Tonight you can massive superhero movie on TV look at an artificial intelligence that wants to save the world. However, she wants to exterminate humanity in return. Of course, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) can’t let that get away with it. Marvel’s The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron (2015) is the name of the film that was extremely successful and still has a bad reputation.
Joss Whedon put the Ultron story together in 45 minutes
Joss Whedon directed Marvel’s The Avengers, but a return for the sequel wasn’t a foregone conclusion. According to CBR, in the book The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he stated:
“I thought I never wanted to do that again. […] To be honest, it was a very difficult process.” Eventually, Whedon found himself in a British pub where he received a text message from his agent asking a simple question:
Do you want to direct Avengers 2?
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Whedon replied: “Let us do this!” According to his description, idea after idea came to him at that moment and in under an hour he had the idea for Age of Ultron, according to CBR.
Age of Ultron has a rather bad reputation these days
The Story of Tony Stark, the accidentally creates the villain Ultron in his world-improvement frenzy, actually sounds more exciting on the (napkin) paper than, for example, the invasion story from the first Avengers film. Nevertheless, “Ultron” is the most unpopular Avengers film in terms of numbers.
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It has the worst Marvel Team-Ups average on Moviepilot (7.1 points), the worst positive review percentage on Rotten Tomatoes (76%), and at the box office it underperformed its predecessor, Infinity War, and Endgame. With a budget of over $400 million (via Disney), it still grossed $1.4 billion worldwide.
Manohla Dargis wrote in the New York Times at the time:
For a Marvel agnostic like me, the most interesting thing about Age of Ultron is that you feel that Whedon, who helped build a universal earning machine with the first Avengers film, has now made powerful and touching efforts to breathe life into this monster. It succeeded and it failed – in a film that is alternately an entertaining and boring jumble of chatter and fights that morph into faces in close-ups or bodies in longer shots. Whedon later spoke about the production’s efforts. He explained to Variety in 2016:
I was so devastated by the process. […] I think that did the film, the studio and myself a disservice. Here’s how to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron
Age of Ultron launches this Sunday, August 20th 8:15 p.m. on ProSieben. If you don’t want to sit in front of the TV until 11 p.m. including commercial breaks, you can stream the Marvel blockbuster with a Disney + subscription.
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