Stevil Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Really?? How did we get to see it first?? It's normally the other way round!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Big budget blockbusters like this have been making the bulk of their money overseas the last several years, so it's just a good strategy. It's officially released here on Friday. I'm catching a Thursday night showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Come on lads and lasses. 10 pages of speculation! Am I the only one who has seen this film??Yes. Didn't you hear - we in the US must wait for after the international releases now. We're merely another regional release, even though Hollywood is in our borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Terrorists have won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Does that mean the War on Terror is over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas1138 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Now we can get back to focusing on the wars that are really important. Like the War on Drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Now we can get back to focusing on the wars that are really important. Like the War on Drugs.That's a good band, my friend plays guitar in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Lohr Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I've never even heard of the song it parodies, but I'm pretty certain this is genius... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 That's frickin' awesome. So funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 30 minutes to go. Shoulda brought a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I stayed out of this thread for a week afraid there'd be overseas spoilers in here and instead it was a bunch of bs. LOL at my paranoia. Anyway, saw it, loved it, gonna see it again ASAP. Marvel wins again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I scheduled myself off tomorrow so I could see it without waiting for the wifey. 12 hours to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Ultron was too quippy (not sad that Whedon isn't doing Infinity War) but honestly the worst part about it was no Star Wars trailer. Very very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I get what you mean but since he was supposed to be Stark's dark reflection I think that was on purpose so it would have been that way whoever was in charge. Since Stark is an irredeemable smartass then so is his "child" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Oh I get it too. And I won't deny that I laughed at many of the lines. Just took me out of the movie a few times and didn't exactly help to make him a menacing villain. Random thoughts... Loved how many "comic come to life" shots there were. More of this please. More more more. Bummer we couldn't have gotten Falcon in the helicarrier/War Machine rescue at the end, would've fit in perfectly. So Whedon spends plenty of time in interviews talking about how everyone in the first Avengers just had a punching power, so he wanted to introduce the twins since their powers are so different--then he kills Quicksilver. What? There's so much more that could've been done with that character. Hawkeye was awesome. Absolutely made up for his lack of everything in Avengers. Wasn't too thrilled with Vision lifting Mjonir. Kinda wasted that gimmick, and I'm sure we were all expecting Cap (or someone else) to use it vs Thanos in Infinity War. Then again, the Russo brothers don't seem as gimmicky as Joss, so they'll have something else up their sleeve. Danny Elfman's part of the score was so so so much better than Brian Tyler, and I've never been a particularly big Elfman fan. Glad they used part of Silvestri's original theme in this. Musical continuity = good thing. I'm sure I'll have more. Might be seeing it again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Saw it last night. It was good. I liked it a lot more than I expected to. (Although I was also annoyed at the lack of a Star War teaser. Apparently it's playing in 3D but not 2D, which is super lame.) I think my biggest problem was that, for met at least, there didn't seem to be as much build up to the main plot as the first Avengers movie. Probably because the team is already together, and I felt like I'd seen a lot of these character arcs before. I think that's why the stuff with Hawkeye, Vision, and the twins worked so well. (I'm really sick of Tony Stark.) While I liked Ultron as the villain, I felt like they threw him in and were like, "Here's your plot! Enjoy!" There was a lot more buildup to the next sequel, and I felt like a lot of this was bridging to that. Again, it wasn't bad, just not a good standalone movie. I absolutely loved the end of the movie, with new Avengers consisting of Cap, Black Widow, War Machine, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, and Vision. (Although Joss is a big troll.) Maybe in the next movie they can have Black Widow and Scarlet Witch have a conversation or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I thought Hawkeye went home at the end?? Was he in that final shot??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Dammit, I was thinking Falcon but wrote Hawkeye. ****ing birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I liked this better than the first (by a hair) but it still felt like a major chunk of the film's "heart" was missing. I get what they were trying to do; that this was supposed to be an introspective, "what good are we?", internal Avengers conflict... dealing with their own impact and identity, etc. But that didn't change the fact that Ultron just felt D.O.A. as a villain. He's so vague as a nemesis and needlessly "quippy" (like Krawlie said) that when he's not onscreen you forget he's in the movie. "Oh, he's off doing a bad thing, because he's a cranky A.I." If Ultron had been more of a chameleon-like reflection of ALL of the Avengers (and their various fears) he could have functioned more like a mirror for their internal struggle. I think that was supposed to be the desired effect since it just seemed like they threw in Scarlet Witch as a lackluster auxiliary character. Side tangent: the twins: "Ooh, you're mean, Ultron! We thought you were just going to kill the Avengers. Now that you've obviously stated that you're going to kill EVERYONE, we're going to go help the Avengers!" I would have introduced Vision earlier and focused more on HIM as that wild card, super-weapon, both sides are clamoring to control. Anyway, as with the first I'm very impressed with how well they balance character time and development. Exceptions being: Nick Fury just kinda comes and goes willy-nilly. (I have NO Idea what was going on with SHIELD in this movie. Did I miss something in another movie?) And, as I said, the twins seemed tacked on and underdeveloped. They just kind of fill screen space and serve as walking plot conveniences.Bitching aside I thought it was really entertaining. There are just those few times where the movie loses momentum, and whatever looming "doom" is supposed to be around the corner evaporates to the point where (as with the Iron-Man/Hulk fight) the film comes to a plodding stop and says "OK, back to that Ultron world domination stuff!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 (Although I was also annoyed at the lack of a Star War teaser. Apparently it's playing in 3D but not 2D, which is super lame.)And wow. That 3D makes the opening scene through the desert look awesome. Also where the Falcon flies into the Star Destroyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolis Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Through all the reviews I've read I haven't heard one person talk about the movie's "grittier" look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted May 2, 2015 Author Share Posted May 2, 2015 Because gritty doesn't really mean anything anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas1138 Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 So I really dug this. It was a lot of fun. I'm nearly certain there are like 5 better MCU movies, but this one was quite enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 It felt too much like the first one to me. They just replaced monsters with robots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decypher Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 So I really dug this. It was a lot of fun. I'm nearly certain there are like 5 better MCU movies, but this one was quite enjoyable.1. Captain America 22. Ironman 13. Thor 14. Avengers 15. Avengers 26. Ironman 2 & 37. Captain America 18. Thor 29. Hulk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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