I enjoy how people are trying to use the honest trailer as an excuse to take a heaping dump on Fury Road. You realize honest trailers, even for good movies, dig for whatever flaws that can be found? It's how they work. If we're going to assume every movie they make an honest trailer for is bad, well, the list of movies a lot of people like just turned to crap real quick. It's like the Cinema Sins channel in that respect.
For Fury Road, it was great. I apologize to people that need the type of plot where the characters spell out every tiny bit of the plot, setting, and themes with as many words as can be jammed into any one dialogue sequence, as Fury Road was the exact opposite of that. They basically spelled out nothing except what they absolutely had to, which actually led to some of the most refreshing storytelling I've seen in a movie I wanted to watch in quite awhile. I apologize if a strong female lead left a bad taste in your mouth. You know, sorry that you are so incapable of accepting that, and have a need to point out how bad it is that the movie has some feminist themes in it while daring to include a female lead.
I mean, c'mon. The official trailers didn't exactly try to hide the fact that it had a female focus for the plot. Even then, you still see Max kick a lot of ass as a guy that just got really inconvenienced all because he was captured at the beginning of the film. I wouldn't say Max got sidelined. He was still key to the plot. Without Max's brand of badassery, things wouldn't have even gone half as smoothly as they did for Furiosa's group.
Re: Age of Ultron: Sorry, but it just wasn't very good. It tried to do too much, and it was clearly not the most well thought out addition to the Marvel cinematic universe. It mangled some character relationships, jammed in villains turned heroes with one turned dead, and overall it felt like Ultron had potential as a villain that was really squandered with mediocre writing throughout the rest of the film. Maybe I'm getting tired of super hero films, or maybe the current iteration of the Avengers is starting to fall flat. The most fun I had with a Marvel movie in the past few years was seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, and I feel like a lot of that has to do with the fact that the only relation it had to the Avengers plot line was Thanos and an Infinity Gem. Overall, Age of Ultron falls right into that category of movies I've seen once that I don't plan on watching again. It was, at best, a 7/10, most of that 7 being because the action was generally decent.
