avengers age of ultron discussion (spoilers)

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smoobles posted:

also it's funny to me that the avengers won't assemble for something as big as the events of winter soldier, but they will assemble for a party

they're really busy.

yeah I also don't like, get how someone like Ultron couldn't have made a backup plan. Like, "What if they somehow destroy all my bodies in this big fight?" I mean. He had weeks of basically unrestrained access to wherever. He could have just like, given some of his bodies a shovel and told them to go bury themselves somewhere and surface in like a month and check if the plan worked or whatever.

Also when the scarlet witch is mad so she goes to rip out the big Ultron's heart, like. That's like smashing a computer monitor to stop a computer. It meant nothing, and she let the switch she just swore to protect get flipped for it.

Overall it was an entertaining but pointless movie. Yeah there was no narrative arc for anyone. The starting point is "they're badasses" and the ending point is, "still badasses, but maybe they're less confident or something?". As much as I loved Vision in the comic books, just randomly adding a new protagonist in the last 3rd of your movie and having him kill the BBEG seemed kind of weird. But, they did totally nail Vision's weird flowing cape.

Also, why isn't Tony Stark getting brought up on charges for reckless endangerment at least with all the people Ultron killed? I mean. He is directly responsible for the event, his actions were risky and the safeguards he had in place were apparently incredibly inadequate. The only reason every country didn't get nuked to pieces is because some rogue part of another thing he saved happened to survive, apparently? They made a big deal about Hulk's rampage meaning he might go to jail or whatever, but nobody wants to arrest Tony Stark? He just, does whatever he wants and the government's like 'Oh well he's iron man.'

# ¿ May 5, 2015 03:54

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:42

joke_explainer

If you created a computer program that hacked into the nuclear control computers and almost successfully launched every nuke, I think you would go to prison for a long time even if it was a total accident...

# ¿ May 5, 2015 03:56

joke_explainer

saboten posted:

i haven't seen some of the other movies so whenever something i didnt recognise was mentioned i was like "ugghhhhh what's that is that important has it been explained in another film or is this brand new informationnnnnnn"

but mostly i didnt care and it was ok and theyre all very beautiful

almost everything is a reference to something else .. it's kind of nuts, almost no effort put in for a new viewer, they're just like 'go watch everything we've made." even that weird ballet school for assassins: that's from agent carter. there's more stuff from agents of shield too. so not just movies but tv shows too...

one thing that was super weird. halfway through all the characters with their own movies decide to go try to figure poo poo out on their own. Thor goes to Stellan Skarsg�rd, and is like, "I need your help." What does he need that physics guys help for? Apparently, to help him bathe in an unexplained, never-mentioned magic pool that gives you more info on your dreams. I don't think Stellan Skarsg�rd's character is really an expert on that and then they just don't mention it again. It was weird.

# ¿ May 5, 2015 16:42

joke_explainer

google THIS posted:

apparently it was to learn how to make Frankenstein lightning to fuse an ai with an artificial body with the help of an infinity stone he just happened to have on him, which most theoretical astrophysicists learn how to do in undergrad

Yeah, I think Ultron puts the infinity stone from loki's scepter into the body. lol, I thought he was trying to destroy the body but if he actually was trying to make it wake up then that's even crazier. "Everyone! I tripped the hell out after soaking myself in some musty cave water! I know what to do!"

# ¿ May 5, 2015 17:06

joke_explainer

"I need to talk to someone really smart, who I can also trust who is not an Avenger. Hmm... My brilliant girlfriend, or Erik Selvig. Gotta go with the old man on this one. Something shady about my girlfriend..."

# ¿ May 5, 2015 17:17

joke_explainer

maybe he checked facebook and Selvig just happened to be in the same town as the magic water pool and figured, hey, good opportunity to catch up

# ¿ May 5, 2015 17:18

joke_explainer

google THIS posted:

this after they spent ten minutes of dialog explaining to each other that they were sterile

He goes, "I can't exactly have kids! Do the math!" The movie would have been better if he had been like "My balls, Natasha! They're messed up as hell irradiated by the gamma radiation!!"

# ¿ May 5, 2015 23:19

joke_explainer

Then they could have a 5 minute flashback sequence for when he realized his sperm count was super low and his anguish from that to match with black widow's ballerina dream sequence thing

# ¿ May 5, 2015 23:20