Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24467536-20140619163720

I have been reading the stories about alleged spoilers, costume changes, and location shoots and I'm scratching my head. What are they trying to do in this movie? I'm not a comic book fan so I'm not going to be up with the second and third tier characters from the Marvel Universe. From first blush Whedon is trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink in here. Hyping a Hulk/Widow romance (so to hype a new Hulk movie); reporting first 20 minuite spoilers from a blog with a dicey reputation of reporting the facts; talking about costume upgrades (Black Widow now has an electroschock cat suit with her new batons);  filming at different castles in England (is this Game of Thrones now); talking about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. crossover characters, new characters, etc. With all this going on I still don't have an idea as to what is the plot of AoU. How does HYDRA get involve in this, if they do? How does Ultron come to be? How do castles tie into a technological menace? It seems like Marvel Studios is trying to outdo the first Avengers so it packs in everything so box office lightening will strike twice. To me the studio is jumping the shark and the movie may result in a mess. Whedon should not rest on his laurels; directors and producers with past successes have turned in bad product before. Movies like this have to make sense to everyone who's watching. The hard core comic book fans were not the sole reason the Avengers made over a billion at the box office. 