Age of Ultron SPOILERS INSIDE What you didn't like about Avengers: Age of Ultron - Flaws/Critiques

[Raiden]

I agree with some characters. I think Coulsen and Fury should have stayed dead.

But like I said, with Quicksilver, I just feel he's coming back.

I love AOU, but QS's death was unnecessary and it just another example of Whedon's habit of killing characters in his movies and shows. I wish QS will be back, but I'm not sure how it can be done.

 

[warhorse78]

I love AOU, but QS's death was unnecessary and it just another example of Whedon's habit of killing characters in his movies and shows. I wish QS will be back, but I'm not sure how it can be done.

That is, if he is dead. Remember, Coulsen and Fury were shown to be dead too, mere mortal humans, and we never did see a proper funeral, so who knows, maybe Quicksilver is laying up at some bunker healing from his wounds.

Someone said that his quick reflexes have healing powers, maybe it just takes time for them to kick in. Either way, his death and aftermath was pretty rushed.

 

[Herolee10]

The problem is that if they bring back Quicksilver, then no one's going to take death seriously within the Marvel Cinematic Universe anymore.

 

[warhorse78]

The problem is that if they bring back Quicksilver, then no one's going to take death seriously within the Marvel Cinematic Universe anymore.

Who cares! If you think about it, most movies rarely do kill off major characters, comic book movies least of all, so why should Marvel kill of characters for the sake of killing off characters. Last I looked, Nolan's Batman movies still had the core key characters alive, including most of the villains like Joker and Scarecrow. X-Men killed a bunch of characters, only for the last movie to overturn most of it.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Who cares!

Me. Because when a character is in a situation when they're in danger I will no longer feel any tension. In a story in which I am supposed to care about things like that, it is a problem.

 

[Havok83]

That is, if he is dead. Remember, Coulsen and Fury were shown to be dead too, mere mortal humans, and we never did see a proper funeral, so who knows, maybe Quicksilver is laying up at some bunker healing from his wounds.

Someone said that his quick reflexes have healing powers, maybe it just takes time for them to kick in. Either way, his death and aftermath was pretty rushed.

Coulsen was dead.

 

[warhorse78]

Me. Because when a character is in a situation when they're in danger I will no longer feel any tension. In a story in which I am supposed to care about things like that, it is a problem.

But again, what about movies like Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Harry Potter, LOTR. The main key heroes are still alive for all of those movies, were they really less intense because Gordon or Catwoman didn't get killed, or Spidey didn't lose and arm, or how the main three in Harry Potter were alive and well in the end.

MCU is doing just fine.

 

[Mr_336]

The problem is that if they bring back Quicksilver, then no one's going to take death seriously within the Marvel Cinematic Universe anymore.

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Urich and Owlsley (Sr)'s corpses say" Hello, these deaths are permanent!"

 

[warhorse78]

Coulsen was dead.

And now he's not, what's your point?

 

[warhorse78]

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Urich and Owlsley (Sr)'s corpses say" Hello, these deaths are permanent!"

And Frigga!

 

[jmc]

But again, what about movies like Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Harry Potter, LOTR. The main key heroes are still alive for all of those movies, were they really less intense because Gordon or Catwoman didn't get killed, or Spidey didn't lose and arm, or how the main three in Harry Potter were alive and well in the end.

MCU is doing just fine.

People died all the time in those movies.

 

[warhorse78]

People died all the time in those movies.

Oh yeah, name me one major character that is on par with Quicksilver!

 

[Iceman]

Me. Because when a character is in a situation when they're in danger I will no longer feel any tension. In a story in which I am supposed to care about things like that, it is a problem.

And me. Not killing characters at least leaves the illusion that they could die, and at least you can have them seriously injured or comatose while leaving them out for a couple of sequels. Nothing removes tension more than this trick of killing to have them come back every time. This is a weakness of Whedon in that he thinks he needs to kill someone in every film. If he could do it so that it had the impact of a

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[BLACKOUT]Goose[/BLACKOUT] from Top Gun

and as much importance to the story then he might be onto something but these death scenes are less impactful than any I can remember in films off the top of my head. And it's going to totally take away now from when they decide to do it to a main character.

 

[Dark Raven]

I wish we had a better mid credits scene. This one was underwhelming with Thanos just opening a safe and fetching his glove. It was nothing special. It could almost have been a scene right at the very end of the credits instead. They should've used the mid credits for Ant-Man or something else. We've already seen Thanos appear before in the previous Avengers film and in GOTG. This had about as much excitement as Bucky walking around in the Smithsonian Institute in CA:TWS.

 

[PunyGod]

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[Matt]

Honestly, this was the Iron Man 2 and Thor 2 of Marvel movies. It was filler that ultimately just served as a rehash of the original. I was very disappointed.

 

[Dark Raven]

I also wish that Hulk had a heroic battle scene against Ultron. Cap, Iron Man and Thor each had one. Hulk just tore Ultron out of the Quinjet (or whatever he was piloting) and tossed him to earth. We got plenty of snippets of Hulk fighting random Ultron bots but never anything extended.

I would've liked to have seen a twist on the Hulk using Loki as a ragdoll scene with Ultron holding his own this time, and Hulk finding he can't put Ultron Prime down so easily. This would mean that Hulk would actually have to fight him. Instead, the only real Hulk battle scene was Hulk fighting Hulkbuster. But nothing where he was being heroic and the spotlight was truly on him for an extended period.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I also wish that Hulk had a heroic battle scene against Ultron. Cap, Iron Man and Thor each had one. Hulk just tore Ultron out of the Quinjet (or whatever he was piloting) and tossed him to earth. We got plenty of snippets of Hulk fighting random Ultron bots but never anything extended.

I would've liked to have seen a twist on the Hulk using Loki as a ragdoll scene with Ultron holding his own this time, and Hulk finding he can't put Ultron Prime down so easily. This would mean that Hulk would actually have to fight him. Instead, the only real Hulk battle scene was Hulk fighting Hulkbuster. But nothing where he was being heroic and the spotlight was truly on him for an extended period.

Well, we got that big assed fight with Tony in his Hulkbuster armor....that was pretty cool.

 

[AgentGojiraRgr]

Plenty of characters in the MCU died and are not coming back.
People just overblow Marvel's habit of bringing characters back from the dead.

The only major character that was legitimately dead and brought back was Coulson.
Everyone else people usually cite weren't even dead to begin with, for example, Loki, Pepper, and Nick Fury.

I love AOU, but QS's death was unnecessary and it just another example of Whedon's habit of killing characters in his movies and shows. I wish QS will be back, but I'm not sure how it can be done.

Agreed

BYE Whedon

What Whedon and people at Marvel Studios who allow him to pull his **** need to understand is that when you kill a character like Coulson and Quicksilver in a long term franchise like the MCU for ****s and giggles, you've wasted/lost the character from future use, unless you come up with a way to bring them back.

If the character died in the comics like Uncle Ben, Gwen Stacy, etc, sure, but seriously, don't let people like Whedon pull **** like this in a long term franchise like the MCU.

 

[Dark Raven]

Well, we got that big assed fight with Tony in his Hulkbuster armor....that was pretty cool.

I did say I wished we got a heroic Hulk battle scene. He was more a villain there in that fight being mind controlled by Scarlet. I'm talking about him doing something where Hulk is fighting Ultron or a villain all on his own and it showcases this fight. We never got that.

 

[Elayis]

I forgot to mention the deus ex machina of Fury showing up with the helicarrier. I was hoping for some consequences this time, dealing out destruction on this scale is bound to result in many thousands of casualties, but again in a superhero film they either have a third option that magically saves the day, or they just don't dwell on it. Both Marvel & DC are guilty of this.

 

[Sharkboy]

Yeah Marvel need to step up their game with deaths, it's kinda pandering and cheap that they bring everyone back, because the whole thing is starting to feel like a party, all quips and no real stakes. Watch Cap "die" in Civil War only to be brought back in IW. It's ridiculous.

 

[AnneFan]

I did say I wished we got a heroic Hulk battle scene. He was more a villain there in that fight being mind controlled by Scarlet. I'm talking about him doing something where Hulk is fighting Ultron or a villain all on his own and it showcases this fight. We never got that.

I agree, especially considering he battled Thor due to Loki's involvement in the first movie. Would've loved to have seen Hulk going all out against an enemy here, and not one of his allies.

 

[Sharkboy]

Hulk really doesn't do much in this one, I remember Whedon promising that hulk had a much bigger role in this film...did he mean his romance with Widow?

 

[Repulsor Blast]

Whedon deleted a big hulk moment from the third act http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/05/01/why-joss-whedon-cut-the-hulks-best-scene-from-age-of-ultron/

Hulk didn't have as many cool moments compared to the first avengers, which is a shame because he doesn't get solos.