Watched this on the plane. I mean watched half of it because it was phenomenally boring. Avengers had its problems but Whedon, at least, knows how to write a line of text. "We needed a quantum surge in threat analysis." Who writes this shit? Really? They are going to READ PEOPLE'S DNA FROM A SATELLITE? Why do they put the longitude and latitude of locations in the establishing shot? Just to emphasize how much watching this is like watching a mid-season episode of a third-tier action show on USA Network or FX? The action setpieces, at least the ones I saw, were just dull. Anonymous figures bouncing off walls and punching each other to little effect.
Thor 2 at least was funny in places. This, at least in the first half, was not. Johanssen seems to wince at some of the "snappy" lines she has to read. They should have put Madcap in this movie and gone all-out wacky/bleak.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Johanssen actually wrote some of those snappy lines
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
I guess she figured she couldn't do any worse than the actual screenwriters.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
this was appallingly stupid and inept.
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Thank you.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
darraghmac hates America
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
one of his best qualities
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
jaysus the glare of the three magi all at once
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
http://wp.streetwise.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hocus-pocus.jpeg
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
"ello, we're maggie"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I had heard going in that this was arguably the best Marvel film to date, and it's hard for me to disagree. It's very good as an action film, above average as a paranoid thriller type homage, though still probably a bit overstated on that point in terms of what actually is happening in the story. Again the casting is really key; Chris Evans is good in the role but more crucially he's extremely likable in a part that could be a lot more boring and not very interesting, this extremely good and righteous moral hero who doesn't have much if anything in the way of dark shading. It could fall completely flat, cf any post-Christopher Reeve Superman, for example. But it's been executed really well in both of the CapAm films I've seen.
It does remind me to a certain extent of The Dark Knight, in a lot of it seems to be taking from genre thrillers rather than superhero films, but it's not nearly as morose and the Hydra plot is more interestingly diabolical.
this is however another Marvel film in which the climax involves large craft blasting away high in the sky and eventually falling slowly to the ground in a smoking ruin while people battle onboard and try to escape before it crashes....
― omar little, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
apart from the brief appearance of Toby Jones, I snored through this
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
Well but what did you think of the 3.5 minutes you saw of the film?
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
pretty good!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
it was just one of those things where the stakes seemed nonexistent and the "conspiracy" pretty obvious
If anyone, three or four more Marvel movies down the line, remembers a single solitary detail from this movie with any affection, I'll ... no, that will not even remotely happen. This is placeholder serialized franchise filmmaking at its most useless.
― Eric H., Sunday, April 6, 2014 12:11 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 April 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link
" this is however another Marvel film in which the climax involves large craft blasting away high in the sky and eventually falling slowly to the ground in a smoking ruin while people battle onboard and try to escape before it crashes...."
I think this has happened now in every Marvel movie since.
― akm, Monday, 29 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I haven't seen Endgame yet, but out of the 12 movies between Winter Soldier and it, it happens in 3: Guardians of the Galaxy, Age of Ultron, and Homecoming.
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 April 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link