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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I should note that Bar...err, COLONEL Zemo considered Sokovia a complete shithole and failed state.
They don't like the Avengers but Hydra is there and publicly.
So, I'm not overly sympathetic to its government.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Listen. Even though I was the one who pointed out that the Mind stone was a trap (or the sceptre did something), I don't want us to stop blaming Tony.
No one in universe is going to stop, so why should we?
I mean, it's the gift that keeps on giving, and brings people together (in their hatred of Tony Stark) far better than Christmas ever did.
One Strip! One Strip!That doesn't refute any criticisms, though. If discourse is to be had over a film that a lot of people have legitimate grievances with, saying "Just stop talking about it" isn't a good way to handle it. Maybe address why you feel that way about all of those things you listed?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?RE Tony's flaws, I guess I'd say my problem with AOU is I feel like it teases him being flawed and then pulls the rug out and says, "Ha ha! He really did nothing wrong!" Which I will acknowledge is how some people think of Cap in Winter Soldier and Civil War.
And I'll also acknowledge is partly to avoid giving Tony a Pym-like Never Live It Down- Well, a "creating a Killer Robot Never Live It Down", rather than Pym's other Domestic Abuse and Engineered Heroics Never Live It Downs.
edited 17th Apr '18 5:33:02 PM by Hodor2
You're dead to me PMC. I've never liked you.
That is something I like about him actually. He's very self aware.
One Strip! One Strip!The problem isn't merely when it's dark. The problem is that it's flat. Other scenes like the Hulkbuster battle or the Seoul chase are saturated in a yellow-orange filter, which is just as displeasing to the eye as when the opening battle is a overall blue-gray bore. Or inside Ultron's underground lair, where there's so little contrast it took me a while to catch that there were other robots in there with him.
It's a problem that applies to many of the latter MCU films, like how Homecoming's climax has too little contrast in the dark to see, or how Civil War has basically the same lighting everywhere throughout (though it does a little better by having a lot of exterior lighting sources). It's not until Black Panther and Thor Ragnarok that we're actually seeing the MCU lighting palette improve, and actually look decently stylized for a comic book film.
Here is what I like about Age of Ultron: The themes. I like the examination of the meaning of legacy. And visually speaking, I happen to like the allusions to various horror movies, from Frankenstein to horror movies. It is very subtle, but meaningful. Whedon borrows heavily from movies which deal with similar themes than his does and hence creates a different lawyer.
Honestly, take out the Romance and the idiot prophetic hot tub, and I wouldn't have anything to complain about.
Sorry for the double post...but I also wanted to point to a featurette Marvel uploaded:
The Hashtag Show is reporting that Emma Fuhrmann is joining Avengers 4 as (if true a huge spoiler) Cassie Lang[1]
edited 17th Apr '18 8:30:39 PM by ComicFan
x5 That is indeed very interesting.
edited 17th Apr '18 8:37:12 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.

@Handsome Rob- Ah yes, I forgot about Jarvis. That does make a bit more sense with that aspect.
I do agree though that this is kind of a circlejerk issue, so I'll drop it.
On another topic, something I was thinking about. So Hela looks a hella lot like Loki/vice versa. While I imagine that the Doyleist reason is some combination of teasing the audience who might think that she was Loki's daughter and Blanchett looking good like that, I was pondering a Watsonian reason.
Although as I understood the movies, Loki didn't realize he was wearing a glamour, so it either came naturally or else Frigga and/or Odin taught him to do it when he was too young to remember. But in any event, I wonder if to some extent they turned him into a Replacement Goldfish for Hela and encouraged him to look and dress similar to her.
Which of course made it even worse for them when he too turned evil.
edited 17th Apr '18 4:06:41 PM by Hodor2