Age of Ultron

(Note, only the top half of this post is spoiler-free. I plan on including spoilers in my discussion, and I fully expect the comments to be spoilerific. Proceed at your own peril.)

So we went to see Age of Ultron.

TLDR? It was as much fun as you’d expect, and if you are pretty sure you’ll like it, you’re almost certainly right.

We got the nice leather reclining seats and had fantastic friends accompanying us on our journey back to the world of the Avengers.

My first note? Don’t waste your money on the 3D.

I got a headache almost immediately and was in bad enough shape that I couldn’t hang around to discuss the movie with friends afterwards. No bueno.

Steven does NOT get headaches from 3D, but even he admits there really wasn’t much point to the 3D. It was tacked on rather than enhancing, really. YMMV, of course, but I’d save the cash for the 3D.

DO splurge on the awesome seating if it’s available in your area. So incredibly awesome to not be crammed up against other moviegoers, and to be able to recline my feetses.

NOW ENTERING SPOILER ZONE.

My favorite thing about the movie? They nailed EVERY single speck of humor. Every one of them. Best written and executed hilarious dialogue I’ve seen outside of something that billed itself as comedy.

HULKBUSTER IRONMAN, amirite? *flailing*

Factoid: When everyone’s trying to pick up Thor’s hammer and Black Widow refuses to even try? It’s because she CAN. And she does so in one of the comics. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?

Answer? Very awesome.

I love love loved the so-sweet romance between Black Widow and Hulk and hate hate hated the way it ended. In truth, I kind of didn’t like the note the movie left me with in general. Yeah, there’s a new team and hope and stuff? But mostly it felt … rough. Unfinished.

Realistic, I suppose, which would appeal to people who like that sort of thing. I’m more of a HEA kinda gal and I did not get the closure I wanted on the romance and it makes me sad.

I loved the acting done by the Scarlet Witch but … um. Did her powers make sense to ANYONE? They seemed very random and hand-wavy magicky.

Vision’s as well. (Vision’s the pink dude) Steven assures me they NAILED Vision and how he was supposed to look and act, but I was kind of thrown for a loop about the whole thing.

I don’t believe they killed Quicksilver. He was too awesome, he’s not allowed to die. Plus, it’s comics. Nobody’s allowed to die. (and how easy would this movie have been if the X-Men crossovers were allowed to happen? Quicksilver could have been all “DAAAAaaaAAAaaad! Come crush the robots for us!” and they could have gone out for shawarma.

I felt how big the cast was this time. Possibly because they kept splitting into smaller groups, but most especially with Thor’s subplot, it felt a little more staggered to me.

Then again, I had a splitting headache and maybe it’s actually fine.

Your opinions?

I’m sure there weren’t many people who were on the fence about whether or not they want to see this movie, so I’m hoping a bunch of you have seen it by now and might want to discuss.

Hawkeye’s got a family! And they addressed the lol-why-is-this-bowslinging-mortal-pretending-to-be-a-superhero thing, which was awesome of them.