The only thing that was missing, for me was Coulson. I would have loved to see the looks on their faces!
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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quester - May 10, 2015 1:55:14 pm PDT #28921 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
DavidS - May 10, 2015 2:21:28 pm PDT #28922 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anyone seen Ex Machina? I just saw it yesterday and liked it a lot.
I saw it and loved it for the reasons mentioned. As hard as those scenes were, they did add a darker, visceral quality to a movie which had been fairly cerebral and chess-playing with the plot.
Kalshane - May 10, 2015 2:36:18 pm PDT #28923 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.
Yeah, I loved Hulk chucking Ultron out of the plane. And Ultron's "Oh, for God's sake!" when the Hulk landed on it when he thought he was in the clear.
Hulk just tearing through that bunker in the beginning was pretty good, too.
Joss also obviously had a lot of fun coming up with different tag-team moves for the Avengers to use.
I personally was good with Ultron being more wise-cracking and less directly menacing. It felt like staying true to one aspect of the comics where his AI was modeled after his creator's brain. Though since it was Tony instead of Hank, we got more snark. The movie tried to push that element without spelling it out between him subconsciously quoting Tony to Ulysses Klaw and the part where he made a crack a split-second before Tony was about to.
DCJensen - May 10, 2015 5:44:44 pm PDT #28924 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I did like Ultron snarking "I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan." BAM!
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2015 6:20:02 pm PDT #28925 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Foz Meadows made a pretty interesting comparison:
"Saw Age of Ultron tonight. It reminded me of nothing so much as a weird reinvention of S4 of Buffy."
"Ultron = Adam, Cap = Riley, Natasha = Buffy, Bruce = Angel, Hawkeye = Xander, Tony = Willow, Thor = Anya, Fury = Giles."
"Quicksilver = Spike, Red Witch = Harmony. I mean, shit; the Vision was basically the Super Power-Up Foursome the Scoobies used to beat Adam."
It totally kind of works, how bizarre. Weird how stories simmer back up like that.
DavidS - May 10, 2015 7:00:56 pm PDT #28926 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It totally kind of works, how bizarre.
Hah! You've seen Javier's takedown of Joss on Firefly/Alien Resurrection? Same algebra.
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2015 7:20:51 pm PDT #28927 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wasn't that one somewhat intentional? It was like the next thing he did, like AR was a test run for FF. This is years later, and I feel like it's unintentional, and it's a funny look into the way writers return to wells.
DavidS - May 10, 2015 7:22:42 pm PDT #28928 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wasn't that one somewhat intentional?
I'm not sure it was. I think those were his toys in that space opera toy chest.
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2015 7:44:41 pm PDT #28929 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It's kind of like how I keep writing "The Bow" over and over again. I have half a dozen stories about the relationship between a woman and a sentient non-human. Usually I don't even realize I'm doing it, though I've become hyperaware of it now and the last one I did totally on purpose.
DavidS - May 10, 2015 7:47:33 pm PDT #28930 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have half a dozen stories about the relationship between a woman and a sentient non-human.
You realize what that means, of course.