Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20170311140616/@comment-26687285-20180103013831

See, I actually think this one is a bit more emotionally engaging. The Standford incident is much more gripping and effective to me than the destruction of Novi Grad or any of the other events from the film.

The thing about the film is that, really, there just isn't alot of reason for why regulation should be placed upon the Avengers because non of the problems they've faced really feel out of their control. And there certainly isn't alot of tragedy attached to them either. They make this big show of how terrible these events have supposedly been with those video fragments, but we all know that in every one of those instances the heroes (successfully, I might add) did everything possible to protect as many people as possible.

And you know, looking back I realize that this is really a problem with Marvel's style. They try to do really impactfull, heavy stories, but they consistently intentionally lessen the impact of those stories because they have a release schedule to keep. For instance, if you wanted us to really feel that emotional weight in this film, AoU should have had a decisively UNhappy ending. We should not have felt upbeat or happy after facing a truly terrible threat like Ultron (I'm speaking more about how he is portrayed in the comics than the film). Both the characters and we the audience should have felt profoundly shaken. The film's final note should have been uncertain and not very optimistic. It should have been an "Ultron may have lost, but we didn't win" kind of feeling.

Not this.

Thor: "Boy, we sure took care of that Ultron with no real problem or challenge. Aren't we incredibly compitent and without any significant character struggles or problems. Well, I'm off to do more stuff to set up the next few movies but has nothing whatsoever to do with this story. See you in a few years."

Tony and Cap: "Quips about lawn maintenance and trying to figure out how Thor's hammer works, even though yesterday we stopped an all-powerful sentient robot that one of us created behind the back of the rest of the group because he has highly contrasting methods to the rest of us from destroying the entire freaking world, which we are never really going to argue about or even hold him accountable for.

The rest: "Man, Quicksilver is dea...Hey, here's the new team everybody! You don't have to worry about that guy we barely developed before we killed him off. Look at all of these other characters we're gonna use, which we're also gonna barely develop before we kill them off and then bring them back again for 3 more movies, because why not?

My point is, so many of the Marvel films (IM2, AoU, Civil War, Thor 2 & 3) feel so much like they want to get their stories over and done with as quick as possible so everyone can move on to the next installment, rather than flesh out and letting us absorb all of the film's themes, stakes, emotional impact etc.

I could go on, but I would probably go nuts if I kept writing right now, that's how much I have to say.

P.S. Watch | this alternate version of Avengers 2 to get an idea of what I think they should've done with it.