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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I don't think anyone in the MCU needed a movie.
But I want a Wasp movie.
So clearly and by flawless logic there should be one.
Also a Kamala Khan movie.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers"Jan, we need you to shrink down inside young Peter's body and fix his bullet wound."
"Why don't we just use a non-tiny doctor?"
"We're out of gauze"
If you didn't like the first Avengers movie, there's no way you'll like this one. It's basically just the first movie, but with worse jokes and a more rushed, confusing, chaotic plot.
to be honest part of the reason why i didn't like it didn't have to do with the film itself, but with what preceded it.
i felt that avengers was built with the idea that you were supposed to be super hype to see all these characters together in one movie kicking ass. even if it wasn't it's more or less only natural that this would be an expectation viewers would have.
thing is that every movie after iron man was ok to dull at best for me, and didn't exactly do a great job of getting me invested in the characters. because their movies just left me kinda underwhelmed the premise of all the characters being together in one movie pretty much did absolutely nothing for me. i didn't really find the small bits of character drama we got in the movie particularly compelling either, so what resulted was me being completely bored throughout the entire thing. My brother had even less tolerance for it and walked out in the middle of it.
i don't even have a problem with "fun" movies, honestly, it's just that watching avengers wasn't very fun for me personally lol
edited 14th Jul '15 12:10:26 PM by wehrmacht
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All the themes in Age of Ultron were still present in the first Avengers. The first movie just handled those themes about a bazillion times more gracefully.
Avengers 1 was a good movie because it was simple. Given the premise, it would've been really easy for the movie to spiral out of control like Age of Ultron did, but instead it kept itself structured and coherent.
edited 14th Jul '15 12:28:30 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.
Nope. The theme of "protecting the world by doing stuff that risks destroying it" was touched on in the first movie with SHIELD trying to use the Tesseract to make weapons to protect the world.
Heck, Tony gave them a hard time for using a mystical space artifact to make weapons to protect the world, then turned around and did that exact same thing in the second movie.
edited 14th Jul '15 12:36:22 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.
That wasn't the theme I was talking about - I was referring to more of the twins and their relationship with the Avengers and war itself.
Maria: They were apparently volunteers. It's nuts.
Steve: Right, because what monster would let a German scientist experiment on them to protect their country?
Maria: But we're not at war, captain.
Steve: They are.
But the theme you mentioned was also kind of glossed over in the first Avengers. In Age of Ultron, it was given more depth.
Nothing in Age of Ultron had depth. It had so many unrelated concepts and idea fighting for equal screen time that the whole movie spread itself too thin.
https://swanpride.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/marvellous-and-dcent-black-widow/
because it would really take too long to make a post about all the layers in Age of Ultron. I have to give it to the movie: Of all the MCU movies so far, it had the most to offer in this regard. The only other movies I feel the need to discuss in such details are The Winter Soldier and Iron Man 3.
EDIT:Are Youtube videos not working anymore in the forum?
edited 14th Jul '15 7:11:49 PM by Heatth

@The Ant-Man theme.
Oh yeah. This is definitely a heist movie.