AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Thread 7.0 (Dragonlord's Review)

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Update: October 8, 2015

Rumor: INFINITY WAR Will Have $1 Billion Production Budget

The combine production budget for Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2 is reportedly one billion dollars, according to Bleeding Cool. "And of that, the above the line costs, that paid to the screenwriter, director, producers and principal actors will be a cool four hundred million dollars alone," the site reports. "And of the actor budget, Robert Downey Jr gets half."

They also claim that Avengers: Infinity War doesn't have a script or a plot at this very moment. If that is true, then any report on the production budget is merely a guesstimate. You can't figure out a production budget without a script. Simple as that.

The films are being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Civil War) and being written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

The production budget on Avengers: Age of Ultron was about $280 million, so it seems reasonable to believe the production budget on Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and Part 2, being shot back-to-back for nine months in 2016, would be around $600 million, maybe $700 million. If you had to push it maybe you get to $800 million. But, $1 billion?! That's a lot of clams!


Avengers: Infinity War 1 and 2 Rumored To Have One Billion Dollar Production Budget

Spend 5 billion for your terribly overrated franchise, I spit on you Marvel!

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Spend 5 billion for your terribly overrated franchise, I spit on you Marvel!

The production budget is high because they have to make room for Ronda. Money well spent imo.

 

[MaveDeltzer]

I cannot imagine how RDJ can be viewed as being worth way more than the other actors. Could they save money by making a 100% CGI recasting of the Tony Stark character?

Whoever wrote Age of Ultron dialog shouldn't be working on anymore Marvel films. Same for whoever came up with the Hulk/Black Widow romance idea. Cringe worthy.

You don't have to imagine, just look how much more his movies make than anyone else in the MCU.

Well Whedon is gone.

 

[Horse Style]

Finally got around to watching this. The first teaser trailer made Ultron seem very serious and menacing. But the movie has him making jokes and be completely underwhelming during fights.

It's weird when the trailer is better than the actual movie.

 

[Hitman81]

Why did the producers decide to stick with Age of Utlron when they knew Ultron was around for a couple days?

 

[BornOnMonday]

Why did the producers decide to stick with Age of Utlron when they knew Ultron was around for a couple days?

Machida Era, dood.

 

[Hitman81]

Machida Era, dood.

Yeah but Rogan didn't know he wasn't going to be champ long.

 

[Magooglie]

Why did the producers decide to stick with Age of Utlron when they knew Ultron was around for a couple days?

They just use popular comic book arc names.

 

[taurus]

I finally got a chance to see this. I'd give it a 3.8/10. Thoughts:

• The 3D sucked. I've watched a bunch of 3D films at home and this was the first one to ever give me a headache. After an hour I couldn't take it any more and had to pop in the 2D version instead. The post converting was just plain bad.
• Ultron was boring and ineffectual. He builds shitloads of these disposable tin-cans for the good-guys to tear apart instead of the big dudes with beam and gravity/distortion/whatever powers. We know he can make more than one, because he does. But he doesn't make more than one at a time despite how effective they are shown to be (and how ineffective the other versions are). He also never seems to make proper use of his machine nature with distributed intelligence and multilateral strategy. The fact they were able to eliminate him at all, given how tech dependent everything is today, is head-scratching.
• I like James Spader, but he just did not feel right for this role at all.
• The new characters were poorly handled. The twin's accents sucked and Vision's introduction was so late in the film that I really couldn't care.
• The pacing was poor. We'd get extended action sequences (with no weight, and no stakes) followed by tons of exposition and ham-fisted character drama.
• The movie devolves into "rescue porn". An inordinate amount of time is spent depicting faceless extras being saved. While it's certainly nice to see heroes saving people it also felt really artificial. There are so many times where something would blow up and nobody would seem to be hurt. A train derails...and then travels in a nice straight line down the middle of a street instead of doing an accordion or smashing through buildings. Hulk gets pile drived through a huge skyscraper...that is conveniently under construction with no workers there and it collapses straight down into it's footprint. A huge chunk of earth in the middle of a city in the middle of the mountains gets levitated into the air...but when it is destroyed all the parts conveniently rain down over the ocean despite there being no coast in any of the establishing shots.

i hear cinemasins is looking for writers, you should apply...

but yeah, a lot of stuff is correct in this post. Definitely not 3,5 worthy, though.

 

[JBSchroeds]

i hear cinemasins is looking for writers, you should apply...

but yeah, a lot of stuff is correct in this post. Definitely not 3,5 worthy, though.

I'm a very tough rater. I like to use the whole 0-10 range and am a firm believer of "there's no such things as a 10/10". Even my favorite films of all time max out at around the 9.6/10 level. This means that most people, even when they agree with me on just about everything I write, would still rate stuff about 1-3 points higher than I do. So my 3.8 is more like a 5.5 to most other people.

 

[taurus]

your opinion man, no problem here. It's just that less than 10% of people here rated it at less than 6, so you're bound to get some questions as to why.

I rated it 7, because i was entertained, and i'm a sucker for superhero movies, when in fact i had a lot of (similar) complaints about the movie.

 

[Jballer]

I thought it kinda sucked. It was super cheesy. I dont get how so many people on here shit on Fox for the most nitpicky things but praise this crap.

 

[Krallang]

I just want you all to know I'm a yelp reviewer.

3/10 stars.

 

[Mike]

Congratulations you can nitpick a popcorn movie to death. Oh no the movie with people punching eachother through buildings and shooting lasers from their eyes had illogical parts in it.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

The Hulk/Black Widow romance was pure shit. I thought why the fuck did they put that lame shit in the movie? Super hero movie! Scarlet isn't even good looking. I think these movie execs think they can do no wrong.

If the tesseract is one of the Infinity Gems, why is it so gigantic? How's it going to fit on the Infinity Gauntlet?

Is Quicksilver dead? No bulletproof vest? They could have given Scarlet Witch a sexier cleavage outfit. Vision didn't look like crap, so good. What's going to happen to Vision after Thanos plucks the gem off and puts it on the gauntlet?

I'm going to make what I consider to be an educated guess on the last question you asked re: what happens to vision if thanos takes the mind gem. I think his body will die, but unbeknownst to everyone, his consciousness will live on in the gem, and that will be critical in defeating thanos, just the same as Adam Warlock's consciousness being tapped into the soul gem in the infinity gauntlet comic was how they beat Nebula when she had it. Basically Vision will replace Warlock.

 

[Doughbelly]

After having seen this movie sober, I'd downgrade my rating from 9 to 6/7.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I watched it on an airplane and I liked it more than I originally did. I gave it a 6 at first...I might give it a 7 now.

Vision's performance stood out a little more and the action scenes were better than I remembered.

 

[Heelhook71]

I thought it was a disappointing movie. They had the chance to take a formidable character that would push the avengers to their limits, but in the end they gave us a villain that couldn't even match the heroes one on one. Yes everyone wants to see the heroes win. But having an opponent that is a genuine threat, adds to the suspense and makes the Heroes seem a little vulnerable which will make them more relatable, believable and less two 2d Saturday morning cartoonish. People root for the underdog.

Power aside their portrayal of Ultron seemed odd. His sarcastic personality didn't work for me, and again devalued him as a credible menace. Ultron is supposed to be an extinction level event. Not a sarcastic buffy type villain.

I don't have much faith that Thanos will be the threat he's supposed to be in the infinity wars. Ultron was the studios chance to show they could portray one of marvels near god tier characters accurately, and show the avengers being out gunned and out muscled. Instead they took the soft option. Ultron was weak and everyone survived including some random dog.

Disappointing 6/10

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: December 8, 2015

Unboxing the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Box Set

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[Dragonlordxxxxx]