Where Avengers 2: Age of Ultron fails
.My wife and I shelled out the few dollars to see Avengers 2: Age of Ultron this last Sunday. I know I am late to the game, that the movie had been already released, several months closer to home video, and in all likelihood, I would have bought it once released had my wife and I not been passing by a dollar theatre showing the film, It was a quiet Sunday and an empty theatre. No fan boys were present, only the few families living on a budget. Disney and Marvel have done something quite amazing, though predictable, when you look at such franchise greats like Star Wars, the James Bond films, and more recently the Harry Potter movies. They have built an interconnected universe much like a perpetual motion machine, a kind of domino set-up only requiring a tip to set the whole thing in motion. They have a wealth of material in which they can use to develop Single character movies a la Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, which can feed into a larger, more comprehe...