AoU was good. Very good. Great? No. It was rushed in spots, a mess in others, and perfect proof that Whedon is becoming a meme of himself. Understand, I’m not trying to pee on the Marvel Cheerios. I quite enjoyed it. I'd love to go point by point, but defer to those who haven't seen it yet.

This movie was the very opposite of flawless. I enjoyed it despite its many, many flaws.

Yes I half expected to hear the sad music from Pixar’s Up at that moment.

Except I’m not talking about how the character feels, at least not exactly. I readily admit that the intent was that Black Widow, the character, feels she is a monster because of her assassin past. What I’m saying is that as the scene was written for the screen, the forced sterility detail comes off as forced and is…

Easily the best moment was Quicksilver trying to get people to evacuate a building and failing. Then he just vanishes. Then he reappears with a machine gun and just blows out the ceiling. Then he screams “Get off your asses” and runs out. I was busting my ass laughing at that one.

I thought it was great fun, and could go on and on about the movie’s spectacular moments and it’s welcome focus on character.

Spoilers here: What did you all think of the romantic elements? I wasn’t crazy about Black Widow and the Hulk. It is hard to forget that he tried to kill her in Hulk form in the first film, plus their chemistry isn’t that great. I suspect Whedon just wanted to do a Beauty and the Beast take ( he said as much in an…

The movie could’ve done better without the black widow/banner ship. To me it seems way to forced.

Yeah, coupled with her being suddenly enamored with Bruce, it was a lot to take in. Like “of course! I’ve always wanted to quit the Avengers, run away, get married and start a family! Haven’t we talked about this?”

I had a hard time concentrating on the review over the sounds of you fellatiating Joss Whedon.

I like both versions. They serve very different purposes and I think both work to great effect in each movie. DOFP Quicksilver was ridiculously overpowered — like, this guy could help you with SO MUCH STUFF, why are you not taking him to Paris??? No one can touch him and he seems to have energy for days! But at the…

I really could’ve done without Brucetasha. Why? Because he ALREADY has a woman he cares for in the MCU-

I pretty much loved every line he delivered in this.

Honestly, the real villain of the MCU is Tony Stark. Not only did he show no remorse over creating Ultron, he wanted to go right back to the well.

This is why Pym should’ve been introduced into the MCU, and not Old Man Pym. Pym was supremely tortured over the creation of Ultron, which was mostly a mistake that…

Hell, yeah!

I saw it last night and I think I might be a bit less sanguine about it than you. I didn’t hate it. I was just...slightly bored by it most of the time. The only real exception was any time Wanda was on screen. Elizabeth Olsen is really, really good in this. So much of the rest of the movie felt like a retread of stuff…

Before I had only really seen her in Godzilla (where she was married to Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sigmund Freud would have a field day)

I get the feeling the director’s cut will have more of her and Quicksilver together. And I’d love if they touched on her and the Vision more too.

Ultron is so damn funny. I didn’t expect that.

I think they did a great job with her. It wasn’t that obvious. It was only like 1 or 2 scenes were you knew it was a stunt double but for the most part it was her.