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E the Shaggy said:
This doesn't inspire confidence.
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Here are the actual ratings:

The Dark Knight - 8.5
Spider-Man 2 - 8.3
The Dark Knight Rises - 8
Avengers - 8
Batman Begins - 7.7
Guardians of the Galaxy - 7.7
X-Men: Days of Future Past - 7.6
Spider-Man - 7.6
Iron Man - 7.6
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 7.6
X-Men: First Class - 7.4
X2: X-Men United - 7.4
Sin City - 7.4
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - 7.2
Avengers: Age of Ultron - 7.1
X-Men - 7
Superman Returns - 7
Iron Man 3 - 7
Captain America - 7
Hellboy - 6.8
The Amazing Spider-Man - 6.7
Thor - 6.7
Wanted - 6.6
Iron Man 2 - 6.5
Dredd - 6.5
Watchmen - 6.3
The Wolverine - 6.3
Thor: The Dark World - 6.2
The Incredible Hulk - 6.2
Spider-Man 3 - 6.2
Man of Steel - 6.2

If there's one thing you should notice from this, and it's something you should be aware of already, it's that reviews being mediocre doesn't really mean much. The MCU has always been all over the place, but that doesn't stop people from enjoying them.

Folks take reviews far too seriously. It's a blockbuster, and they tend to be safe pretty much. If someone has enjoyed the MCU so far, then I honestly don't see why they'd have much of an issue with the way Age of Ultron is being received.
 
Verendus said:
Here are the actual ratings:

The Dark Knight - 8.5
Spider-Man 2 - 8.3
The Dark Knight Rises - 8
Avengers - 8
Batman Begins - 7.7
Guardians of the Galaxy - 7.7
X-Men: Days of Future Past - 7.6
Spider-Man - 7.6
Iron Man - 7.6
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 7.6
X-Men: First Class - 7.4
X2: X-Men United - 7.4
Sin City - 7.4
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - 7.2
Avengers: Age of Ultron - 7.1
X-Men - 7
Superman Returns - 7
Iron Man 3 - 7
Captain America - 7
Hellboy - 6.8
The Amazing Spider-Man - 6.7
Thor - 6.7
Wanted - 6.6
Iron Man 2 - 6.5
Dredd - 6.5
Watchmen - 6.3
The Wolverine - 6.3
Thor: The Dark World - 6.2
The Incredible Hulk - 6.2
Spider-Man 3 - 6.2
Man of Steel - 6.2

If there's one thing you should notice from this, and it's something you should be aware of already, it's that reviews being mediocre doesn't really mean much. The MCU has always been all over the place, but that doesn't stop people from enjoying them.

Folks take reviews far too seriously. It's a blockbuster, and they tend to be safe pretty much. If someone has enjoyed the MCU so far, then I honestly don't see why they'd have much of an issue with the way Age of Ultron is being received.
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This, the RT score is like saying 74% of people have rated it positively, but if you look at the actual scores they rate it roughly around a 7 out of 10 or a 3 out of 5, and it`s the case for most of these movies.
 
RT = Score on RottenTomatoes, MC = Score on Metacritic

Iron Man - 93% / 7.6RT / 79MC
The Incredible Hulk - 67% / 6.2RT / 61MC
Iron Man 2 - 73% / 6.5RT / 57MC
Thor - 77% / 6.7RT / 57MC
Captain America: The First Avenger - 79% / 6.9RT / 66MC
The Avengers - 92% / 8.0RT / 69MC
Iron Man 3 - 79% / 7.0RT / 62MC
Thor: The Dark World - 66% / 6.2RT / 54MC
Captain America: The Winter Solider - 89% / 7.5RT / 70MC
Guardians of the Galaxy - 91% / 7.7RT / 76MC
Avengers: Age of Ultron (IN FLUX) - 74% / 7.1RT / 70MC

Honestly, despite the percentage, the actual review score doesn't seem out of line with even the best MCU movies

Edit: Is there a way I could better format this? Maybe into a grid?
 
The film was masterful. Ultron was a surprisingly layered villlain and I thought the action was thrilling. I'm baffled by people saying its a mid tier marvel film. Its up there with winter soldier for me. I posted more detailed impressions in the spoiler thread.
 
Top tier MCU film for me and good word of mouth around here as well. I totally get why people would not like this one (it has it's mistakes and is typical MCU for the most part), but I do feel it gets quite a lot of unfair criticisms as well. Ultron not being a big threat (how not?) and a terrible villain to me are way of the mark. As for it being shallow; it is rare when I can think of a logical explanation for nearly every action by a character in a film with a main cast this big and this much going on. I think the whole concept of MCU as a series definitely pays of so far.

Would love an extended cut, because I feel that would solve most of the issues of this film. More Ultron scenes. Better pacing and some additional material on some character development here and there. Some of the bad jokes and the occasionally surprisingly bad CGI would stay though.

I loved this film, but am also happy that the next ones are not in Whedon's hands, to keep things more fresh. I am a bit worried though, since I think Civil War was crappy in comicbook form (seriously, I hope they deviate as far as possible aside from there being a conflict between Cap and IM) and I kind of suspect the whole Thanos Infinity gem stuff to jump the shark and become totally ridiculous.

inky said:
Hellboy 2 > Avengers.

Fuck yea!
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Loved it. I pray that we will get the third one.
 
Harmen said:
Top tier MCU film for me and good word of mouth around here as well. I totally get why people would not like this one (it has it's mistakes and is typical MCU for the most part), but I do feel it gets quite a lot of unfair criticisms as well. Ultron not being a big threat (how not?) and a terrible villain to me are way of the mark. As for it being shallow; it is rare when I can think of a logical explanation for nearly every action by a character in a film with a main cast this big and this much going on. I think the whole concept of MCU as a series definitely pays of so far.

Would love an extended cut, because I feel that would solve most of the issues of this film. More Ultron scenes. Better pacing and some additional material on some character development here and there. Some of the bad jokes and the occasionally surprisingly bad CGI would stay though.

I loved this film, but am also happy that the next ones are not in Whedon's hands, to keep things more fresh. I am a bit worried though, since I think Civil War was crappy in comicbook form (seriously, I hope they deviate as far as possible aside from there being a conflict between Cap and IM) and I kind of suspect the whole Thanos Infinity gem stuff to jump the shark and become totally ridiculous.
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I sincerely doubt they're going to keep most of the actual Civil War comic plot. No way they let their movie Tony Stark turn into a new-age Hitler
 
I'm taking my son to see this on Friday.

I'm surprised all my friends that hated the first film like this one. The overall complaint so far is Ultron and the editing.
 
Zeyphersan said:
The Avengers 1 midnight crowd was a sight to behold. Favorite moviegoing experience of my life, hope this one is the same
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Me too. I was in a college town, though, so the chances of getting another like it are really low.

I didn't even hear the "Puny God" line the first time because the theater was laughing too loudly.
 
What I'm taking away from impressions are that its not a bad movie, but it could use a longer runtime to flesh out more things. And I guess the Director's Cut is coming so thats fine with me. I'm sure I'll enjoy it Thursday night.
 
Honestly, all I want from this movie is more of the Avengers. What I love about the first movie, and what puts it above nearly all other superhero films for me, is the group dynamic between the characters -- the banter, the tensions, the way they play off each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses (when they're getting along). Just watching the cast together sit around and talk is more fun than most superhero movies. And it's partly why I was kind of bored with Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, and liked Winter Soldier so much: I'm way more into the group films now than the solo adventures.

If Ultron delivers more of that, I'm set.
 
Blader said:
Honestly, all I want from this movie is more of the Avengers. What I love about the first movie, and what puts it above nearly all other superhero films for me, is the group dynamic between the characters -- the banter, the tensions, the way they play off each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses (when they're getting along). Just watching the cast together sit around and talk is more fun than most superhero movies. And it's partly why I was kind of bored with Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, and liked Winter Soldier so much: I'm way more into the group films now than the solo adventures.

If Ultron delivers more of that, I'm set.
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You'll certainly enjoy it then. I was hoping for the same and came away happy.
 
HammerOfThor said:
Is the post credits scene meaningful or fun like the GotG post credits scene?
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Not either really. It's Thanos grabbing the glove like we've been cockteased for the past 5 years. And that's it. No Ant-Man, no Black Panther, no Dr. Strange, certainly no Spider-Man. Just boring confirmation of shit we already knew. We already saw the post-credits scene in that leaked Comic-Con teaser basically, more or less.
 
Madridista said:
I'm exaggerating a bit.

It just ignores what happened in Iron Man 3 and The Winter Soldier, and how those events would have affected both Steve and Tony. And then the whole Fury thing pisses on Agents of Shield. But I won't get into spoiler territory in this thread.
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So it's like most event comics, where it ignores character development from the ongoing series

See, Marvel does respect the source material!
 
Over at Fandango, Age of Ultron presales are just off the scales with the ticket agency reporting that presales for the sequel equal the presales for all Marvel Studios Films combined.
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Holy cow
 
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The 2nd weekend drop is going to be really interesting to see.
 
I think Avengers 3 might honestly cause some sort of economical imbalance at this point. With the cast of Avengers 1+2 (plus Dr. Strange, Black Panther, potentially Ant-Man and the Marvel TV gang, and fucking SPIDER-MAN).
 
Over at Fandango, Age of Ultron presales are just off the scales with the ticket agency reporting that presales for the sequel equal the presales for all Marvel Studios Films combined.
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Thats insane.

Meanwhile at Marvel

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MasterBalls said:
I think Avengers 3 might honestly cause some sort of economical imbalance at this point. With the cast of Avengers 1+2 (plus Dr. Strange, Black Panther, potentially Ant-Man and the Marvel TV gang, and fucking SPIDER-MAN).
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Avengers 3 Part One and Two will make enough money to become their own country
 
Decided to take advantage of a day off, so for the first time I went to the cinema on my own.

I don't even have a lot to say, I just really enjoyed it. I don't know why the RT score is in the 70s, it should be at least 10 higher than that. I watch comic book movies to have fun, and Avengers 2 is good fun. The biggest problem is that it's one step closer to phase 3, because that's where it's going to get really good. Even with this I'm thinking "Okay, that was great, but I want to see Black Panther and Doctor Strange, and now Spidey is in the MCU, this is going to be tame in comparison." Every new person that appears makes me think about what is going to happen in the very end. It's going to be huge when we get there.
 
Dominator said:
What I'm taking away from impressions are that its not a bad movie, but it could use a longer runtime to flesh out more things. And I guess the Director's Cut is coming so thats fine with me. I'm sure I'll enjoy it Thursday night.
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It's a good movie, everything makes sense, imo it's just a really enjoyable world the movie inhabits, but it moves through it all a bit fast. I'd be down for a extended cut theatrical re-release a few months from now, but in its current form, it's very watchable...and it's dense enough to be re-watchable.
 
-ImaginaryInsider said:
It's a good movie, everything makes sense, imo it's just a really enjoyable world the movie inhabits, but it moves through it all a bit fast. I'd be down for a extended cut theatrical re-release a few months from now, but in its current form, it's very watchable...and it's dense enough to be re-watchable.
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Excellent. I'll be seeing this at least twice, possibly 3 or 4 times
 
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