Winter Soldier was amazing. No Marvel movies are trash really, even though I put Avengers 2 at the same level as Transformers 2 and up, just mediocre forgettable movies but can be enjoyed if you watch it in theaters. I thought the same for Avengers 1 even though it's held to some exceptional standard -_-
Dat hyperbole
They're both really fun dumb movies and something I enjoyed watching once and won't bother watching ever again. Probably both 6/10. I didn't find T2 as a horrible as many others did, just silly dumb fun that you can enjoy once in theaters.
I had removed that from memory. My new score is -20.
It's been so long since I've seen it that I have no idea what is so racist about it?
The fuck is this? :\
No I get it. I'm just surprised seeing it now....
She's not shit, it's just a case of a completely white bread character that's called the greatest without anything to really back it up. Like Barry Allen or Hal Jordan. Only Hal is slightly more interesting given that he's a complete piece of shit.
But it doesn't change who Loki is, which is an incredibly powerful master of trickery, illusions, lies, and manipulation. She outplayed the dude on a game set up by him, on a playing field of his own choosing, with his own rules.
She also gets pushed as "Earth's Mightiest Hero" or "The Best Avenger," but I honestly can't think of any reason why. Other than that she's been at the superhero game for a long-ass time.
The best thing that happened was in House of M, when she was the top hero in Wanda's World. Then she comes out of it, realizes that just as powerful as she was then, but isn't anywhere near that level. That's a great story, great character development, and really put a spotlight on the whole "Earth's Mightiest" thing...and then they fully abandoned it. Just like they did with the whole 'no emotional connection to the past' thing, and the whole 'not human anymore' thing, and the 'how do I maintain my drive' thing. So many great setups to make her a really fleshed out character, and every time they just ignore it (usually because something happens, like Secret Wars, or Civil War, or some other major event).
it's the knowledge that they won't be that kills the tension. they don't actually need to die although that would be even better because that would raise the stakes for everyone in a sequel. but then disney can't profit off the character IP anymore so...
"fun action", that's an empty phrase if I ever knew one.
To some degree yes. It always kills part of the tension when you know that things will work out in the end because the company wants to make sequels and make more money.
characters absolutely has to be at stake or it doesn't work. In super hero movies it was usually the human friend that was in danger, but it become such a predictable and boring pattern that they moved away from that and now.. instead we have things at stake. stuff that is never emotionally present and so you don't care about it. if you don't care about it, it's not really a stake.
that's what these movies are doing, introducing "bigger" stakes, but not meaningful stakes. A good change would be if say spidermans abilities were limited to climbing and maybe net shooting. no super strength, no super senses and so on. Then you'd actually feel the danger of him climbing around because a fall would kill him, and his accomplishments compensating for his lack of allroundedness would actually carry weight and meaning.
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