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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, ever since I thought about it, I've been thinking of a sequence of Carol flying through the sky beating up a bad guy to the tune of "Don't Stop Me Now."
...or perhaps I've seen Shaun of the Dead too much.
I do hope we can get these scenes back in an Extended Edition or Director's Cut of sort (hopefully with the DVD release because I don't have a Blu-Ray).
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.lol...I now have a picture of the executives pointing a gun at the farm saying "do what we say or we will shoot!"
Yeah, I really want to see the extended cut...and yet...Whedon knew what length the movie was supposed to have, so he should have tried to keep the story at a reasonable length. I see a lot of things which could have been either cut or rewritten to take less time and that includes Thor's quest. No matter in which version, Selvig didn't need to be there. Thor could simply say that he goes seeking some answers. Cutting out the stupid romance would have also saved a lot of time.
I'm starting to get the impression that the reason I don't like Age of Ultron very much is because what I watched in theaters was the twitching remains of the real movie, which got hacked into little pieces by studio executives.
edited 12th May '15 6:47:54 AM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.![]()
Basically, yeah. It's always better to come in over time than under time.
edited 12th May '15 6:48:50 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Seconded. I'd have to go against Joss Whedon and say I liked the first more, but the second wasn't bad. The humor was just hit-and-miss with me. AOU's humor was hit-and-miss but the action, scale, and conflict were more dazzling. Avengers had a bunch more fist-pump worthy moments though.
edited 12th May '15 7:12:35 AM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!I want to emphasize that AOU is a good comic book/superhero film and deleted scenes don't severely damage a film unless it robs a greater understanding of its plot.
AOU isn't difficult to understand. I watched it with my sibling who hadn't seen Cap 2/Iron Man 3/or Thor 2, and the only thing I needed to explain was what happened to SHIELD.
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I don't think the deleted scenes made the plot impossible to understand, but I think the plot was WAY too rushed and (besides the farm scenes, the party scene, and a few moments in the Quinjet that were mostly there for rushed exposition) rarely took the time to breathe. In particular, I thought Ultron's creation happened so quickly, it was almost stupid.
"Hey, Bruce, we can use this strange magical artifact to power up the Ultron initiative that we've never mentioned, foreshadowed, or hinted at existing before this exact moment."
"Sounds like a plan!"
*two minutes later*
"AAAAAAAAAAH EVIL ROBOT!"
*one minute later*
"Alright, Avengers, Ultron's a bad guy running around being bad. Better go stop him!"
That's how the pacing felt to me. Like the movie was impatient to get to the standard "superhero vs supervillain" dynamic and therefore sacrificed valuable character development and story pacing.
And the thing is, I feel like there are plenty of good comic book/superhero stories that have perfectly fine storytelling and character development. Age of Ultron was a good action flick, but saying it's a comic book/superhero film is like admitting that the whole genre has an inherent, unavoidable flaw, which I don't think is true at all.
(Also, something tells me they'd have a bit more time for Thor's subplot if they'd just cut the Black Widow / Hulk romance. In fact, from now on "cut the stupid romance out" is going to be my default answer to every pacing issue with this movie. I mean, I don't know exactly how many minutes of the movie were dedicated to that subplot, but I know they were too freaking many.)
edited 12th May '15 7:31:09 AM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.

That's a pretty good one.
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