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This is standard Marvel strategy - they go by the premise that all it takes to gratify their base is dropping a name that's familiar from the comics, and so far, it's paid off - but the never-ending quest to "improve" each movie by adding a sidekick, and another sidekick, and three villains this time, plus that other superhero you might know about if you read every Avengers comic from 1971 through 1973, has resulted in a movie with, by my count, fourteen central characters. To name just a few of those requirements: When you look at the formal requirements imposed on Whedon's script by Marvel, it's clear that AoU actually couldn't have been good-that Marvel, not knowing or caring how good movies work, mandated that Whedon make a bad one. If you've watched someone throw a ball fifty times, and then, the fifty-first time, he just drops the ball at his feet and stands there motionless, you don't assume that he can't throw. Therefore, I'm disinclined to blame the badness of *Age of Ultron *on Joss Whedon. In fact, I know he can make a good popcorn movie about the Avengers: That first movie is a stone-cold classic. I know Joss Whedon can make a good popcorn movie. Because it's getting worse, and because you can't get away. Age of Ultron is the clearest demonstration yet of the problem. Lots of people have been parsing Marvel's politics in recent weeks, but I'd submit this is beside the point in some ways: Marvel has been racist and Marvel has been sexist, but Marvel's most profound failing is that it just plain doesn't care about people. The reason for this, I would submit, is that Marvel has a palpable - and growing - contempt for its audience.
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For at least ten minutes after that movie ended, the only thing we could say to each other was "OH MY GOD." It was pure, stupid adrenaline, and it was wonderful. *Cabin in the Woods *is hardly an intellectual little art-house film, yet when I saw it in theaters, my friend Kelly and I left the theater gasping and whooping with exhilaration, as if we'd just gotten off a roller coaster. I'm no super-fan, and he's done things that are pretty dreadful (if you've never seen In Your Eyes… look, do yourself a favor, don't see In Your Eyes) but silly fun is his wheelhouse. *This is a genre I care about, and they're fucking it up.Ī stupid popcorn movie by Joss Whedon has every reason to be a great experience. What I really dislike about Marvel is what they're doing to *stupid popcorn movies. I went to see Avengers on opening weekend. But if I wanted to see something artful, I could have gone to watch *Ex Machina *or whatever that new David Cronenberg movie is supposed to be. That's part of it: A pop-culture intake comprised of nothing but big spectacle is just as bad for you as an all-cheeseburger diet. So I don't object to Marvel, or to Avengers: Age of Ultron, just because it's not an artful, subtle little movie.