bzdsentai replied to your post:Seeing Avengers hit 1B just has me shaking my…
Think of it this why, the more money it makes the more money they’ll have to make better movies.
No, because I’m sick of movies being an “investment” to better stuff, and they’re still making Spider-Man White Peter Parker, and they’re not retcon-diversifying their movie leads, and they bumped back Black Panther, and they’ll probably ignore the Inhumans from their TV show in favor of some other ones (probably men), and they still haven’t put Black Widow in group shots on merchandise, and there’s still no Black Widow toy, there’s still no Black Widow movie, and what SHOULD HAVE BEEN Black Widow 2 trashed her character in a horrific way by abandoning all of the momentum that had been built up for her throughout the past few movies, so if they’d actually done that and given her a decent plotline they would have had a good, socially progressive movie AND made money, because I guarantee it wouldn’t have made the movie bomb, and it would have certainly passed a billion dollars within this week, possibly even earlier.
I’ve given the “wait and see” thing to them, but I gave it to them years ago, and I want them to pay up.
A ‘decent plotline’ and ‘a socially progressive movie’. Like a movie with five very distinct female characters, main characters with distinct motivations and arcs too, that’s not even counting the the cameos and references? (In comparison Avengers had, like 2, and the Winter Solider, everyone’s latest shill, had ¾, the same number as Thor: The Dark World.) A movie where every five minutes I was going, “Hey, that’s me, that’s me, that’s who I want to be when I grow up, that’s my aunt, that’s my mother, that’s my sister, that’s my cousin.” A movie where Black Widow’s entire plot was about how despite everything she’s went through and how tempting it can be to just run away, she’s ultimately a hero first and foremost? A movie that allowed her to have fears and doubts and self hatred and have those be writ large and still have her as a cool, controlled, strong woman who was both physically a badass, mentally one of the most resilient characters there, and emotionally both a ruthless pragmatist and genuinely kind person. Where she got a love interest who’s entire purpose was to serve as a foil for her and a potential way out and who then got pushed off a cliff because of Natasha’s bone deep Avenger-dom?A movie that not only touched on infertility but allowed it to be something complicated and upsetting that people of both genders were allowed to be upset about without it dominating their storylines. (Seriously, it got a couple of minutes and was just as much Bruce’s problem as Nat’s.)
Age of Ultron had some issues- Maximoffs, you’re fantastic but there were so many missed opportunities in you- but it was a movie that made me feel entertained and catered to. Other people are going to have other opinions but the fact of the matter is that it was a movie that people enjoyed and were emotionally affected by, seeing as it did, you know, pass the billion dollar mark, it’s clear that people did like it and in many cases went to resee it. It’s certainly made back it’s budget and served it’s purpose. People whined about all the other Marvel movies, people are going to whine about this one, but I’d say it’s a success both monetarily and character wise.
It’s a solid and enjoyable popcorn flick which makes up for it’s quick pace and flighty plot with some rock solid character work and delightful effects.
A Middleground 