George Oscar Bluth II
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I think Thanos should do something pretty crazy once he has the gauntlet. Just think of how much power all of the Infinity Stones bring him.
Avengers: Age of Ultron |OT| If you open this thread, you're an Avenger
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Yup.
Haven't read the thread, but in mobile and saw the vid, since I dig her vids.
Must wait for one more weeeeeeeeeek.
Even though I know the whole plot already, I'm starting to get a little hyped. Gonna watch it in 14 hours, so I have rewatched the first half of The Avengers and is gonna finish it before I go watch Age of Ultron tomorrow.
The Avengers is actually much better than I remember. Like, really, a lot better than when I first saw it in the cinema.
All I'm looking forward to in Age of Ultron is Black Widow's arc, Scarlet Witch, Vision and the ending.
The Avengers is actually much better than I remember. Like, really, a lot better than when I first saw it in the cinema.
All I'm looking forward to in Age of Ultron is Black Widow's arc, Scarlet Witch, Vision and the ending.
krameriffic
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This is a fairly spoilery clip in terms of where it happens.
Just saw it, wasn't bored but overall the movie was pretty mediocre. There were so many things that felt off or were badly done:
More than I thought. Movie didn't sit well with me apparently. I still liked it, but it's not among the better movies of the MCU.
What I liked
-First movie where I liked Thor really.
-Iron Man vs Hulk was awesome.
-Black Widow has her curly hair back.
-Ultron was just a pushover and his motivation was shallow at best.
-The twins added NOTHING to the movie apart from having a reason to let Iron Man fight Hulk.
-Quicksilver was useless as enemy and out of the sudden he can defeat multiple robots at once...
-Vision was bad and I dislike that they now changed Jarvis voice to Friday.
-The romance came out of fucking nowhere, felt forced, unbelievable and overall cliche. Pretty and the Beast anyone?
-Camera was way too often misplaced. Either too close or to shaky.
-Felt way too similar to the first movie in its concept.
-Too many 'heros' now, in particular with the 'new' Avengers
-Therefore they are FORCED to include "swarmy" enemies like the aliens in 1 or the robots in 2. It needs to stop. Give me a FEW tough guys and less trash mobs.
-Focus on Hawkeye and Black Widow was a bit misplaced (as in 'too much')
-'Let's rescue everyone' was a dumb plot device.
-Fury and the carrier came out of nowhere and with perfectly fit flying devices that just offer "seats" - way too convent.
-WTF THOR and the 'water' thingy?!
-No post credit scene. Wtf marvel?!
-The twins added NOTHING to the movie apart from having a reason to let Iron Man fight Hulk.
-Quicksilver was useless as enemy and out of the sudden he can defeat multiple robots at once...
-Vision was bad and I dislike that they now changed Jarvis voice to Friday.
-The romance came out of fucking nowhere, felt forced, unbelievable and overall cliche. Pretty and the Beast anyone?
-Camera was way too often misplaced. Either too close or to shaky.
-Felt way too similar to the first movie in its concept.
-Too many 'heros' now, in particular with the 'new' Avengers
-Therefore they are FORCED to include "swarmy" enemies like the aliens in 1 or the robots in 2. It needs to stop. Give me a FEW tough guys and less trash mobs.
-Focus on Hawkeye and Black Widow was a bit misplaced (as in 'too much')
-'Let's rescue everyone' was a dumb plot device.
-Fury and the carrier came out of nowhere and with perfectly fit flying devices that just offer "seats" - way too convent.
-WTF THOR and the 'water' thingy?!
-No post credit scene. Wtf marvel?!
More than I thought. Movie didn't sit well with me apparently. I still liked it, but it's not among the better movies of the MCU.
What I liked
-First movie where I liked Thor really.
-Iron Man vs Hulk was awesome.
-Black Widow has her curly hair back.
Are there no reports on how welll the thursday-opneres have done?
Yesterday around this time we had a report on Deadline , on hew well the Wednesday openers did (despite week Euro)
Ah I see, you mean the quality of the scores:
For me it was Iron Man 1: meh, 2: can't rember a thing, 3: absolutely great
Thor: great, 2: meh
Cap: OK, TWS: aquired taste, love it now. (you don't remember "taking a stand"?)
Avengers: OK to great
Age Of Ultron: forgetable, except when it quotes previous themes (2 excerpts are directly taken from Avengers, one badly edited)
So I guess prepare to be disappointed.
Which part from the score of Avengers do you consider to be a SHIELD theme?
By the way: AoS: great theme, OK otherwise
Agent Carter: forgetable
Daredevil: OK theme, very forgetable otherwise
and GotG's score: OK to great
Some pieces of music in the One-shots were good as well: "All Hail The King" was good + Mike post's new 80s theme
Yesterday around this time we had a report on Deadline , on hew well the Wednesday openers did (despite week Euro)
Ah I see, you mean the quality of the scores:
For me it was Iron Man 1: meh, 2: can't rember a thing, 3: absolutely great
Thor: great, 2: meh
Cap: OK, TWS: aquired taste, love it now. (you don't remember "taking a stand"?)
Avengers: OK to great
Age Of Ultron: forgetable, except when it quotes previous themes (2 excerpts are directly taken from Avengers, one badly edited)
So I guess prepare to be disappointed.
Which part from the score of Avengers do you consider to be a SHIELD theme?
By the way: AoS: great theme, OK otherwise
Agent Carter: forgetable
Daredevil: OK theme, very forgetable otherwise
and GotG's score: OK to great
Some pieces of music in the One-shots were good as well: "All Hail The King" was good + Mike post's new 80s theme
Insane Metal
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Saw it this afternoon and enjoyed it a lot! So many awesome scenes. But I liked the first movie better, basically:
I'd give it an 8.249.
Oh yeah that water thing was just stupid. I forgot to mention that I didn't like that either. About the scene, there is one.
Because of this. I got out of the theater with that exact thought on my mind. Also, I don't get the complaints about Ultron, I thought it was a genuinely interesting enemy. I just think its look could be better, but that's just nitpicking. One complaint I have and I read other saying the same thing is about the lack of weight in things. On some of the action scenes things were really 'floaty', especially in the beginning. Later on it improves greatly.
I'd give it an 8.249.
Oh yeah that water thing was just stupid. I forgot to mention that I didn't like that either. About the scene, there is one.
Insane Metal
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Edit: double post argh. Delete please :|
The musical score (and the special effects) are the main thing I dislike about the MCU. There's no musical universe to it.
I wish they would keep Alan Silvestri to do the musical language for the MCU, his scores for CA1 and Avengers are very nice (even if the filler is recycled from his other movie scores).
aHebrewMenagerie
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He needs to kill at least 2 Avengers so I can take him seriously.
Colonel Nasty
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My buddy described this movie as the second Hunger Games movie.
SliChillax
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Why are people saying that there's no post credits scene?
Thanos grabs the infinity gauntlet and says something like "I'll take care of this myself"
That's mid-credits scene. There's nothing when the credits finish.
SliChillax
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They just moved the end credits scene more forward so people don't have to get bored to death watching half an hour of credits, what's the big deal?
ReplacementPelican
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Sometimes there's both though.
Well, Catching Fire was great and much better than the first Hunger Games, so I'm excited.
It's no big deal, just that I guess people were expecting both a mid and an end credits scene.
Yeah, I meant more the Thanos comes to Earth plot than whatever the fuck Hickman was having happen in space.
True. When you look at it individually this movie is clearly a better made film in terms of direction and action. In context though, it just feels like less of an event movie and didn't really feel like a good culmination of Phase 2. Maybe that's a bit unfair to this movie since it's unfortunately the second movie stuck in between the first and Infinity War but that's the way it goes. Plus I think the simpler plot thread in the first was better than the relatively messy amount of things Whedon had to juggle in this movie, which is again because of this being the middle movie.
In regards to villains they are all pretty much non-threatening so comparing how bad they all is pretty much pointless. I will say though that Loki gets the benefit of multiple movies to develop instead of being introduced and immediately killed in one movie like every other villain.
YesNOnoNOYes
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bolded part, so much
they should figure out how to make more of 'weightier' villains, for lack of better words. the one-off ones really make it feel a bit like disposable nappies.
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EroticSushi
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Just a mid-credit scene. No point in staying for the entire credits after it.
Zeyphersan
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The bolded is sort of what I'm afraid of. Not that I won't enjoy it, because I think I will, even if it's not technically "good". But I'm afraid that it won't feel like the climax of Phase Two like it so clearly wants to be
Yeah, still go in expecting a good movie, but don't expect it to be a climax like the first film. Expect it to be a continued momentum builder for Civil War and Infinity War.
peanutbutterlatte
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I think that's very much the case. Not to mention the second is better without having to do all the establishing. Seriously, they funded four separate films to set The Avengers up, and oh my god so much establishing.
Age of Ultron is cold open, Avengers being awesome and fighting together.
longdi
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I think the non-climax bit in A2 will leave people disappointed. When the group comes together, the expectation will be to stop some universe leveling events. I dont mind the wise cracking confused child Ultron portrayed here, but there certainly was no 'Age' of Ultron.
The threat in A2 felt smaller like IM3 or WS. A1, DW and GotG felt more threatening.
I need this movie in my veins now. I can't believe BASED godly MAHVEL gave up Americans just so Europeans can wank it for a whole week without us.
I mean the damn Ruskies got it before we did. And to think the movie has characters called "Captain America" and "Iron Patriot".
I mean the damn Ruskies got it before we did. And to think the movie has characters called "Captain America" and "Iron Patriot".
Zeyphersan
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Which I'm fine with, I'm loving the momentum. I guess just based on their plan I had it in my head that the Avengers films were supposed to be the capstone to each phase. If it's not, what's even the point of having Phases?
peanutbutterlatte
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Just got out, fantastic movie. It worked a lot better than the original because it already had the setting and people knew who the avengers were so no time was wasted on backstory. It was straight into the action.
The visuals were amazing and everything was super cohesive. Only some action scenes felt a tad chaotic but otherwise was a great film. Now to wait for the war.
The visuals were amazing and everything was super cohesive. Only some action scenes felt a tad chaotic but otherwise was a great film. Now to wait for the war.
Can you imagine before the internet when something like that wouldn't matter at all? Before the internet, you could go years between releasing a movie in different territory and people generally wouldn't have a clue.
7/10 for me. Wasn't terrible but no where near as good as the first.
Ultron goes down way to easily and another army of "robots" was a bad decision. Problem is, in a team up movie everybody needs to fight something hence why we get "robots". They need to break the mold in the next two
Yup. Want to know the best part about the internet? You can now even have the whole movie spoiled to you, and sometimes even with a rare accident in a GAF thread.
Glorious times all around friends. Now excuse me while I cry myself to sleep watching Avengers OG.
CosmicGroinPull
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Casual fan here. It was a good time. Lots of eye candy, but some earlier action scenes were transformers-wtf-am-I-looking-at bad. I agree with giving the heroes more depth but it was hit and miss. Definitely feels rougher than the first one.
I saw it yesterday and I really liked it but it has some flaws which hurt the movie.
I left some parts out, you can read it in the spoiler thread.
I'll start with the negatives on the Movie:
The major problem in this movie is the fast pacing and overbloated subplots which could haven been done well, if some of the action scenes would have been cut or reduced because there tons of it with barely any time to breath.
Thus some characters like Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch or the relationship between Black Widow and Banner hadn't got any development, it was just thrown in the movie.
The fast pacing is also due to the quick editing, especially in the fights scenes which also made it worse in 3D, so you couldn't really what was going on in some scenes. Some of the action scenes (flying, jumping) and CGI were bad though (like in the trailer where they are all on the screen jumping), but not all of it though.
Last but not least, of course the villain was weak like in every MCU movie.
The Positives:
Well there is not much to say, the chemistry between the actors/characters were great and they did feel like a team, unlike in Avengers 1 where they (all) just teamed up towards the end of the movie. The new characters Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Ultron and Vision were great and interesting, but they could have been much better with more Screen time and development (Vision was great). The Actions scenes are much better than in the previous movies, but not good as CA2: Winter Solider, it was a bit over the top. My favorite part was the Reveal of Vision and all of his scenes.
If I'd give the movie a score it would be 8.2 due to the fast pacing and overbloated subplots, which didn't have any development.
My Scoring for the other MCU movies.
Cap2 - Winter Soldier: 9.3
GotG: 9.1
Avengers 1: 8.7
Avengers 2: 8.2
Cap 1: 8.0
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ok - good.
I hope AoU get's a directors cut with additional scenes, it really needs it.
I left some parts out, you can read it in the spoiler thread.
I'll start with the negatives on the Movie:
The major problem in this movie is the fast pacing and overbloated subplots which could haven been done well, if some of the action scenes would have been cut or reduced because there tons of it with barely any time to breath.
Thus some characters like Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch or the relationship between Black Widow and Banner hadn't got any development, it was just thrown in the movie.
The fast pacing is also due to the quick editing, especially in the fights scenes which also made it worse in 3D, so you couldn't really what was going on in some scenes. Some of the action scenes (flying, jumping) and CGI were bad though (like in the trailer where they are all on the screen jumping), but not all of it though.
Last but not least, of course the villain was weak like in every MCU movie.
The Positives:
Well there is not much to say, the chemistry between the actors/characters were great and they did feel like a team, unlike in Avengers 1 where they (all) just teamed up towards the end of the movie. The new characters Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Ultron and Vision were great and interesting, but they could have been much better with more Screen time and development (Vision was great). The Actions scenes are much better than in the previous movies, but not good as CA2: Winter Solider, it was a bit over the top. My favorite part was the Reveal of Vision and all of his scenes.
If I'd give the movie a score it would be 8.2 due to the fast pacing and overbloated subplots, which didn't have any development.
My Scoring for the other MCU movies.
Cap2 - Winter Soldier: 9.3
GotG: 9.1
Avengers 1: 8.7
Avengers 2: 8.2
Cap 1: 8.0
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ok - good.
I hope AoU get's a directors cut with additional scenes, it really needs it.
That's the current rumor via Amazon notifications
Totally agree with this. Avenger's 1 was actually kind of boring outside of the action. The character building and interactions in AoU along with more action made it the more enjoyable movie for me. Ultron got nerf'd but he still made for a better villain than Loki making a deal with generic aliens.
I'm hoping there are more action scenes with two or more avengers at once in a scene fighting together.
The best action scene in the avengers was when iron man swoops on down and fights with captain america, eventually leading to the hulk fighting with thor. The one on one fights weren't nearly as interesting.
The best action scene in the avengers was when iron man swoops on down and fights with captain america, eventually leading to the hulk fighting with thor. The one on one fights weren't nearly as interesting.
Can't believe they failed with the villain again. People hate on Thor, but at least that gave us Loki. The only other decent villains in the MCU have been Hydra (if that counts) and Kingpin.
I'm starting to get worried about Thanos.
Edit: It seems people don't like Loki either lol
I'm starting to get worried about Thanos.
Edit: It seems people don't like Loki either lol
Well Loki isn't a great villain, but he was probably the best in the MCU so far, I found it a bit boring though that he played 2x the villain and one time as a mix between in Thor 2.
Scorpion Soldier
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It was fake.
Nah, the reason for robots is easier. With Iron Man they noticed, if they want to cause as much mayhem as possible and still want PG 13, robots are the go to option. Since then it was Marvels go to formula.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Robert Redford is the best MCU villain and even he's not that good.
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