Initial Avengers: Age of Ultron thoughts

[redfiona99]

Probably a 3/5. Parts of it 5/5, parts of it 1/5. Really liked the Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and (spoiler) parts of the film. Not too fussed about the rest of it. James Spader was even more wonderful than usual though.

Comments

[coneyislandbaby]

Ah! I am liking Vision but I was already a Paul Bettany fan too. I'm glad they were able to be brought in, even with What Happened. I also kind of wonder given that if the X-Men people and the Avengers people did a split down the middle, so to speak, wrt who each franchise got to use. Then again, I don't know if What Happened would necessarily be permanent either.

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

In immediate recall, the X-Men films can't mention the Twinses code names or "real" names, hence Peter Maximoff, while the Avengers can't mention who 'I hate my mutant Dad' is, hence them being enhanced humans in Avengers.

To a certain extent, I'm quite happy that different companies got X-Men and Avengers because it means they all get separate films, rather than the otherwise inevitable Avengers vs X-Men film that the X-men would lose the fight in (despite the fact that they would so totally win).

[coneyislandbaby]

Well, technically speaking Peter could be Anglicising, I think? But that makes sense. I really want X-Men Peter to be Magneto's son (I've got an irrational hate for someone who said it was possible he wasn't in the face of the extremely obvious hints that my friend Margret who isn't fannish picked up on immediately). But yes. I get it.

I think it works better for movie only audiences, too, it helps keep the characters straight. Also why I'm glad we won't get too confused by Peter being Quicksilver in X-Men (I'm sure there are plenty of speed puns that could be used, though a mischievous part of me wants him to be codenamed Mercury because it would be funny and also work).