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Captain America: Civil War Review Thread

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I haven't seen Iron Man 3 since its release but I do remember being mildly disappointed by the actual villain of the movie. The twist itself was fine - actually, that was the best part. But that villain... I wish he was more fleshed out.

How does the movie hold up on repeated viewings? Is it such that the movie gets better after each viewing?
 
The question is, what side is Trevor Slattery on?

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Primethius said:
I got hit in the face with a cricket bat once. That shit hurts man.

I'd totally sleep through Thor 2 instead.
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Nu-uh! That's not how it works! You'd have to watch that movie. All of it.

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Christopher Eccleson...in a rubber elf suit. What's his...motivation? Natalie Portman...looking like she just wants to go home. Idris Elba is here....why? WHY?!

I'd take the cricket bat, personally.
 
I liked IM3 for what it was, I just don't take superhero movies that serious.

Sure, again a shit villain and a boring plot. But it was fun, enough references to other Marvel movies and decent action.
 
Sadist said:
Awesome:

- The Winter Soldier
- Iron Man
- Avengers
- Guardians of the Galaxy

Neat:

- Cap the First Avenger
- Iron Man 3
- Ant-Man
- Age of Ultron

Eeeh:

- Incredible Hulk
- Iron Man 2

Nah:

- Thor 2
- Thor
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I'd personally swap the places of Thor and Incredible Hulk and move Ant-Man up to awesome, but this is more or less how I feel otherwise.
 
RDreamer said:
Is Thor 2 somehow worse than Thor? I haven't seen 2 yet, but the first was fucking trash.
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It's not. They'll all say it is. They're both awful for different reasons.

There comes a point where badness just falls off the curve and there's no point in measuring anymore.

Thor 2 at least has the teleportation fight, which is genuinely great.
 
Now that we're discussing other films. I watched Iron Man 3 last night and it's actually really quite good. Goes to shit a bit in the third act for the whole 'many suits, Killian' stuff but that's honestly still fun.

The stuff with Tony Stark actually being smart, working without his suit was a great reminder of how this guy is a genius and not just 'Iron Man shoot lasers'. I know he made Ultron and everything but this honestly impressed me more, he does some cool shit. It's also easily the funniest Iron Man movie and the Mandarin twist is great.

Don't really get the hate some seem to have for it.
 
ReplacementPelican said:
Don't really get the hate some seem to have for it.
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Some people don't like it because it's a movie that deals in switcheroos. Even the trailers were super serious about Iron Man taking on this big terrorist threat, and the movie ended up being action comedy (who saw that coming, right? :lol).

The movie treats everything and everyone as a punchline, and some of those are things comic book fans care about most. The Mandarin, Killian, Extremis, the Iron Man suits, Tony, even him dealing with PTSD fall in this category. Some people accept that and go along, others
who are wrong btw :P
reject it.
 
Red said:
It's not. They'll all say it is. They're both awful for different reasons.

There comes a point where badness just falls off the curve and there's no point in measuring anymore.
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Not really, brother.

The first Thor is a pretty flimsily directed and written film that for the most part squanders the potential of the character in exchange for telling a very generic, by the numbers superhero story which audiences have seen a thousand times before. But at least in regards to that particular film, it has a few positives in its corner. The film has a fairly vibrant visual style and mostly has a fairly simple, easy to understand narrative that propels it forward to its misjudged conclusion. So at least it has that, even if the film itself was pretty damn lacking.

In comparison, Thor 2 is a shoddy, schizophrenic mess that doesn't seem to have the slightest idea in regards to what kind of story it wants to tell. The story is incredibly disjointed, muddled and confusion, the main antagonist basically gets NO development whatsoever and his motivations are completely incomprehensible. In addition, the human characters, unlike the first movie, basically have no impact on the main story whatsoever. In comparison to the first film, the second is filmed a lot more poorly ad with a lot less confidently, it's much more badly written and the set-pieces as a consequence are a lot less memorable, much like the rest of that wretched movie.

Thor 2 is objectively a lot, lot worse than the first Thor in absolutely every comprehensible department, and the critical response of the time (along with the general consensus amongst fans), certainly reflects that difference in quality. It boggles my mind you could argue otherwise.
 
Rewatched this MCU Supercut trailer again.

If I'm getting this emotional about a fan made Civil War trailer I'm probably going to feel so vexed when the stakes come speeding down like a hammer in the actual movie. Even when I think I know whose "side" I'm on, it becomes really hard to commit to either.
 
Sadist said:
Awesome:

- The Winter Soldier
- Iron Man
- Avengers
- Guardians of the Galaxy

Neat:

- Cap the First Avenger
- Iron Man 3
- Ant-Man
- Age of Ultron

Eeeh:

- Incredible Hulk
- Iron Man 2

Nah:

- Thor 2
- Thor
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This are my feelings but I'd throw hulk into Nah and Age of Ultron into Eeeh.
 
Red said:
It's not. They'll all say it is. They're both awful for different reasons.

There comes a point where badness just falls off the curve and there's no point in measuring anymore.

Thor 2 at least has the teleportation fight, which is genuinely great.
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tryagainlater said:
I like Thor 2 :( I thought it was funny.
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It's a fun little romp with more focus on Loki than anyone else, but that's not what I want from a thor movie. I want crazy mythical epic adventures through the unknown cosmos. The fact that they have a character who can instantaneously travel virtually anywhere in the universe and they constantly stick him in drab Earth locations is such a fucking missed opportunity.
 
NotLiquid said:
Rewatched this MCU Supercut trailer again.

If I'm getting this emotional about a fan made Civil War trailer I'm probably going to feel so vexed when the stakes come speeding down like a hammer in the actual movie. Even when I think I know whose "side" I'm on, it becomes really hard to commit to either.
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What movie had the scene with the giant ship that looked like a sword impaled in what looked like London? Six seconds into that clip.
 
I'm not the biggest Thor fan, but found the Dark World far better than the first Thor, which was really boring. When you major set-piece is a Destroyer blowing up a bar in a small desert town, you don't have many thrills to offer. The portal fight in London however was one of the better climaxes in a MCU film.

I agree with this article. The Dark World is severly underrated.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/04...rld-the-superior-and-wonderfully-weird-sequel
 
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