Manual special effects

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2015)

The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) was a movie that was full of manual special effects. Manual Special Effects are effects that have some force to them, but that are also linked to the physical nature of the Avenger fighting. This movie had a lot of features of mass destruction that seems to draw a crowd to the theater. There were more punches and fighting then dialogue, but the dialogue was witty and the component of good versus evil seems to be one that Western civilization never seems to get enough of. The robots in this movie looked like the robots in Terminator and in a sense they took on the same character. Avengers 2015 seemed to encompass all aspects of science fiction movies and then connect them into a whole story. The themes of evolution, change and chaos and order are universal themes and they coincide nicely with the way the Western World is operating in the realm of Europe, the Americas and Asia/Africa. There is a feel of colonialism which is deeply rooted in the notion of innocent versus guilty. This movie was a snapshot of tensions that each Western adult human being lives with in order to live in the civilized world ... a world where, on some days being a super hero is necessary just to get through the day in one piece.