Let's all go to the movies~

[Rico]

That's not wrong.

[Thad]

Avengers: Age of Megatron was pretty good. I liked the first movie better but I think this one did a much better job of juggling an even larger cast. For one thing, it didn't sideline Hawkeye for 75% of the movie.

Didn't care much for Ultron. Spader did a solid job (albeit playing pretty much the same character as he does on The Blacklist -- then again, "Raymond Reddington" sounds like a Stan Lee character anyway), but That's Not My Ultron. I didn't care much for Snarky Robot as a villain trait (though I accept that, in the new created-by-Tony-Stark origin, of course he would have to be snarky), and while his obsession with religion is potentially compelling, it all comes across as pretty half-baked. (Also, if he's going to compare himself to any biblical figure, it should be Adam, obviously. And yet he compares himself to God and to Noah instead. Like I said, half-baked.)

They chose a really excellent, classic design for Ultron...'s drones that you barely get to see, and then for the main Ultron body that is used for most of the movie decided, hey, you know those shitty-ass overcomplicated makeovers all the Transformers got for the live-action movies with all the jagged edges and tubes and inexplicable muscles and pupils and shit? We want in on some of that.

I liked the design on Vision; it does follow the current superhero design trend of being needlessly busy and having that goofy mail-patterned lycra stuff that every superhero has to wear now, but for all that it's probably the most straight-across adaptation of a comic book costume yet (aside from characters whose costume consists of, say, a catsuit, a trenchcoat and eyepatch, or giant shorts).

I quite liked the ending introducing a new Avenger team, as the rotating cast has always been a big part of the book -- and which is also the only way the film franchise can keep going indefinitely without a fucking reboot. Of course, we already know Tony's going to be back in Captain America 3 anyway. And anyway, it does feel like a fitting changing of the guard, seeing as this is Whedon's last film in the series and it's never going to be quite the same again.

[Friday]

For one thing, it didn't sideline Hawkeye for 75% of the movie.

Yeah, thank god. I've loved Clint for a long time now and it was great to finally see him get some attention and love.

Loved the nod to the comics where Cap can use Mew Mew, by having him budge it slightly at the party. The look on Thor's face was fantastic.

[TedBelmont]

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[Mongrel]

Interesting choice to give her grease guns.

[Joxam]

Interesting is definitely the word we're going with

[Thad]

[TedBelmont]

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[Friday]

Erections cannot be legislated.

miss please you've been on the floor now for several hours

can you please leave and put your clothes on so we can go back to making laws

[Thad]

Wow.

None of these people have actually seen a Mad Max movie, apparently. Like, beyond a few minutes on cable when they were flipping through channels. And it was the dubbed version where everyone has an American accent.

[Mothra]

men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked

I love this part

[Mongrel]

The second one.

[Büge]

There's a live-action Jem and the Holograms film coming out and it seems to have stripped out anything truly truly truly outrageous from the cartoon.

Naturally Jem's creator had nothing to do with it.

[Mongrel]

Can confirm that Mad Max was the best new movie I've seen quite a while and absolutely a brilliant demonstration of what you can really do with a modern action flick. It was genuinely intense in far more intelligent ways than just throwing effects at the viewer. As Buge said, "I'd love to see the storyboards for this."

Only gripe was that Max himself was actually pretty flavourless, but this manages to to be a pretty small complaint, all things considered, and getting a pack of action hero grannies in exchange is a trade I will take all day, every day.

[Mongrel]

But really wooooooooo Fury Road. Go see this fuckin' thing.

[ocksi]

Fury Road is the best movie since Pacific Rim.

[Büge]

Which is funny, because Pacific Rim was the movie I saw last year on opening weekend.

[Mazian]

and getting a pack of action hero grannies in exchange is a trade I will take all day, every day.

Even better, they did their own stunts. <3

Also, I'm still in rapturous awe of the soundtrack actually being played by a truck in the movie. The soundtrack itself rides into fights.

[Mongrel]

Yeah, that is amazing. I don't think it's without precedent for the soundtrack to be an actual incorporated part of the movie (produced by a character or objects), but I struggle to think of anything similar to this, except maybe the "song" created by the ambient sound in the opening to Once Upon A Time In The West. And certainly in that case it's still just dressing and doesn't actually charge in or anything like the METAL TRUCK.

[Grath]

Mad Max Fury Road was like the cover to the ultimate 80s hair metal album.