(I'm not being particularly serious here! I'm not that obnoxious. Every writer has his own pet themes they play with.)
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
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DavidS - May 10, 2015 8:00:03 pm PDT #28933 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - May 10, 2015 8:03:17 pm PDT #28934 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But note that it's specifically in relation to women.
Well I do like women. I would like to have a sentient non-human relationship with a woman. Wait.
Every writer has his own pet themes they play with.
Writer brain is weird!
DavidS - May 10, 2015 8:16:22 pm PDT #28935 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Writer brain is weird!
That's where the good stuff is.
billytea - May 10, 2015 8:18:51 pm PDT #28936 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You realize what that means, of course.
He's writing Doctor Who fanfic?
Fred Pete - May 11, 2015 5:42:17 am PDT #28937 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Saw I Age of Ultron over the weekend. Satisfying 2+-hour ride that would probably fall apart if I looked at it too closely, so I won't. Although my favorite line was the exchange between Ironman and off-screen voice: "Good talk." "No, it wasn't."
Matt the Bruins fan - May 11, 2015 7:20:04 am PDT #28938 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My favorite was Cap's "Then we'll do that together, too." I got chills.
Jesse - May 11, 2015 9:45:48 am PDT #28939 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sady Doyle may have convinced me to hate Age of Ultron: [link]
Steph L. - May 11, 2015 9:55:55 am PDT #28940 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I dunno, I'm only at the point in her piece where she says Thor is a bad movie, and for that I'm giving her the side-eye HARD. But I'll read on...
Jesse - May 11, 2015 9:56:54 am PDT #28941 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, I totally disregarded that point and basically skimmed the article, but it seemed compelling!
Steph L. - May 11, 2015 10:13:11 am PDT #28942 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Okay, having read the whole thing -- I do agree with her that AoU, and Joss's writing/vision/plan, was really hamstrung by what Marvel Studios decided needed to be crammed into the movie. Did they *really* need to go to Wakanda? I don't think so, and I don't even think that it was necessary as a plot point for the Black Panther movie (which I had to explain to Tim wasn't about a 60s civil rights movement). The fact that they had Thor basically leave in the middle of the movie to go be in his own, OTHER weird film (with Eric Selvig thinking, "Why am I always stuck helping this big dumb doof?") just so he could infodump for the audience about the infinity stones was unbelievably clunky and felt like it was tacked on at the end, like the producers realized, "Shit! We need to explain to the audience why they're sitting through all of these movies!" If they needed to infodump about the infinity stones, it could have been done better, is all I'm saying.
After seeing it twice and thinking about it, and reading a LOT of commentary on the issue, I come down on the side of Black Widow calling herself a monster because of everything the Red Room did to her, not just the hysterectomy, that she thought she could be an Avenger but she was really just only good for killing. That said, it was written HORRIBLY, and I get why people take that scene in a different way than I did. I don't actually know if I've read what the real intent behind that scene was, but no matter what the intent was, it was done really poorly.
I'm on the fence about the Natasha/Bruce relationship (or attempt therein) -- I'm not opposed to it in theory, but in this actual movie, I think it was one more thing that was unnecessary and bloated the movie. I think it *could* be done, but not in *this* movie.
Anyway -- very little of what I have some issues with can be pinned on Joss as the sole source. Marvel studios decided this movie needed to do some heavy lifting to get pieces and characters into place for the next phase, and it shows.