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Captain America 3 - Civil War
May. 29th, 2016 11:50 amIt's not every day Marvel blow up a building where your mother used to work.
I know there's a rest of the film that isn't set in Vienna, but I am, for somewhat obvious reasons, stuck on that bit.
Moving on to the actual film, although I will return to the above later, it's definitely the best of the Captain America films and it's a fine pragmatic adaptation of the Civil War story. I use pragmatic in the best sense of the word, because whoever the writers are obviously went 'what were the missteps of the comics Civil War arc, and how do we avoid them?'
And they have. Even Tony Stark gets to make reasonable, sensible points, and the Sokovia Protocols are significantly less stupid than the Superhero Registration Act. (My own views are somewhere between Cap's and Vision's, with a fair dose of Natasha's thrown in. You'll notice I'm on Cap's side despite that.)
( Spoilery discussion of superhero politics )
I basically came out of the film going <3 T'Challa, Sam Wilson and Rhodey. No really, all my love belongs to those three.
Also that Nat and Steve (and Clint and Rhodey and Sam) are the very, very best friends anyone could ever hope for (except mine. My friends are the most awesome.).
( Spoilery discussion of Steve's awesome )
( Spoilery discussion about the bad guy )
( Iron Man and the family Stark )
Now we get to the bit where I snark. About things like the German armed police being involved in a raid in Bucharest, and all the cars having the wrong number plates. And the area around the UN buildings being nothing like that. I was hopeful when the establishing shot was right but the location shooting was blatantly not in Vienna.
But yes, I did have a fun moment of going 'yay, it's my home town they're blowing up,' which friend L says is odd because he's getting sick of London being blown up in films.
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While I still think this should and could have been Avengers 3 (even without ( spoilers ), the ending bit made it clear why this was named for Captain America. Oh Steve!
I know there's a rest of the film that isn't set in Vienna, but I am, for somewhat obvious reasons, stuck on that bit.
Moving on to the actual film, although I will return to the above later, it's definitely the best of the Captain America films and it's a fine pragmatic adaptation of the Civil War story. I use pragmatic in the best sense of the word, because whoever the writers are obviously went 'what were the missteps of the comics Civil War arc, and how do we avoid them?'
And they have. Even Tony Stark gets to make reasonable, sensible points, and the Sokovia Protocols are significantly less stupid than the Superhero Registration Act. (My own views are somewhere between Cap's and Vision's, with a fair dose of Natasha's thrown in. You'll notice I'm on Cap's side despite that.)
( Spoilery discussion of superhero politics )
I basically came out of the film going <3 T'Challa, Sam Wilson and Rhodey. No really, all my love belongs to those three.
Also that Nat and Steve (and Clint and Rhodey and Sam) are the very, very best friends anyone could ever hope for (except mine. My friends are the most awesome.).
( Spoilery discussion of Steve's awesome )
( Spoilery discussion about the bad guy )
( Iron Man and the family Stark )
Now we get to the bit where I snark. About things like the German armed police being involved in a raid in Bucharest, and all the cars having the wrong number plates. And the area around the UN buildings being nothing like that. I was hopeful when the establishing shot was right but the location shooting was blatantly not in Vienna.
But yes, I did have a fun moment of going 'yay, it's my home town they're blowing up,' which friend L says is odd because he's getting sick of London being blown up in films.
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While I still think this should and could have been Avengers 3 (even without ( spoilers ), the ending bit made it clear why this was named for Captain America. Oh Steve!
