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This is the fakest looking CGI I've seen in a very long time.

People paid money for this? This is terrible. Wow.
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One star out of five, probably.

It wasn't offensively bad, but I am amazed that all that money can be spent, and all that goes into making a movie can happen without there being any sort of tension. It was all very silly. I guess it was a little neat to see some of the characters on the screen, but it wasn't that neat.

Spoilers to follow.

Towards the end, Quicksilver dies. He is shot a bunch of times by a machine gun on a fighter jet piloted by a robot.

I think the only thing dumber than killing a comic book character -- they all come back, they all have to come back because the company needs to market the characters -- is killing a comic book character in a comic book movie. There's absolutely no tension, there's no sense that wow, this is a great story and Quicksilver had to die, yeah. Killing a relatively minor, in the scheme of things, character that has been around for 60 years is also silly.

When Wash dies in Firefly, Whedon is telling us that everyone else is in danger. Hey, we'll probably never see the crew together again, what an experience. When Quicksilver dies it's just.. oh. Wow. They really did the dumbest thing in movies and killed a guy for no thematic reason.

These Marvel movies really are not a big deal. Like I said, it was not offensively bad. There were a few neat "combo" attacks. All the Marvel movies also sort of suffer from feeling obligated to raise the stakes: this time a whole CITY is gonna blow up, oh no! Who cares?
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Post by ChainGangGuy »

I am woefully behind on these Marvel flicks. I've yet to see:

Thor
Thor 2
Iron Man 1
Iron Man 2
Avengers 2
Man of Ants
Deadpool
X-men Origins: Wolverine
Edward Norton Incredible Hulk reboot


Are there any winners in that bunch?

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Post by Ice Cream Jonsey »

Deadpool's great, one of the best action films I've ever seen.

I liked one of the Iron Mans, but I can't remember which.

I'm gonna see if I can get a copy of Ant-Man right now!
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The kids appreciated Ant Man
Iron Man was good
as was X men Origins
and Avengers 2
Thor rocked (though I kept on wondering when he was going to throw a soda vending machine)
Didn't see Hulk or Deadpool yet

Though, you should check out the HISHEs after you've finally seen the movies.
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5/5. Age of Ultron is the best Marvell movie to date for me.

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Cinema Sins looked at the movie, and if his comments are right, this movie has a hell of a lot wrong with it.

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Post by Flack »

I will never see this movie, but I heard some people at work talking about it and I thought they were saying "Age of Voltron" and I got pretty excited.
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Voltron...

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OMG my husband was watching Voltron the other day with our son, and it was so much more awful than I remember it. Princess needed to be rescued and was so sure she could change the evil with *cringe* *puke*
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witch even
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Superman II was the last decent comic book movie made aside from Watchmen.

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