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Jaga 321 wrote: Due to being a HUGE film buff and obvious Marvel super fan like yourselves I will try and keep my thoughts on the film short and sweet with sounding like a real idiot getting to deep into the movie. Okay, here are my problems with the film.

And here are my thoughts on your thoughts. Age of Ultron was supposed to be the darker more epic sequel, and I kinda feel it was supposed to be with an original running time of 3.5 hours! I feel Marvel took a wrong step in shortening the movie to shorter than the first  and you could really tell with the movie's pacing beign extremely quick. It needed more 'oil scenes' which smoothen the transition between two things. I'm sure this stuff will turn up on the rumoured extended edition/directors cut. Overall I feel it could afford to be longer since, well, it's the Avengers.

IMO, the running time was fine. The first Avengers stalled quite a bit to me, so while more characterization is always welcome, I can't fault Whedon for remmoving ti fi he felt it was clunky. Also, minor point, but Tony didn't seem that upset with building Ultron, like at all. I was expecting some Civil war stuff to be brewing at the end but it wasn't there for some reason. Also was expecting soem sort of hank Pym shoutout.

Admittedly disappointing, but for me, the less Tony Stark, the better. As for Ultron himself, I feel the idea that downloading the internet would make you have a sense of humour was present, but not explained very well. I just felt like they had too much life in them, both Vision and Ulton. I personally would have had Ulton have no mouth movement at all, with his emotionless face been the source of how scary he was (like the cybermen). Vison was cool but looked too human. and talked too human too. I would have toned down on the emotion/humour with them both a little, or, dare I say it, remove Vision from the film to free space up.

As a long time fan of Vision, I must say that I thought he was executed flawlessly. If we would cut anything, I'd say it would be the ridiculous WidowxHulk mess. They'd work better as friends who could relate to each others "monstrous" traits. Also, I thought Ultron was too funny, but I also felt he was 100% different from Loki. As an agent's of SHIELD watcher I feel that the whole Strucker/List dying off really quick kinda screwed up all they'd been doing on the show. They kinda felt forced to make HYDRA feel relevant.

It was kind of sad. One final thing. the 'plot pool' Thor visited suffered the worst from the cuts in the film, being so under-explained. Overrall I think AoU was a more ambitious than the first, yet Marvel's need to make a summer blockbuster was the downfall of the film, causing the film to be clunky and Ultron to restep the footsteps of Loki personality-wise.

7/10

For me, it was more of an 8.5/10. While it was way better than #1, it was not w/o its flaws.