Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9/10
After
watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier I kept asking myself why
this movie was so damned good. Out of all of the Marvel films the Cap
ones have been the best. It could be the fact that there is no hype
about who is directing it. Do you know who directed the first film? I
didn't and never bothered to check until I was writing this. But with
the films like Iron Man, X-Men, and The Avengers, who directed it has
become such a big deal. But two brothers, Anthony Russo and Joe
Russo, who have done nothing but TV shows and movies I've never seen
managed to create what could be argued as one of the best
action/adventure/comic book films ever.
Chris
Evans returns as Captain America and is questioning many of the
methods being used by SHIELD. His suspicions match up perfectly with
what has been happening on Agents Of SHIELD which is pretty cool. By
the way, if you gave up on that show the way I did a while back, the
last seven episodes leading to the upcoming finally have been great.
Cap is still looking at the world as if it is the 1940's and a
simpler time while Nick Fury played by Samuel L. Jackson tries to let
him know that the world is far more dangerous and different than he
knows.
The struggle that Cap has is played out well. I love the list of things that he needs to see and listen to including a Marvin Gaye album, Rocky 2, the Berlin Wall rise and fall, and I Love Lucy. He meets Anthony Mackie who eventually becomes Falcon who is a former pilot in the military. Thankfully I don't hate this guy anymore. I was wondering how they would be able to handle such a big movie and introducing so many new characters. They did a great job! You know who else did? Scarlett Johansson.
Out of
all of the Marvel films she has been in as Black Widow this is the
strongest she has ever come across. It wasn't her showing up, looking
hot, and doing some flips. She finally used those damned stingers on
her wrists! I was so excited to see it happen since all I knew about
her character from the comics was that she was Russian, had red hair,
and used stingers on her wrists. This time she totally showed why she
is able to be on a team with a super soldier, robot man, a god, and a
monster.
The
Winter Soldier. Wow. This guy. This fucking guy. How a bad guy makes
an entrance is always important. After one of the most badass car
chases in film history this dude shows up in the coolest way
possible. Everything he does looks awesome. He is played by Sebastian
Stan and kicks sixteen kinds of ass whenever he's on screen. That
part where he catches the shield that is thrown at him looks so cool
because by this point we've seen Cap do more with his shield than in
previous movies so we know what the fuck it can do. Then wa-pow!
Fucking Winter Soldier just catches it and tosses it back like “I
think you dropped something, bitch.”
There
are of course the extra scenes after the movie ends during the
credits but at this point I don't get as excited anymore. This movie
is the lynchpin that I thought the Iron Man films was gonna be.
Marvel absolutely can not make any bad films after this. The next
Avengers movie needs to come across strong. If they make another Thor it better make up for the shitty first two. Iron Man needs to make up
for that third one because when Gwenyth Paltrow saves the day a
kitten dies.
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