And your star-spangled heart took a train for the coast
So I just saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I have many thoughts and feelings about it, which I will put below the cut. I will say that it is an excellent movie and I would highly suggest that you see it if you haven't.
I loved the movie. I thought it was going to be a lot more Winter Soldier centered being that was the title of the movie. I mean the central plot did have Bucky in it, but the main villain was Hydra instead of The Winter Soldier. I get that he is only a tool, he kind of needs to be controlled by someone, but for most of the movie he was rather absent. When he was there he definitely made an impression. The actor they got to play him did a good job of making himself seem both menacing and pained.
I wondered why he just submitted to electroshock therapy though. I mean before he was trying to attack them and I don't think that he has very much regard for himself. So why stop trying to attack them and just let them damage him some more? The best theory I have is that the memories pained him too much and he just wanted them to vanish.
The end scene with Bucky. Oh my heart! Usually I don't feel too much pain at character deaths in movies especially if logically I know that they character has to survive. All the same my heart hurt to see Bucky beating on Steve and to see Steve just surrender and drift under the waves. Even to save his own life, Steve just couldn't betray his best friend. I am glad Bucky was able to get away, though part of me sees him getting quickly arrested as he has a meltdown when his programming contradicts what he is learning.
Natasha, I am so happy to see Natasha actually get some character development. Her interactions were fantastic and her and Steve make excellent foils for each other. Each of them brought out the other's beliefs. I never shipped Natasha and Steve all that much before this movie, but now I can totally see them working out. The look on her face when he said he just wanted a friend was almost heartbreaking, though she covered it up well. Come to think of it I don't think anybody has ever just wanted to be Natasha's friend before. They all wanted something from her or tried to kill her ahead of time. Steve just takes her as she is and knows that she can be better than she lets herself be at times. But Steve isn't preachy about it, doesn't hold it against her even when her lies get all tangled up in each other. He just jokes and gets her to pick herself up again.
And that goodbye! I think that she really wanted Steve to ask her to come with him. I don't know if she would have followed, but she is clearly bound for deeper darkness. She wanted to stay around someone who made her believe that she could actually be a good person even if logically that could not be the case.
Sam was a good addition to the team. He was one of the few down to earth people. Like I know that people always say that "Well Hawkeye and Black Widow are just normal people" but they really only seem normal because they hang out with gods and super geniuses. He was actually just a normal guy, part of an odd military unit but for the most part his life has been fairly normal. No being a trained assassin from a child, no raised by the circus, just a guy who went to war. That takes courage, to go from that to being on the run from the government and choosing to take part in all this crazy shit.
Nick Fury and Steve had great reactions. I wish that they had branched more into Nick's past and how similar he was to Steve, but I understand that would have only slowed down the pace of the movie and seemed extraneous to people who have never read the comics. I will admit that I did think they actually killed him off right until the big reveal.
Kind of intrigued that they put Maria Hill working for Stark Industries now. I definitely see her having a bigger part in Age of Ultron if they decide to have her working with the machines.
Also Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver look like they will be excellent. I like their redesigns a lot.
I loved the movie. I thought it was going to be a lot more Winter Soldier centered being that was the title of the movie. I mean the central plot did have Bucky in it, but the main villain was Hydra instead of The Winter Soldier. I get that he is only a tool, he kind of needs to be controlled by someone, but for most of the movie he was rather absent. When he was there he definitely made an impression. The actor they got to play him did a good job of making himself seem both menacing and pained.
I wondered why he just submitted to electroshock therapy though. I mean before he was trying to attack them and I don't think that he has very much regard for himself. So why stop trying to attack them and just let them damage him some more? The best theory I have is that the memories pained him too much and he just wanted them to vanish.
The end scene with Bucky. Oh my heart! Usually I don't feel too much pain at character deaths in movies especially if logically I know that they character has to survive. All the same my heart hurt to see Bucky beating on Steve and to see Steve just surrender and drift under the waves. Even to save his own life, Steve just couldn't betray his best friend. I am glad Bucky was able to get away, though part of me sees him getting quickly arrested as he has a meltdown when his programming contradicts what he is learning.
Natasha, I am so happy to see Natasha actually get some character development. Her interactions were fantastic and her and Steve make excellent foils for each other. Each of them brought out the other's beliefs. I never shipped Natasha and Steve all that much before this movie, but now I can totally see them working out. The look on her face when he said he just wanted a friend was almost heartbreaking, though she covered it up well. Come to think of it I don't think anybody has ever just wanted to be Natasha's friend before. They all wanted something from her or tried to kill her ahead of time. Steve just takes her as she is and knows that she can be better than she lets herself be at times. But Steve isn't preachy about it, doesn't hold it against her even when her lies get all tangled up in each other. He just jokes and gets her to pick herself up again.
And that goodbye! I think that she really wanted Steve to ask her to come with him. I don't know if she would have followed, but she is clearly bound for deeper darkness. She wanted to stay around someone who made her believe that she could actually be a good person even if logically that could not be the case.
Sam was a good addition to the team. He was one of the few down to earth people. Like I know that people always say that "Well Hawkeye and Black Widow are just normal people" but they really only seem normal because they hang out with gods and super geniuses. He was actually just a normal guy, part of an odd military unit but for the most part his life has been fairly normal. No being a trained assassin from a child, no raised by the circus, just a guy who went to war. That takes courage, to go from that to being on the run from the government and choosing to take part in all this crazy shit.
Nick Fury and Steve had great reactions. I wish that they had branched more into Nick's past and how similar he was to Steve, but I understand that would have only slowed down the pace of the movie and seemed extraneous to people who have never read the comics. I will admit that I did think they actually killed him off right until the big reveal.
Kind of intrigued that they put Maria Hill working for Stark Industries now. I definitely see her having a bigger part in Age of Ultron if they decide to have her working with the machines.
Also Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver look like they will be excellent. I like their redesigns a lot.