Avengers: THE AGE OF ULTRON
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 5:27 pm
It has finally hit a channel I pay for --
STARZ Channels (and the ENCORE Channels) finished showing Spartacus and Black Sails. This was so STARZ could begin this year's season of Black Sails. I don't watch Black Sails. I have no interest in it for some reason.
This isn't the comic book version of the "Age of Ultron."
This is a darker movie than any of the preceding AVENGERS and MARVEL Movies. It is a more thoughtful movie.
AVENGERS, THE AGE OF ULTRON is the second AVENGERS movie with that name.
A tiny list -- DON'T LET THE LIST SCARE YOU AWAY...
1) Captain America - The First Avenger
2) Iron Man
3) Iron Man #2
4) The Incredible Hulk (2008)
5) Thor
6) THE AVENGERS
7) Iron Man #3
8) Thor, the Dark World
9) Captain America, The Winter Soldier
10) Guardians of the Galaxy
11) THE AVENGERS, Age of Ultron (2015)
12) ANT MAN (2015)
Added: I've messed up the entire movie with that list. Ignore it when you watch the movie. Don't think of it as part of a larger story, think of it as a movie unique to itself. Look to the characters inside the story. Sorry. Somedays, my inner nerd is a putz.
This takes place after THE WINTER SOLDIER and the AVENGERS TEAM has lots of history battling Hydra before it starts.
They are still not quite a team in the sense that they all have fears and doubts and weaknesses. They struggle to be normal but not normal. They like all heroes (in the words of ULTRON) seek to create that which they fears. Soldiers fear war and so create bigger and better war machines. But I get ahead of the story.
Hydra has a base of operations in an Eastern European Country and is doing bad things with LOKI's Staff. The Staff contains an Infinity Stone and the Infinity stones have great powers. What this stone is and how its power is what this movie is all about.
It opens with a battle scene against Hydra and their base in Sokovia, Eastern Europe. There we discover that HYDRA has augmented humans -- The Maximoff Twins -- Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. At first enemies and then comrades. A duality.
When they get back to base, Tony Stark starts to play with LOKI's STAFF and the A.I. in the Infinity stone creates ULTRON, the living representation of Stark's wet dream -- a living robot capable of defending the world. ULTRON is Tony Stark.
And like Dr Frankenstein, Tony Stark discovers that Man was not meant to meddle with the creation of life.
James Spader plays ULTRON and it is scary to watch and listen to this new villain as he weaves a deadly web. As Ultron grows more powerful and sets out to cleanse the world of humans and start over, like a God kicking an anthill. On this rock, I will build my church and the rock is Vibranium. . . Our heroes fight like crazy to retrieve the scepter.
As the story progresses, something does exist that can control the Infinity Stone and it isn't ULTRON. It finds a way to become life and become what it was meant to be... It is VISION and he is a new AVENGER.
How it all ends is an imaginative and quite thoughtful story of what it takes to be humans na what it takes to be a hero.
There are no punches or fancy twists here. There is action, fear, doubt and more action.
BTW - During the Credits (like in most of the Marvel Movies), THANOS appears, He is unhappy with his creation. He takes up THE INFINITY GLOVE and vows to collect the six INFINITY STONES and remake time and space. That sets up the next AVENGERS movie -- THE INFINITY WAR.
STARZ Channels (and the ENCORE Channels) finished showing Spartacus and Black Sails. This was so STARZ could begin this year's season of Black Sails. I don't watch Black Sails. I have no interest in it for some reason.
This isn't the comic book version of the "Age of Ultron."
This is a darker movie than any of the preceding AVENGERS and MARVEL Movies. It is a more thoughtful movie.
AVENGERS, THE AGE OF ULTRON is the second AVENGERS movie with that name.
A tiny list -- DON'T LET THE LIST SCARE YOU AWAY...
1) Captain America - The First Avenger
2) Iron Man
3) Iron Man #2
4) The Incredible Hulk (2008)
5) Thor
6) THE AVENGERS
7) Iron Man #3
8) Thor, the Dark World
9) Captain America, The Winter Soldier
10) Guardians of the Galaxy
11) THE AVENGERS, Age of Ultron (2015)
12) ANT MAN (2015)
Added: I've messed up the entire movie with that list. Ignore it when you watch the movie. Don't think of it as part of a larger story, think of it as a movie unique to itself. Look to the characters inside the story. Sorry. Somedays, my inner nerd is a putz.
This takes place after THE WINTER SOLDIER and the AVENGERS TEAM has lots of history battling Hydra before it starts.
They are still not quite a team in the sense that they all have fears and doubts and weaknesses. They struggle to be normal but not normal. They like all heroes (in the words of ULTRON) seek to create that which they fears. Soldiers fear war and so create bigger and better war machines. But I get ahead of the story.
Hydra has a base of operations in an Eastern European Country and is doing bad things with LOKI's Staff. The Staff contains an Infinity Stone and the Infinity stones have great powers. What this stone is and how its power is what this movie is all about.
It opens with a battle scene against Hydra and their base in Sokovia, Eastern Europe. There we discover that HYDRA has augmented humans -- The Maximoff Twins -- Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. At first enemies and then comrades. A duality.
When they get back to base, Tony Stark starts to play with LOKI's STAFF and the A.I. in the Infinity stone creates ULTRON, the living representation of Stark's wet dream -- a living robot capable of defending the world. ULTRON is Tony Stark.
And like Dr Frankenstein, Tony Stark discovers that Man was not meant to meddle with the creation of life.
James Spader plays ULTRON and it is scary to watch and listen to this new villain as he weaves a deadly web. As Ultron grows more powerful and sets out to cleanse the world of humans and start over, like a God kicking an anthill. On this rock, I will build my church and the rock is Vibranium. . . Our heroes fight like crazy to retrieve the scepter.
As the story progresses, something does exist that can control the Infinity Stone and it isn't ULTRON. It finds a way to become life and become what it was meant to be... It is VISION and he is a new AVENGER.
How it all ends is an imaginative and quite thoughtful story of what it takes to be humans na what it takes to be a hero.
There are no punches or fancy twists here. There is action, fear, doubt and more action.
BTW - During the Credits (like in most of the Marvel Movies), THANOS appears, He is unhappy with his creation. He takes up THE INFINITY GLOVE and vows to collect the six INFINITY STONES and remake time and space. That sets up the next AVENGERS movie -- THE INFINITY WAR.