Captain America 3: Superhero Slap Fight

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MatsuriSakuragi:
Gonna be seeing this with my dad and brother this weekend. I actually sat down and watched the first two Cap films this week just to know what's going on. Looking forward to it.

Your Everyday NEET:
Okay, I've been searching for what Superman Vs. Batman did better than Civil War. I can't find it. I'm sorry Batman v Superman, but Civil War has better motivation for the heroes to fight each other, Civil War has better superhero fight that combines awesome fight scene, witty dialogue, and humor, and most of all, Big Bad with better motivation other than "I'm evil and I want them to fight each other". On top of that, Civil War has a stinger... That's it! What Batman v Superman did better is it doesn't have any stinger so that we can go home after the credits roll.

My only criticism is Ross is a dick! And that woman in the first Tony scene is a dick! Sure she has a reason to be very mad at Tony, but still a dick.

Patorikku:
Got to see this on release night, and there was a general consensus among the group I saw it with that Black Panther seriously carried that movie. Or, more accurately, while none of the other heroes were bad or mediocre, per se, Black Panther was just a stand-out member of the cast that had AMAZING moments in the fight scenes, (seriously, dat triple kick was gold) and now I'm really looking forward to his own movie. The action itself was fairly superb, which is good, since that was the core reason I was there, as I am not at all caught up on the Marvel movies. I think every member of the cast also had their own humour style, too, unlike one of the big critiques I remember hearing and having for the first Avengers movie where everyone else was kind of just quipping like Tony. I can't really note anything I didn't like right off the bat, other than the obviously forced and very swiftly dropped (thank god) romance between Cap and Peggy's niece, and I definitely felt the Secretary of State was a dick consistently throughout the movie.

Also I do have to note that given how much destruction typically happens in these movies, it's actually kind of refreshing to have a movie that actually discusses the collateral damage rather than just leaving it at "city's in ruins, but the death toll wasn't absolutely horrible and we're not all enslaved so uh HEY victory for us!"

commandercool:
Age Of Ultron spends a lot of time addressing collateral damage as well, which is one of the reasons I like that movie so much. That one and this one both read like measured responses to Man of Steel to me, and I appreciate that.

Mеа:
Because of the glowing response I decided to go watch it after all. I have to say, though I didn't think the comic was bad this movie is much more superior. Then again it's not an adaptation at all really since they've changed it so much. I didn't like captain america in the original because I felt they didn't explain his motivations much other than his unwillingness to have to submit to bureaucratic nonsenses, but the movie did a really good job of showing how both Tony and Steve had equally valid standpoints along with why they decided to stand on it. And they took turns 'being right'. In the original I especially didn't like captain america because I felt that by the end he had lost sight of his original goal as a superhero (which I assume was to protect the people or something).
The ending fight between tony and steve was done really nicely in the movie, it was brutal, bloody, close, and personal. Spoiler: I especially like the way they handled the captain's final blow. It almost seemed like he was going to go for the face again only to go for the arc reactor instead. It was a great way of having a PG 'kill scene' while still retaining all the emotional torque of showing a friend killing another friend. I would even go as far as to say it was more powerful than if steve had just smashed his face in, because the intent was clear while tony was still able to see steve's anguish at his actions and overall circumstances.I felt like there were a LOT more laugh points in this movie than the other recent marvel movies I've seen (thor 1,2, avengers 1). I've never felt that they detracted from the appeal of the movies but I'm worried that the number of them may stand out to those who can't stand it as well. There were a few really good ones (the scene of the two in the car nodding after the kiss) as well as a few not so necessary ones (the scene of the two on the floor with webs saying I hate you, bird costume, tony with his hand webbed to the door handle).
I remember watching Enders Game and not being able to help but noticing how many black people were in the movie. Either I've gotten used to the 'racial diversification' of casts, or they handled it very naturally and well, or perhaps the adaptation of Enders Game was really shocking to me because of how different it was from the book (why was Dap and Anderson black, and the latter a woman?). Or maybe it was because of how well they were able to show the multinational effects of the Avengers, that was pretty cool.
And speaking of the Avengers, I just so happened to read one of the fantastic four comics that was lying around on the couch and realized how weird of a name the avengers is for a super hero group (Mr. fantastic commented on how the original group name suggested by the human torch, 'the fearsome four' or something, was bad for PR). Who are they avenging? Anyone know where that came from?

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