****The Official The Avengers: Age of Ultron Thread ****

Just saw it, it was okay.

What was immediate is that some of the fighting scenes are made for 3D (I watched it in 2D), where all the characters on screen at the same time swinging at the robots and they overlap each other, flying into the screen at you. In 2D it looked fake. In fact, quite a lot of it looked fake but I would expect it look less fake in 3D.

Otherwise, things like Jarvis coming into life, hmmm, okay but he just seem like Superman?

I guess it was enjoyable, I didn't look at my watch once which was a good sign but story wise it was weak. Ultron's end game was a little weak I thought.
 
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Scrutinize said:
no real substance to the plot, no character depth.
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you went in with the wrong mindset then

These are brainless popcorn cgi fests at best. Did you watch the first avengers film? It was nothing more than aliens blasting up new york city.

To enjoy these films, leave your brain at the entrance, and munch loudly on stinky tortilla chips, popcorn and slurp pepsi
 
Incredible movie, I was hoping though that...

When the city was coming crashing down, that Magneto and the X-Men would appear and Magneto would stop it in it's tracks. Silly I know but FOX really need to give them up!!! :mad:
 
Watched it this afternoon in IMAX 3d, really really enjoyed it. Laughed a lot. The set pieces were stunning and a few left me open mouthed.
Right up there for me, incredible film :)
 
Good but just didn't seem as large in terms of scale.


And was it just me or did the iron legion thing just make it seem like Iron Man 3 ending? Just random robots flying all over the place getting taken out with ease left and right, yet for some reason the iron man suit takes much more of a hiding than they can despite being essentially the same.

Just too similar in that respect. As for Ultron, "meh", reminds me of Darth Maul, they "bigged him up" left and right in the trailers but in the movie he really didn't do much at all. From what i recall in the cartoon and comics he was capable of slapping around anything that came at him, including the Hulk but in this he was't anything close to that.
 
RIZZEE said:
Agreed on Ultron being a bit of a let down. Also too many jokes from him kinda annoyed me, was expecting something a lot more menacing.
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Have you seen Spader in the Blacklist?... Carbon copy even Ultron was talking with a slant head. Having enjoyed Spader in the Blacklist i was hoping before hand for more of the same and it delivered for me.
 
Disagree, the trailers built him up to be this total badass whereas in the actual film he was more a slapstick cardboard villan, very dissapointing.

As to his plan to destroy the world, terrible.
 
Far too much forced humour.
Pacing for me was iffy.
With all the current Marvel stuff it felt somewhat disjointed.
Some of the cgi was.... Off.
When hawkeye cracks a joke about having a tough day was a bit.... Much.
It was okay, but not great.
 
I thought it was excellent, just home from the cinema there and loved the whole interplay between the characters since there was less building to do of the team itself.

I thought it was on a par with the first if not surpass it, well in my mind at least.
 
5punk3monk3y said:
Have you seen Spader in the Blacklist?... Carbon copy even Ultron was talking with a slant head. Having enjoyed Spader in the Blacklist i was hoping before hand for more of the same and it delivered for me.
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It's on my to watch list, heard similar things from others too.
 
Jonny2284 said:
Are you really having an argument about the logistics of transporting a magical hammer and expecting the answers to make sense?
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Trig said:
Yes, yes we are, what would happen if Thor was on a plane, on a treadmill...
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Clov!s said:
It does, if you've seen the first Thor film, his hammer is sunk in concrete, what they do is dig it around the hammer and transport it, but can't actually pick the hammer up.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9w7aWptl6s
 
No matter how much they tried, the attempts to humanise the villain just couldn't cut it with me.

These marvel films have been so much more because of the characterisations, from day dot with the first ironman, loki being the perfect villain because of his on screen presence.

Ultron had non of that... just words. As for the film, it's a bloody good job the cast are as lovable as ever, because if you didn't have that, you could have called it the next transformers film come early.

Wall to wall action, non stop, no time to think... good or bad, not sure.
 
Martini1991 said:
Far too much forced humour.
Pacing for me was iffy.
With all the current Marvel stuff it felt somewhat disjointed.
Some of the cgi was.... Off.
When hawkeye cracks a joke about having a tough day was a bit.... Much.
It was okay, but not great.
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just came back from seeing it and yeah, i agree with everything said here.

i enjoyed it, but it wasn't a patch on most of the other marvel films, sometimes it just felt like it was trying too hard.
 
/\/\/\/\/\ TBH it does have a hard act to follow. I don't think Joss Whedon will be directing any more Marvel Films (He said so after all) despite the pressure from the Hollywood Studios wanting him to come back & make more.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they will make of any Thanos storylines in the future.
 
Watched at IMAX today, fantastic.

Couldn't help but imagining Reddington saying some of those Ultron lines though, some of them would have fit right in a Blacklist script.
 
Loved the action, loved "I'm getting too old for this ****" Hawkeye.

But good god Ultron just falls flat, I know it's a Whedon thing but not everyone needs to be snarky and Ultron was the one character in this film that needed to not be. He was great right up until "Let me explain my evil plan" and then boom, lost it all.
 
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