Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)'s comments

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maasr

This is the perfect one to skip, and read the plot summary on wikipedia.

7 years 5 months ago

royalspikey77

The highlight is clearly Iron Man pummelling Hulk in the face..... James Spader very good though

8 years 2 months ago

boulderman

After all the dissing and hype, boredom and fiancée nagging led us to watch it last night and pleasantly surprised (no spoiler rally, but I thought altitude sickness would affect civilians)

8 years 6 months ago

badblokebob

The first movie is overrated; this one... isn't underrated, but I think people's over-hyped memories of the first make them think it's worse than it is by comparison.

8 years 7 months ago

chaybee1

I agree with that guy. This movie drukqs.

8 years 8 months ago

More of what you liked from the first Avengers film, introducing several new characters, and moving the larger Marvel movies arc forward while also telling a complete story. If we're talking weaknesses, they lie in the former. I found the Infinity War stuff mostly intrusive and am already sick of the infinity gems showing up and getting their flash-tos every "episode". Probably because I have no love for, or interest in, the original Gauntlet stories. The time spent on that would have been used to buff up Ultron's characterization, as I don't think his Oedipal complex or screwy apocalyptic logic were set up very well. Murderbot shows up, is crazy, destroys stuff. Obviously, there's a lot more to it, but it sometimes felt like there were missing scenes where Ultron came to certain realizations. I'm also a little disappointed at how they changed (read: made generic) the Scarlet Witch's powers, but I understand it. The movie does a lot of things very well, however. Joss Whedon seems to understand the comic book format very well, and adapts not just the characters and story to the big screen, but the source medium's quirks as well. He knows how to isolate action moments, as if they were in separate panels. He uses slow motion to create living tableaux, or "splash pages". And he understands what made Marvel great, i.e. the mix of epic and mundane - of big super-powered fights and quiet character moments - the angst of the reformed monsters trying to do the right thing, and the sheer joy of working within a shared universe (there are a LOT of cameos and guest-stars in this one). And he understands how team books work. The focus is definitely on the Avengers who don't have their own movies, with Hawkeye finally coming across as a real person (and though his back story is entirely different, as an echo of the character I love from the comics). Whedon obviously brings his patented writing technique to bear, a technique best expressed by Quicksilver's quip "You didn't see that coming?", which usually manages to surprise, shock and/or delight. Especially important for old dogs like me who know where things are going because they know their comics lore. And of course, it looks awesome.

8 years 10 months ago

cathedra

i would erase at least half an hour of just conversations.

8 years 10 months ago

Joker of Gotham

4.5/5

8 years 11 months ago

robi110

It was a great movie, but still a disappointment.. I believe in Whedon and the director's cut.

8 years 11 months ago

DisneyStitch

Somehow watching the opening fight sequence you can tell that it won't be as fun as the first Avengers, a feeling that persists all the way to the mid-credits bonus scene. The movie suffers from too much plot and it rushes through so many plot points in rapid fire succession that you can't help but feel as if they put far too much into it.

Ultron would have benefited from more screen time and the Avengers are being slowly defeated by the problem of having way too many characters on screen. The Marvel universe works pretty well with each Avenger having their own love interest, enemies, and sidekicks in their own individual movie series. However, throw all of them into one movie and the mixture totally implodes. Based on the ending scene of the movie it looks like things are only going to be more crowded and overstuffed in future films.

The first Avengers did what it intended to do very well. It allowed each Avenger to shine, introduced the problems with having all of them in the same room, and gave a great apocalyptic scenario with the suave villain Loki in charge of it. Age of Ultron tries to copy the same formula but with twice as many characters and a villain that is nowhere near as much fun to watch as Loki.

8 years 11 months ago

jktomas

Another awesome MCU movie. If you enjoyed the first Avengers or any of the Marvel movies I can't imagine you being grumpy about this one (but apparently a lot of people are. Oh well).
It's a lot of fun. Action is outstanding and characters played by incredible actors are lovable. And even the story makes sense, woo! My biggest complains are only tiny nitpicks, that's how good this movie is.
Vision is probably my favorite character of all the Marvel movies. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him in future movies.

8 years 11 months ago