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I saw it last night and was kinda disappointed unfortunately :( And the worst part is that I didn't even get to see the Star Wars trailer in the cinema! :D

Having said that though, I haven't really ever been into Marvel superhero films so I'm sure most fans enjoyed it!
 
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I saw it last night and was kinda disappointed unfortunately :( And the worst part is that I didn't even get to see the Star Wars trailer in the cinema! :D

Having said that though, I haven't really ever been into Marvel superhero films so I'm sure most fans enjoyed it!

Haha, yeah according to the reviews it isn't as good as the first one.
That tends to be the case; whenever a great movie gets a sequel, people are almost always disappointed by it.
I've been keeping that in mind so hopefully my expectations aren't too high.

Also, I'm shocked they're not showing the Star Wars trailer with it :scratch:
 
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Also, I'm shocked they're not showing the Star Wars trailer with it :scratch:

Me too! I was really looking forward to seeing the trailer on the big screen after watching it on YouTube a million times! Maybe it was just the cinema I went to...
 
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I am really pumped for it come May 1st.

Ultron! Scarlet Witch! Quicksilver! The Hulkbuster armor! And a special guest appearance near the close of the movie *who I am not telling in case others don't know*
 
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I just glossed over the reviews at IMDB (without spoiling myself) and it looks like it has its audience divided. Hmm...

But I can't wait to see it myself.

I'm actually really surprised at the response it's getting. I knew that Marvel couldn't keep up their (nearly) spotless record forever but I honestly didn't think this would happen until Cap 3: Civil War ^_^

Regardless, I still can't wait to see it and judge it on my own.
Heck, Iron Man 3 has the same RT score AoU does now and I absolutely love Iron Man 3.
 
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Just saw the movie. The opening sequence was incredible, and overall it was a good movie. If the movie suffered it was from the standard "more is better" pitfall which plagues sequels.

For those who haven't seen it yet I won't go into any great detail, but there are moments in the film which are classic Marvel and truly epic. It does change the direction of the Avengers and sets up the movies to come quite well. However the story does drag a bit, and Ultron came across more as Doctor Evil than Colossus. The death in the ranks isn't the one most people would have thought.

I can guess how Honest Trailers will approach it, as the end of the movie was a bit reminiscent of the first. The mid-credit scene was uninspired.

Still, worth every penny to see it.
 
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Not as good as the first one, and I felt the movie made too light of the content.

Too many one-liners, though it created audience participation in the movie, was abit overwrought. The film could have benefited from more seriousness and less tongue-in-cheek.

I felt the Ultron story was too rushed and underdeveloped too.

And I am seeing a pattern here, the same pattern I seen in the independent Iron Man movies, and every Iron Man movie felt like another angle to the Armor Wars".

The Avengers it would appear are going to battle hordes every movie. Just a minor pet peeve if one at all. First the Chitauri hordes, then the Ultron clone hordes.

Good movie, worth the price of admission, but it had potential to be great.
 
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The characters and their onscreen chemistry was definitely handled better in the first movie. In the first one, it hit all cylinders but in the sequel, it felt too forced much of the time.

Okay I am being a total comic geek here, but I just wished the Ultron battle sequences would have been handled with abit more seriousness with darker tonal shifts. Worth the price of admission no doubt though.

Ultron is a real serious villain in the comic books:

The visual appearance and powers of the character have varied, but common powers include superhuman levels of strength, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes; flight at subsonic speeds; and various offensive weapons such as concussive blasts of energy fired from its optical sensors and hands, and an “encephalo-ray”, which places victims into a deathlike coma. The latter ray also allows Ultron to mesmerize and mind-control victims, or implant subliminal hypnotic commands within their minds to be enacted at a later time. Ultron also has the ability to convert electromagnetic radiation into electrical energy for use or storage. Ultron has a genius intellect, a capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair, superhuman cybernetic analytical capabilities, and the ability to process information and make calculations with superhuman speed and accuracy. The character is an expert roboticist and strategist.

Ultron’s outer armor is usually composed of primarily adamantium ( please note - X-Man mutant, Wolverine's claws and skeleton is composed of this same adamantium alloy too), which is almost completely impervious to damage. (The first use of the term “adamantium” in Marvel Comics was made in reference to Ultron in Avengers #66, published in July 1969). Most Ultron units are powered by a small internal nuclear furnace and incorporate a “program transmitter” which can beam part or all of Ultron’s memory/personality system into other computer systems or duplicate robotic bodies. Ultron can also control other machines remotely. Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with a humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of a complex machine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight, below the waist. A later Ultron model developed hive-mind technology, allowing it to animate and control hundreds of alternate Ultron bodies simultaneously, although only the ‘prime’ Ultron was composed of adamantium while others were made of steel or secondary adamantium due to the lack of resources to give all the Ultrons adamantium bodies. Ultron also uses an internal molecular rearranger that renders the adamantium components of its workings more malleable and so have the ability to restructure his physical form. What circuitry Ultron has is carefully shielded to protect from damage, although the Scarlet Witch is capable of causing malfunctions with her hex power, Johnny Storm, using his nova burst, managed to damage Ultron’s internal circuits while his outer armor remained intact, and Wonder Man was once able to destroy an Ultron by throwing it so hard its internal systems were damaged.
 
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"There are no strings on me."

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James Spader was an excellent voice for Ultron.

I guess I was abit disappointed in the fact I was anticipating an "Empire Strikes Back" type of a middle film.

It is the Age of Ultron afterall. But how long did Ultron stick around before the Avengers manage to give him the boot. It certainly wasn't an age.

The one-liners that I enjoyed so immensely and added so much chemistry in the first film were overkill in this film though. It was cute but enough is enough, some of those running jokes went on abit too long.

I did love the chemistry between Romanoff and Bruce Banner.

Banner tries to deny he has a love interest in Romanoff, but the Hulk lacks such social finesse, graces, and basic etiquette, he enjoys those lullabyes very much. lol!
 
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Heck, Iron Man 3 has the same RT score AoU does now and I absolutely love Iron Man 3.

As far as movie critics are concerned what has plagued the Iron Man films is a lack of insight. The Iron Man series of comics were always as much or more about Tony Stark as they were about Iron Man. The movies reflected this, a fact which caused many many critics and viewers unfamiliar with this core aspect of the series to whine and bemoan the lack of screen time for the Iron Man suit. But Stark said it best at the end of the first movie when he pointed out "I am Iron Man."

Avengers Age Of Ultron was brilliant, a fact apparently lost on most during first viewing.

Captain America Civil War is going to be incredible.
 
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As far as movie critics are concerned what has plagued the Iron Man films is a lack of insight. The Iron Man series of comics were always as much or more about Tony Stark as they were about Iron Man. The movies reflected this, a fact which caused many many critics and viewers unfamiliar with this core aspect of the series to whine and bemoan the lack of screen time for the Iron Man suit. But Stark said it best at the end of the first movie when he pointed out "I am Iron Man."

Avengers Age Of Ultron was brilliant, a fact apparently lost on most during first viewing.

Captain America Civil War is going to be incredible.

Haha, I agree. That's one of the main reasons I like Iron Man - the character and the costume are one in the same. He doesn't have an alternative personality or identity. Even back when he had a secret identity, he didn't really act any different.

I'm really, REALLY hoping Civil War will be incredible. I have a love/hate relationship with the comic series and, although I know the movie will be very different, I can't help but to be a little skeptical XD
 
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