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Captain America - The Winter Solider
Oct. 4th, 2014 11:28 pmThis is actually pretty good for its genre, or much like the first Captain America film manages to oddly rise above what you expect from the genre. I was surprised by it at any rate.
It also explained Marvel Agents of Shield, which is apparently tied to it or tied into to it. Or crosses over. You sort of have to have seen Winter Solider to understand what was going on with Marvel Agents of Shield.
There's a huge twist in Winter Solider that more or less turns the entire franchise on its head, and explains a lot of the innuendos in Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, and The Avengers regarding SHIELD and the heroes issues with the organization. It also explains what was going on with the first 16 episodes of Marvel Agents of Shield. Apparently we were supposed to find the Shield organization a wee bit disturbing and unsettling. That was intentional. The writers were far more clever than I gave them credit for. They also were having a wee bit of fun satirizing the genre at their audience's expense, which is rather amusing once you figure out the joke. (Although to be fair, my main issue with the first 1-5 episodes of S1 AoS was the pacing, I was bored out of my mind and couldn't focus on it. This happens a lot with tv shows. Since I had the same issues with Scandal, and caught it in the second season, as well as Fringe. Not to mention Buffy and Angel - which didn't take of until late in the first/second season.)
Anyhow, Winter Solider has a lot of pleasant surprises, and provides Natasha, The Black Widow, with quite a bit to do. Nick Fury also has more to do in this movie than usual. Can't help but wonder if they'd initially intended to have Jeremy Renner - Hawk-eye to play the third lead and couldn't get him? Maybe not. Is Sam Wilson in Marvel AoS now - if not, the actor portraying him looks a lot like one of their field agents.
And, I rather like the Winter Solider, and was glad he's not really a villain.
( spoilers )
It also explained Marvel Agents of Shield, which is apparently tied to it or tied into to it. Or crosses over. You sort of have to have seen Winter Solider to understand what was going on with Marvel Agents of Shield.
There's a huge twist in Winter Solider that more or less turns the entire franchise on its head, and explains a lot of the innuendos in Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, and The Avengers regarding SHIELD and the heroes issues with the organization. It also explains what was going on with the first 16 episodes of Marvel Agents of Shield. Apparently we were supposed to find the Shield organization a wee bit disturbing and unsettling. That was intentional. The writers were far more clever than I gave them credit for. They also were having a wee bit of fun satirizing the genre at their audience's expense, which is rather amusing once you figure out the joke. (Although to be fair, my main issue with the first 1-5 episodes of S1 AoS was the pacing, I was bored out of my mind and couldn't focus on it. This happens a lot with tv shows. Since I had the same issues with Scandal, and caught it in the second season, as well as Fringe. Not to mention Buffy and Angel - which didn't take of until late in the first/second season.)
Anyhow, Winter Solider has a lot of pleasant surprises, and provides Natasha, The Black Widow, with quite a bit to do. Nick Fury also has more to do in this movie than usual. Can't help but wonder if they'd initially intended to have Jeremy Renner - Hawk-eye to play the third lead and couldn't get him? Maybe not. Is Sam Wilson in Marvel AoS now - if not, the actor portraying him looks a lot like one of their field agents.
And, I rather like the Winter Solider, and was glad he's not really a villain.
( spoilers )