Just when I thought I couldn't love Clint Barton more...
Kneejerk gut reaction: SO AWESOME. Ugh. I want to go see it again.
Slightly more considered reaction: Not as good as Avengers Assemble. But still awesome. More Hawkeye. So automatically awesome.
Seriously, Clint is totally the heart of this movie and I love that man so much. He has a farm and a family and kids, and yeah, that totally shoots my shipping Clint and Natasha through the heart (as does the whole Natasha/Banner angle, but more on that later) - but oh, Clint. Clint. *pets* His family is adorable, he is adorable, Aunt Nat is adorable. Clint is just so human. I know Cap is human, Tony is human, Natasha is human - but somehow Clint just manages to be this level-headed, weary, ordinary guy surrounded by super-humans and gods and machines and enhanced individuals, and he is golden.
Plus, I love that Scarlet Witch's mind mojo doesn't work on Clint because of Loki having been there and done that and scrambled the neurons. She does a number on the others though - and Cap, oh Cap, of course he'd see Peggy in that ballroom for their dance. *weeps* And of course Tony sees everyone dead and the world in danger and all because he could have done more. Tony, baby...
"The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow." Oh Clint, my snarky darling. *pets more*
So Ultron suffers from not being Loki, okay. Loki has such charisma and panache, he just steals everything - the movie, the sceptre, the baby, the baggage. So Ultron is not Loki. And he wasn't all that scary and he wasn't all that funny, and to me he was just dead weight at the centre of the movie. Now Vision, on the other hand, I found fascinating to watch. That whole wielding Mjolnir thing? The Team's reaction to that killed me. And how awesome/intriguing is it that Vision can lift it when no-one else can? And kinda sexy, in a real weird wrong way. It's Paul Bettany, okay, it's a kneejerk reaction.
So, Natasha and Bruce. I don't mind it, I just don't feel it. Except the one scene in Clint's house, where they're kinda bonding over both feeling like monsters. That broke my heart a little bit, because they both feel like monsters but neither of them see the other that way. And I'm wondering where Banner ended up at the end. It seemed a bit strange to end up with him AWOL, unless they're setting that up for something else.
Loved seeing War Machine and Falcon and Maria Hill and Fury and Eric. Wish there could have been room for a Pepper or Jane scene though, although I loved Thor and Tony boring Maria at the party with how awesome their ladies were. Didn't see Quicksilver's death coming either, but it's Joss so I guess death is to be expected. Cap tearing apart wood with his bare hands when he's pissed at Tony? *fans self* Tony and Cap fighting? *sadface* I am so not going to be ready for Civil War...
But in conclusion - Clint Barton, you wonderful rumpled man you, I love you.
Slightly more considered reaction: Not as good as Avengers Assemble. But still awesome. More Hawkeye. So automatically awesome.
Seriously, Clint is totally the heart of this movie and I love that man so much. He has a farm and a family and kids, and yeah, that totally shoots my shipping Clint and Natasha through the heart (as does the whole Natasha/Banner angle, but more on that later) - but oh, Clint. Clint. *pets* His family is adorable, he is adorable, Aunt Nat is adorable. Clint is just so human. I know Cap is human, Tony is human, Natasha is human - but somehow Clint just manages to be this level-headed, weary, ordinary guy surrounded by super-humans and gods and machines and enhanced individuals, and he is golden.
Plus, I love that Scarlet Witch's mind mojo doesn't work on Clint because of Loki having been there and done that and scrambled the neurons. She does a number on the others though - and Cap, oh Cap, of course he'd see Peggy in that ballroom for their dance. *weeps* And of course Tony sees everyone dead and the world in danger and all because he could have done more. Tony, baby...
"The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow." Oh Clint, my snarky darling. *pets more*
So Ultron suffers from not being Loki, okay. Loki has such charisma and panache, he just steals everything - the movie, the sceptre, the baby, the baggage. So Ultron is not Loki. And he wasn't all that scary and he wasn't all that funny, and to me he was just dead weight at the centre of the movie. Now Vision, on the other hand, I found fascinating to watch. That whole wielding Mjolnir thing? The Team's reaction to that killed me. And how awesome/intriguing is it that Vision can lift it when no-one else can? And kinda sexy, in a real weird wrong way. It's Paul Bettany, okay, it's a kneejerk reaction.
So, Natasha and Bruce. I don't mind it, I just don't feel it. Except the one scene in Clint's house, where they're kinda bonding over both feeling like monsters. That broke my heart a little bit, because they both feel like monsters but neither of them see the other that way. And I'm wondering where Banner ended up at the end. It seemed a bit strange to end up with him AWOL, unless they're setting that up for something else.
Loved seeing War Machine and Falcon and Maria Hill and Fury and Eric. Wish there could have been room for a Pepper or Jane scene though, although I loved Thor and Tony boring Maria at the party with how awesome their ladies were. Didn't see Quicksilver's death coming either, but it's Joss so I guess death is to be expected. Cap tearing apart wood with his bare hands when he's pissed at Tony? *fans self* Tony and Cap fighting? *sadface* I am so not going to be ready for Civil War...
But in conclusion - Clint Barton, you wonderful rumpled man you, I love you.