Age of Ultron set the stage for everything in the latter half of Phase 3 to payoff. Without Age of Ultron, Endgame and Infinity War are completely devoid of meaning. It is also the only film that we see the team operating as a team without anyone fighting and no government oversight. It truly is a movie that needs to be re-discussed in the public square in a much more positive way.
EXACTLY, I just rewatched the film with my family and after knowing what happens and how it ties into previous and future films I appreciated it so much more!!!
Ultron is the best villain in the MCU. He's Thanos before Thanos. What Ultron realizes when he learns about humanity and his mission is what Ra's al Ghoul told Bruce in Batman Begins the Avengers lack the will to execute true justice. He has a great line where he tells Tony "you mistake quiet for peace." Ultron believes the Avengers actually present a roadblock to peace by protecting the status quo whether that's good or bad. Like Thanos, Ultron is firmly committed to doing something that seems mad in order to achieve a benefit for everyone. His plan is to become a living god in judgement over humanity. Like Jesus, he needs actual living flesh to be a part of humanity, an example and an evolution. And unlike every MCU villain except Killmonger maybe, the whole plan makes perfect sense. Kill Jarvis to keep the Ai from disrupting his plans. Distract the Avengers with robots and a murder while you steal the Mind Stone, gather supplies, and learn the nuclear codes. Build an invincible body with the said Mind Stone at its head. Get in it and become a literal god who thanks to the internet and the stone can see everything, know everything, and control everything with a simple thought. Tell humanity to shape up or face nuclear extincion. The world becomes peaceful under the rule of an absolute monarch who can see every atom of it at once always so there's no way to disobey ever. His logic and frm fanatic belief in it are fascinating, and when Jarvis foils his attempts to learn the codes, he pivots to making Sokovia an asteroid. Until the Avengers stole the cradle, that was actually enough. His jokey personality, an echo of his creator, belies his more sinister and tragic nature, as it does in Stark. In the end, when Ultron's dream has been snatched from him, his revenge is poetic, to do the same to the Avengers Since he can no longer use fear to make human behavior evolve, he plans to drive them extinct and use the cradle to make a new human race comprised of living robots. All the layers of this plan and the drive behind it are excellent.
Finally someone who explains this films villain how it should be. A lot of people down play ultron but never actually take a detailed look at his actions and meaning. The MCUs villains are ranked as if the scores are coming from sheep. He is definitely the best villain and I agree with everything that is being put out into this comment. I just wish people would stop being afraid to like what they like and say what everyone else wants to hear. Because then this movie would actually have more thumbs up as it should.
Um the thing about Bruce and Natasha is dead wrong. The idea for the love story starts in Avengers where Natasha is the one to recruit him. She shares his pain because she's suffering from guilt over horrors she was forced to commit as well. She spends time with him, trying to calm him down, and by movie two, they have a lullaby only she knows how to use properly, which probably means they worked on it for some time together. On the farm we learn Bruce and Natasha want a normal life, what Hawkeye has. Natasha is ready to turn away from her guilt and people's expectations and live her own life with Bruce, but the world has just seen Bruce as a rage monster threatening innocents in an entire city. He realizes no matter what he does, he can't guarantee the safety of anyone around him. And he can never give Natasha what she wants. Natasha wants to try, but Bruce refuses. All these interactions are showing us who these characters are and what motivates them. In the end battle, faced with the oncoming end of the world, Bruce becomes desperate for that fleeting dream of a peaceful life and urges Natasha to run away with him. Inspired by Cap, however, she has him finish the job, and when it's done, he leaves because he's a danger to everyone. Natasha grieves and clearly holds out hope he'll be found. That's the end of Ultron, but the love subplot is referenced over and over after that. In Thor: Ragnaok when Hulk is tearing up the ship because he doesn't want Thor to leave, hearing Natasha's voice shakes him up enough that he becomes Banner again after two years. When they meet up again and he says Hi there's tension there because Natasha is clearly upset that he left her and he is clearly overcome with emotion seeing her. Neither of them have time right then to go into it but the emotions are palpable. There's his outburst when he finds out she's gone, and the part where his arm is permanently damaged by the gauntlet because he's trying to bring Natasha back in defiance of the Soul Stone rules. It doesn't tie up in a neat bow because the MCU is serial in nature.
Yeah, I originally cast off age of ultron as a mistep...but I returned to watch it after the release of WandaVision... and i have to agree...this movie is actually better than The Avengers (and that movie is Fantastic)..it lays a lot of groundwork and is super fun while going dark. We are all quick to dismiss it, we forget some key things happened in this movie to push the story along. What happens in End Game makes more sense now, ya know? Genius level story telling by the MCU fam.
Great video! I rewatched both avengers1 and aou recently and came to a different conclusion than you, but I enjoyed how concisely you conveyed your points and analysis. I can really see where you're coming from! I especially enjoyed your comments about the score, I realised I hadn't considered it when talking about my overall impression of the movie.
Finally someone speaks the truth about this film. I’m so tired of sheep expressing how they feel about this movie. So many people are afraid to say how they truly feel about a film because of what others may think. This movie does have flaws but the msgs that are in this movie are do god damn good. Hell, it even relates to the Bible. Go check out spiritual talk age of ultron, it’s freaky how accurate it is. But I agree with most of what this video says. I just see it as much more though personally from everything I’ve studied from this movie. Personally it’s a hidden masterpiece. Great video!
Age of Ultron had its flaws, but i loved it regardless. I love Ultron in this movie, this is what it would be if Ultron was created by Tony Stark i the mcu instead of Hank Pym. James Spaders voice is fantastic and i'm a bit disappointed they couldn't or didn't get him back in what if.
I prefer Age of Ultron. Dialogue in 'Avengers' is clunky, very Whedon-esque and esoteric, and he tries to have his characters mind-read each other to over-come the fact that the audience won't be able to keep up with the dialogue. Chief example is the 'the tesseract can't fight... you can't defend against yourself...' (Uh... What?) And also 'you brought the monster' 'oh so that's your play...' ( *Black Widow miraculously figures out the majority of Loki's scheme based on one random bit of dialogue but Loki had already demonstrated a deep knowledge level of each member with the plausible explanation that Clint had already told him everything so it could also just be classic villain monologuing which Loki also does 3 other times in the fucking movie so it's just Whedon advancing the plot with mind-reading women again like he does in all his shows.* ) And lest we not forget how Tony 'figures out' Loki is using his Stark Tower for the site of the portal because Loki also has an ego like Tony does? More mind-reading and ffw plot through that device. They told Whedon to stop trying to be so fucking heady in the second movie, and we get more character development from the characters rather than guessing at whether or not they can fucking read minds half the time. In Age of Ultron characters use their skills and knowledge, demonstrating it on screen, to find out what Ultron is up to. It demonstrates competence and how their own minds work. Whedon sucks at that and I think it created a better story. Also nice that all the Ultrons didn't just stop working as soon as the big-bad-Ultron was defeated. There was real weight because a single surviving Ultron means Ultron survives... Chi-tari are just throw-away gushers to beat up on. Which is a shame because he is fairly good at it in other movies, but Avengers positively reeks of his DW/Whedon-verse/Buffy writing style.
The Avengers: Iron Man & Black Widow: Half Character Development Captain America, Thor & Hawkeye: Totally Unidimensional Hulk: Great Character Development Avengers Age Of Ultron Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Hulk: Great Character Development Captain America & Thor: Unidimensional
And are you kidding about Hawkeye. Age of Ultron takes a character no one gave two shits about in movie one and gives him something to fight for and actual stakes. Why is this lone human fighting among relative gods? To secure the future for his family. It informs his character and gets you invested. Now you care when he runs into battle because he's not a god. He could die and leave his wife and children alone in the world. More than that, this sideplot develops Bruce and Natasha, who see Clint living with a loving wife and family in relative peace instead of a nightmare of guilt and causing suffering. Seeing that drives their actions in the film. Then there's the moment with Wanda later where his speech to Wanda feels like a father daughter thing, and is inspiring because you know what he's fighting for and that he understands what Wanda is feeling since he also did bad shit in movie one. He's going back out because it's his job, the job his family needs him to do, and he tells her she has to make a choice: wallow in the past or fight for the future. And that is the point of the movie: Tony let his guilt over the past drive him to nearly destroy humanity. Then, by his example, he shows Pietro, a person who has been bitter and vengeful the whole movie that the world is full of people who try to do good at all costs, and he dies following that example. And Clint honors that act by naming his child for Pietro. That farm scene is important. That's why Whedon fought for it. And why the first scene of Endgame works so well.
Think about the Infinity Saga as a giant puzzle. The Avengers is the first big piece. Age of Ultron the central piece. Infinity War and Endgame are the final big pieces Age of Ultron’s work is something that really can only be appreciated in hindsight. Every single piece of this movie is more intricate and interesting than the Avengers. The Avengers feels way better than Age of Ultron in the moment, but with 9 years since the original and 6 years since Age of Ultron, it has become abundantly clear that Age of Ultron is, as ScreenCrush puts it, a beautiful mess.
You need more views. 6:48 As someone who JUST watched it, they aren't just characacatures. Cap has an arc in the movie to be less trusting of authority. He isn't portrayed as infallible, in fact he's a d**k. But Age of Ultron made them more fleshed out yeah of course
If i'm honest, i don't get a lot of the hate Age Of Ultron gets. But then again maybe its because I'm an MCU fan that wasn't "there" when the MCU first started. I'm a fan that only really got in during the Endgame hype in 2019. So I've had a more retrospective view of the MCU when I could just watch the next movie and not wait for trailers and discussions online of the next one.
Your vidéo is just fcking great, you don't just tell ''omg ultron is stronger and better as a vilain ''😅 You definitely say what can be better and why it isn't, your vidéo is very simple to understand although it's serious subjects, you deserve more attention 😁
I'm not a huge fan of Age of Ultron but I don't not like it. I did like how you went through all those points regarding it...it was definitely interesting to hear those and see this from that perspective. I was not fond of Bruce and Natasha and the family for Clint kind of came from nowhere and ends up not making any sense in the long run. Those things, especially how the Bruce and Natasha thing was handled in it...I just couldn't get behind. So I suppose the movie for me is an issue because of just those things because the rest I do like...I hadn't thought of that until after watching your video, thank you for that.
