The Avengers 2 -- Age of Ultron

I mean, obv it's your opinion and you can express it however you want; I vehemently disagree with you

There's "no real tension to the action" because it's a comic book franchise where characters rarely die and, when they do, someone brings them back later, so it's hard to feel like any major character is actually in jeopardy

there is something to this though, it does rob traditional action sequences of any weight - in general for an action sequence to work in these films it comes down to the characters' powers/abilities being used in a creative, novel or otherwise unexpected way. But watching two guys punch each other for five minutes is basically just wasting my time, is how I feel about it.

xp they do actually kill someone though! The CGI is less of a problem there than the plangent slo-mo (Thanks, Peter Jackson)

The only scene with two guys punching each other is the Hulk/Hulkbuster, which is full of lots of smart tactical decisions and obviously only possible due to CGI.

smart including dumb there.

xp they do actually kill someone though! The CGI is less of a problem there than the plangent slo-mo (Thanks, Peter Jackson)

hence someone brings them back later

Even if that character remains dead, that doesn't make the feeling that a future writer isn't going to pull a resurrection for pathos/story beats (esp. given The Infinity War coming up, that's a cheap way to escalate personal stakes)

The slo-mo felt like splash pages to me, as someone alluded to upthread.

fwiw I was speaking generally of the genre, not about this movie specifically (which I haven't seen)

xp

I was only mildly disappointed with Ultron's voice because I'd always imagined him to sound more like a Dalek. He looks like a screamer. But Spader performed commendably.

I dunno, I enjoy these movies as live-action "What-If?" setpieces featuring characters I only peripherally followed in the comics until the first Iron Man movie came out; I'm not looking at them for much more than "how many quips, beatdowns and explosions can we get over the next couple of hours and are the staged/delivered well enough to make easily-entertained me smile"; it's a remarkably low hurdle to clear tbh but I feel like demanding that movies entertain me rather than putting myself in a mood to enjoy what they have to offer and then enjoying them is easier and makes me happier.

i want to watch this again

i enjoyed this enough though it definitely cemented a sense of superhero movie fatigue. thought the gulf in quality between this and the first avengers movie is wildly overstated though obv the first one had the novelty of omg a teamup and omg they got hulk right etc. thought spader was great, as an offspring of stark it made sense he would be this asshole who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. plus, yknow, less than zero.

Dr casinos overstuffed post otm except about Hawkeye, who is the soul of this movie.

Ultron was a vg villain imo, equal parts hal, skynet and evil stark, pity that whedon couldn't keep that going rather than turn him into a fighty robot but otherwise this was as good as it was going to be

no comments on this in more than a year? guessing people are not too geared up for a 2-part sequel then.

oh I'm geared up

not looking forward to the part where Cap eats it though

the movie isn't out for another year what is there to talk about

It's four MCU movies away, gotta hyperventilate in the correct order.

yeah exactly. so much more MCU to go