SPOILERS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPoiTHMuzc
― qualx, Saturday, 30 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
the thing that bugged me most about this was the giant futura caption that popped up every time the action moved to a different location - i feel like that specific design is going to date the film quicker than anything else
the more i think about this the more impressed i am that they took the civil war concept and actually made it work so much better than the godforsaken comic which inspired it. pretty much every character's motivation seems logical, no-one is objectively right or wrong, the hero-on-hero fight isn't a grimdark battle to the death (in fact it's probably the most straight-up entertaining section of the movie), and the antagonist's plan is both small-scale and tied to the themes of the movie. plus it also works as a continuation of the bucky plot from winter soldier.
there are some bits that are more transparently driven by the need to set up stuff for other movies than i'd like, primarily the inclusion of spider-man, which is almost entirely unnecessary to the plot, but it's just so much fucking fun to see peter parker doing spider-stuff that it's impossible to hold it against the movie. certainly the setup stuff is nowhere near as intrusive as it was in age of ultron.
damn i wanna see this again
― wario testino (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 April 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
I keep cracking up thinking about the vision's smart-casual attire in this
― wario testino (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 April 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Vision has long been a fashion plate.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/visionoutfits06a.jpg
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
he does study a chessboard at one point!
― wario testino (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
(spoiler alert i guess)
― wario testino (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 April 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
How could u.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I have tix to see this on Monday at a special screening hosted by the Russo Brothers: http://thedaily.case.edu/news/emmy-award-winning-directors-joe-and-anthony-russo-to-host-local-screening-of-marvels-captain-america-civil-war-may-2/
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
oh wow, awesome!
― the oven is too big for a small egg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Saw this last night in a packed venue at the event mentioned above -- it was done as a thank-you by the Russos to Case Western Reserve University, helping them fundraise for the next phase of the new Maltz Performing Arts Center. Had a nice intro by CWRU president Barbara Snyder, and then Anthony Russo talked a bit. Joe Russo was absent as he's apparently got some kind of chest infection from all the traveling they've been doing to overseas premieres.
Russo told some funny anecdotes about their time at CWRU as grad students, including constantly pestering Prof. Louis Gianetti (who film buffs know as the author of the text Understanding Movies) for advice and feedback; and forming a short-lived improv troupe, which they then reviewed in the student paper under the byline of a name they picked from the phone book, and gave themselves a scathingly bad review.
Anyway, I'd love to let lose with some spoilers for this movie, but until people see it this week, just a few non-spoiler observations:
- Russos continue to be great at choreographing and shooting action. You always know where things are happening.- Despite the amazing number of superheroes in this movie, it feels very human-scale and not "comic-book." That is, the stakes are big but revolve around people, not cosmic or existential threats.- Paul Rudd remains my #1 man crush.- There is what I thought was an insanely bad, uncanny valley moment in the movie, then it's lampshaded as being something other than what you thought.- Daniel Bruhl is underused.- Black Panther, y'all.- Peter Parker finally feels like a legitimate teenager.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
I am down with that except fuck a Paul Rudd.
The action sequences are great, and the one that starts in an apartment and moves is amazing, half way through I had to remember to breathe - and I'm still smiling at *how* they introduce Black Panther in that sequence. And the balance where you don't believe any of them are invincible, they are dangerous to each other, but they are emphatically not regular humans.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
(tempted to put up the spoilers screens to find out more about the uncanny valley you're talking about)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Fuckin chess spoilers can a mod get that pls ffs
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
What the hell, I guess I'll go see this tonight.
― contains less than 2 percent of the following (WilliamC), Thursday, 5 May 2016 23:08 (eight years ago) link
this was so great. no spoilers at all, but one piece of Don Cheadle's dialogue almost made me tear up.
it knew how to offset the more pathos-y moments with the right blend of humor without turning it into a farce.
BvS was a skidmark compared to this. a nutty, corny skidmark
― Neanderthal, Friday, 6 May 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Worth the price of admission just for, "Are you Tony Stank?"
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
i hope that was the dialogue that made neanderthal tear up
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, great to see Stan Lee turning up in another movie about a character he didn't create
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Stan Lee is about a million times luckier than Ringo Starr
― Brad C., Friday, 6 May 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
The whole audience cheered and applauded at the end of this. Don't think that would have happened at many B vs S screenings... especially in peckham.
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 6 May 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
The one character that Stan Lee indisputably created by himself is Stan Lee.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Frankly Mr Stank Lee
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link
relax everyone stan lee will be dead soon
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Now that Marvel is part of Disney, Stan gets a cryogenic suspension unit next to Walt
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 May 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
he's like the winter soldier now - they only break him out of cryogenic to make cameos in movies
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 May 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I'll see this this weekend. In the meantime, I volunteer a couple of times a week at the elementary school library, and noticed today that the boys in the kindergarten class (most of whom are still more or less picture book level) were super excited to check out any book with "Civil War" in the title. I think this is a great opportunity for Marvel to get in on cross-promotional education opportunities: they should start affixing important historical events to every movie from here on out. "Spider-Man: Magna Carta." "Iron Man: Japanese Internment Camps." "Ant-Man: Dawn of Genetic Mapping." "Black Panther: Ada Lovelace, First Computer Programmer."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
lol Tony Stank was great.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:59 (eight years ago) link
and "can you move your seat up?" "No."
also ws Aunt May
Aunt Tomei
Tomei-aged Aunt May makes way more sense than the traditional Aunt May who is somehow as old as Peter's great great grandmother.
― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
is marisa tomei immortal? srs q
― i do not sense the entity ted (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
I thought Tony Stark was one of the few characters Stan Lee actually had a significant hand in creating. Well, the idea of a rich arms dealer who was also a superhero, anyway.
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 6 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
Eh, people have kids at odd ages, families have odd gaps between siblings.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/movies/captain-america-civil-war-review-chris-evans.html
This very crowded, reasonably enjoyable installment in the Avengers cycle reveals, even more than its predecessors, an essential truth about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s not so much a grand science-fiction saga, or even a series of action-adventure movies, as a very expensive, perpetually renewed workplace sitcom.
― ulysses, Friday, 6 May 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
This left me cold. Peaked about halfway thru with the big airport battle. The rest = zzzzz
Also really tired of these movies all looking the same. Dudes in colorful spandex fighting in anonymous parking structures and shit
― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah workplace sitcom is about right
― Star Wars ate shiitake (latebloomer), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
that's a feature not a bug etc etc
― contains less than 2 percent of the following (WilliamC), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
nouveau work sitcom
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 6 May 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
If anyone can convince me these movies are actually like JLI or Hitman I promise I will watch them
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
NB Hero Hotline is not high quality enough, Damage Control is too mired in impenetrably irrelevant Marvel continuity IME
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
No, these movies aren't actually like JLI or Hitman. For which we can all be thankful.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 May 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
They're doing a comedic Damage Control TV series at some point.
Good old them.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 6 May 2016 19:46 (eight years ago) link
I've tried my damnedest to figure out who owns the rights to Damage Control but all I've turned up is a web of anonymous holding companies so I'm gonna have to go with 'them' for the time being until more clues come to light about this enduring mystery.
― Peanut Duck (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 May 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Awww I loved JLI
― nintenderizer (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
this was enjoyable. black panther was badass, spidey was great, marisa tomei is still hot af. definitely not as good as winter soldier but it was fine. if you're getting sick of marvel movies though i don't think there's gonna be a lot here for you.
― balls, Friday, 6 May 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
it's hard for to imagine how they shoehorn so many characters into two 1/2 hours gracefully. do they pull that off?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
also i had a friend in college (cough almost 20 years ago cough) who had the biggest crush on marisa tomei, his dorm room was plastered with pictures of her
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
(another wall was plastered with images of bruce springsteen FWIW)
p much. the OG characters are fairly easy, and the new ones are pretty deftly inserted (Spidy transition a little forced, but it's still cool as fuck)
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 May 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link