Yay!
Yay! Age of Ultron is made of pure awesome! I've been reading spoilers, most of which has been negative, while I waited to see it, and have rolled my eyes at the complaints, but I thought maybe I'd get it after seeing the movie. Nope! Get it even less now.
The first major complaint has been that it turned Black Widow into a victim/damsel in distress. o_O Were they watching the same movie I just watched? Because at no point in the movie did Black Widow comes across as either a victim or a damsel in distress. Yes, she gets captured; yes, she gets rescued. But... She sends the SOS that tells her team where she is by using her skills, and had she needed to, I'm certain she would have found a way to escape on her own, but that's what being on a team is all about -- not having to do it all by one's self, being able to count on others to have one's back!
The second major complaint was that the romance between Natasha and Bruce was out of the blue. Again, were these people watching the same movie I watched? Because, to me, it establishes pretty much from the get go that Bruce and Natasha have been building an increasingly intimate relationship slowly, over time, as Natasha is used by the team to talk the Hulk down whenever the Avengers have called him into service. So, it wasn't out of the blue at all; it was a natural progression.
Anyway, as I said before, PURE AWESOMENESS!
The first major complaint has been that it turned Black Widow into a victim/damsel in distress. o_O Were they watching the same movie I just watched? Because at no point in the movie did Black Widow comes across as either a victim or a damsel in distress. Yes, she gets captured; yes, she gets rescued. But... She sends the SOS that tells her team where she is by using her skills, and had she needed to, I'm certain she would have found a way to escape on her own, but that's what being on a team is all about -- not having to do it all by one's self, being able to count on others to have one's back!
The second major complaint was that the romance between Natasha and Bruce was out of the blue. Again, were these people watching the same movie I watched? Because, to me, it establishes pretty much from the get go that Bruce and Natasha have been building an increasingly intimate relationship slowly, over time, as Natasha is used by the team to talk the Hulk down whenever the Avengers have called him into service. So, it wasn't out of the blue at all; it was a natural progression.
Anyway, as I said before, PURE AWESOMENESS!