WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS…IF YOU DON’T WANT IT TO BE SPOILED…STOP READING NOW…I WILL NOW HIT ENTER FOUR TIMES TO ALLOW FOR PROPER SPACING.
Alright…here we go…again…THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Alright, I admit…I’m suffering from “Superhero Fatigue” (trademarked by Big Ken…I now owe him 37 cents)…but yes, it does seem there’s a deluge of superhero movies. I thought the first Avengers was great…thought Captain America: Winter Soldier was outstanding…thought Iron Man 3 was garbage…and here, with Avengers 2: Age of Ultron…I had high expectations, but was greatly disappointed.
I left the theater with a feeling of, well, that wasn’t as good as I hoped…but as the weekend went on…I came to the conclusion that the movie was terrible.
What happened in this movie? What was even the plan? What was Ultron trying to do? What actually was Ultron?
Okay…the ending is ticking me off….first off, I don’t remember the end fight between Ultron and the Avengers…I just saw the movie, and can’t remember the end standoff. I remember the Avengers doing the exact same thing as they did in the first movie…fight off a slew of aliens…err…robots this time…but did they actually face-off with Ultron? I can’t even remember. I know Ultron gets thrown off….ends up in rubble…and then Scarlet Witch uses her powers to suck the life from Ultron. ….
Wait…suck the life from Ultron? Ultron consists of metal…and artificial intelligence…there’s no “life” or “soul” to suck from him.
And hold the phone….Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Iron Man…these are the heroes that I paid money to see defeat Ultron…not Scarlet Witch (now, I admit, I don’t know my comic books well enough to even know who Scarlet Witch is)…what I do know is that Pepper Potts didn’t defeat Loki in the first movie…although she did defeat the bad guy in that crap-tacular Iron Man 3.
Bottom line…you can’t suck a soul out of a robot. Ultron can not be killed that way.
The love story between Black Widow and Hulk…holy cow….this had as much passion and intrigue as Edward and Bella from Twilight. I was so incredibly bored….and confused. Wait…had they attempted to be a couple before or not? Were they still flirting? Did they try and fail? None of this is explained…and never figured out. I’m okay with the Hulk not finding love…he seems okay with it…I’m okay with it.
Captain America…Iron Man…Thor…Black Widow…for being the top Avengers…they sure got snuck up on a lot in this movie. Scarlet Witch had no problem appearing behind corners to get into their heads. I would have thought they would have been a bit more alert than to let that happen.
Since the first Iron Man movie…..Iron Man has become just a flat-out jerk. Yes, Tony Stark is all about himself…I get that…but in this movie, he just refuses to do anything but his own thing (to the point of annoying), and nearly destroys the world…twice. His “wit” that was so funny early on in the movies is totally lost. He’s just a jerk. I think I’m just done with Robert Downey Jr.
Somebody, please explain to me “The Vision“. What? His superpower is what…everything…including the power to always be conflicted? I was pumped to see Paul Bettany as “The Vision”, but nothing he said made any sense.
Umm…where were the surprises? There were rumors of Spiderman showing up…of other Avenger characters making appearances…maybe even an Avenger death? Nothing unpredictable happened in this movie.
What are the stakes in having some remote Eastern European city being lifted off the Earth….I’m sorry, but that’s not even a real city, right? They made that city up? What stakes were there? They could have at least said…”Warsaw”…or “Berlin”…or “Moscow”…something that I would have thought “Dang…we can’t lose that city”.
So…what’s Ultron’s plan? Just destroy the Earth, including himself? He’s raising this city, then he’s going to drop, and it’s going to cause an extinction level event. I don’t understand why though. I don’t understand what I was watching when he and Jarvis were talking to each other. Oh, the excitement of seeing two computer interfaces face off with each other. How exciting (sarcasm).
When I went to the 10:30 showing, I was feeling a little guilty. My son loves all these characters, maybe he would have really enjoyed going to this movie. Maybe this will be a kid appropriate movie. Nope, that was settled with the first word said out of Iron Man’s mouth…which was a swear word. Oh, a completely unneeded swear word. It added nothing to plot, unless you were just falling out of your chair laughing at how they’re making fun of Captain America for being old-timey.
NO…POST-CREDITS…SCENE. Just an “The Avengers Will Return”? I don’t care at this point. What a rip. Oh, and the scene between the credits? I have no idea what that means, but I’m guessing it’s important, or something.
I don’t need the Avengers to return. I’ve seen enough.
I want them to go their separate ways…into separate worlds. Not all of these movies have to be tied in together. We need some new stand-alone adventures. Sure, reference some things from the past, but not EVERYTHING from the past. We don’t remember all these things from movie-to-movie. You can’t expect us to follow all of these movies. I know AntMan will probably have a bunch of secrets that will help explain the next slew of movies, but guess what, the preview looked ridiculous…and boring. There were actually groans in the theater I was in.
They need to focus on Thor and Captain America…maybe Black Widow (but sans love story with the Hulk). Focus on making fun, interesting movies with those characters.
Ugh. When does Jurassic World open? Can’t freakin’ wait for that.
