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They have to reduce these characters to one-note jokes - for the modern audience's "attention span" deficits.

The rare exceptions (Iron Man/Tony Stark) make it all the more glaring.

Um, we figured out Tony Stark in the first 10 minutes of Iron Man 1. His dad was more impressive in Captain America 1, and his legacy is seen more throughout the MCU.

Why there had to be 3 movies of Tony, and 1 of his dad, when all events past, present, and future deal with his dad? I have no idea.

I think the writers have to weave all these threads between all the films in at least some extent. You would hope that some of those threads would lead to something. There's no string I see.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 10/24/14 at 8:12 am to Pectus

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Um, we figured out Tony Stark in the first 10 minutes of Iron Man 1.

Maybe so - I'll admit, the excessive banter in Avengers was a little offputting. I gave it a pass on the simplification stuff (I recognize that film is different and film audiences are different), because it looked right, felt right, and their casting choices - RDJ and Ruffalo, in particular, seem to be pretty good, overall.

Good casting can overcome a certain amount of other obstacles, just a bad casting can overwhelm an otherwise good project.

Having said that,

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There's no string I see.

My son says one has to watch most, if not all of these movies, to see all the pieces of of the story - and not the Spiderman, but the MCU films. Since I'm not going to do that -

- I guess I'll just have to deal with it.

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