Managed to nab a ticket for the five minutes past midnight showing last night here in the UK (boy am I feeling that now!). I loved it! Easily as good as the first one.

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- Despite the trailer being dark it had more funny moments than the first one.
- Hawkeye finally gets a look in.
- Ultron makes for a great villain, a bad guy doppelganger of Tony, wisecracks and all.
- Bruce and Natasha...they haven't spent nearly enough time building that romance.
- Great Natasha flashbacks though!

- Mark Rufallo's "Now Hulk is in space..." slip up from last week; didn't happen so why did he let that "slip"?
- Some great titbits and clues for comic fans to pick out...Wakanda, Ragnarok predictions, etc
- Another city/base gets attacked from the sky climax. Still works, but its going to get old soon.

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I'm most curious about The Vision and the Maximoffs. Were they put to good use in the film?

Lammastide said:

I'm most curious about The Vision and the Maximoffs. Were they put to good use in the film?

Hmmm....bit tricky to say without giving too much away...

Vision came into it about three quarters of the way through, and was introduced well, very intrical to the story. He looks awesome on screen, Bethany and the wardrobe they gave him work brilliantly. Only down side was he was a bit over powered for my tastes; I don't remember him being that powerful in the comics....I may be wrong though.

The Maximoffs I was always going to be down on because I'm a big X-Men fan. It seems a cop out having them in the story without having mutants in the Avengers. Quicksilver didn't make the same impact as he did in Days of Future Past; there was nothing that topped Evan Peter's slo-mo Pentagon escape scene. Scarlet Witch has a lot of growing to do before she's the force she is in the comics. Other than inducing visions and some weird psychic hand blasts, she seemed a bit weak. Having said that both of them worked well in the story and it was great having them join the cast to expand the roster.

It's not out yet.

Hudson said:

It's not out yet.

The world premiere was yesterday (April 22nd).

DaveT said:

Lammastide said:

I'm most curious about The Vision and the Maximoffs. Were they put to good use in the film?

Hmmm....bit tricky to say without giving too much away...

Vision came into it about three quarters of the way through, and was introduced well, very intrical to the story. He looks awesome on screen, Bethany and the wardrobe they gave him work brilliantly. Only down side was he was a bit over powered for my tastes; I don't remember him being that powerful in the comics....I may be wrong though.

The Maximoffs I was always going to be down on because I'm a big X-Men fan. It seems a cop out having them in the story without having mutants in the Avengers. Quicksilver didn't make the same impact as he did in Days of Future Past; there was nothing that topped Evan Peter's slo-mo Pentagon escape scene. Scarlet Witch has a lot of growing to do before she's the force she is in the comics. Other than inducing visions and some weird psychic hand blasts, she seemed a bit weak. Having said that both of them worked well in the story and it was great having them join the cast to expand the roster.

I appreciate this. Thanks!

sexton said:

Hudson said:

It's not out yet.

The world premiere was yesterday (April 22nd).

If its not out in Murica, its not out yet.

lazycrockett said:

sexton said:

The world premiere was yesterday (April 22nd).

If its not out in Murica, its not out yet.

Exactly. It's not a BBC production. Shame on Disney.

Hudson said:

It's not out yet.

Leaked online 3 hours ago.

Hudson said:

lazycrockett said:

If its not out in Murica, its not out yet.

Exactly. It's not a BBC production. Shame on Disney.

Waiting for May 1st. I want to experience it with a large group of people in a movie theatre. I get a kick out of that.

After previewing the first 10 minutes of a shoddy cam copy over the weekend, I decided to buy tickets for the whole family. Can't wait to see it!

Identity said:

After previewing the first 10 minutes of a shoddy cam copy over the weekend, I decided to buy tickets for the whole family. Can't wait to see it!

I thought about watching a cam copy, but the ones out now, are all garbage. Even if i did go the cam route, i would most definitely see it at a theater. I'm a sucker for superhero's(and superhero movies).

DaveT said:

Managed to nab a ticket for the five minutes past midnight showing last night here in the UK (boy am I feeling that now!). I loved it! Easily as good as the first one.

SPOILERS:
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- Despite the trailer being dark it had more funny moments than the first one.
- Hawkeye finally gets a look in.
- Ultron makes for a great villain, a bad guy doppelganger of Tony, wisecracks and all.
- Bruce and Natasha...they haven't spent nearly enough time building that romance.
- Great Natasha flashbacks though!

- Mark Rufallo's "Now Hulk is in space..." slip up from last week; didn't happen so why did he let that "slip"?
- Some great titbits and clues for comic fans to pick out...Wakanda, Ragnarok predictions, etc
- Another city/base gets attacked from the sky climax. Still works, but its going to get old soon.

[Edited 4/23/15 1:53am]

CORRECTION: You mean Steve & Natasha!

I thought the potential romance was hinted at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

TonyVanDam said:

Should I go tonight

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out today in minnesota!

I saw it in 3D iMax and I liked it! 7/10

It's too long and some parts drag, even though it was nice to have some downtime with some of the characters during the dragging parts

nope. Most scenes could not establish tone--random jokes where thrown in at the strangest, most inappropriate times, and awkward dialogue was thrown in throughout the film between characters to clue the audience in or to further the plot. Normally, you would use a fish-out-of-water character who gets the plot given to him/her (and thus, to the audience), but here they just did that through character dialogue--it continuously brought me out of the movie when that happened. Also, the sound design was awful. Explosions were happening all over the place, and the characters managed to speak to each other at regular conversation level at ease--again, taking me out of the film. I mean, realism isn't exactly the point of these movies--but, at least keep my in the movie when I'm watching it. I would rank this movie about the same as a Transformers movie.

I thought it was a bad sign with the first one when the most memorable exciting scene (for me) was the joke after the credits. The plot of the first one just didn't work for me. Seemed really forced. I'll still watch this sequel though... I'm craving a new well plotted original action movie. I'm trying to think of the last action movie I saw that fulfilled... maybe "Gravity"?

I saw "Ex Machina" which was very entertaining.

morningsong said:

Waiting for May 1st. I want to experience it with a large group of people in a movie theatre. I get a kick out of that.

Definitely an underrated social exercise.

This mini review, relatively free of spoilers, is for those who haven't seen it yet:

It helps a bit with the setup if you watch Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show (I don’t, at least not religiously), because the film begins with an action sequence – Loki’s scepter from the last movie is in the hands of Baron Strucker, who is also playing host to “The Wonder Twins,” who hold a long term grudge against Tony Stark, for reasons that are explained later in the film. The Avengers are clearly a team at this point – they’ve been on several missions together, cleaning up after the aliens from the first film & Hydra, & are after this scepter. Things look like they’re going their way, until Foxy Twin unleashes her mindgames on Tony Stark & he sees a particularly scary vision of his future, while Speedy Twin causes a bit of havoc on the battlefield for Hawkeye & the others.

Pretty bad. Ultron himself and The Vision were the weakest links. It's not so much a movie, but a cgi animated cartoon and toy commercial. This stategy may be short sighted. They need to go back and see what made Gardians of The Galaxy so much fun, because I was bored.

I liked it, but not as much as the first film which may be due to the fact that the novelty of seeing all these characters on screen together for the first time is gone. It was better than Guardians of the Galaxy which I felt was too goofy. The Vision looked great--one of my favorite things about the movie.

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sexton said:

I liked it, but not as much as the first film which may be due to the fact that the novelty of seeing all these characters on screen together for the first time is gone. It was better than Guardians of the Galaxy which I felt was too goofy. The Vision looked great--one of my favorite things about the movie.

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The Vision was freaking awesome, even if he is a machine!

V10LETBLUES said:

Pretty bad. Ultron himself and The Vision were the weakest links. It's not so much a movie, but a cgi animated cartoon and toy commercial. This stategy may be short sighted. They need to go back and see what made Gardians of The Galaxy so much fun, because I was bored.

Excuse you, but I think the Avengers VS. The Army Of Ultrons was THE fight moment of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far. Seeing Hulk throwing Ultron out of the jet was priceless!

DaveT said:

TonyVanDam said:

CORRECTION: You mean Steve & Natasha!

I thought the potential romance was hinted at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Exactly! I thought that's what they were setting up after Winter Soldier to. At least Steve acknowledges it in Ultron..."I've seen Nat flirting up close"...

After seeing The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, I somewhat stand corrected. Natasha was falling for Bruce pretty hard. But still, Black Willow in infamous for cockteasing anyone, including Captain America.

Questions...


The chlorophyll that Stark drinks/drank, one, I thought he didn't have to drink it anymore, or was that chlorophyll he whipped up in the blender in the first place during (after) the party? Two, if it was, he's making everybody else drink it too (Thor needs chlorophyll??)? How serious of an anti-oxidant is it suppose to be?

There wasn't that fall over and laugh until your sides hurt moment that the first one had, but it had plenty of funny so I still loved it. Even was sitting by the ginormous speakers and I'm not deaf.