The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

[ScottotD]

Loved it to death. Better than the first. Ultron made for a fun and charismatic villain, I thought. It did a better job than the first movie at selling Hawkeye as an Avenger.

The coolest part for me was when they were stuck on the floating island wondering what to do without killing everyone and then the Helecarrier showed up. It was the perfect solution, it was unexpected, and it solved a seemingly unsolvable problem. I also loved the audience reaction in my theater. You could see fists thrusting in the air all around the theater as the carrier showed up. That's why I love going to the theater. I love watching everyone else get swept up in a good movie.

Yep, I love theaters for the same reason

[RandyMistie]

It was the crappiest movie I ever saw! What a piece of shite!

I'm ashamed of Joss Whedon for being a part of that; one of the most horrific pieces of filth I ever saw recorded on digital video. OH! By all the GODS above and below, if only my ears and eyes had never been struck by such toxic filth!

Oh, wait... I haven't see it yet... Age of Ultron? No. Haven't seen it.

What were we talking about?

[Kete]

I really hope the first shot of Avengers 3 starts with Captain America saying "Assemble!"

I thought that's what the post credits scene would be.

[Henry88]

$527,656,000
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers2.htm

[Pak-Man]

Half a billion and change. Not bad. :^)

[RandyMistie]

Yep, it beat "The Dark Knight". I think DC better get used to getting a regular summer ass-kicking.

Hell, it beat The Dark Knight as an early release IN EUROPE!!

[Edward J Grug III]

I think DC better get used to getting a regular summer ass-kicking.

List of movies made by DC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_DC_Comics#Live-action_films

List of GREAT movies made by DC:

The Dark Knight.



If they aren't used to it by now, when will they be?

[Henry88]

$626,656,000    
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avengers2.htm

[Edward J Grug III]

http://www.avclub.com/article/28-hour-marvel-marathon-nearly-cost-our-writer-his-218852

[Relaxing Dragon]

http://www.avclub.com/article/28-hour-marvel-marathon-nearly-cost-our-writer-his-218852

I did the 24 Hour Best Picture Marathon at AMC one year, and I was pretty far gone by the end of that (and it actually clocked out at 23 hours, but the breaks were shorter). Dunno if I could last the full 28. Certainly not when it ends on a movie I hadn't seen before, since I kinda wanna focus on it.

As for AoU itself, I liked it. It was missing a lot of the amazing action beats that make the first one such a great summer Blockbuster, and while I liked Ultron (Spader totally killed it) his actual character didn't seem nearly as menacing or creepy as he probably should've been, but it still had a lot going for it. Visually it was a big step up, in that it didn't look like an expensive TV movie, and there was a lot of wonderful character moments. In fact, most of the heavy character stuff came from folks who weren't Iron Man, Thor, or Captain America, which was great. Loved seeing the folks without their own individual movies getting their due. I also liked how the series is doing a much better job latching onto the crazier, more comic-booky aspects of things, particularly in the finale. I mean, that was all wonderfully bonkers, summed up by Hawkeye's perfect assessment of the situation (they definitely made up for him lacking in previous movies here). The many different subplots/setting-up-the-sequel-still stuff got a bit too busy, but it was never as bad as Iron Man 2, and it was good to see these guys finally make some sort of verbal acknowledgement of the Infinity Stones and what's coming from that.

Also, loved The Vision. Didn't even know who that character was before this movie, and now I want a lot more.
I was watching the movie with a fairly lackluster Saturday matinee crowd (still a sold-out screening, but not a lot of cheering), and everyone still gasped out loud when he casually handed Thor his hammer. So good.

All in all, a very solid middle entry to this series. Some stuff it does better than the predecessor, other stuff it does not.

[k1]

Finally saw it this morning after we dropped the kids off at school.  Definitely enjoyed it, but I want to watch it again in 2D next time because there were a few scenes where it was all blurry & couldn't see what was going on at the beginning.  The 3D was the only one playing at 11am. (If we hit the first 2D show later on we would've been late picking up the kids from school)

[k1]

Favorite part was when the dude behind us LOST HIS MIND & started yelling "OH S***!!!! OH S***!!! HOLY F***!!!!" when Vision casually tosses Mjolnir to Thor.   
He also was super surprised and upset when Quicksilver got turned into swiss cheese.

[Johnny Unusual]

I really hope the first shot of Avengers 3 starts with Captain America saying "Assemble!"

And they all start building models.  Surprisingly, Tony Stark is not very good at it.  Not used to working with glue.

[Johnny Unusual]

Ugh. Was supposed to see it tonight, but found out it was dubbed rather than subtitled.  Decided to leave.  Hopefully, I'll be able to watch it in English sometime soon.

[Sideswipe]

I really hope the first shot of Avengers 3 starts with Captain America saying "Assemble!"

And they all start building models.  Surprisingly, Tony Stark is not very good at it.  Not used to working with glue.

Heis not there.