It still baffles me that this is typically considered to be one of the "best" Marvel movies when it's so visually uninteresting, lacking any personality, and comically derivative. A lot of very impressive stunt work is edited down into some of the worst-looking fight sequences of the era. Just a huge disservice to everyone involved.
In a just world, this would have had a 15 million dollar budget, a lone identifiable actor, and would have been directed by a Thai stuntman who only knows five words in English (Yes, No, Action, Cut, & Fuck). But our world is unjust, so this is what $200 million dollars, an A-list cast, and two of the richest, most successful Hollywood schlock-peddlers gets you.
Fucking cowards. Give me Michael Dudikoff as Sierra Six. Aaron Norris writes and directs. Now that would be a great action flick.
Yeah, I still really dislike this. Visually, this is more wretched than "Thor" and that movie was 75% Dutch angles. This film, instead, inexplicably looks like it should be shown in 4:3 pan-and-scan. It looks like absolute Hell and the writing is not good either. The Joss Whedon of it all really, really sucks, especially after how earnest, fun, and visually interesting the preceding film ("Captain America: The First Avenger") is. Every character is uncharacteristically cynical, reactionary, and snarky—this ranges…
Time has been kind to Steve Roger's' first outing from Marvel Studios, with director Joe Johnston confidently and unabashedly leveraging experience gained from working in VFX on the original "Star Wars" trilogy and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and from directing films like "The Rocketeer", "Jumanji", "October Sky", and "Jurassic Park III" to create a generously-pulpy "Captain America" tale that wisely embraces its star-spangled roots without weighing itself down with the pernicious actualities of the United States' role in WWII…
What a bizarre and frustrating mess of a movie. It hits a lot of the right tonal notes, has some truly inspired casting, and features maybe the best-ever practical make-up and costume for a superhero movie with The Thjng's rubber latex rock body-suit, but it follows too many different narrative threads without ever committing to any of them and feels like an over-calculated effort to replicate the success of recent contemporaries like Spider-Man 2, X-Men, or The Incredibles. As a…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a giant waste of my time and money.
I had no intention to watch the film in theaters—instead I would have likely caught it at some point after the DVD/Blu Ray release, like I did with Thor: The Dark World. This method, at least, makes it slightly more tolerable to suffer through the latest Marvel Studios trash heap. However, after seeing so much of the positive buzz online, I decided that if I had…
I've seen a few people draw some comparisons between this film and 2013's Elysium. I can't find any reason to disagree with those people. Snowpiercer and Elysium are both science-fiction action films from foreign directors. They share a similar message regarding class. They both have absolutely baffling casting decisions. Each film has at least one segment where lines are either very poorly delivered or very poorly ADR'd.
I suppose the similarities end there, because whereas Elysium was consistently awful for…