Okay I know I'm late but Avengers: Age of Ultron released May 12th in China. I just saw the movie yesterday and...have many complex views...and don't know where to start...
but Quicksilver...
One word: WHY!?
Does he die in the comics???? Was it necessary? So every film Joss does, he'll probably kill off another character, but this time a superhero.
I think it's so lame that people write these death scenes in their movies. It doesn't work! Every character they killed off in X-Men: The Last Stand was the WORST part of the movie, and that's why the movie ultimately failed.
It's as if in today's business, it's as if the filmmakers think that movie won't be taken seriously enough unless they kill some major character off. This started with Brett Ratner. Then Sam Rami followed by killing off Harry Osborn. The villains already served their purpose. I didn't mind them dying. Joker died in the first Batman movie. But important characters that serve a role in comics, like Harry Osborn, Cyclops, Prof. X (at the time), killing them off is an idiotic move for a superhero movie.
Okay, I know Gwen Stacey died in the comics, but she has more or less been present in the Spider-Man comics. That didn't completely work in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 either. I know it changed Peter but it's not like people took that death seriously enough as if it were real.
I'm not counting Ben Parker, Thomas and Martha Wayne, and Jonathan Kent's deaths, those deaths were necessary for the superhero origins.
For me, Quicksilver's death ruined the movie. It almost ruined the movie, well at least aspects of the movie. For one, there was no purpose of using the character if Whedon was going to kill him off. This was his debut as an Avengers character, but Whedon ****ing killed him off. This really pissed me off. I was hoping much like Nick Fury's fake death that the same would happen to Quicksilver.
The difference I found with Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is that the reason I thought Captain America: The Winter Soldier was so successful was 1, they didn't force any romance or love plots in the movie, and 2, no major comic book character (Nick Fury) was killed off for the sake of drama. I think that's one of the reasons Cap 2 was so good.
Cap 2 was one of the first movies I've seen in a long time that ignored cliche moments that most people would expect to see in a movie like love, and I suppose death. The problem with love in movies sometimes is that it's not believable. Not that I don't like love scenes for some movies, but depending on what type of movie it is, if love is not the center of the story, and it shouldn't be, then the writers shouldn't force it into the story, otherwise it will just be ridiculous. It's not real. After so many times, I find that extremely irritating when it's forced. The thing is I almost thought Cap and Black Widow were going to fall in love. It's not like they ever had a thing for each other. Cap 2 was the first Marvel movie to be the closet thing to real life in my opinion. It didn't foce anything that would seem ridiculous for the sake of what the filmmakers think the audience would want.
I liked the love story in the first Captain America movie, which worked. Iron Man and Thor as well. Didn't especially work in The Wolverine, regardless, it was still a good movie.
As for killing off characters in movie series, it was so dumb in Spider-Man. Ultimately, what I'm saying is the death scenes can't be taken seriously in these kind of movies. What's more disturbing about it is that you can now expect this to happen in every sequel, that's when it loses all it's realism.
Did Quicksilver's death have any meaning in the movie? No, it was just for the sake of drama. This happened before in the first Avengers movie with Coulson's death, and that's what made it more ridiculous in Age of Ultron.
See, I'm expecting to go to the cinema excited when watching, it's a superhero movie, and it's supposed to be fun and have a great ending, but by killing Quicksilver off and making it depressing, that really ruined all meaning of this movie. First I was able to take the movie seriously, but then that forced unrealistic moment for the sake of drama scene of Quicksilver's death happened, and then I was very disapointed. IT. WAS. RIDICULOUS.