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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6608623" data-attributes="member: 177">To each their own, obviously, but the group I went with liked it a great deal.  Not a perfect movie, but better than many. So, what else would you expect, or are you looking for, from the ending of a comic-book superhero movie?  Or from any action-genre movie, really?  They should sit down with Ultron, and talk out his daddy issues over a cup of coffee?Why doesn't he use it all the time?  Maneuverability, if nothing else.  That thing steered like a cow.  Remember him in the fight in Avengers 1, when he outdid the Chitauri flyers because the enemy couldn't bank for crap?  Well, the Hulkbuster armor sure isn't going to manage that kind of nonsense.Here's something interesting - these movies are, in many ways, not in the same genre, and it shows in their styles, and in who likes which movie.So, Morrus, are you a spy-movie fan?  You like the recent Bond films, for example?I am broad in my movie tastes.  I've liked both Captain America movies, all the Iron Man and Avenger films.  Some of them have some flaws, but all enjoyable.  The Thor movies were a bit of a slog, but had their good bits, too.My wife is more strictly a comic book superheroes fan, and found both the Captain America films (as well as the first Thor, she didn't bother seeing the second) to be boring boring boring, and Cap 2 to also be needlessly violent.  Some of you will laugh at that, but you shouldn't - the style, form, and targets of violence in Cap 2 are notably different from the Avengers films.  That's because Cap 2 is almost more spy-thriller than it is superhero.  My wife is not a spy-thriller fan.  Quantum of Solace was a *bad* movie, from her perspective.  The violence is in Cap 2 is with *lots* of guns.  There are few guns in Avengers.  There's energy bolts and stuff, but few bullets.  And to most folks bullets (and the vehicular violence) are more "real".  In essence, the violence in Cap 2 is more realistic than that in Avengers films, such that it may have more impact on some viewers.Edit:  Wait!  The term I want isn't "realistic".  It is "visceral".  The violence in Cap 2 is more visceral than in the Avengers films.</blockquote>

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