Were Deleted Scenes a good call?

The Avengers: Age of Ultron movie was overall rated a good movie, but some of the problems that fans had the most were the additional subplots of the movie. Reviewers complained of the 'distracting' romance between Bruce Banner (The Hulk) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), describing it as "confusing" and "unmoving". Viewers also found the discovery of Clint Barton (Hawkeye)'s family to be unnecessary, causing a shift in the movie as the heroes hid from a "not-so-good villain". The addition of little scenes in the movie were likely added to balance out the intense action of the movie, but they did not correspond with the main storyline of the movie. On the other hand, over a hundred minutes worth of potentially better scenes were already cut from this 2 hour and 21 minute long film.

There was a 195-minute cut of this movie. The original scene was that Thor went to speak to the Norn and how it would work was that he’d go in the pool and the Norn possess him, basically, and Erik Selvig asks all the questions, and the Norn, speaking through Thor, give the answers. So Chris [Hemsworth] got to do something different, and he really threw himself into it, and he did a beautiful job, but it wasn’t well regarded by the test audiences and I feel it’s probably largely because it was a rough cut with no effects, but also because it’s something that in a Thor movie would work brilliantly, but in this movie is just a little too left of centre. (Whedon)

Based on interviews with John Whedon, writer and director of the film, it's understood that his plan was to integrate the individual backgrounds' of the characters. It wasn't the idea of the addition of a little background that left the fans disappointed; the problem was the approach. Nonetheless, the scenes appeal to most viewers and was a financial success.


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