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The more I think about it the more I feel what I didn't like about the film was that it felt like a lot of set up that went nowhere.
I mean Ultron is this super powerful force who is in the internet and can upgrade and replicate himself, and all they have to do to defeat him is kill all of his robots? Really? I felt it should have been more complicated than that.
sj, I think that's why my friends found him kinda boring. It was hard to take him seriously. But we did get Vision out of the deal, so the build up was worth it to me. And I'm not that familiar with the comics, but I loved the look of Vision. Especially when he saw Thor's cape and added one to his costume.
See also, "Blurred Lines" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside," both of which I love even though they're creepy and rapey.
Oh oh oh am I allowed to like "Blurred Lines" because that is a damn catchy song.
Totes magotes, man.
I did love the idea of Ultron as a being-in-many-bodies, though it wasn't handled nearly as well as Ann Leckie does in Ancillary Justice. He touches on it once or twice, but there were cooler things to do with that idea. As for destroying him, the real key, I thought, was Vision cutting him out of the Internet, with, um, science magic. Then it was a matter of destroying all the individual selves.
Sail, I found Vision intriguing, but I'm not really familiar with the character and they didn't really use him much. Maybe he'll be in future films?
P-C, I could see that, but that all pretty much happened off screen and all we got what Tony and Bruce telling us about it, which isn't terribly exciting.
We saw Vision burning Ultron out of the Internet in the church. It was their big fight scene. He made all the blue CGI into yellow CGI. It's compelling.
P-C, I missed that or wasn't paying much attention at that point. The 3-D was making me kind of anxious. I should probably see it again without the 3-D.
I saw it in 2D. Anyone else see it in 3D, who generally likes 3D?
I did not catch this reference but I was wondering why Veronica was called Veronica and HA.
I saw it in 3D. It was fine: didn't really add to the experience, but I didn't find it to be badly done.
I knew it had to be an Archie reference, but I didn't put it in context with Betty (Ross) and Veronica. Other than to wonder why they were setting up a romance between Bruce and Natasha, because Betty! Where the heck was Betty? I'm not up enough on the Hulk backstory to know what happened with the two of them.