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.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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Connie Neil - May 09, 2015 5:15:43 pm PDT #28901 of 30000
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Jesse - May 10, 2015 3:12:51 am PDT #28902 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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."
Jesse - May 10, 2015 3:13:28 am PDT #28903 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also: NEEDED MORE SHIRTLESS THOR, FOR PETE'S SAKE.
Kalshane - May 10, 2015 5:38:30 am PDT #28904 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
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.
P.M. Marc - May 10, 2015 6:01:55 am PDT #28905 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It does. Many evils do.
Jesse - May 10, 2015 6:08:29 am PDT #28906 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy, Jesse?
I did, but still meh and/or huh.
Steph L. - May 10, 2015 6:10:11 am PDT #28907 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
Vonnie K - May 10, 2015 6:31:12 am PDT #28908 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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.
Dana - May 10, 2015 6:37:55 am PDT #28909 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, we saw it, and it was good. This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
Vonnie K - May 10, 2015 6:45:39 am PDT #28910 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
This Oscar Isaac guy is pretty interesting.
Right? I think the only other movie of his I saw was Drive, where he played Carey Mulligan's husband who just got out of jail, and I remember thinking he was very interesting in that flick as well. I've heard great things about both Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and I think I'm gonna check them out.