Have you guys scene this B-roll footage of TWS? It's awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eb3aQ5rtd7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eb3aQ5rtd7g
Have you guys scene this B-roll footage of TWS? It's awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eb3aQ5rtd7g
Have you guys scene this B-roll footage of TWS? It's awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eb3aQ5rtd7g
I really hope Black Widow and Captain America get together. They are the perfect couple. Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson practically grew up together in movies. They have been in practically 20 movies together.
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Does it seem strange to put two Captain America movies at the top of this list? It would — except that whereas Marvel's other franchises represent formulas repeated, the Cap sequel offers a very different take on its hero from its predecessor. Winter Soldier is not First Avenger. We know that right off the bat, when we see that Cap's pastel-kevlar suit has been replaced a dark-blue stealth outfit. It symbolizes a greater shift: In bringing Cap into the modern world, the sub-franchise has replaced the rah-rah Old Glory-colored jingo of The First Avenger with a shades-of-gray color palette. Steve Rogers is a man out of time — a fact confirmed by a visit to a Cap exhibit in the Smithsonian, the first time in any Marvel film that a hero has taken a moment to consider his own legacy.
In the lead-up to the Cap sequel, the filmmakers talked a lot about its relationship to the paranoid thrillers of the '70s — a lineage confirmed by the presence of Robert Redford, having a blast as politico Alexander Pierce. And part of what makes Winter Soldier such a stunner is how it takes that paranoia seriously: The film's second half is rife with conspiracy theories, throwing fascism, NSA overreach, the military-industrial complex, and Wikileaks into the stew. S.H.I.E.L.D. has always been the least interesting part of the Marvel films, but Winter Soldier finds a dark heart underneath the organization's glimmering exterior.
But if Cap 2 is maybe the smartest Marvel movie yet, it's also the most unabashed pure action film of the bunch. The freeway car chase-turned-gunfight, the opening stealth attack that plays like Zero Dark Thirty on a boat, the final pounding battle between Cap and the titular Winter Soldier: There's a weight to these scenes that's lacking in the high-flying adventures of Cap's fellow Avengers. It's less openly stylish than the color-blasted Thor movies or the glitzy Iron Man series, but the Russo Brothers know how to direct big action with a light touch.
Most impressive of all: Where most superhero movies are ultimately tales of self-realization, laser-focused on the lead protagonist, Winter Soldier is a film with a genuine supporting cast, a pro-teamwork odyssey with Cap backed up by Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, never better even if her wig has never been worse) and the Falcon (Anthony Mackie, begging for his own spinoff.) In a vacuum, Chris Evans' Steve Rogers is probably the least compelling of the Big Three Avengers — not funny like Downey's Stark, not a charming Viking jock like Hemsworth's Thor — but Evans' relatively low-key performance allows the movies around him to feel more vibrant, atmospheric, and alive.
2. Captain America: The First Avenger
You've got a supporting cast stacked high with ringers doing top-notch work: Wry-but-sad Stanley Tucci, crusty-yet-lovable Tommy Lee Jones, sneering Hugo Weaving, sniveling Toby Jones, dashing Dominic Cooper doing Robert Downey Jr. doing Tony Stark as Cary Grant. You've got Hayley Atwell, whose tough-cool-beautiful love interest left such an impression that a TV spinoff is on the maybe-horizon. And you've got Chris Evans doing the precise opposite of his old Human Torch and investing his Steve Rogers with an undercurrent of melancholy that makes the film's potentially cheesy old-school heroism feel hard-won.
More than any other Marvel Studios film, First Avenger feels the most like a film — a complete journey, from Rogers' ascension to heroism through his ultimate self-sacrifice. Along the way, director Joe Johnston infuses the film with a snappy retro spirit, shooting the film in a style that simultaneously suggests war photography and war propaganda. (Johnston is the one Marvel director so far whose particular authorial instincts triumph over the studio's house style — which is why Captain America occasionally feels like the brilliant Rocketeer sequel nobody ever realized we wanted.)Captain America remains the only Marvel film to feature an Alan Menken song. Cap's period-appropriate, star-spangled paratrooper outfit remains the best Marvel costume. And with all due respect to Iron Man, no Marvel film has a better last line. ''I had a date.'' DEVASTATING. There'll probably never be another film set in First Avenger's WWII milieu — which makes the movie even more of a unique, singular achievement.
#1. TWS
#2. Avengers
#3. IM
#4. Thor
#5. TFA
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