Saw Captain America: Brave New World this evening and have already forgotten most of it, like the name of someone uninteresting who introduced themself at a party
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I don’t think it’s intentional by Hollywood, but we are a nation that is easily distracted by superfluous bullshit that warps our attention span to real issues
As long as paid for a ticket, the movie has completely fulfilled its raison d'être, so they will keep crapping them out. 5.5/10, would eat popcorn to, would watch the next sequel (Captain America: Animal Farm?). That's good enough if you can do it reliably and within budget.
A film that dares to depict and be about plausible people and things that might actually happen, no matter how boring, is actually subversive.
Amazes me how superhero movies which helped condition the public to accept fascism and oligarchy are still drawing audiences. Cinematic "Free bird seed".
I think of this as just about the only Harrison Ford movie that isn't about "Harrison Ford." His performance is just superb and he deserved that Oscar nomination.
Oh neat! They've captured the unique experience of collecting comic books and got it on film!
At this point, you already know that they're going to keep adding suspense until the next big bad gets announced, and then the big Avengers fight against them into the next Big Bad reveal.
Your mileage may vary. I went in with the lowest expectations and really enjoyed it. I don’t judge these movies like art films. If it takes me out of reality and is fun, I’m all for it
I feel this way about every superhero movie I’ve seen in the last two decades. They’re enjoyable enough to watch to kill some time on a long flight, say, but I don’t remember any detail of any of them a day later. None of them stand out to me at all—they’re the movie equivalent of a McDonalds.
Dude, why would you have thought any movie with “Captain America” in the title would be anything but formulaic & boring??
No offense re your taste in movies, but seriously??
Of the four specific Captain America movies I enjoyed this one the least. Winter Soldier was a great action movie and Civil War was quite good though too long. The first succeeded as a romp origin story.
I remembered it happened. The only detail I remember is that all the cars on the cherry blossom street were cars from like the late 90s, early 2000s and thought it was funny that they were trying to invoke a sense of nostalgia in the primary consumer group target.
The thing is, they weren’t meticulously planed. Some just said “you must shoehorn in one scene that establishes a thing” building to one specific climax, and they improvised pretty well along the way. Now there’s no common *endgame* and they have twice as many characters to service.
When you’re spending $200 million on a movie it would be great to make sure you’ve asked the questions: “What does the bad guy want?” and “Is it interesting?”
It’s incredible how many rounds of pitches and outlines and writers’ rooms and drafts they went through to end up with “I want to bring America to the brink of war, killing as many people I have to along the way, in order to…embarrass Harrison Ford.”
You should have read my review of it, but I'm not certain I posted it on this platform. In other words, yes I agree. Highly disappointing. It's been a week for me (since I saw it) and already I don't remember what I thought the high points were other than... erm that point is kinda sexist. Rather.
If you were conversant with Marvel comics of the 1970s one of the more stunning achievements was actually making something of the Falcon, a nonentity on paper, and they might have been better off developing that character.
Yes. It's another formulaic marvel film. Bad guy tries to destroy the world, good guy has to save the world, but wait, there's a twist. Is the bad guy really bad? Who cares, here's a big fight scene. The end.
I brought 5 boys to see it and wanted to have a discussion group after on "which of these fight scenes could have just been a conversation?" did we learn nothing from Captain America: Civil War?
I was thinking that too: "This fight scene could have been a meeting, this meeting could have been and email, ergo, this fight could have been an email"
The evil genius created a rage monster with small daily doses of rage poison and mind controls formerly patriotic Americans by collecting their data and sending carefully tailored messages to their phones and....
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Amazes me how superhero movies which helped condition the public to accept fascism and oligarchy are still drawing audiences. Cinematic "Free bird seed".
Like useless MSG in food keeping you hungry.
At this point, you already know that they're going to keep adding suspense until the next big bad gets announced, and then the big Avengers fight against them into the next Big Bad reveal.
No offense re your taste in movies, but seriously??
I’m sorry if my taste appalls you.
The Chris Claremont method:
Drop loose threads all over the place, so you always have lots of loose threads to pick up, later.
Bolster weak plots with character development.
Publish!
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TBF they published monthly, and weren't making multi-million $ movies at the time.
The Avengers: Reply to All
It's been a rough month.
It's Marvel, so the metaphors punch you in the mug with a >POW!<
POTUS manipulated by evil he created turns into a giant red flaming rage monster who almost destroys the US?
Stopped by a patriotic Black man?
Remember when Kingpin owned a Hotel? "Only I can fix it?"
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