I also don't 100% agree with that Sady Doyle piece, but it's got a lot of good points. You almost can't evaluate the movie as a standalone work, except for the part where it's a movie and it kind of has to stand on its own.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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Dana - May 11, 2015 3:45:34 pm PDT #28960 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calli - May 11, 2015 3:49:03 pm PDT #28961 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I enjoyed Thor. Also, Thor 2. I didn't hate AoU, although I don't think it's the best of the MCU.
Connie Neil - May 11, 2015 3:51:54 pm PDT #28962 of 30000
brillig
My biggest issue is I don't see the point of Ultron in the wider sphere. Loki and the Chitauri played into the larger plan. Stryker and the Hydra experiments are holdovers from everything Captain America and would have been a nice base for Winter Soldier things. Yes, they needed something to justify Vision showing up, but it felt like someone was flipping through the Big Book of Avengers Villains to find something to plug into the movie.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 11, 2015 8:23:18 pm PDT #28963 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
Well, Ultron is one of the iconic Avengers villains like Loki or Kang, so his inclusion in the rotation felt right. But making him a result of the Scarlet Witch meddling with Tony's hubris rather than the world's leading Entomologist branching out into AIs with Oedipal complexes didn't feel organic. For one, I don't see why an AI more sophisticated than Jarvis would be necessary to protect the world from dangers like the Chitauri invasion—wouldn't multiple Jarvises and quicker production lines of Iron Legion 'bots in tandem with technology like Veronica have done the trick for that?
Calli - May 12, 2015 1:50:48 am PDT #28964 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I had entirely nitpicky issues with the movie name. We didn't get an Age of Ultron. We got three, maybe four days of Ultron, at most.
billytea - May 12, 2015 2:47:52 am PDT #28965 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.
Technically, I guess that would've been his age.
Jesse - May 12, 2015 3:40:06 am PDT #28966 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hee.
Polter-Cow - May 12, 2015 4:28:40 am PDT #28967 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Whoever made this is a delightful human.
Atropa - May 12, 2015 8:40:54 am PDT #28968 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Any discussion of AoU in our house has been overwhelmed by SOMEONE's fanboy squee about Mad Max: Fury Road opening on Friday. I think it will be fun, but I'm not the one with plans to see it three times over the weekend.
Connie Neil - May 12, 2015 8:46:07 am PDT #28969 of 30000
brillig
The original Mad Maxes were a bit too gritty for my taste, so I will forego the pleasure.