loved it, though did not get to stay for the post-scripts. This is what Man of Steel should have been. Although.. I'm wondering if just maaaaaaaybe GM might have had a few pennies in sponsoring the movie? 8) But I'll tell you what, Scarlet Johansen can roll up to me in a black stingray and call me a fossil any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Though I was surprised they did not do a bit more with the neighbor character than they did... but I guess at 2 plus hours already, it was pushing the bladder-threshhold just a bit
In the after-credits we get the worst Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch...
Heh, I don't remember Shandling in Iron Man 2. Must not have made an impression then.A quick jog of the memory at 1:10 in the Iron Man 2 Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfgOBVSApcI#t=70)
At least the Bryan Singer one half-assed a bit of silver into the hair.
But I gotta agree about Maria Hill. As much as I like the actress, she seems to innately come across as lighthearted and fun.Myself personally I thought she came across as an extremely loyal and competent right hand to Fury in Avengers. I don't think she had enough to do in Winter Soldier to get any strong vibe off of her except as a background character.
My dad made an interesting observation about the movie; he said Steve was the only person in the movie who didn't kill anyone. He certainly injured some people pretty badly, but I couldn't remember an instance where he actually killed anyone.With absolute certainty? Well, I'm sure lots of people on the Helicarriers died and Cap was partially responsible for that, but if you mean in terms of a specific action killing a specific person, I can only think of one case where that might be true. In the scene at the bridge, when Rogers is pinned down by the gunmen including the one with the minigun, there's a moment when it seems obvious he deliberately deflects the bullets hitting his shield into the general direction of one of the men to his side bringing him down. He had to do that because otherwise as he ran forward the guys to the side would have a clear shot at him he couldn't deflect (because he had to keep his shield in front of him to block the minigun). After that, Falcon began bringing some of those other guys down from atop the overpass, but I would have to credit Cap with at least one potential kill there.
You could also look at it that they killed themselves?
Given the body counts for virtually every other character in the film, his personal count was remarkably low or non-existent. I wonder if that was a deliberate choice on the part of the film-makers?
I like catching the earliest showing on the Monday following opening weekend. Particularly while school is in session. Even big openers tend to have a relatively small crowd on that first Monday.There's a theater complex where I live that has Tuesday night $6 tickets and $1 hot dogs (and $3 nachos I think) that a friend of mine tends to go to religiously, and I tag along with him when I'm free (not working, not inexpensive). It tends to be much less crowded also, but when I went to see Winter Soldier the Tuesday night after its opening weekend it was plenty packed (not full, but maybe 85% full).
* SPOILER *They were dressed in Shield flak gear which could have saved their lives, and as to the type of grenade it looked similar to the grenade that was thrown into the bridge of the original Helicarrier in the Avengers and Maria Hill survived that blast at relatively close range.
Re: Cap not killing anyone -- just saw it again, and what about when he gets on the first carrier, takes a grenade from a guy and throws it at 3 other guys? I'm no munitions expert, but it certainly looked like a frag grenade to me.
Very well, lets say he did cause the deaths of a few people in the movie (notwithstanding the crashing helicarriers). The grenade and the chain gun were reactionary deaths; if they had not attacked Cap, they wouldn't have died.
Is it not an interesting choice to have a soldier go out of his way to kill as few people as possible, or only as a last resort? Especially in a movie where everyone else is killing everyone in sight?
Pierce's annoyance about killing his housekeeper seemed to me to stem from the inevitable hassle of cleaning up the mess and having to find another housekeeper. Underscoring his evil rather than humanizing him.
I hate Winter Soldier... the character.
Pierce's annoyance about killing his housekeeper seemed to me to stem from the inevitable hassle of cleaning up the mess and having to find another housekeeper. Underscoring his evil rather than humanizing him.That doesn't detract from the point that Pierce wasn't depicted as simply killing indiscriminately or for pleasure. He had no qualms about killing, but he killed only when it served his explicit purposes. He was also depicted as a true believer in Hydra's mission of killing the troublesome twenty million to provide an orderly and controlled world for the other seven billion.
My dad made an interesting observation about the movie; he said Steve was the only person in the movie who didn't kill anyone. He certainly injured some people pretty badly, but I couldn't remember an instance where he actually killed anyone.I dunno about that. I'm betting that guy he kicked off the ship in the middle of the night had a tough go of it. ;D I'll bet there are more examples as well. Cap didn't mess around in this movie!
Spidey 2 can make you hate Spidey 2 all on it's own merit.;D
Spidey 2 can make you hate Spidey 2 all on it's own merit.Dunno where the hate comes from for AmSpid2; its not as strong as Cap2 by any means, but even with its flaws I thought it was a pretty good movie. It was a bit more "comic-booky" with things like its 70s X-Ray spectacles-like Science (magnetized web shooters can absorb lightning bolts!), but I liked this characterization of Spiderman better than the Toby Maguire version that I thought was just a little too depressing. This Spiderman helps kids displays over-the-top bravado towards run of the mill criminals and actually tries to talk down villains rather than just beat them up. To me that's a lot closer to my mental image of Spiderman than any of the other recent movies.
Spidey 2 can make you hate Spidey 2 all on it's own merit.
Actually LOL -- well said!Actually no, they started off this reboot because toby and kirsten refused to come back for Spiderman 4 but Sony was going to lose the license back to Marvel if they didn't put a movie out.
I thought they started this reboot off with some promise (like correcting the web shooters), and then...this....
Actually no, they started off this reboot because toby and kirsten refused to come back for Spiderman 4 but Sony was going to lose the license back to Marvel if they didn't put a movie out.
I just wish they would stop re-telling the origin... Just pick one: regular or Ultimate and make movies. :-\
Agreed, established cinematic superheroes, ie: any of the Avengers, Superman, Batman, Spiderman, no longer need origin stories, even in the face of a total recasting, just get a story and move on. Everyone is over origin stories.Dunno: Batman already had an origin story done before Nolan came around, but Nolan's story doesn't work except with its origin telling specifically. I think repeating what other people have already done carries risks, the biggest of which is that its not enough to just be different, you have to somehow exceed what has been done in the past to not be a mere rehash. But I think all rules have exceptions, and the exception is that if you tell it right, retelling the origin story can have huge payoffs if its done right and done in a way integral to the future stories you tell.
Dunno: Batman already had an origin story done before Nolan came around, but Nolan's story doesn't work except with its origin telling specifically. I think repeating what other people have already done carries risks, the biggest of which is that its not enough to just be different, you have to somehow exceed what has been done in the past to not be a mere rehash. But I think all rules have exceptions, and the exception is that if you tell it right, retelling the origin story can have huge payoffs if its done right and done in a way integral to the future stories you tell.
Case in point, besides Nolan's Batman there's the Daniel Craig trio of Bond films, which have a certain feel similar to Nolan's Batman arc: its not just an origin story but almost the building of a myth. I've said before that Nolan's movies aren't exactly about Batman, its about a guy named Bruce Wayne creating the Batman myth. He has a personal story, but part of that story is that from the very beginning he intended to create this legendary figure that criminals would talk about like the boogeyman. What we saw was a man: Nolan's Batman is actually that statue they unveil at the end of Rises: a legend that grows with each telling of the story. In a sense, Daniel Craig isn't just a reboot, its almost the same thing: a story arc that sort of tells how a man went from being a gritty amateur to a seasoned veteran to James freaking Bond.
Most of the time, you're not going to get that kind of result, true. But on the other hand, if you don't allow people to try, you'll never get them at all.
Yeah, but one of these days I'll get exposed to a radioactive origin story while being struck by lightning that reacts with the mixture of heavy butter and artificial sweetener I was holding and then you'll see... you'll ALL see.
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