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My guess is Ant-Man and the Wasp next and Im okay with that!

Like I said, in retrospect Ultron is worse than Captain Marvel and I would never have had it over Thor. Its okay, but I dont think its better than that. I dont really have some of the commonly cited issues with it like the humour. It also looks much better than the first Avengers which is nice (the main problem with that film is that for such a huge film, it doesnt look great - even Cap 1 looks better). It has some really nice character work too, with one exception. I really liked what they did with Hawkeye in particular, and the bait-and-switch with his possible death (very much on purpose, Whedon described laughing while writing foreshadowing for a non-existent death scene). However, it has some big problems.

First, the fact that it seems more interested in setting up future films than in its own story. I wound up really wanting to see Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, and so on, instead of the film I was actually watching. Second, all of the action felt completely perfunctory and frankly very boring except for the Hulkbuster scene. Compare it to the action in The Avengers where every action scene has impact for the characters and story. Wanda worked but Quicksilver was boring, especially when you compare him to his Days of Future Past self from less than a year before. I also felt that compared to the other Avengers movies, this one felt like much less of a major story event. And boy, did they ever torch Black Widows character in this one. Its not the romance, that was passable by superhero romance standards, its the whole I MADE MYSELF INFERTILE ARENT I TERRIBLE awfulness. WANTING KIDS==GOOD WOMAN, this movie says...

So yeah, a mixed bag to say the least. If if wasnt for the strength of its characters, it would have been just another trash, cynical, CG-fest. Luckily theyre pretty damn good.

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