Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20170411234907/@comment-29908830-20170926231558

Malekith and Ronan are pretty awful because they're so bland, they're definitely at the bottom along with Abomination. For me, Killian is the worst because he tries so hard to have these things and just comes off as weird. I mean, his motivation is that he got left on a freaking rooftop? His personality is that he's a pervert? And his endgame made no sense, and I've watched the movie three times; did he want to infect the country with Extremis or something? Did he just want revenge on Tony (which, by the way, is basically what Iron Monger and Whiplash were)?

Maybe I should reiterate about Age of Ultron; it's not that it was trying to step up so much, it's that it suffers from the Spider-Man 3 Problem. There are too many different plot lines going on that it's hard to keep track. We have to deal with Tony making Ultron, Thor and his dreams, Hulk and Black Widow hitting it off (why...), the Maximoffs doing their thing, Vision being shoved in there, Hawkeye caring for his family, and Cap... saying "language". This would be fine, if they all blended together and didn't distract from the team trying to defeat Ultron, but like the two worst Spider-Man movies, it kinda doesn't. With Civil War, though, even if there was set-up, aside from Spider-Man it was pretty seamless. Black Panther's plot fit directly in with Zemo framing Bucky, Cap and co. reacted because Zemo framed Bucky, and Tony and co. fought Cap because they signed the Accords. All the plots felt like a single distinctive story, which is what is essential for such a set-up film.