Age of Ultron
I enjoyed it a lot.
There were a lot of fight scenes, and I liked that we've seen that the Avengers integrated their fighting styles some as a team, like Steve and Thor combining the shield and hammer for effects, or Natasha and the Hulk working together. I also liked the Bruce/Natasha romance bit, and found that still worked with the Natasha & Clint friendship. I suppose a lot of people would have liked have seen Clint's character expanded more in line with current comics rather than with a happy family with a wife and children on a farm, but I can see this version, that he keeps his family hidden and safe. But then I'm not an avid Clint/Natasha shipper.
I liked that there were at least nods to others characters beyond the core group, e.g. that we saw Sam as Falcon (and that the Steve's search for Bucky got a mention), Rhodey as War Machine and Erik Selvig helping out Thor. I also appreciated that Jarvis managed to recover. I'm not really familiar with the Ultron storyline from the comics or the origin for Vision, except really vague osmosis, but the MCU version mostly worked for me.
I mean, Thor's part in it left me vaguely confused and I didn't really get his vision (maybe on rewatch or with reading recaps things become clearer). But I appreciated that the plot wasn't Tony becoming megalomaniac and creating a creepy AI that gets out of control or such, but the gem in the scepter already being a kind of mind, and Tony and Bruce being both curious to utilize and understand it with Jarvis' help (admittedly with some possibly creepy "Ultron" plan in mind). I hope that Jarvis still exists outside of what became Vision. Whether that was the case wasn't entirely clear to me. Like whether he copied himself into the organic body to overwhelm Ultron, and didn't fully move into it becoming only Vision.
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There were a lot of fight scenes, and I liked that we've seen that the Avengers integrated their fighting styles some as a team, like Steve and Thor combining the shield and hammer for effects, or Natasha and the Hulk working together. I also liked the Bruce/Natasha romance bit, and found that still worked with the Natasha & Clint friendship. I suppose a lot of people would have liked have seen Clint's character expanded more in line with current comics rather than with a happy family with a wife and children on a farm, but I can see this version, that he keeps his family hidden and safe. But then I'm not an avid Clint/Natasha shipper.
I liked that there were at least nods to others characters beyond the core group, e.g. that we saw Sam as Falcon (and that the Steve's search for Bucky got a mention), Rhodey as War Machine and Erik Selvig helping out Thor. I also appreciated that Jarvis managed to recover. I'm not really familiar with the Ultron storyline from the comics or the origin for Vision, except really vague osmosis, but the MCU version mostly worked for me.
I mean, Thor's part in it left me vaguely confused and I didn't really get his vision (maybe on rewatch or with reading recaps things become clearer). But I appreciated that the plot wasn't Tony becoming megalomaniac and creating a creepy AI that gets out of control or such, but the gem in the scepter already being a kind of mind, and Tony and Bruce being both curious to utilize and understand it with Jarvis' help (admittedly with some possibly creepy "Ultron" plan in mind). I hope that Jarvis still exists outside of what became Vision. Whether that was the case wasn't entirely clear to me. Like whether he copied himself into the organic body to overwhelm Ultron, and didn't fully move into it becoming only Vision.
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