Captain America: Civil War (May 6, 2016)

[pturtle]

Well they weren't trying to actually kill each other at the airport, Team Iron Man just wanted to stop them getting away with Bucky and Team Cap wanted to get away. BP was really the only one there to settle a score. It all just got out of hand with what happened to War Machine at the end.

I know but the fact that nobody was in any real danger took the impact of the fight away from me. It really did feel like Superheroes fighting after a pick up basketball game gone wrong.


All in all though, I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was better than Winter Soldier and certainly in my top 3 MCU films. The Russos are really great for the MCU, and I’m glad they basically took over for Whedon because that man was turning the MCU into a horrible sitcom. I’m fully invested in the MCU again thanks to what the Russos are doing with the Avengers.

I also have to eat crow regarding Chadwick Boseman’s casting, he was probably my favorite part of the entire movie, he really made Black Panther cool. Oh and I loved Holland as Spidey, to me he was much better than Garfield as Peter Parker and Spiderman and I really like Garfield as an actor, but I still like Toby the best. To me, this was easily the best superhero movie of the year so far.

 

[tylerdurden]

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Cap has always doubted the govt ever since Avengers and also TWS, where he realised all of their agendas changes frequently depending on who's in charge atm. Makes perfect sense he's against signing the Sokovia accords. This isn't like BvS, where Batman decides to off Supes since he feels like he's got too much power for 1 man without any history for the viewers to relate to.

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yeah, i get that he's been suspicious of the government. it's just that in this case he seemed to jump to conclusions way too quickly.

 

[RIDDICK]

I know but the fact that nobody was in any real danger took the impact of the fight away from me. It really did feel like Superheroes fighting after a pick up basketball game gone wrong.

Team IM tried to stop Team Cap w/o hurting them badly. And it ended up hurting someone VERY badly. It's a simple concept done right. The only thing that bugged me for a bit was the absence of Vision during most of the action. Then again, what could he do to Team Cap w/o hurting them badly? BOOM! The fact that I've asked such a question is already a sign of a good film.

 

[e30ernest]

Team IM tried to stop Team Cap w/o hurting them badly. And it ended up hurting someone VERY badly. It's a simple concept done right. The only thing that bugged me for a bit was the absence of Vision during most of the action. Then again, what could he do to Team Cap w/o hurting them badly? BOOM! The fact that I've asked such a question is already a sign of a good film.

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He was mostly trying to protect his team in the same way Wanda was both protecting her team and hindering the opposition. I liked the fact that they were all obviously holding back. I found the consequences to be heartbreaking too. Team cap jailed in the raft and Rhodey losing his legs. Vision was also shaken badly. I think this will set the stage where he (and Wanda) will be holding back deliberately on the next films. It's a good way to reign in potentially over-powered characters for the sake of the story.

 

[RIDDICK]

I haven't seen the entire film yet so not clickin' spoiler tags just yet.

 

[cmiller99]

Those figures are made in China tho. Idk I know it's a buissness move but it's not fair lol

Eh, good for me. I'm sick of waiting weeks/months after the U.S. Good to have a change.

 

[e30ernest]

I haven't seen the entire film yet so not clickin' spoiler tags just yet.

Hahaha sorry, I assumed you did.

Don't click it then.

 

[Mr Walker]

K I can't hold back anymore. It's not fair people are seeing this so early and america has to wait a damn week. Sombody gimme the link lol.

You know that we o/s people used to have to wait weeks/months, and in the case of TV series, sometimes years after the US airings before seeing them, right?

Thanks heavens for the pirates, forcing the studios to up their games.

 

[e30ernest]

You know that we o/s people used to have to wait weeks/months, and in the case of TV series, sometimes years after the US airings before seeing them, right?

Thanks heavens for the pirates, forcing the studios to up their games.

Yeah I remember the time when we'd get films months after its initial US release. Getting it first is a nice change.

In other news... It's selling well:

https://deadline.com/2016/05/captai...tional-box-office-weekend-results-1201747374/

I wonder if it'll end up hitting Avengers numbers... it certainly looks like it will so far.

 

[LOTRfan85]

Team IM tried to stop Team Cap w/o hurting them badly. And it ended up hurting someone VERY badly. It's a simple concept done right. The only thing that bugged me for a bit was the absence of Vision during most of the action. Then again, what could he do to Team Cap w/o hurting them badly? BOOM! The fact that I've asked such a question is already a sign of a good film.

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Some call it a copout, I do like instead of just killing everyone, their characters develop in a different way even more through heartache, we will get tragedy no doubt about that, but this was pretty sad in a different way, did any of us walking out of the cinema and say, yea that was a happy ending, allot of our hero's paid a price and characters developed. The airport scene was not about hero's killing eachother, it was all about distracting like a plot device to get to where Steve and Bucky wanted to get to. If people think the airport scene was about them killing eachother, not many understand why the fight took place. I very much doubt Hawkeye Peter and Scott were going into that fight looking to rip Steve or any of Steve's allies heads off, that was not the point of it.

 

[Ropen]

I still don't know how this will build up towards infinity war [emoji19]


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[MaulFan]

I still don't know how this will build up towards infinity war [emoji19]

My guess is Infininty Wars will be about bringing everyone back together, showing the government they were wrong to try and control everyone, etc. I'm thinking the other phase 3 films will fill in the gaps, probably Thor and Guardians especially, that bring the war to the Avengers.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I still don't know how this will build up towards infinity war

Seriously?

They're scattered now, but will come back together when the chips are down ...probably in Infinity War 2

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

My guess is Infininty Wars will be about bringing everyone back together, showing the government they were wrong to try and control everyone, etc. I'm thinking the other phase 3 films will fill in the gaps, probably Thor and Guardians especially, that bring the war to the Avengers.

My guess is The Gaurdians come across Thor and Hulk & they hitch a ride to wherever they have to go

 

[abake]

Small question: did I miss something, or was Bucky shown in Bucharest (Romania) and when Cap gets to his apartment, they're assaulted by the German GSG-9 special forces in Berlin?

 

[LOTRfan85]

I still don't know how this will build up towards infinity war [emoji19]


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Its more of the case of the storyline with the avengers has come full circle on earth now until infinity wars, has Marvel branches out their new characters, spiderman, blackpanther. We will see Marvel tying up Thor and possibly Hulks storylines, if Hulk does appear in Thor 3, and of course rounding off the guardians journey as we get closer to infinity wars now. It is possible we may not see much of captain america blackwidow, vision, scarlet witch, think we will get more of Tony in spiderman though, but it will be interesting.

 

[RIDDICK]

An interesting film with lots of very cool action... but not a "Captain America" one.
They really should've made"Civil War: Part 1" and "Civil War: Part 2".
It's just too big of a story with too many characters for one film.
And while the villain was great I wouldn't call him Zemo under pain of death.

All in all, better then both Avengers but as a part of Cap's solo series is below both TFA and TWS.

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T'Challa was great and Parker was a lot of fun.

 

[pturtle]

Team IM tried to stop Team Cap w/o hurting them badly. And it ended up hurting someone VERY badly. It's a simple concept done right. The only thing that bugged me for a bit was the absence of Vision during most of the action. Then again, what could he do to Team Cap w/o hurting them badly? BOOM! The fact that I've asked such a question is already a sign of a good film.

But why didn't Wanda just use that brain spell on him, and the rest of the team? Why did the entire team pretty much leave Wanda alone? Why did Warmachine just stand there and not fly away when Cap through the truck at him, why are Wanda, Hawkeye, and Falcon running towards the other team when they should be in the air or far away shooting projectiles and magic, why didn't Antman just break off one of Spideys webshooters instead of kicking him and taking Caps shield from the beginning. Vision literally could of have taken Hawkeye's bow, Caps shield, and Falcon's wings in not time, the Russos really didn't find a good way to make that whole fight work within the content of the story in my opinion.

So much of that fight felt meaningless, a scene just to show of a cool fight between heroes but it didn't have any real weight to it and that's backed up by all the jokes being made during the fight. I understand it was two sides not really trying to kill each other and that's why I compared it to a pick up game gone wrong. To me every other fight in the movie was more entertaining, especially the the chase scene in the highway.

 

[RIDDICK]

I really don't have problem with the airport scene because I'm used to bend my suspension of disbelief very much when it comes to superhero films. It was a great show off and it ended on a dramatic note, I wouldn't ask for more in a Marvel Studios film.

 

[pturtle]

That scene required a bit too much suspension for me, but overall I really enjoyed the movie, I had some problems with it but it's probably my second favorite in the MCU, the Russo Bros have made me excited for MCU films again.


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