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Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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radditsu
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Leadsalad
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Changing character ethnicity for the sake of racial diversity is just pandering, nothing more nothing less.
They should have Luke Cage in the movies already.
They should have Luke Cage in the movies already.
radditsu
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opiate82
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An actual screener version is popping up on the torrent sites now. Watched it last night. I was a little disappointed in Ultron as a villain, it felt like his "power level" was a lot lower than it should have been. For the final showdown I'd much rather have seen all the Avengers taking on a single, but incredibly badass, Ultron rather than hordes of mindless one-shottable robot suits whose only threat was in their numbers. Also how quickly QS and SW switched sides felt way off. They spent a decent chunk of time establishing their deep-rooted hate for Stark and then they basically get one line to say "wait, you want to kill humanity, whelp guess we are Avengers now!"
The other thing that had me a little confused was the credits scene with Thanos. I mean, I get they are setting up the Infinity Wars, but I'm trying to figure out what happened in AoU that would prompt him to start taking direct action now. Was he expecting Ultron to somehow bring him the stone, did he only learn that Loki had lost the scepter (and hence the gem) due to the events of AoU? Maybe I'm overthinking it, I dunno.
Overall another solid effort for Marvel, sure they've had better moments in other films but I still enjoyed it.
The other thing that had me a little confused was the credits scene with Thanos. I mean, I get they are setting up the Infinity Wars, but I'm trying to figure out what happened in AoU that would prompt him to start taking direct action now. Was he expecting Ultron to somehow bring him the stone, did he only learn that Loki had lost the scepter (and hence the gem) due to the events of AoU? Maybe I'm overthinking it, I dunno.
Overall another solid effort for Marvel, sure they've had better moments in other films but I still enjoyed it.
opiate82
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No, I understand that. I just don't understand what happens in Age Of Ultron to make him get off his ass. Best I can figure is he only learned Loki lost the staff/gem because of the AoU events, but that is the closest I can figure to a connection between the events in the movie and Thanos deciding to get his hands dirty. Maybe there is no connection to be made at all and it was just a "btw, this is also happening" thing. /shrug
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I think it was inferred that he's getting involved because of AoU, but I think the reality is that it was unconnected and he just wants his gems now. Or maybe that he knows where the gems are some how and knows that the avengers keep getting involved with them. I mean at this point his only saving grace is that no one knows what they do or how to use them together. He's probably getting real antsy knowing they are all starting to be close
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Well up until AoU, every gem was just sitting around somewhere, with exception of Ronan using one for a short period of time, before it then gets locked up again. Now, one of them is literally inside an android's head, and he has immense power because of it. Perhaps it's that?