Am off to clean walls (in preparation for painting!!) so just v quick replies... Good luck!!
I have zero recollection of what Ultron is or wants. Or indeed any of the plot. Tony is creating an artificial intelligence system to defend the whole earth from alien invasions and accidentally gives it sentience using one of the infinity stones. Predictably it immediately gets the wrong end of the stick and decides that protecting the earth means something different from not getting people killed. As soon as we get to that point it's boring, but the argument about what Tony is doing and why is actually quite good.
Re. Ant Man, then yes, parts are SO GENERIC it's only bearable because he's so engaging, but the Bad Guy plan is... ugh. It's getting to the point where I'm preferring the super heroes who just pop up without their own dedicated movie because so help me, I do not care.
Also, another origins story, another shoehorned, underdeveloped love interest. I hate everything.
IKR? The Mexican guy who picks him up and tells him what's happened while I-forget-Antman's-real-name has been in prison and immediately I wanted to watch THAT story, not origin story #whatever. The bits where he's telling a story in voiceover and all the people in the story are lip-synching along to his slang-y retelling of it: I know that's a pretty standard joke, but it's one of my favorite executions of it I've ever seen.
The train fight is the single best fight in any film. That was great. They way they kept bringing up the tropes of that kind of fight and then inverting them over and over was fantastic. Also the giant Thomas the Tank Engine lying sideways through the side of the house, the eyes tracking back and forth.
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Good luck!!
I have zero recollection of what Ultron is or wants. Or indeed any of the plot.
Tony is creating an artificial intelligence system to defend the whole earth from alien invasions and accidentally gives it sentience using one of the infinity stones. Predictably it immediately gets the wrong end of the stick and decides that protecting the earth means something different from not getting people killed. As soon as we get to that point it's boring, but the argument about what Tony is doing and why is actually quite good.
Re. Ant Man, then yes, parts are SO GENERIC it's only bearable because he's so engaging, but the Bad Guy plan is... ugh.
It's getting to the point where I'm preferring the super heroes who just pop up without their own dedicated movie because so help me, I do not care.
Also, another origins story, another shoehorned, underdeveloped love interest. I hate everything.
IKR? The Mexican guy who picks him up and tells him what's happened while I-forget-Antman's-real-name has been in prison and immediately I wanted to watch THAT story, not origin story #whatever.
The bits where he's telling a story in voiceover and all the people in the story are lip-synching along to his slang-y retelling of it: I know that's a pretty standard joke, but it's one of my favorite executions of it I've ever seen.
The train fight is the single best fight in any film.
That was great. They way they kept bringing up the tropes of that kind of fight and then inverting them over and over was fantastic. Also the giant Thomas the Tank Engine lying sideways through the side of the house, the eyes tracking back and forth.