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Captain America: Civil War Review Thread

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brandonh83 said:
That's what I meant by better shot, it just looks better and like an actual film compared to the TV look of the first one. Sorta like how Abrams' films look apart from I'd say Super 8 and definitely Star Wars. That's not to say these things look bad but you can definitely tell that these directors have a hardcore television background/orientation and the more work they do on feature length films the less they look like TV.
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Hmm, not seeing it with Abrams. I don't think his Start Trek films looked TV- like at all. MI:3 is the only one I can even vaguely see a comparison for. And the sheer amount of lens flare is enough to take his work out of the realm of TV anyway (other than, ahem, Fringe).
 
my partner wants to know why tony doesn't just use all the suits in iron man 3 when his house was getting attacked, or just summon another suit when he blacks out and lands in tennessee. idk what to tell her i'm not familiar w/ iron man lore
 
Sai-kun said:
my partner wants to know why tony doesn't just use all the suits in iron man 3 when his house was getting attacked, or just summon another suit when he blacks out and lands in tennessee. idk what to tell her i'm not familiar w/ iron man lore
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His basement was buried. He calls them in the moment Jarvis tells him they've excavated enough of the rubble. He also wanted to keep a low profile and remain dead in the eyes of the public and the Mandarin.
 
Although I find it hard to get excited for yet another Marvel movie, it seems like I will be going to see this Thursday night with a group of people.

My friend invited us all and he bought the tickets. I've had several soon to expire buy one get one free coupons from Coke, so he used one of those for me.

The shitty thing is they charge an extra $5 because of the 3D/AVX crap, but I can live with that. Five is acceptable. $16.99 for more Marvel milkage is not.

I still have yet to see Age of Ultron, but I have it borrowed from the library. And have for over a month. I have yet to be able to find the interest to watch it, but it's now the only one i have yet to see.

Guardians, Iron Man, X-Men FC/Days of Future Past and Ant-Man are my favorites. The Cap movies were quite good, too.

Iron Man 3 was fun. Iron Man 2 was awful. The Thor movies sucked donkey ass and Avengers was solid but overrated.
 
CrichtonKicks said:
Hmm, not seeing it with Abrams. I don't think his Start Trek films looked TV- like at all. MI:3 is the only one I can even vaguely see a comparison for. And the sheer amount of lens flare is enough to take his work out of the realm of TV anyway (other than, ahem, Fringe).
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I agree. But, that being said, if someone argued to me that Star Trek had that "TV" feel, I might could see where they're coming from. They're very clean and have the same stylistic ideologies when it comes to framing and camera movements as Abrams' TV stuff. It looks fine, great even, but like... I could see it. Star Wars VII and Super 8 remain the only two films he's made where I would completely argue against it.
 
I'm gonna have to watch Civil War this weekend. Not because I want to (I never watch movies on their opening weekends) or because I'm overtaken by the hype (I'm not). My boss, though, is. Dude was talking non stop about May 6th today, asking everyone, "Hey, what's the big event happening on Friday?".

He already bought his tickets for Friday, by himself, and for next week with his wife and kids. He also sits next to me and I KNOW dude is gonna talk non stop about the movie on Monday. Therefore, in order for me not to get spoiled, I'm gonna have to watch it this weekend. I just hope the theater is not too packed and full of people talking, moving, on the phone, and pissing me off. I'm planning to go on Sunday.
 
AnotherDayAnotherDollar said:
I'm gonna have to watch Civil War this weekend. Not because I want to (I never watch movies on their opening weekends) or because I'm overtaken by the hype (I'm not). My boss, though, is. Dude was talking non stop about May 6th today, asking everyone, "Hey, what's the big event happening on Friday?".

He already bought his tickets for Friday, by himself, and for next week with his wife and kids. He also sits next to me and I KNOW dude is gonna talk non stop about the movie on Monday. Therefore, in order for me not to get spoiled, I'm gonna have to watch it this weekend. I just hope the theater is not too packed and full of people talking, moving, on the phone, and pissing me off. I'm planning to go on Sunday.
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You won't be disappointed.

Civil War continues the "Captain America movies kick ass" trend in the MCU.

Film is great.
 
AnotherDayAnotherDollar said:
I'm gonna have to watch Civil War this weekend. Not because I want to (I never watch movies on their opening weekends) or because I'm overtaken by the hype (I'm not). My boss, though, is. Dude was talking non stop about May 6th today, asking everyone, "Hey, what's the big event happening on Friday?".

He already bought his tickets for Friday, by himself, and for next week with his wife and kids. He also sits next to me and I KNOW dude is gonna talk non stop about the movie on Monday. Therefore, in order for me not to get spoiled, I'm gonna have to watch it this weekend. I just hope the theater is not too packed and full of people talking, moving, on the phone, and pissing me off. I'm planning to go on Sunday.
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Don't worry, nobody will tell if you get overtaken by hype. It's cool.
 
Yeezus H. Christ said:
I'm seeing this movie in IMAX, and I have to ask, is it worth it?
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Depends on what kind of technology regular theaters in your area use and what your general take is on watching stuff in IMAX theaters.

Most of the movie is shot with regular cameras, with 15 minutes being shot with digital imax cameras with a resolution of 6k.

For me, I didn't consider it worth it as I have theaters around that have 4k resolution projectors. Full IMAX quality is said to be around 16-18k or so. So the higher quality scenes in this movie don't take full advantage of the screen/medium (like TDK, TDKR and even BvS did for certain scenes).

Then again, many people just prefer imaxes for the bigger size screen even for regular movies, and that 15 minutes worth of footage is still going to look better at IMAX than regular theaters so it could be worth it to you.

15 minutes worth of a "minor" visual upgrade wasn't enough to push me towards IMAX. But Avengers Infinity War Parts 1 & 2 are going to be entirely shot with these cameras so I'll probably watch those in IMAX.
 
Garlador said:
Lol. This reminds me of the infamous "too much water" criticism for Pokemon.
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I always wonder why people make fun of that criticism, when I heard it widely used as one of the biggest critiques for R/S/E for years, and used to support the consensus that gen 3 was the worst gen, until the remake announcement apparently gave everyone collective amnesia.
 
Just saw it, my review:

It was just ok, 6.


Shaky cam everywhere, definitely too long, and to be honest rather than "Civil War" this movie should be called "Jumping to conclusions and lets keep secrets from the rest -just because-*

Black panther and spider man steal the show.

Still, much much better than the barf that was BvS.


And WTF
No Thor or thanos or hulk?
Fuck that.

For reference, I think that the first Iron man, Avengers and Ant Man are way far better than this.
 
Yeah I rewatched The First Avenger last week and man is it dull. First half hour is okay but it's all downhill from there. Cap is even more boring than in Avengers and all the enemies have those dumb laserguns like in the spider-man cartoon. It's not really bad, but just there. To set up the Avengers.
 
Yeezus H. Christ said:
Despite how much people love to bag on Age of Ultron, 'cheap-looking' and 'TV-esque' are not complaints that should apply. It has some terrific shots.
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Have to wonder when more people see the shots of Robert Downey Jnr when he pops his head out of his Iron Man suit in Civil War, and what they'll say about that. Can't believe Marvel passed that and allowed that bad CG through.

I don't recall a previous time when it looked so bad.
 
Yeezus H. Christ said:
I'm seeing this movie in IMAX, and I have to ask, is it worth it?
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I've seen it twice now, once in IMAX 3D and once standard and the IMAX was miles better, because of the bigger screen and better surround sound, it just adds to the experience. The 3D was ok, I enjoy 3D movies personally, though it's not a deal breaker for this movie but the bigger the screen the better in my opinion.
 
Yeezus H. Christ said:
Despite how much people love to bag on Age of Ultron, 'cheap-looking' and 'TV-esque' are not complaints that should apply. It has some terrific shots:

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Right. A lot of people throw around those criticisms without understanding what they mean. Avengers looks a little like a TV show. So does Ant-Man in the non-CG sequences. But I wouldn't say that of any of the other films. Nor does that mean Avengers 1 or Ant-Man are bad in anyway, just that the visuals leave a little to be desired. Both of those make up for it in a number of other ways.
 
neurosisxeno said:
It's more like 1 actually. Winter Soldier was amazing, but First Avenger was okay at best. It was the necessary film that quite a few people went and saw but almost nobody loved.
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I love the first half of the movie, but once he gets his powers and the montages of his attacks against Hydra bases begin, I think the film kind of loses its way. Red Skull is wasted and the ending feels really rushed. But that first half is great and the character building for Steve is excellent.
 
neurosisxeno said:
It's more like 1 actually. Winter Soldier was amazing, but First Avenger was okay at best. It was the necessary film that quite a few people went and saw but almost nobody loved.
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Nah, you're wrong about TFA. It's not overwhelmingly beloved like the upper echelon of the MCU but it's got a decent sized cult following.
 
guek said:
Nah, you're wrong about TFA. It's not overwhelmingly beloved like the upper echelon of the MCU but it's got a decent sized cult following.
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And I forgive those people, we're all wrong about some things!

First Avenger is great before he becomes Cap, the rest is eh
 
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