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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It's okay to have minor opinion. I for once love Cap 1 and Ant-Man more than most people do.
Non Indicative UsernameI mean, what's not to like about it? Quicksilver, for a character pretty much introduced only to die, was pretty good, Hawkeye gets time to shine, Ultron's actor is pretty good, Vision is amazing, and the action is alright.
It's just that the flaws are...ugh. The bad things about it are frustrating.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Same. I personally found it decent but with some glaring flaws and a step down from the first movie, but overall still not a bad film. Reddit seems to like it for the most part, to the point you have more threads talking about how overblown the hate is than actual hate. 4Chan can be vitriolic in their bashing of it but don't seem to actually hate it, not to the same level they do the Thor films. Tumblr hates it to a fanatical, almost bandwagoning level to the point the few people I've seen admitting they enjoyed it on the whole got sent hate for it. While my Chinese friend tells me the reception on social media networks there is similarly middling (it's not the worst but it's not great either and a disappointment after the previous few films).
edited 22nd May '16 9:16:51 PM by AlleyOop
Depends on what part of Tumblr you're looking on, I guess. Keep in mind that the crazy fangirl part of Tumblr is pretty vocal, and they pretty much hate Age of Ultron for reasons both logical (Whedon's writing of Black Widow) to illogical (Hawkeye having a wife).
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?By the way, you guys ranked the MCU movies a while back. Here's my list:
1. Avengers Age Of Ultron (10.9/10)
2/3. Captain America Civil War/ Avengers (9.5-10/10)
4. Iron Man 3 (9.2/10)
5. Captain America The Winter Soldier (9.0/10)
6. Guardians Of The Galaxy (8.8/10)
7. Ant Man (8.5/10)
8. Thor The Dark World (8.2/10)
9. Iron Man (8.0/10)
10. Captain America The First Avenger (7.6/10)
11. Iron Man 2 (7.0/10)
12. Thor (6.8/10)
13. The Incredible Hulk (6.3/10)
All higher than average (5/10)
edited 22nd May '16 9:18:05 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
Yep, that's it. It's not that it wasn't good, it's just that the flaws were obvious and mostly simple to fix. They don't kill the movie, they just leave a sour taste.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.I just call it "the second best Avengers film ever made".
I greatly enjoyed it despite its flaws, but the first one was just a masterpiece.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!So, I have two hypothetical questions. First, if they hadn't gone with the Civil War storyline, what would Cap 3 have been about?
Second, Sebastian Stan seemed to be maybe semi-seriously lobbying for a Winter Soldier solo movie. If we ignore certain logistics (what movie would get pushed back in the process, how would it fit into the MCU timeline, etc), What could that movie cover? The two year gap between Cap 2 & 3? His time with HYDRA (I think that would be interesting because I kinda feel like there was always more going on in his head than anybody realized, and I want to see how that would fit together with how they dealt with him. Did he know he had holes in his mind? Did he think that was strange? How did he view himself compared to the people around him?)? Some time in the future?
I mean let's be honest, there's no way the end of Civil War sticks, Bucky-wise.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.Would've had more emphasis on Cap and Falcon searching for Bucky, probably more time explaining what exactly he was doing those last two years and a proper exploration of his character rather than reducing him to a bit of a damsel, a less anticlimactic reunion with Cap than "hey, you know me right? k gotta go stop Zemo", and more development to Sharon whose actress signed onto the film before it became Civil War. Apparently that revelation of what Bucky did at the very end of the film would've still held true regardless, and was the necessary piece that allowed them to frankenstein the greater Civil War plot in.
I feel like, now that I've had time to think it over a bit, that might've been a better movie. Civil War is a greater achievement than The Winter Soldier when you consider all the places it could've gone wrong. But as a standalone film it lacked the latter's clarity, due to literally being a chimera of two separate movies, joined together neater than they had any right to, but you can spot the seams, and which would've been better developed as independent films. In hindsight considering BvS's poor reception the need to jump into Civil War was probably premature from a storytelling standpoint.
edited 22nd May '16 10:14:01 PM by AlleyOop
I don't know when exactly RDJ signed on and whether he was going to be in it before it became Civil War, but we do know his role was originally going to be much smaller. It's possible he would've still been around in the pre-Civil War script. As it turned out the final film was his best showing with a great performance from RDJ and the film did a lot to clean up his characterization post-IM3 and AOU, but given that he's already seen as a Spotlight-Stealing Squad in the greater MCU I can understand why people are a little resentful that he basically took away from characters who arguably could've used or deserved higher priority with the screentime.
edited 22nd May '16 10:21:21 PM by AlleyOop
Who knows. Civil War opens up so many possibilities in Phase 3, it just feels right to me. After all the script writers said that they kind of naturally ended up with a version of Civil War once they realized all the implications of their take on Bucky's story. And honestly, adding Civil War into the mix is not something I would have changed. What I would have changed is the editing. I think the movie doesn't linger long enough on the more emotional scenes and has the bad habit of cutting from one persons face to another during them. It's not bad enough to ruin the movie, but I feel that it takes away a little bit from the emotional impact some of the scenes have.
But, well, nitpicks. As it is, I consider Got G and The Winter Soldier better than Civil war, because those movies are tighter written overall, and have a better pacing, but Civil War (and the first Avengers) is right behind.
Place 5 is Cap 1 btw. I love that movie.
Uh, if we're doing all that then:
1. GotG
2. Civil War
3. Winter Soldier
4. Avengers
5. Avengers 2: Rise of Ultron
6. Ant Man
7. Iron Man
8. Captain America
9. Thor
10. Iron Man 2
11. Iron Man 3
12. The Incredible Hulk
13. Thor 2
I consider them all to be good movies, with all of them above Thor as great movies.

Given how much I love Age of Ultron, reading the early 2270s pages is infuriating that I can't lend my two cents.
edited 22nd May '16 8:12:20 PM by PushoverMediaCritic