Avengers: Age Of Ultron - 10 Reasons It's The Weirdest MCU Movie Ever

5. That Thing With Thor & The Magic Pool

There are a bunch of scenes in Age Of Ultron that are super weird. They mostly occur at the movie's super strange mid-point that also serves as a sort of non-action interval, in which the Avengers travel to Hawkeye's remote house in the countryside to chill out for a while. And then cue scenes in which Hawkeye has a family all of a sudden, and Iron Man is outside in the yard chopping wood, and then Nick Fury is hiding in a barn like a hermit.. it's all inarguably odd, no matter how you look at it. But the really, really weird part here is the moment where Thor - out of nowhere, mind - decides he can advance the plot if he better understands a vision he experienced previously in the movie. And so he flies off and tracks down Stellan Skarsgård, who helps him to find a mystical pool buried in an underground cavern somewhere, which allows him to finish said vision, and... what? What is the actual point of this scene? It's mental, and undoubtably stands as one of the most bewildering moments to have graced the MCU canon. Weirdness aside, it's a deus ex machina of the worst kind; Joss Whedon could have done better than "secret magical vision pool," surely?