Well it is a movie, a comic book movie, so real world physics don't really apply, but it's not magic. Cap just knows all the right angles to bounce the thing right back to him. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bf3ndWbhy4E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
First 10 minutes of Winter Soldier... <iframe src="http://vk.com/video_ext.php?oid=-28416224&id=167941015&hash=e9112109e2eaf6a2&hd=1" width="607" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
That looks sick. I think the fight choreography is great. I have no idea what that dude was talking about.
Now I've enjoyed all of the Marvel movies up to this point, so I intended to see this one too eventually, but it wasn't really priority viewing. Other than the Avengers and Iron Man, I haven't really loved the rest of them. It's early in the reviews, but it currently has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 8.1 rating. Apparently it's pretty badass, might require a trip to the theater when it opens stateside.
"Captain America: The First Avenger" wasn't great---at least, with the exception of Hayley Atwell's goodies (grrrrr-OWlll)), I wasn't bowled over. This one looks like it kicks some major "a". It helps to throw in a good mix of sidekicks (the Falcon, Nick Fury, Scarlett "major yummers" Johansson). Amazing it's already been two years since "The Avengers" was released.
I'm glad this is getting good reviews. I wasn't planning on watching this at the theaters, but I might now. The last couple Marvel movies were really bad (Thor 2, iron man 3), so hopefully this one isn't as bad.
People stating their opinion as fact is SUCH an ignorant and uneducated thing to do. It's one thing to say 'I didn't care for such-and-such movie, because (whatever)'. That's absolutely fine. It's another thing entirely to take your own opinion and declare, 'Such-and-such movie was *bad*' - merely for the sin of somehow not exactly meeting your own mysterious pre-conceived notions of what would constitute a *good* movie. That is some junior-varsity discourse, right there.
I didn't say anything but I would hardly call Thor 2 or even iron man 3 bad. I thought Thor 2 was good, and iron man was passable. Green Lantern; now that was a bad movie. I think perspective is a bit skewed here.
So people can't say a movie is bad now? Of course that's subjective. People have different tastes. It's a little bit ridiculous to demand everyone to say IN MY OPINION, this movie was bad. Anytime anyone ever says [random movie] was bad, of course its their opinion. But if it makes you feel better, I'll give you my reasoning. Thor 2 had (imo) a completely boring and one-note villain. It (imo) valued comedy over the progression of the plot (which I dont mind, had the comedy been done extremely well). And (imo) a "Thor" franchise that depends on a character that isn't even Thor (Loki) doesn't speak well of the franchise. I was super excited for IM3 based off the trailers (so you can say I went in with super high expectations rather than it being a horrible movie). But what was promoted as a bad-ass villain and genuine threat to IM was made into a punchline. The actual villain (imo) was again, very boring and bland. The ending (imo) with Paltrow saving the day was ridiculously cheesy and didn't make sense with the rest of the movie. And the whole bit with Tony taking out the shrapnel was (imo) a slap in the face to the other two movies. That said, I'm excited for Captain America! :grin:
Maybe I'm expecting too much of comic book movies but it seems like more could be done with dealing with Steve Rogers as a man in the wrong time. The social and sexual mores of the 1940's were so much different than now and it might add more to character development to deal with that, such as instead of lame jokes about barber shop quartets have him reacting to things like video games and music. They could have stuff like how he deals with having a black guy as his CO and another as president. Women could be asking him out and him trying to figure that out the sexual revolution.
I totally agree, Judo, but they chose not to go that route. It's a pity, but I'll still see the flick, and I expect that I'll enjoy it. Action seems to be the end all and be all of this series. Action is fine, but it would be nice to have some character development that doesn't seem gratuitous.
Disney? I could never see the Marvel Film universe crossing over with X-Men's - the X-Men subject matter is way more serious in tone. It's what the Disney Marvel movies have been missing.
I agree with Judoka and Deckard, that would probably be the best direction they can take a character like Rogers. Unfortunately, Marvel tends to put action and comedy first. Although I don't blame them, that's what makes money. I doubt that if the movie were based on the issues he sees in this new world vs his past it would make a lot of money. But I'm sure it would be mega-interesting.
