Finally went to see Age of Ultron<\/i>. Yes, it’s wall to wall action packed, with beautifully choreographed fight scenes, flip dialog between the battles, awesome visual effects, and split second editing to take your breath away.<\/p>\n
But what surprised me is that it’s not, you know, an actual movie. Not in the sense that, say, Richard Donner’s Superman<\/i> was an actual movie. Watching Ultron<\/i>, I felt as though I had been dropped into the middle of something — and I guess in a sense I had been.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know that at the level of an Avengers<\/i> movie it’s less about gold statues, and more about gold. With a budget so enormous there is no margin for financial error. But for me the gold is starting to rust. I had somehow thought that Joss Whedon would find some way to surprise us.<\/p>\n
Of course everybody sees a movie for different reasons, and you might like this one quite a bit. As a large screen action extravaganza it certainly gets the job done. So maybe it’s me — maybe I need to lower my expectations.<\/p>\n
Or maybe by now Whedon is only doing the Avengers<\/i> to buy himself freedom to work on smaller projects that he actually cares passionately about. And maybe that’s ok.<\/p>\n
After the movie, my friend and I were comparing notes. I said “Well, that wasn’t Chaucer.”<\/p>\n
Then I thought about it some more. “Unless,” I added, “you’ve seen A Knight’s Tale<\/b>. In which case, that was<\/i> Chaucer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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