Just got back from Age of Ultron and I enjoyed it a lot.
As much as I like the
Hawkguy
comics, I was perfectly happy with the
farm scenes.
I was very glad Clint got to do some more in this and be snarky with
Quicksilver.
I totally read the Black Widow
"monster" conversation as a reference to her being trained as an assassin and not her infertility.
Though I can see how it could be read the other way.
I have no idea what holocaust reference/joke people are talking about, because I certainly didn't notice one.
ETA: I also loved the
Hulkbuster Ironman/Hulk fight and Tony's terror/pleading with him to just get knocked out already.
One thing that threw me out of Ultron was that yummy scene where Clint throws open his Closet of Weaponry. As yummy as it is, I'd recently watched an episode of the cartoon of Avengers Assemble where Clint opens his Closet of Weaponry, then closes the door and says "There's a Wendigo in my closet!" Then reopens the closet and takes a quiver from the wendigo then closes it again.
Even after seeing the movie, I literally don't believe that
Clint has a wife and kids.
I also hated the writing of the
Natasha/Bruce stuff.
I thought it was unnecessary as a character point, and also didn't ring true as it was happening.
ION, I assumed that
Pietro died
because of studio stuff -- I figured
the X-Men get Quicksilver and Avengers get Scarlet Witch, because she wasn't in the X-Men movie, was she?
In short, eh. I'm not a comics reader, but feel like the MCU is too much like comics now, with all the convolution and everything feeling like set-up all the time. At the very end, my cousin and I were just like,
"Yep, still don't know who the purple guy is. All right then."
Also: NEEDED MORE SHIRTLESS THOR, FOR PETE'S SAKE.
Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy, Jesse?
Thanos
was explained a little bit there.
I just read an article that said Hawkeye
having a family comes from the Ultimate comics universe.
Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy, Jesse?
I did, but still meh and/or huh.
Many evils do.
Like
Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch, (while Wolverine -- who might be their father -- WATCHES THEM get it on)
which I just showed to Tim.
Oh my god, Marvel. That's not the good crack.
Anyone seen Ex Machina? I just saw it yesterday and liked it a lot.
I enjoyed Age of Ultron reasonably well, but Ex-Machina is certainly a more interesting take on Artificial Intelligence of the two. The performances are fantastic. The gender politics are both problematic and problematized, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
Yeah, we saw it, and it was good. This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
