| Lawlight said: Positives: + They have mastered the action sequences and the slow motions of them fighting together on the screen look great. + Cap's suit is great. Negatives: - The story was underwhelming. - There is no tension during the whole movie, nothing is really at stake. The humour makes it worse. - Captain America is not the leader and him and Thor barely have anything to do outside of the action sequences. - Ultron, as expected is a weak villain. Both physically and character-wise. His motivations are very thin and he's just there because the movie needs a villain. - Pacing was poor with some plodding, unnecessary moments (like Hawkeye's family or the romance plot that came out of nowhere) along with some long-ass action sequences One thing that I also noticed is that there were a lot of jokes but not a whole lot of laughs in the theatre. |
You are right on a few things here, I saw it again yesterday (my first viewing was a free one, I'd already paid for the one yesterday). I got a far better view in the Imax screening and so everything generally looked better. Cap's suit was great, looked far better than the cheesy one in Avengers 1.
It's odd about story though, having watch it a second time I was able to think about certain things in it. Why did Wanda and Pietro go to the church to meet Ultron at first? Where on earth was Hulk for the majority of the fight near the end?
The film felt like they had to have the characters but also that they also thought they needed to have the characters do something. This didn't work because like you say, it meant characters were involved in out of placce story aspects like a romantic plot which didn't make sense. In comics, all team based books are about the team or it's about 1 character in the team book but the others are there, you can deal with their stuff later as it's a serial drama (soap opera). The films don't have that luxury.
I do now think that the Ironman and Ultron thing is okay-ish, but it ruins Hank Pym in whatever guise he appears (I don't know and don't intend to) who's character is defined by Ultron. Ultron was done well though, intelligent and has the basic ambition of 'destroy the humans' like an evil robot might have.
The jokes thing is a Whedon thing, his one liner writing style was completely out of place in this film but then he can't do any better as it's all he's got.
Hmm, pie.
