Age of Ultron

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I was...underwhelmed.

Not that I didn't like it but it felt like a series of action set pieces connected by a thread of a story. What's even more disappointing is that it comes after some great character development in IM3 and CA:TWS.

I'm usually a little slow when it comes to gender issues but when did Natasha become a romance novel damsel in distress? Ah, whatever, Whedon. I loved the banter, the little things like Thor's face when Steve almost lifted the hammer, or how fluid the choreography was when they were working together on the field as if they've trained for this a million times. And whoever wrote Farmer!Clint on LJ/AO3, you are a genius lol But this is not a movie that I will watch again.

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[gwyn]

Ugh, this is the second time I've heard bad things about the gender stuff. It's hard to believe that after Winter Soldier they could do that to Natasha, but then Whedon and his fucking broken waif issues and his "feminism" have had my blood boiling for a long time. I just wanted some more Steve and Natasha scraps thrown my way. So sorry to hear this.

It's funny, every time I watch Avengers now, after Winter Soldier, it just seems so sad and cartoonish. Even the fights and stuff blowing up in Cap2 didn't bore me the way the ones in Avengers did. And because these are so successful, everyone just thinks Joss is a genius.

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There are some great interactions between Steve and Nat, it actually calls back to CATWS, which was fun. It was just all the other stuff they did with Nat. Like it wasn't enough that there was an actual broken waif there, in Wanda.