Despite the massive roster of characters appearing in this film it is still ultimately Captain America’s story. Using the frame work of The Sokovia Accords and his relationship with Bucky/The Winter Soldier, Cap finds himself having to choose between doing what’s right and what’s legal as well as protecting a friend, even if the person he is protecting them from is also a friend. In typical Cap fashion he of course refuses the path of least resistance. […]
Despite the massive roster of characters appearing in this film it is still ultimately Captain America’s story. Using the frame work of The Sokovia Accords and his relationship with Bucky/The Winter Soldier, Cap finds himself having to choose between doing what’s right and what’s legal as well as protecting a friend, even if the person he is protecting them from is also a friend. In typical Cap fashion he of course refuses the path of least resistance. […]
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How preposterous was it that Marvel was making an Ant-Man movie? Even after massive successes like Guardians of the Galaxy Ant-Man seemed so goofy that Marvel even leaned into it in their marketing of the film. […]
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Here’s the thing though about middle chapters, and Avengers: Age of Ultron should absolutely be thought of as the middle chapter, it’s hard to properly judge it until you have seen where it was going. […]
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Guardians of the Galaxy seemed like the moment when Marvel finally went overboard. More than a couple assumed this would be the studio’s first real flop and maybe even signal the end of the super hero fad. About that. […]
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a political spy thriller with super heroes. In hindsight it seems like an obvious choice but many questioned if Marvel could even do anything interesting with Captain America in a solo film post WWII. […]
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Watching Thor: The Dark world two things immediately sprung to mind. The first is that the film looks great. The second thing is that it is much funnier than you remember […]
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Let’s just get it out of the way. Iron Man 3 gets a lot of crap it doesn’t deserve. Being the first film to follow The Avengers it was always doomed to comparison. Comparison it never could win. […]
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The Avengers was a massive event at the time. Even people who had only shown a little interest in the Marvel films up to this point lined up to see The Avengers assemble for the first time on film. […]
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Captain America is a character that no other studio but Marvel Studios could have ever gotten so right; Marvel understood that Steve’s true super power wasn’t running fast or hitting hard, it was his character. […]
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Thor is really when Marvel went all in on this comic book movie thing. Everything coming before it was still, at its heart, a grounded story in which the most “realistic” version of these heroes in our world was represented. Then came Thor […]
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