First of all, FINALLY I'M ALMOST DONE WITH LAST WEEK! Secondly...FINALLY I'M COVERING A MARVEL MOVIE! The Marvel Cinematic Universe is quite frankly, probably my favorite film franchise. I love the Star Wars Universe, but frankly some things in it are getting thrown out that I feel like shouldn't be, meanwhile there are some things that probably shouldn't exist.
Now, don't misunderstand, I'm a bad fanboy, I haven't watched the Captain America movies because, frankly, Cap is my least favorite superhero, I mean he's a fine upstanding person, and his character isn't such that it can be called into question, but so are many firemen, and I don't like fireman movies. He's a strong, fast, smart superhero, and he's a great super-soldier, but that's it. On the other hand, I am super excited about Civil War, which I think would be better titled Avengers: Civil War, but whatever. Enough about that, let's cover one other thing before we jump into my brief review:
Pageviews! Lots of'em, I've hit 70 in the last three hours, and I hope everyone enjoyed my brief statement regarding the sheer epicness...epicity? Epicocity...hang on...okay, we have to make up a word here...the epicocity of The Matrix, seriously, one of my favorite movies, and I'll probably cover it in greater detail in the future, possibly just updating the old post. Anyway, yeah, thanks for checking my blog out!
TITLE: Avengers: Age of Ultron
SUMMARY:
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans.
PERSONAL CRITIQUE:
Just gotta say, loved this movie, went and saw it in theaters and was thoroughly pleased. In all fairness, I'm not a big enough comic book nerd to know the original story behind Ultron, but I do know that loved this rendition on it. I mean, I really enjoy Sci-Fi, and that's part of the draw to Marvel comics for me, most of the characters are science fiction heroes. I mean, radioactive spider bite victims, gamma ray afflicted scientists, super soldiers, and men in exo-suits, Marvel brings it all, and wraps most of it up in a nice little Avenger package. Not to mention the more supernatural characters like Dr. Strange and even an alien twist on the Norse Gods. But yeah, Marvel.
Age of Ultron, I'll grant, is more a superhero movie than an Artificial Intelligence movie, but let's look at it, the movie centers around a scientist trying to protect the world from an alien invasion by introducing a fool-proof defense system, known as Ultron. He already has a super-AI butler that tends to everything he needs, so this is no great stretch, but the ultimate end-game is a bit out of even Tony Stark's league. Ol' Stark uses Norse technology to jumpstart his project. The end result is pretty terrifying from an armageddon scenario point of view. Cue epic fight scenes and existential break downs of our heroes and villains as they fight to secure humanity's safety from its greatest threat, itsel- I mean Ultron.
Really terrific movie with some emotional string jerking scenes, some awesome heroic battles, and the Hulk doing what the Hulk does. Additionally, this movie does a decent job of setting up for the upcoming Civil War! Can you believe it? Like they plan this junk or something.
RATING:
Nine out of Ten haywire world defense units would give this movie Five ancient artifacts of power out of Five.
Okay, I'll grant you there are some issues with the movie, like some characters' origin stories being just a little off in my experience, and some possibly glaring flaws that I overlooked because I was just enjoying it so much, but isn't that what's important? Being so good we don't care about the bad parts?
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