By Age of Ultron it was clear that Whedon didn't care about Thor or at least know what to do with him. He got shortchanged in the first one but him being mostly absent from the whole second act of Age of Ultron just so he could go take a bath and foreshadow Infinity War was disappointing.
Yeah, the entire Thor has to take a bath subplot is just so odd lol! I like the rest of the movie, but that part is laughably bad lol! But I still say overall, AoU is one of the MCU's most underrated films. I can rewatch it anytime and I love it
Would've been neat, but honestly the movie does such a wonderful job at drawing you into their earlier dysfunction that regardless you still get that same kind of high. I'll always remember the eruption of the crowd both times I saw it opening weekend. The Sunday night one in particular was electric. "Chicken Jockey" ain't got **** on that
It's BECAUSE of Conclave that I'm shocked at how quickly they chose a new Pope, lolAll this talk about Andor, and I'm just over here wishing to be a fly on the wall during the conclave.
If the movie was any indication, I KNOW those Cardinals were being all kinds of messy.
But I digress.
I think time has been mostly kind to Age of Ultron. Later projects like WandaVision and Ragnarok have enhanced my enjoyment of it and I thought Spader's Ultron was a fun villain. The one thing I really don't like about it that blatantly stood out even more after Civil War were the constant jokes flying around when Sokovia is in the sky and on course to cause global extinction. You have Tony shaken up after he meets Alfre Woodard in Civil War and saying how devastating Sokovia was as if he wasn't trying to make his mandatory quip quota at the time.
I think as a story, AoU is too similar to the first film, without creating an effective villain and not being able to give much meat to the new or even old characters outside of a couple of exception. But I do enjoy Clint in it.
What, you mean Natasha's ability to escape from being tied up in a chair whilst wearing a form fitting dress doesn't foreshadow the way she tricks Loki into telling her his plan later in the movie?
Civil War isn't an Avengers movie. It's a Captain America movie guest starring the Avengers. But we can agree to disagree there.
The creep factor isn't even the part that stands out to me the most. It's the slowing the film to a crawl for the most unnecessary scene imaginable. My inner screenwriter hates it so much.What, you mean Natasha's ability to escape from being tied up in a chair whilst wearing a form fitting dress doesn't foreshadow the way she tricks Loki into telling her his plan later in the movie?
I do agree it's that type of story. But it's also done in 90% of the same framework as the original film. They all have their minds messed with to cause conflict, the farm functions as the carrier, the get spread to the winds, a new Avenger has to fight the Hulk, etc. They even have to come back together for the finale against the CGI army.
The creep factor isn't even the part that stands out to me the most. It's the slowing the film to a crawl for the most unnecessary scene imaginable. My inner screenwriter hates it so much.
lol. You want to argue feminism over the scene where they shove her boobs into the audience's face and ends with her picking up her heels? Are you being serious?
