For this week’s Which is Better, I’ll break both movies down on a series of points crucial to what makes a superhero movie great.įew will argue that The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron (AOU) are wildly different when it comes to plot execution. So the argument has to come down to the movies themselves, metrics aside. Let’s not even get started on Return of a Jedi actually failing to net a profit. Most regard Empire Strikes Back to be the best of the Star Wars films, yet it made $200 million less than A New Hope, not even adjusting for inflation. Sticking to Marvel superheroes, not a single Spider-Man movie has made as much money domestically as the first one, despite Spider-Man 2 being considered a huge improvement and one of the greatest superhero movies of all time. At first glance, it may seem that Avengers is better than its sequel because it pulled in $100 million more at the box office, which is a drop in the bucket compared to both movies making roughly $1.5 billion each.īut aren’t sequels supposed to be bigger hits than the originals?You’d think that, but it’s actually more common to see diminishing returns depending on the franchise. If we’re judging by box office, it’s even murkier. But it’s unclear whether or not the somewhat lukewarm reception to Age of Ultron was a result of superhero movie fatigue, Marvel fatigue, or something else that may not be a reflection of the movie’s true quality. Granted, a lot of fans of both movies have been debating this since last spring, pointing out every flaw in each movie that could somehow tip their arguments. Now that enough time has passed to let the movie sink in properly, I’ve decided to revisit these two movies and decide for myself. But to be honest, the debate didn’t go anywhere because we all sort of agreed (for once). Last year, my friends and I debated this for an episode of my podcast, Now Conspiring. This month: Is the first Avengers movie better than its 2015 sequel, or is it the other way around? Which is Better is a monthly editorial series where I dare to compare the best and worst of everything.
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