Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron Fan Review Thread (Spoilers)

[Marchesk]

If the writers of Man of Steel weren't so dumb and put just one or two scenes of Superman acknowledging the damage that had been done and the lives lost I doubt that movie would have received so much criticism. He didn't even have to have any dialogue or anything. His expression could have told the whole story. Just one look of concern or remorse as he surveyed the damage that had been done and all would have been forgiven. We're talking about a 20 second scene here. But nope they couldn't even get that right. For a movie trying to be oh so serious I don't know how you screw that up. Talk lack of consequences. The aftermath of all that destruction in MOS? Supes knocks down a drone, talks some trash, gets called hot by some idiotic military chick and it's all good, cue the credits.

You're right, that's a legitimate criticism of MOS. They should have done that. They really should have had Supes try to save some civilians, even if he couldn't save them all.

 

[Iron_Stark]

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[Marchesk]

The bodies that the Avengers were wiping out were the inferior ones made at the Hydra base. They did have some problems with the Iron Corps bodies, though there were apparently only 3 of those.

That scene was more intense and suspenseful. Partly, because the crew was caught off guard at the end of a part, but also because the Iron Corps bodies seemed harder to destroy. I thought Ultron would be able to make better drones going forward, but apparently he was stuck with inferior robots.

 

[Chris B]

So I watched AoU yesterday and I really enjoyed it. I'm having a hard time comparing it to A1 since this felt so different, but I think the first film may've been slightly better to me. I'll have to see this again to form a more complete opinion. Regardless, I think it was still a solid sequel.

 

[Daywalker89]

You're right, that's a legitimate criticism of MOS. They should have done that. They really should have had Supes try to save some civilians, even if he couldn't save them all.

This **** right here never gets old, all i have to say is **** the humans. I would of joined Zod if i had the chance.

 

[TJByrum]

This was a bad movie.

When I saw the New Avengers at the end with that awesome line up I was like "oh yeah, now the movies getting good" but a few seconds later the credits started rolling and I wondered why they cut it so short. It had a very long introduction up to that point.

Nat and Bruce doesn't work. Stick to Betty and Bruce please. These are the types of scenes I typically fast forward through when re-watching stuff.

The end was horrible. Not really a lot of avenging to be honest, and I remember Stark flying under the city for most of the battle, not really doing much. The circle-shot was okay, but all I remember seeing was Witch, Thor, and Widow - who I really like - but I didn't see much of Cap, Stark, QS, Hulk, or Vision, and I felt pretty bummed.

The ultimate Ultron at the end? Not very ultimate. I wanted to root for Ultron, but he wasn't on the screen long enough.

War Machine at the end didn't seem to great. Would have been better to see Falcon pop up instead of WM.

Best parts of this movie? Scarlet Witch was cool, and so was QS. Liked the relationship between them two. Also liked the sense of understanding the two had with Cap, and loved how they came together. Cap fulfilled his role as leader a lot better, really liked that. And he did a lot more in this movie than ever before. He actually had a pretty neat battle with Ultron and I'd put that up there with the WS+Cap highway battle from TWS.

 

[Vartha]

BOTH my kids loved the movie, tho I'm not sure what they'd rate it, at least they want to see it again lol

 

[Vartha]

one of my fave new posters lol

 

[Thundercrack85]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

 

[Asharad]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

Maybe the team members elected him? (Except for Stark, who voted for himself).

 

[PunyGod]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

He took the leadership role in the first movie because they were fighting a war and he was the only soldier. Stark actually tells him to "call it" and give out the orders.

 

[squeekness]

one of my fave new posters lol

Hee hee. Great poster.

 

[Just_Human]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

Cap was the leader in the comics IIRC

 

[LostSon88]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

He's also the only one on the team with legitimate leadership abilities and large scale battle experience having fought through WWII.

And frankly, he's the most level-headed and sensible of the entire team. As far as the adapting to a new time period thing, I think that his 1940s values and overall naiveté works in his favor when dealing with today's problems.

 

[Ryu_do_Sen]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

In the comics - but not in the movies - he is a master strategist.

 

[Heretic]

This is kind of why I dislike the movie version of Hawkeye. In my mind, Hawkeye would view himself as being more experienced in combat than Cap and a better soldier and leader...except Cap was lucky enough to get a super soldier injection.

 

[Leenie]

So I saw this for the second time on Sunday afternoon.

I liked it a lot better the second time around. I still don't get all of the "been there, done that" criticisms with this movie, because AoU certainly does NOT feel like the first Avengers movie at all.

I still think the the first Avengers is superior, and my top 5 MCU films still stand (Avengers 1, Iron Man 1, Winter Soldier, Guardians, and CA: First Avenger), but after seeing it a second time, AoU may have the #6 spot for me? I originally had Iron Man 3 ranked above it, but that may have changed.

[blackout]Quicksilver's death[/blackout] had a bigger impact on me the second time I saw it. I never hated Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver to begin with, but I can safely say that I really liked his version of the character. I didn't want a copy of the Pietro that everyone saw in X-Men: Days of Future Past in this movie, and we definitely didn't get that. Sure, AoU's Quicksilver doesn't get his epic "Time in a Bottle" sequence like in X-Men, but he had his own personality, he had a purpose, and he did some pretty cool stuff. I'm happy.

I liked the Vision much more on the second viewing as well. Because the final battle moved so fast, I didn't catch a lot of the cool stuff that Vision did in the first viewing (like[BLACKOUT] the phasing![/BLACKOUT]). Also, seeing the movie a second time allowed me to absorb all of the bloated and fast-pacing plot a lot better, which made Vision feel a lot less underwhelming. Instead, that second viewing make me geek out over him like I had wanted to on my first viewing.

Age of Ultron is a weird movie. It's one of those bloated comic book movies that everyone complains about, but it's so much better than those bloated comic book movies that everyone complains about! This movie isn't a Spider-Man 3, a TASM2, or a Batman and Robin. Not even close.

I have a gut feeling that I'm going to like this movie even more the next time I see it. I might end up seeing it a third time in theaters if a friend of mine makes plans to go see it this week.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I liked the callback to TA1, with Bruce being unable to have kids.

 

[Mjölnir]

This is kind of why I dislike the movie version of Hawkeye. In my mind, Hawkeye would view himself as being more experienced in combat than Cap and a better soldier and leader...except Cap was lucky enough to get a super soldier injection.

Why do you think that? Cap was the leader of the Avengers in the comic as well, and he is at least as freshly thawed up there as he is in the movies, and Hawkeye followed him there.

 

[hafizbat]

I liked the callback to TA1, with Bruce being unable to have kids.

They said he can't have kids in TA1?

 

[First Avenger]

The second time the movie is even better. The thing I loved the most is how human the characters are:they may be gods,monsters, super soldiers and robots but they are all vulnerable,they all suffer, even the bad guy. The fights mattered. It's really big but at the same time intimate. I loved this dichotomy.

 

[thanos1990]

People seem to forgot that Ultron army was all him fighting the avengers.

 

[Jplaya2023]

One thing I never understood about this series is why Captain America is the leader. Tony Stark even makes a remark about it.

He's one of the youngest characters, who is also adapting to a new time period.

no one else has combat or leadership qualities like Cap.

In the comics he's the leader as well.

Iron Man is like Batman both work better alone but they don't galvanize their teammates

 

[Tymminator]

Going to see it again later today.

 

[MIKE10]

also, a lot people seem to have either missed, or are just forgetting, that the ai tony and bruce tried to use for ultron, was actually created by thanos or someone from his group, to encase the mind gem on the septor. So the ai was hostile to begin with before it was born into the ultron form.

agreed!