"Age of Ultron"
May. 11th, 2015 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI saw "Age of Ultron" last night.
Damn, is it a crowded movie or is it a crowded movie. Then again, that's my problem with those 'group' stories where each character already has an existence elsewhere, but, when they all come together, they are diminished as individual characters and instead become parts of a plot. And it gets worse when the decision is made to add more parts to the mix. Also, while the Marvel Movie Continuity is an interesting project, I don't think it works for anybody who's not familiar with the other stories. Who is Nick Fury? What is SHIELD? What is Hydra? What is this alien invasion they refer to? It's one thing to have tales interconnected, but we're not told *how* they're connected. Mind you, there's little time for that when there's all that sound and fury taking up so much of that time.
At least there's Paul Bettany.
ADDENDUM... I prefer stories of group that exist for organic reasons, like the X-men, who become a family because there are people out there who want to kill them, or like the Fantastic Four, who literally are a family. I prefer tales where a character becomes greater for being in a group, not less.
Damn, is it a crowded movie or is it a crowded movie. Then again, that's my problem with those 'group' stories where each character already has an existence elsewhere, but, when they all come together, they are diminished as individual characters and instead become parts of a plot. And it gets worse when the decision is made to add more parts to the mix. Also, while the Marvel Movie Continuity is an interesting project, I don't think it works for anybody who's not familiar with the other stories. Who is Nick Fury? What is SHIELD? What is Hydra? What is this alien invasion they refer to? It's one thing to have tales interconnected, but we're not told *how* they're connected. Mind you, there's little time for that when there's all that sound and fury taking up so much of that time.
At least there's Paul Bettany.
ADDENDUM... I prefer stories of group that exist for organic reasons, like the X-men, who become a family because there are people out there who want to kill them, or like the Fantastic Four, who literally are a family. I prefer tales where a character becomes greater for being in a group, not less.
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Date: May. 11th, 2015 04:14 pm (UTC)Age of Ultron assumes the audience has seen most of the other MCU movies and kept a
flowchartshort summaryof each in memory, which is something that occasionally happened, footnoted, in the comic books. I have a lot of trouble with some of the storylines because I'm more familiar with original Marvel canon.SHIELD, for purposes of simplicity, is a super
spyintelligence agency akin to all those super intelligence agencies in fiction since, hmmmmmmmmm, the '60s. Think U.N.C.L.E. or CONTROL.Hydra is of course the EVIL CONSPIRACY
that the Puppies believe existsopposed to All That Is Good. In other words, Nazis. It was originally the Major Bad Guys of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and then propagated out to Captain America and Iron Man.The alien invasion was in the first The Avengers in 2012.
I have seen Age of Ultron. It was OK for a popcorn movie, and I'm going to wait for the DVD so I can turn on the captions and find out what everyone was saying.
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Date: May. 11th, 2015 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 11th, 2015 09:00 pm (UTC)I should know by now that when I find myself geeksplaining uncontrollably, it means "Get out of the house."
Will do that right after lunch.
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Date: May. 11th, 2015 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 11th, 2015 09:36 pm (UTC)- Serge, who's not signed in.
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Date: May. 11th, 2015 10:08 pm (UTC)For both, I need to step away from the keyboard before I start gibbering.
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Date: May. 12th, 2015 02:13 am (UTC)- Serge