Avengers - Age of Ultron - Great Fun

[Ocelano]

Ok, I mostly loved this movie. Ultron was a great villain (James Spader FTW) and the action did a great job of keeping my attention.

Spoiler: However...I need to rant...(spoilers)

Quicksilver's death was entirely too clever for it's own good.

I appreciate what went into it. The misdirecting tells heavily direct a viewer into thinking that Hawkeye is going to kick the bucket (Hawkeye making constant reference to his perceived uselessness, introducing Hawkeye's family, repeated references that 'someone is probably going to die on this mission because SUPER SERIOUSNESS GUYS'). And I like how they set up that Quicksilver still can get hit by stray bullets when he's sprinting through the battlefield. Had 90% of the scene where Quicksilver sacrificed his life to save Hawkeye played out as it did, it would have been perfect.

But having Quicksilver basically spike the camera and quip "You didn't see that coming..."?

Fuck right off.

It might be as small thing but it sort of tainted my viewing experience. I know that it could be taken two ways ("Oh Hawkeye, you didn't see those bullets" and "Haha viewers, you fell for this clever charade!"). But it felt patronizing and sort of broke the fourth wall. It sort of tainted the rest of my viewing experience because it shook me from my default superhero 'giddy spectator' mode and threw me into 'grumpy cynic' mode.

I still liked the movie a lot. In fact, it's probably the most fun I've had all year. However, that moment is going to be one I annoy people at parties with for years. :/

Spoiler: you forgot

this is his last mission before retirement and a baby on the way as soon as I heard those two things I said to myself dead man walking

That said Disney has been pulling the bait and switch tactics more often over the past few years example they did it twice in frozen a curse breakable only by true love a perfect disney prince prob solved and they play it perfectly straight till the very last second before revealing he's a dick. They have become very self aware and are keenly aware that we know and subconsciously look for certain tells so they feed us precisely what we expect until they suddenly crotch kick us with the twist

that said during Thors vision did anyone notice the interesting thing about the nebula that the stones were flying into?

Spoiler

it was golden and fist shaped