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[Luther]

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[Ane Brun- "Do You Remember" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lI30Qw69AQ)]

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I know I'm waaay late to this party, but I finally watched it. And it kinda made me realise that I think I've hit a wall with superhero movies? I still loved seeing all the characters again (especially Bucky), but I'm getting a bit sick of the CGI spectacle set-pieces that always happen. I mean I love action movies, but there's only so many times I can watch Iron Man get punched and shit blowing up before it all gets extremely samey to me and I start to clock out.

Has anyone else felt this way with Marvel movies lately?

(Also why was Martin Freeman even in it? He was completely pointless...)

I feel like that action set pieces are balanced with the quieter character scenes.

I expect Martin Freeman will be coming back in a later movie.

I had the same reaction. It made me realize how tired I am of superhero movies. Though I then realized that wasn't necessarily true because weeks later, X-Men: Apocalypse came out, and I was excited for that.

So, you're not alone, OP. And frankly, I hated Martin Freeman being there because he served no real purpose and I don't care for him in general. I also had no sympathy for Alfre Woodard's character because...it sucks that her son died, but you expect me to sympathize with her because the Avengers are the indirect cause of his death when y'all live in a world where aliens exist & supervillains are doing shit on the reg? Byeeee

Literally the only reasons I'm even excited for Spider-Man: Homecoming are because of cast members I like.

I completely agree with your sentiment about Alfre Woodard's character. I understand that Tony created Ultron, but I still feel as though her assessment of the whole thing was incredibly unfair. When people are trying to protect the ENTIRE WORLD from people who want to destroy it, there are unfortunate mistakes and unfortunate collateral damage.

fuck Martin Freeman !!!!1

also I feel like this movie had a little less of the big CGI spectacle action sequences than some of the more recent Marvel movies? (AoU, I'm looking at you....) But, I really loved the movie, so I'm kinda biased.

I loved Civil War (though I wish it hadn't been Civil War, if that makes sense), but this was me with X-Men Apocalypse. I found it empty, screwing over characters I love, just downright bad.

I could have stood for a little more Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and a little less Star Trek: Into Darkness.

(Not saying it was as bad as Into Darkness, mind you. Just that it had the same sort of overstuffed feeling.)

I think this is true of most action movies in general, including the Marvel movies. It's probably got to do with how movies are made... those big action sequences cost so much money that the need to be obsessively planned out for the greatest effect, so sometimes a film feels like 3-4 big action sequences held together by weaker connecting bits.

Not really. I love those big set pieces. I love big spectacle movies, as long as they balance it with character stuff. Give me big epic things with complicated, interesting characters. Those are my two favorite things.

OP

I felt the same with most of the earlier Marvel movies. The action was new and fascinating back then. But I realised when I was watching CA:CW those feelings had completely gone, and I was actually impatient to get back to the characters just talking to each other.

I didn't feel this way with Winter Soldier -- I still think the scene with Fury being stuck in his car was fucking amazing and lends itself well to rewatches. I don't know, Civil War's action scenes was just too much stuff happening all at once, and it just make it seem repetitive and unmemorable. Maybe I just like action when it focuses on fewer characters, IDK.

I liked a lot of the smaller fight scenes in the movie but the Big airport scene just bored me to be honest, like it dragged for me and I mostly just wanted it to be over the longer it went on. (Though I don't think it was helped by the fact that my patience levels had already been drained by the 15 min Spiderman origin shoved into an already busy movie).

But I'm also someone who wanted less Avengers in my Cap movie so my feelings towards Civil War are iffy(I really need to rewatch it so I can figure out if I do like it because there are definitely things I enjoyed in it: T'Challa being the main thing).

OP

I agree with pretty much everything you said, especially Spider-man. I found him annoying and unnecessary, especially since he wasted time that should have been spent on the main characters, or who *should* have been the main characters -- Steve, Bucky, and Sam. There were hardly any conversations between them which was really disappointing. I think it needed it, especially Steve and Bucky. It made the whole movie seem...impersonal.

It really did just feel like Avengers 3. I think that's what made Winter Soldier so good, because we got to spend more time with just Steve and Natasha, or Steve and Sam, and it wasn't this huge cast crammed into one movie without the time to sink deeper into the characters.

I did think T'Challa was pretty cool though, and he seemed like a good and rational person. I'm now way more interested in seeing Black Panther, so I guess that worked :P

Yup, your issue is my issue: Spiderman was completely shoe-horned in and out of place and the characters I wanted to see get some fleshed out interactions didn't get it and it felt almost... empty in places because of that.

It's definitely Avengers 3 in my head and I think what bugs me more is that there was a lot of 'don't worry it's still a Cap movie' from Marvel and well, that wasn't true so it's made me somewhat bitter about the whole thing. Yeah TWS allowed for some really nice intimate character building scenes and CW just didn't allow for that because it was so rammed full.

Ha see, do I get excited for Black Panther or quash it all because what if it's shit? (Though since it's his first movie he should get a lot of breathing room, it's the 2nd and 3rd installments I've got to worry about on that front). But yeah I really enjoyed him and it's because he got an actual arc in the movie, my Cap faves just kind of meandered around for 2 hours imo. :/

ayrt

You're right, T'Challa's story/characterisation had a beginning, middle, and end, but all the other characters just argued and punched each other the whole movie.

Also, I really love your Isabelle icon :D

Civil War was very much his introduction movie and I am def glad that they did a decent job with it but man, couldn't my Cap squad have gotten some of that as well? (I feel like they tried then it floundered and sputtered out into face-punching about halfway through).

Why thank you. :D

(She's just very pretty in general, my gosh).

She really is! And also my second favourite character on Shadowhunters (Raphael being my first). Everyone on that show is unbelievably pretty :P

It's a TV show full of unfathomably attractive people, like what the hell, how did you manage this??

(Magnus is my fave with Alec or Isabelle as my 2nd fave, it's hard to choose sometimes because I mostly like them all).

I never thought I'd feel this way but I am getting pretty tired of MCU films, tbh. They're all the same, more or less and I don't see that changing any time soon (and why would it, they're still making bank). The only thing I really loved about CW was T'Challa. I think Doctor Strange will be the first MCU movie I skip (at least while it's in theaters).

(I'm pretty sure Martin Freeman was in the film to set his character up for future films, which is one of the huge issues I'm having w/the interconnecting of the franchise - every film feels like it's a promo for upcoming films).

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