I didn’t see it this way at ALL. Between the “I love you but I need the other guy” scene and the repeated discussion about him leaving it all behind I got the distinct impression he was leaving because she, and her dedication to staying with SHIELD, was bad for him.
He can’t live with himself if he keeps Hulking out, and her dedication to righting all of the wrongs that she’s done in her assassin past keeps her from truly understanding what this is doing to him. She pays lip service to understanding but then she’s right back in there, tricking him into another Code Green. She might love him, but she doesn’t understand him.
Apparently my husbands big complaint was that every time Ultron spoke he heard Raymond Reddington and he couldn’t get past that.
I would imagine Vision’s Vibranium jackhammer would really please the ladies. But I would imagine Marvel doesn’t want to show us a synthezoid penis in their movie, rating aside it would be reminiscent of the Watchmen.
So the family and I saw it this weekend and I really liked it though I did like Guardians of the Galaxy more.
Liked the stuff they did with Hawkeye: he had a lot of development, he had a nice speech to Wanda at the end, and he had very good scenes everywhere.
I thought everyone was just a little too quippy. I liked the quips but I also think that quipping might be something Stark might always have turned on but I would think Rogers wouldn’t be so nonchalant combat situations. Whedon’s gotta Whedon though and he does write very good quips.
I do like that they were very visible in trying to save the population. That’s what heroes are supposed to do, right? I think Hollywood forgot that somewhere along the way; movie heroes aren’t generally concerned about collateral damage but super heroes are.
I also think it was a bit of a stretch getting to Ultron. Stark shouldn’t have been that careless but you have to get Ultron from somewhere so I see why they did it that way.
Also add me to the list of people who don’t need to see skyscraper going down in every blockbuster. With CG it’s too easy and it’s just not needed to show how dangerous a threat is.
I agree. But at the same time, I would have liked to see them take more seriously the choice that was mentioned earlier in the thread, between saving thousands and saving millions, and similar dilemmas on a smaller scale. Sometimes the best move is to cast off the lifeboat and leave the kid trapped in the stairwell rather than always trying to save 100% of the civilians. An examination of that difficult choice would be interesting, rather than yet another “I am going to try to save every single person… and I did! Hurray for me!” moment.
Thor did do all right, when he had his hammer with him and had he not been concerned about damaging the helicarrier and hurting his friend, he probably would have done even better.
There were groans, but I don’t know if it was because of misgivings, or because it was the fifth damn preview we had to sit through. (and then they started… another preview.)
It actually wasn’t a very good trailer: just some stuff to set up that the world is afraid of Superman, establish Batman, and then some posing between the two characters. And it was all dark – not in mood; there was no illumination. It was actually brighter in the theater after the main lights dimmed and Age of Ultron started.
Think back further: serials such as Flash Gordon all tied in to each other, had the same actors, and each episode ended in a cliffhanger intended to resolved in the next movie.
They didn’t really build to a climactic finale, though.
And I’m probably not the best Doper to answer this; although the first movies I ever saw in a theater as a little boy were serials, their heyday was long over. So my personal knowledge is, perhaps, gilt by the sepia-tinge of childhood nostalgia.
Some of the serials were intended as the first film in a double feature, and so weren’t as lengthy. Those are the ones I (mostly) remember. The serials intended as feature films may have been from an earlier era – silent movies.
This probably would make for an interesting thread topic.
I can’t find a story to link to but Joss Whedon was chased off twitter due to a flood of people complaining he “ruined” Black Widow and is sexist. Joss Whedon…the Internet is officially the worst.
I’m taking about the possibility of the idea in real world physics. Let’s say you’re wearing a harness and the harness is connected by a rope to a heavy hammer (or any similar object). Would it be possible to get the hammer spinning at a high enough speed that you could release it and it would pull you through the air?
Obviously, it’s possible for the hammer to pull you through the air. If it was attached to you like I described and fired out of a cannon, it could do it. But I wondering if it can be done in a closed system where you’re both the source of the momentum and the object being moved.