re: Avenger: AoU Reviews (**MAJOR SPOILERS**)

There has been some pretty good discussion of this movie going on in this thread. It has been obscured by bluster from different posters here and there but I'm enjoying it.

So here is my poor attempt to add to it. I'll use one of Fox Molder's post as a good jumping off point:

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1. too much and/or too fast (save for the captain, arrrrgh)


2. iron man is an a-hole

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1 - Even though I really enjoyed the movie (as you did also I think judging from your posts) I have to agree with your first point. I love action and big fights. But I think they dragged it on a little too long on a couple of occasions. The Hulk/IM fight was great. And most of the fights where someone or more than one hero were fighting Ultron were pretty good. But I thought the street chase scene wasn't very original and kind of bogged down.

2- I agree that Iron Man was presented as an a-hole. But I don't see that necessarily as a bad thing. The whole Marvel/DC thing going back to the 60's was always said to be that Marvel had more conflicted characters while DC had more boy scouts. Now, that's been muddled a lot over the years and sometimes they go overboard (Heck, they made IM so bad in the comics one time they had to kill him off and bring in a teenage version from another reality until the next big reboot came along). But I think having heroes who are not all 100% white hats is not necessarily a bad thing.