Battle tested, Captain America and his Howling Commandos quickly earned their stripes. Their mission, taking down HYDRA, the Nazi rogue science division.
I am still resolutely #TeamNo-One. Well, maybe #TeamTheDeadKidsMother
– who was meant to be Miriam Sharpe from the comics, right?
Um, anyway, yeah – it was a fantastic film, but at the end you did rather feel like a lot of blood had been spilled and a lot of people injured for no very good reason. Which is probably the point I suppose, but – maybe it’s because I’m not really overly invested in either Tony or Steve, but all through the movie I was hoping someone would drop some equivalent of the Doctor’s “SIT DOWN AND TALK!” speech into their thick, stubborn heads.
(Oh Tony, you literally recruited Peter as a child soldier, you frickin’ idiot. And Steve, you weren’t exactly unwilling to fight said child solider. Honestly you’re both pretty awful, running around causing mayhem for your own ends, Steve is better by a hair maybe? But I kinda suspect I’m the only one who thinks that…)
Um, anyway, some more thoughts:
Bucky and Falcon make a hilarious double act and I wish we’d seen more of it
Tom Holland is wonderful, Peter Parker is wonderful, I’m really looking forward to his movie now
Ditto for Chadwick Boseman and Black Panther. Also, a glimpse of Wakanda! Yay!
I liked Natasha a lot in this movie, but I’m disappointed she wasn’t even seen to make an attempt to rescue Clint and the others from the Raft. Honestly, their relationship was virtually forgotten about in this movie? Dudes, she’s the godmother of his child…
I don’t know how they de-aged Robert Downey Jr like that, but I’m impressed
Rhodey is NOT dead! Although he is badly injured. But not dead.
Loved Wanda’s chipped nail polish hinting at her state of mind
Sam’s outraged “Bird costume?” line got probably the biggest laugh of the movie
My biggest laugh, however, was reserved for Ant Man’s subtle penis joke
I’m positive there will be Discourse about how “May Parker is a sex object now, ew” or something, and I definitely get that because some of Tony’s lines about her were…not ideal, but I love May? I love all Mays? I love this one too. And she is noticeably a 50-year-old woman, wrinkles (gasp) and everything.
And I’m also positive there will be Discourse about the Steve/Sharon kiss. Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed in it too, because you do sort of get the feeling the intention behind it was to remind everyone Steve is heterosexual, and that’s…not fair to anyone, really, especially since Sharon had only a handful of scenes with him and the kiss came totally out of nowhere. And now I imagine that she as a character, rather than the writers, will get it in the neck.
….Although I think Steve/Sharon did happen in the comics? Oh, I don’t know. It was clumsily done, I suppose, is my main complaint.
Hmmm that’s about all I can think of for now? But I suspect people are either going to love it or hate it depending on who their faves are/what they ship.
OH WAIT ONE MORE THING I am incredibly amused by how they removed Spider-Man from the big battle scene in the trailers when he’s very much there
i feel like the fundamental ideological divide they’re using for civil war is that steve is reacting to the winter soldier while tony is reacting to age of ultron
steve is afraid of being controlled, of being forced to take action or inaction even when his own moral code disagrees, or when he’s not given all the information (this ties a lot into bucky’s arc but that’s a whole other post)
tony is afraid of himself, of what he could do or who he could become without something restraining him, of being the merchant of death with no accountability all over again
steve does what he does because he’s certain that what he’s doing is right; tony does what he does because he doesn’t trust himself to make that call anymore
“Remember how last year I kept saying The Winter Soldier will give you a Sebastian Stan Problem? Well, Civil War is going to make it much worse because there is a ton more Bucky, and this time he even talks. This is Chris Evans’s movie, but depending on how the editing shakes out, Stan could end up a co-lead. The relationships between Cap and Bucky, and Cap and Iron Man, are what define Civil War.” (x)
