Captain America: Winter SoldierFollow

Leaving theater now. Better review later. Quick reply: MUST SEE.

I'll try to keep it spoiler free. First and foremost, some of the best action sequences to date. The fights flowed well and they actually looked like fights, which is pretty new to the movies. To date the rest of the movies, while enjoyable, kind of dropped the ball in that department. Let me put it this way: Remember that fight sequence with Scarlet Johansson in Iron Man 2, where she was incredibly stiff and ended almost every sequence in the three-point Spider-Man pose to show a shot of her cleavage? Here she actually looked like she was capable of fighting and there wasn't much of that pose, though that's not to say you don't see the chest crack more than a few times. And seeing SpoilerSpoilerthe Widow's Bite in action was great as well. And Cap's fights were five star.

There was a lot of little things to look out for, especially if you actually follow the books. The first bad guy made me almost squeal. There's another character that pops up often during the movie that took me almost the entire movie to figure out who it was, but once I did that was another enjoyable realization. Not anything the character does or says, just their name kept rolling around in my head until it kind of clicked. It's kind of obscure. Another character introduced isn't that obscure, and you can tell they'll become much more integrated into the franchise in the near future. Kind of liked this particular one, they didn't just throw them at the audience to overwhelm. A slow build up for them, but once you put it together it's quite nice. Another character that kind of annoyed me in the first Captain America movie reappeared here and while not quite redeemed themselves, I'd guess they're building them up slowly for a future movie to really hit the nail.

Keeping this spoiler free is tough, ********

Sometimes I take my knowledge for granted, so the (and let's face it, inevitable and therefor not a spoiler) unmasking of Winter Soldier wasn't particularly shocking for me, but there were a lot of gasps in the audience. I almost turned to the person next to me and asked "Really?!" when I realized it was a soccer mom. So, if you're not familiar with the story line then the reveal was quite good. But, yannow, that's third party observation so your mileage may vary on that one. There was also a scene near the middle where I was on the verge of screaming the spoiler out. But again, clearly obvious to you if you follow, but pretty well done if you're going in blind.

The jokes were good. Kind of hard to really describe it without going into details and people's senses of humor are different. They made me chuckle, so take that as you will.

One thing that did get to me was some of the sound effects. It's such a minor thing that I feel bad for being annoyed by it, but it's kind of glaring. Just way too many metal-on-metal dings throughout. I get that the shield is metal, but it wouldn't make the same sound ricocheting off a wall as it does off someone's stomach, yannow? The music was pretty meh as well, but it got the job done. As a purist, I was kind of put off by some of the decisions they made with Falcon, but it's not like they didn't work. Going in blind, his fight scenes were awesome.

Obviously stick around after the credits. I can't believe, even after all this time, people still leave. Leads directly into Avengers II. Though, the main speaker took me a minute to recognize and when I did I enjoyed that little egg too.

Like I said, I'm trying to avoid spoilers so if I were anyone else I'd probably avoid Agents of SHIELD for the next few weeks. The events are, no doubt, going to overlap.

Good, good movie, and they're really building the whole IP for the long haul.

Yeah. Got that impression from watching the last couple episodes (especially this weeks, plus the trailer bit for Cap at the end). Not sure if I should be irritated at the blatant marketing pressuring me to have to watch the film to enjoy the series, or overjoyed at how well they're timing and linking things between the two (and sadly, I'm leaning in the latter direction, because I'm a sucker I guess). Suppose I'll have to check if Cinepolis has a showing for tomorrow.

Yup. Total suckerage going on. Cinepolis 21+ ticket for tomorrow purchased.

Sure. But do you know what sound waves are? Doesn't bother me in the same way that sound effects for space battles don't bother me, but if we're going to be nit picky...



Honestly, once the put the whole Tahiti and Skye stuff on more of the back burner and moved forward with their broader bad guy plot(s), it got much more interesting. Of course, one could argue that they had to time this portion of the series to the release of Cap2, so that other filler/background stuff was kinda necessary.



That's what I'm hearing. Co-worker is going tomorrow as well. I was making fun of him spending just $3 less than me whilst not getting to sit in a leather reclining seat and sipping an alcoholic beverage. Muahahah! ;)

Japan, Australia?

I tried to take today off, but my boss asked me to reconsider. I'll have to see about seeing the movie this weekend, or maybe Monday.

I haven't seen the second Thor movie yet. I want to see that before the next movie, not because I think I won't understand something... but just because. I'll have to ask my brother if he has it.

Edited, Apr 4th 2014 9:18pm by TirithRR

I haven't read any of this thread, but I actually didn't even realize this was coming out this weekend.

I'll have to drag a friend to see it. Or see it alone, if I must.

Did not come around to seeing Cap 2 yet but want to do so ASAP.

Does it a better job at explaining why the other Avengers (apart from Black Widow) don't help out? Are the events from Thor 2, Cap 2 and Iron Man 3 happening simultaniously? I don't mind this too much since it's basically the same in the comics where other characters appear when it suits the plot and otherwise just stay in their corner of New York.

Let me just pull an answer out of my *** and say that the lack of interaction probably has a lot to do with the relative distance between the members and timing. Tony is on the West Coast, Steve is on the East, and Thor is in London and other dimensions. Keep in mind that the Quinjet hasn't been invented yet, nor has it been crashed twenty minutes later because that's what they do. Quinjets crash. It's a feature. There's also no real unique Avengers communication apparati, and in IM3 Stark is laying low being dead and SpoilerSpoilerSteve is being tracked by SHIELD/Hydra so neither can really just pick up a phone without jeopardizing their operations, and who would they call anyway? Banner goes above and beyond staying off the grid, and then there's Hawkguy. Spoiler(SpoilerBesides, Clint is part of SHIELD so Steve probably wouldn't have called him anyway, all things considered)

Anyway, I think we can all agree that Stan Lee is Uatu.

Picked up the second Thor on the way home from the Parent's place after Sunday dinner. But Game of Thrones tonight so I will probably watch it tomorrow (got a day off). I'll probably go see the second Captain America next weekend. And I'll just avoid watching Agents of SHIELD (just in case) until I see it. It's all set to record anyway.

Oh. Saw a full trailer for GoTG. I'm leaning towards it a hell of a lot more than I was originally. Looks like they're taking *exactly* the right approach with it. Should be fun.

I forget which, but thanks to either Netflix or Hulu tonight's episode of Agents of SHIELD has been leaked, and as we have guessed it would seriously behoove you to avoid it if you haven't seen Cap 2 yet. Apparently it happens simultaneously with the events of the movie.

They really should take a two week break when a movie is released to avoid this kind of situation. You want to build a universe of interconnected stories, which is kind of awesome, but at the same time you gotta take into account some people are stragglers so it's going to hurt your ratings.

Well, probably not but people are going to complain either way about spoilers. I've done my part to warn.