Saw it and my big & little issues in no particular order.
CGI in the beginning laughably cartoonish.
Barton’s family set up as Chekov’s gun (Hawkeye has to die) but then he doesn’t.
Where was Falcon in the final battle?
Did not like the whole Black Widow in love with Banner line. I kind of like the Banner doesn’t like her that they were running.
Why kill Quicksilver?
Scarlet Witch should have been wearing her classic comic book costume.
The scene with Vision picking up Mjolnir was good but during the final battle, Cap should have picked it up as well (nod to when it happened in the comics).
Overall, a lot of little things seemed tacked on unnecessarily.
Further notes:
The Ultron needs to kill everyone I kind of got. He saw the constant human vs human fighting and realized that to save the Earth (including humans) he had to kill them all.
Will Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) be part of the Avengers?
Chris Evans will become part of the Avengers (confirmed by Chris Evans). Will it be Andrew Garfield? Will they reboot the Spidey franchise? Will he just show up in Avengers 3?
My theater had all of the above except for Man from UNCLE. The trailer for Ant-Man got quite a few laughs from the audience, especially after the Thomas the Train Engine calamity at the end. The end of the Superman v. Batman trailer was greeted with silence.
I don’t think that DC understands that comic book movies need to have some degree of fun. The tone of Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, which worked for that particular character, seems to be carrying over into everything that DC has planned. After I came home from Age of Ultron (which I enjoyed less than the first Avengers, but it was a solid “A” effort versus “A+”), I popped in the Blu-Ray of Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s more fun in the opening credits of *GotG *than in all of the recent Batman/Superman movies combined. (GotG is, admittedly, a highly irreverent concept, but DC has got to loosen up a bit.)
This might be fodder for a new thread, so if it derails the convo too much I apologize and I’ll make a new thread about it:
I was talking with a coworker about the movie and commenting that one of ya’ll here said that this movie was the “second season premiere of what is essentially the world’s longest TV show.”, which got me thinking: Has anything like this ever happened in the world of cinemas before? I know there have been franchises (Indiana Jones, Bond, Star Wars/trek), but have there ever been movies that lead into other movies that tied in with previous movies (using the same actors for the most part) to eventually culminate in a giant finale?
I can only think of Star Wars and…maybe…Harry Potter? But they didn’t have the volume of movies that this story arc does
I understand that, that he’d be the one most motivated to avoid it, since he’s gone through it before. But I would think all of them would understand that it’s not something they want to happen to them.
Are you saying his blue anti-mind control thing wasn’t, specially built for Scarlet Witch, but just something he’s had every since the first Avengers movie? It’s just another thing in his quiver, like the special exploding arrows, and other specially designed weapons he just always has on hand? I guess that would make sense.
Then I guess it’s good I never claimed you guys said anything like that and instead just stated my preference, which is also a healthy mix of bright and dark.
Yeah, he just stabbed her with the tip of a tazer arrow. It wasn’t anything beyond him hearing someone creeping up on him and him getting them before they got him.
That did remind me of one really odd cut where Wanda red whizzys one person’s mind and then it immediately cuts to another location and her doing it again to someone else.
Iron Man built Veronica (where’s Betty, though?) in case Hulk got frisky. The arrow could have been to handle Cap or Natasha if they got mind-controlled; I can’t really see it working on Iron Man, Hulk or Thor (not since he got his powers back, anyway; he may have gotten the idea from Darcy).
They made a significant deal about that female scientist’s healing technology, which ended up important to the creation of Vision, but I was sure a mid-credits scene would show that same technology being used to save Pietro. No such luck, I guess.
I thought the same thing and then read online…
Betty is Betty Ross, formerly the only person who could subdue the Hulk.
Veronica is the OTHER way to subdue Archie-Hulk.
I have to admit, I was surprised by how effective the Hulkbuster was. Admittedly, it was mostly because of his disorientation at Wanda’s mind-control wearing off, but Stark was doing all right in that fight. The comic book version always seem to end with the Hulk winning.
I actually thought due to that scene and the one with her reversing out of a door in slightly accelerated jerky motion (think Korean horror movie ghost) they were going to give her powers a slightly more ‘otherworldly’ spin, more akin to something you’d actually be inclined to call ‘witch’, but then they ended up just going with the generic esper package.
Also, for the record, my missed guess for Pietro’s resurrection was that his speedster ability would grant him some accelerated healing (there was even some talk about his ‘accelerated metabolism’ which I took to be pointing in such a direction). But I guess now that splitting up Wanda and Pietro between Avengers and X-Men is kinda the most likely explanation, and reason he’s going to stay dead.
Pardon me. By “those” I assumed you were referring to the superheroes Alessan and I mentioned, that you quoted and then seemingly added your own jingoistic gloss on. Rather than whatever inner monologue was going on in your own head at the time. I’ll know for next time that the juxtaposition of quotes and your own words are in no way related.
If your definition of “all right” means “not immediately torn to shreds” and “does as much property damage as the Hulk,” then, yep. Kind of like how Thor did “all right” vs. the Hulk in The Avengers.
I remember watching the Jurassic World trailer in 3D and thinking that’s probably the only way to see it in theaters, as it won’t be that great in 2D, so Star Wars was probably 3D as well, though I don’t recall being wowed by the 3D aspect of it.
You’ve jogged my memory, but at the time I didn’t know if he meant that everything would melt down into metal or robots would be running around. Plus, he’s creating a metal/organic body for himself, so it doesn’t make a lot of sense. It just wasn’t a very clear image/statement.