Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

[jellydonut25]

There's not much negative to say about this movie (for a variety of reasons) but the new poster is pretty boring.

[Ernesth100]

I'm okay with it.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Ernesth100]

[jellydonut25]

I think it's the most Avengers 1-looking Age of Ultron trailer yet.

REALLY disappointed to see what looks like the climactic battle will just be the Avengers vs an army of mindless drones that will probably be deactivated once some killswitch is hit...AGAIN. I was hoping for something more personal and vindictive from Ultron, instead he's just borrowing from Loki's Avengers 1 playbook.

I'm sure the movie will be fun and all, but I was hoping it wouldn't just follow the basic outline of Avengers 1 to the T and this trailer makes it look almost interchangeable with the previous film.

[MekaGojira3k]

Killswitch thing shouldn't happen, but given how much they're messing with Ultron so far I wouldn't be surprised.

[Henry88]

updated

[lhb412]

[jellydonut25]

[Ernesth100]

I just might be the most excited person on this website then because that trailer literally made me turn off my Wii U for a minute and think to myself just how epic that "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" was. I mean f*ck outta here with that Jurassic World "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" Avengers baby!

[jellydonut25]

[Ernesth100]

[Russzilla]

[MekaGojira3k]

I think the only set-up for Civil War is that Ultron screws everything up. So I don't imagine that's going to derail the film much more than Avengers was to set up Infinity War. I think Vibranium/Klaw being set up for Black Panther isn't that intrusive either because it makes sense for the narrative. I mean, I think he just makes himself an adamantium body, but vibranium works as a substitute.

[mr.negativity]

[Ernesth100]

That sounds awesome. There's also a new TV Spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WM915QsOyI

This movie is going to absolutely destroy the box office. No one will be able to recover after it.

[Gman2887]

[Henry88]

'Avengers: Age of Ultron' looks like it will have the largest-opening weekend ever
http://www.businessinsider.com/avengers ... ion-2015-4

‘Avengers’ Sequel Raises Foreign Haul to $255 Million in First Week
http://www.thewrap.com/avengers-sequel- ... irst-week/

[DannyBeane]

[MouthForWar]

I thought it was awesome. The finale is a little TOO similar to the finale of the first film, but whatever, this is just a damn good time.

I'd say my biggest (and really only) complaint with this one IS just how much is going on in it. There are SO MANY subplots and side trips that I kinda wonder if ALL of them were 100% necessary of if some of them could have been eliminated with a couple script rewrites. The movie goes on some weird tangents that really seem like they're just there to introduce more characters who are just there to introduce even more characters. I just feel like some of it didn't connect all that well, but I know there was also like an hour cut out of this thing, so I'm interested to see what the extended cut will look like.

That's a REALLY minor gripe though. Its a miracle that so much of it worked considering how much is packed into this thing. More often than not. It succeeds in its over-plotting in areas where movies like the Dark Knight Rises failed.

Even with the SH*T TON of stuff that is just there to set up other stuff, I still feel like Age of Ultron holds its own as a self contained story. People WILL complain about how much stuff is set up for future movies here, but honestly, that's part of what makes it feel like a comic book to me. When you read big comic event crossovers, there are always tangents there setting up the next one. So I can deal with it and I look forward to what's next.

[jellydonut25]

I went through a lot of phases when it came to this movie. At first, I was pretty excited because the first movie was great and yay for more. Then I started seeing the trailers and it looked just like the first movie and I started to feel like I just didn't care at all. Then I got kinda excited again once I reconciled myself to that and I heard rumblings that it was very Hulk-filled and boy if I don't love me some Hulk.

And now I've seen the movie and well...it certainly is a movie. It's a collection of moving pictures.

A bloated, messy, poorly written collection of moving pictures that are at times only tangentially related used to tell a story that's obfuscated by a dozen different subplots and action set pieces until it forces you to turn your brain off or risk having a headache.

I had fun with it, but for a movie that took Whedon 4 years to make, and for a guy who throws accusations at the TRAILERS for other movies, this thing is pretty poorly written and edited.

I'm sure I'll get called a hater and scolded to stop whining, but sweet damn...it felt like Whedon didn't take a lot of time to figure out what he wanted his Ultron character to be, and yet AGAIN the weakest portion of a Marvel movie is its villain. We whip from place to place and scene to scene and....what was the POINT of Phase 2? It didn't feel like this movie built off ANYTHING that happened over the course of the 4 movies that supposedly built up to this, except MAYBE on Tony Stark's end, and that's a SLIGHT maybe because in some ways it feels like a REGRESS for his character after the events of Iron Man 3.

I dunno, I'm probably just in a bad place personally so I shouldn't even have gone to see this movie, but it was fun, but inconsequential. Amusing, but lacking an anchor. Popcorn fluff but so bloated and LONG, it really tested my patience.

What I guess I'm saying is:
Meh.

[MekaGojira3k]

I liked it. Even though as a fan of Ultron I felt like...this is not the Ultron I love (though he was amusing). I dunno, I need to think on it a bit more. There's a lot happening, but I don't think it gets to breathe.

[Ultraseven]

Saw it today. Liked it a lot. Will see again tomorrow . Will post impressions after second viewing. Ultraseven out.

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

I think Iron Man is a pretty good example of how the "the point is to show where the characters are" argument in favor of Phase 2 falls flat. That's what I was specifically criticizing with regards to Phase 2. I don't need Mandarin or Winter Soldier to appear or anything but it'd be nice if the Phase 2 films didn't just get steamrolled because it was Avengers time.
At the end of Iron Man 3, we get strong hints that Stark is done with being Iron Man, and he blows up all his armor, and then it's Avengers time so BAM! He's just back in the suit...AND he's got TONS of variants, AGAIN. So, I had all of Iron Man 3 for what? To explain why his shirts won't have a glowing object underneath them anymore?
Also, at the end of Thor 2, they hand over the Aether to The Collector specifically because they don't want to have two infinity stones in Asgaard, but here Thor is, wanting to take another infinity stone back to Asgaard because it's Avengers time so we need a (bad) excuse to bring in Thor.
AND at the end of Cap 2, Cap is basically insanely distrustful of anybody who might be like SHIELD and pursue the "greater good" at the expense of full disclosure and all that stuff but here he is BUDDIES with Stark because it's Avengers time so he and Tony both have to bond over Thor's hammer.
I'm good with something like Guardians just being flat-out ignored, because that IS a movie setting up characters and at least Whedon didn't steamroll those characters just for Avengers purposes. He might have had Gamora be all "Infinity Stone? Never heard of one of those before...<whistle and walk away>"

I just think it's not a well-written film at all...and for something that Whedon worked on for FOUR YEARS, I give it less of a pass. He should have thought about who and what the characters were and what he wanted them to be and how to get them from A to B without sacrificing the other films, OR the characters themselves.

And when I say the characters themselves, yeah, I'm talking about Ultron:
I think Ultron is the biggest writing guffaw of the movie, which is a damn shame because it's really just his dialogue that does him in (well, and the lips which ARE a terrible aesthetic choice). Ultron wasn't in the other movies so the longest amount of time could theoretically have gone into developing him...and it's like Whedon couldn't decide if he wanted Ultron to be evil or misunderstood. There's so much effort put into saying he's not evil and he certainly doesn't see himself that way but then he says "wanna hear my evil plan?"
Wait. Are you evil? I thought you thought you were doing your mission. I didn't think you thought it was evil...so now I don't know what you are.
And for a character whose motivations are BELABORED in this nearly 3 hr test of my patience and bladder they don't really go into the WHY very much. I mean, you're gonna take time to tell me what he's FEELING but nothing to illuminate WHY at all? Come on. I think this movie had no respect for its audience's ability to see emotions from a machine and wasted time and hurt the look of a major character just to ram those emotions into our heads.


I mean, these are kind of ALL my complaints condensed into one thing, so I definitely can understand anyone reading me as not liking the movie...I liked it, I just didn't LOVE it the way I did the first one and I really didn't CARE about anything that was happening. For a major crossover event movie, this one felt kinda irrelevant, and I can be on board with irrelevant fun...but I am less-so when that irrelevant fun sucks away as much of my time as this movie did.