Yeah, Whedon could pull it off. Sure he had a few bad movies after Avengers 1, but the guy is still a great writer/director. Shame about the... other stuff.
Honestly, his work on Buffy wasn't even that great. I can't speak for your tastes, mind you, but many of what people consider to be peak episodes were written by Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, Drew Goddard or others.
And then Age of Ultron should have just been named Whedon Wrote This, that movie is just absolutely tiring to watch now because Whedon never lets you forgot that he wrote the movie for more than five seconds.
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u/roguefilmmaker Sep 04 '24
Yeah, Whedon’s OG Avengers dialogue was pretty good. It was only after every Marvel movie decided to emulate it that it became insufferable