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You guys, more than 15 years after his work brought me into online fandom, I'm pretty sure I flat out hate Joss Whedon's work.
Going into Age of Ultron, I was already infuriated by the whitewashing of the Maximoff twins, and the "dress her like a gypsy" crap of Wanda's costuming in particular. Not to mention, the clusterfuck of a media circus in which everyone said shitty, shitty things, and made it really hard to separate my anger at them from my feelings for their characters. Yes, even RDJ. Yes, even Mark Ruffalo.
Walking out of AOU, I'm infuriated that Joss Whedon is touted as this feminist god of amazing creations, because, you guys, I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a flying fuck about the fact this movie takes place in a shared universe with other movies that have things like character development. Continuity? Whedon doesn't believe in goddamn continuity.
(And by the way, WHEDON, cracking a fucking joke about how few women are in the movie and how the Avengers is basically a big sausage fest DOES NOT ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM. That prima nocte joke was DISGUSTING and felt like it carried the same fucked up glee you had for the mewling quim bit in the first Avengers.)
At best, AOU feels like a really poorly written, badly paced second movie in a trilogy, sacrificing actual good storytelling and character development in order to shoehorn a bunch of elements needed to transition from phase two to phase three. It had fun moments, it had some pretty action scenes, it had a couple of great character details. That frustrating but acceptable version is buried under the absolute shit show of Whedon's offensive, toxic character choices and direction.
I am too tired, to worn down by the sexist, racist, ableist crap that led into this movie and that I experienced while watching this movie to come up with a coherent, thoughtful, balance response. I wanted to love this movie, and instead Whedon shit all over the things I adore about the franchise, while managing to be terribly sexist, racist, and ableist. Awesome. Good job.
So instead, I'm linking to a bunch of reviews that interested me in some way or another, behind the cut for spoilers. (Though I link, there are parts I strongly disagree with, too, I just found the overall discussions interesting.)
( AOU spoilers )
Going into Age of Ultron, I was already infuriated by the whitewashing of the Maximoff twins, and the "dress her like a gypsy" crap of Wanda's costuming in particular. Not to mention, the clusterfuck of a media circus in which everyone said shitty, shitty things, and made it really hard to separate my anger at them from my feelings for their characters. Yes, even RDJ. Yes, even Mark Ruffalo.
Walking out of AOU, I'm infuriated that Joss Whedon is touted as this feminist god of amazing creations, because, you guys, I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a flying fuck about the fact this movie takes place in a shared universe with other movies that have things like character development. Continuity? Whedon doesn't believe in goddamn continuity.
(And by the way, WHEDON, cracking a fucking joke about how few women are in the movie and how the Avengers is basically a big sausage fest DOES NOT ACTUALLY FIX THE PROBLEM. That prima nocte joke was DISGUSTING and felt like it carried the same fucked up glee you had for the mewling quim bit in the first Avengers.)
At best, AOU feels like a really poorly written, badly paced second movie in a trilogy, sacrificing actual good storytelling and character development in order to shoehorn a bunch of elements needed to transition from phase two to phase three. It had fun moments, it had some pretty action scenes, it had a couple of great character details. That frustrating but acceptable version is buried under the absolute shit show of Whedon's offensive, toxic character choices and direction.
I am too tired, to worn down by the sexist, racist, ableist crap that led into this movie and that I experienced while watching this movie to come up with a coherent, thoughtful, balance response. I wanted to love this movie, and instead Whedon shit all over the things I adore about the franchise, while managing to be terribly sexist, racist, and ableist. Awesome. Good job.
So instead, I'm linking to a bunch of reviews that interested me in some way or another, behind the cut for spoilers. (Though I link, there are parts I strongly disagree with, too, I just found the overall discussions interesting.)
( AOU spoilers )
