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New 90 second Clip of Avengers: Age of Ultron
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foxuzamaki
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Do people pointing out collateral damage truly honestly care about it? I mean honestly, who gives a shit?
benjipwns
Banned
The people whose lives are ruined by it? Or don't their feelings matter? Only the special people who get the cameras on them, not the 99.9% who have to scrape out a living in the ruins of Metropolis. We need to have a policy to deal with this.
Superhero movies need to be darker and more bleak, with endless suffering. That's real, not this crazy flying around shooting lasers out of eyes crap.
liliththepale
Banned
This is the most callous thing I've ever read in all of my life ever.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Damn man they're people.
I think it's been confirmed for quite a while now that people on here care more for video game civilians than movie civilians
TheKaeptain
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lmao.
I could definitely see it as AoU's hellicarrier battle, in regards of it being a turning point in the story.
TheKaeptain
Banned
It's probably is just that.
Buster suits never work.
It only matters insofar as it impacts the quality of the film. Of course these are fictional characters we're talking about, who gives a shit indeed, but consistency and theme matter when it comes to making movies and pretty much any art medium. If there's a clash, it usually drags everything down, albeit it can be done well when intentional. The Avengers causing extensive unnecessary collateral damage and then not being held accountable for it directly would make this a pretty poorly written movie.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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2 weeks on Wednesday, can't wait.
The world governments and S.H.I.E.L.D. will care. The city destruction caused by the Avengers in this movie is likely part of the cause for Civil War.
Last time their bro brawl was in a forest and the New York fight had to happen there because there was a giant portal spitting out bad guys over the city. Their work with the NYPD to evacuate civilians and contain the Chitauri mitigated any criticism of wanton destruction for that incident.
This time, it looks like 2 Avengers and brawling with each other and causing serious collateral damage. It will be bad PR for the Avengers in comparison, and for all we know that's the point of the scene. Maybe Scarlett Witch is trying to turn the public against the Avengers.
plasmawave
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Shuggananas
Banned
Why do the civilians stay around anyway ? They're just there staring at the hulk and a fucking huge robot having a fight
"hey imma upload dis fight to wshh imma get some views for sure, worth risking my life for !"
"hey imma upload dis fight to wshh imma get some views for sure, worth risking my life for !"
Hyperborean
Member
Only 13 days till it comes out here. I'm in blackout mode now, not going to watch anything new.
gutter_trash
Banned
since Iron Man 3, I have grown bored of the detachable and re-attachable armor pieces via remote
It was a total turn off in IM3. I hope the trend of detach attach detach attach stops because it is mega cringe
It was a total turn off in IM3. I hope the trend of detach attach detach attach stops because it is mega cringe
Yep this.
Part of the immensely satisfying nature of Iron Man 1 was that it was a suit and that was it. It added a narrative tension and divide between man vs. suit that isn't replicated by parts of the said suit flying across the country independently to attach one by one.
A small personal quibble.
I honestly can't tell if serious.
Anyway, the reason why The Avengers could get away with its destruction more than Man of Steel is tone.
Avengers was a much more lighthearted movie that didn't take itself and its action all too seriously,
Man of Steel was all about how lives matter and it spend a lot of time on this issue, so the destruction at the end stood out quite a bit more, the 9/11 imagery didn't help either.
I guess you can argue that it's inappropriate to have quips and jokes in an action movie where OMG made up people lose their made up lives, but if you do, you're arguing against Die Hard, and fuck you if you do.
Edit: that scene didn't do a whole lot for me, but I always found the robot robot punchy punchy parts of the Iron Man movies to be the least interesting.
just fathers trying to make a living so they can provide for their family, and the rebels just blow them up!
And Die Hard 3 when Mclane flooded that tunnel destroying months of hard work and putting guys out work.
brandonh83
Banned
So much mindless destruction and more fighting in a city. Yay.
BronsonLee
Member
This is quite possibly the dumbest way a Marvel thread has went in a long time.
Clip looks decent. Agree on Tony shouldn't be constantly cracking that wise, though
Clip looks decent. Agree on Tony shouldn't be constantly cracking that wise, though
brandonh83
Banned
It's a little weird to me that those parts can just reattach themselves despite all the broken wiring and bits.
thesoapster
Member
Meh.
brandonh83
Banned
Well they questioned the level of destruction in a movie with an evil Superman and some city destroying machines, so.... sure, why not
I was thinking that at first too but he just ditches the whole arm to put together a new one from scratch; it's not like he's patching fresh parts onto broken ones.
brandonh83
Banned
Perhaps, and it's just a comic book movie so it's not exactly a big deal.
Schweinehund
Member
You pretty much nailed it. I can accept that some people would stand there recording with their cameras. I mean people have jumped off bridges thinking they would survive (graphic, people die) and recorded it.
Continuining my blackout but destruction complaints have always been petty. In this case I think it's just people remarking about the destruction in Marvel movies get a pass while MoS still has complaints. Even though World War Hulk has said the Hulk has never killed anyone due to super math, lets be real, Hulk's collateral total must be huge. Superman's victories don't always come clean in comics either, Doomsday killed like 500 people total during Death of Superman. There wasn't much he could do about that, and there wasn't much he could do about Zod.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
So essentially making money at the box office overrides any issues with a movie? Good to know your taste in quality is bound to how much money is associated with it.
Are you trying to say the transformers films aren't the greatest things ever?
Has there ever been a buster suit that worked? Tony is like the reverse Batman. Tony with time to build buster suit = loses every time.
"Don't worry, I made this special suit for just such an occasion. Oh shit wait, it didn't work."
Comics Iron Man
Has the armor inside his bones, nanomachines that start growing until they form the Bleeding Edge Armor, and its glorious
Point is, he needs to keep up with the threats, in the Comics, having a heavy armor in a room meant getting his ass kicked and his identity compromised (in the comic he went public after years of secrecy)
CosmicGroinPull
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Unnnnnnnhhhhhhhh......so.........badasssssss........
Matt_
World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
I don't find it any different to the fact that he has a suit that can be taken apart and put back together with ease
Subpar Spatula
Banned
To me it just shows the silliness and "fun" logic with the MCU. It's hard to believe Iron Man or Hulk exist in Daredevil's universe. Ironman feels like a Saturday morning cartoon Matt would watch as a child
before he lost his sight.
Marion Cobretti
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Obviously were not seeing much but that was pretty lackluster. Not as epic as expected.
people saying "avengers cause damage too!" miss the part of the movie where there are news/civilian entities calling them out for destruction, or them being put on trial (black widow), or the part where cap delegates evacuation.
on topic though
the clip was cool, you can tell it's edited together a little off, but i really wish i just didnt watch and waited, but 20 seconds in i was like "fuck it, i've gone too far" lol
one thing is the movie really early on i thought was visually a nice step up from avengers, particularly with lighting, but it looks like in recent trailers they've filtered it back to looking all flat. i unno.
on topic though
the clip was cool, you can tell it's edited together a little off, but i really wish i just didnt watch and waited, but 20 seconds in i was like "fuck it, i've gone too far" lol
one thing is the movie really early on i thought was visually a nice step up from avengers, particularly with lighting, but it looks like in recent trailers they've filtered it back to looking all flat. i unno.
I still can't share this opinion. To me it's easy imagining there are vigilantes like Daredevil out there who only have the resources to take care of their little neighborhood while the big guys are out there fighting Thanos. Even watching Iron Man fly by in the sky from Daredevil's point of view wouldn't have taken me out of it.
Yeah I just don't see how people can't see these things are sums of a whole. And they are better for it.
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