ultron was cool. I think he's my favorite Marvel movie villain after The Winter Soldier.
I normally really dislike villains in superhero movies, but Ultron was cool. I think he's my favorite Marvel movie villain after The Winter Soldier.
AmaterasuOni
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Saw this today. Decent 3,5/5. There's not much to talk about the story. It's pretty, it's huge, it's fast, it's all that pew pew and it's funny. But the lack of story made it a bit meh.
EroticSushi
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Hearing this from a lot of people. They cut out about an hour worth of footage. Seems it would have benefited from an extra 10-20 minutes.
Really hope they release a Directors Cut version.
Same, although Marvel hasn't done it yet which is worrying.
The_Endless
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I have to say... I really really wish Marvels' Phase 3 conference was planned for May 2015 instead of October 2014.
Age of Ultron sets up a lot of the MCU that will be explored in Phase 3, primarily Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther. But already knowing what Phase 3 has in store made me go 'ah... so that's what's they have planned' during the movie instead of 'OMG, did they just tease that? Are they going to do what I think they're going to do in Phase 3?!?!'
Age of Ultron sets up a lot of the MCU that will be explored in Phase 3, primarily Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther. But already knowing what Phase 3 has in store made me go 'ah... so that's what's they have planned' during the movie instead of 'OMG, did they just tease that? Are they going to do what I think they're going to do in Phase 3?!?!'
Let's be honest, shit would have leaked anyway. Hell, Civil War leaked before the Phase 3 press conference & we heard rumblings of an Inhumans film (plus we already knew about Guardians 2).
Cloud Strife
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Doesn't trump an official confirmation though, leaks and theories are all fine and contribute to the craziness that this movie might have been if we were still in the dark. It sounds like AoU is a transition movie, but I can see how knowing where it's going to transition to might ruin the fun.
BobTheFork
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Tell that to schools. It's exactly how the grading scale works and I don't see the problem applying it to games and movies. 6/10 is 60%. There is not way I consider that 'good'
I'm feeling exactly the same as you, I really really liked it but didn't love it and I felt that was entirely down to the editing. I really hope they do release some form of a directors cut, it feels like it's the marvel film that would benefit the most from it.
3rd best, GotG was the best and TWS was second.
Eh, the final battle was better than IM1's and IM2's, it was also unique, dynamic and great, so not sure how it could actually ruin the entire movie retroactively.
Even then, with dubs you are always missing something, because the translation has to fit what is happening on screen (unlike subs which can be longer and thus provide more accurate translations).
They also suck when you are visiting a country where you aren't fluent in the language and want to go to the cinema D:
Par the course actually!
Seriously, it always happens.
People don't know what RT% actually means, while also mixing it with the typical videogame review score scale where anything below a 90 is basically shit.
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That, the Avengers 3 split... a lot stuff leaked before that, so it's not like they had much of an option anyway.
Not outside the US.
Just back from the film myself, so many moments that made me scream inside (and I wanted to on the outside as well). I think th 142 runtime was a bit short. Definitely think it could have done with another 20/30 minutes. Considering it was edited down from 3 and a half hours, there's plenty of material that could have been used.
It feels weird that this big tentpole film is out here in the UK in a couple of days and I have seen hardly any marketing around London. No posters, no billboards, no TV spots, nothing. Are they skimping on the marketing budget because they assume everyone knows About Marvel films? It's hard to feel any hype when they aren't putting the effort in.
Cloud Strife
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According to who? 50% means half-right, half-wrong. An average of good and bad.
Mr. Poolman
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The original cut was 3 1/2 hours?
No wonder the editing was such a mess. This movie really needs an extended cut more than any of the MCU movies before it.
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