Avengers! Losing my IMAX virginity

On Friday 1st of May I went to watch the Avengers: Age of Ultron.  I had already seen it on opening night but since I have my Cineworld unlimited card I thought I would go again.  I loved the film the first time round and thought it was better than the first.  I am no cinema critic and to be honest I don't watch it in the same level of detail as my cinema buddies, Dave, Danny and my cousin Dipendra.  I am a film fan, on the premise that a film is a way to escape from your own life for a couple of hours and immerse your self in a different world.  Anyone who knows me will tell you I have a slight obsession with Superheros.  Since I was a 3 year old I have been obsessed with the world of super humans.  It originally started with He-man then quickly moved to the heroes of the Marvel and DC comic universe.

I got to the cinema and there was a showing in the IMAX or a showing 30mins later.  I have never been to see a film in IMAX before so I was very excited and decided to pay the premium price tag.  especially after the guy in the box office told me that it had 2 projectors and a team of mad scientist with laptops in Japan monitoring the sound a picture quality… shhhh I know he's only joking but I would like to imagine it to be true.  I got my popcorn and Coke Zero and head in to the screen with the giddy excitement of christmas.

WOW!!!!!

That was my first thought when I walked in.  The screen was huge! I got in my massive seat and put on my 3D glasses.  This was a downer on my experience, I don't particularly like 3D films as its bit of a novelty and doesn't really add anything to the experience, if anything it detracts for me.  As it got to the trailers I sat there stuffing my face with popcorn, I have already seen these trailers.

Then BOOM!! 

The best 3D film trailer I have ever seen came on.  Star Wars: The Force Awakens… I thought back to how Danny (big Star Wars geek) thought the trailer was going to be screened with the Avengers film... but it wasn't screened.  I was gutted for him when it didn't show, as he waited to watch it. Me and Dave did our best to ruin it for him.  We told him half truths like how the Terminator has a light sabre fight with Darth Vader… I'm not to sure if he believed us.  The scale of the screen with the crashed Star Destroyer towering out of the desert made you feel like you were seeing it in real life.  Then the 3D kicked in… I have been to many 3D films and never have I felt like it did anything, sure the background looks further away, but I want to feel like a kid, I want to be moving around and trying to catch images flying towards my face.  Finally the trailer made me feel like that, I was in a Galaxy far far away!  There were fire ambers flying towards my face I was trying to bat them away, I was sat next to a robot and I was flying through space! The trailer got me more excited then the actual film.  I only have one big request from JJ Abrams.  Please make the rest of the Film as good as this trailer, if you cannot make it better.  I will be watching it in 3D IMAX.

Back to the film.  I don't really have a review apart from.. stop reading this waffle and go watch the film  if you haven't already. I have seen it twice you idiot! what does it tell you!  For those who have seen it I have a few questions that the film didn't really answer for me.  In Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D fell and everyone scattered, how are the Avengers still a team? Why is Hawk Eye an Avenger? And seriously Bruce Banner would never pull Scarlett Johansson in a million years… he doesn't even comb his hair.

The films storyline is basically about retrieving Loki's sceptre, it is continuation of all the marvel films that had come to past, not just the previous Avengers.  The opening scene was brilliant and I thought that the film was just going to be an other Hollywood, fight, fight, exploding build, slow motion shot, hot girl, more exploding buildings, kind of film.  But that was not the case.  The film had fast high octane moments with slow sections to let you catch your breath.  It had a story line, it had comedy and it even fit in a car chase.  I believe someone reached into my brain and pulled out a film that I would make.  This time round I feel there was no need for character introductions as we already knew the team, this time round they were a team and there was some chemistry, even Captain America (who for some reason is dressed in the Puerto Rico flag) was cool.
My favourite fight was the Hulk vs Iron man.  It may have just been an excuse for mindless violence but it was great fun.  The concept of Ultron was brilliant, I would say Tony Stark needs to watch Terminator… dude what do think is going to happen if you make AI?  Hollywood has shown us that no good can come of it.  The best line of the film belongs to the most pointless superhero ever, Mr Hawk Eye, he gave a great speech to the Scarlet Witch. At the end things were going nuts and he dives into a building with the Scarlet Witch, she is wimping out and he tells her how non of this craziness makes sense. Even though I am not a Hawk Eye fan, possibly because I am a big fan of the Green Arrow (watch the TV Series, thats how you should be an archer superhero with no powers) he definitely stow the show.  In the last film he was sidelined but this time he was more of a leader, the glue that held the team together.

The film ends on a bit of a low for me but there is going to be another film and hopefully my favourite Avenger, Iron Man will be back.

If some invents a Iron Man suit and needs a guy to test it… call me!!