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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Mackie's description of Civil War is my fave.
He also says despite the other Avengers
, it's still a Captain America movie and Steve is still the main character.
Wait isn't he the guy who said Civil War was "Avengers 3.8" a while back? EDIT: D'oh the actual article says as much.
Anyway I'm still thinking/hoping that despite the large cast each one of the other Avengers will only have like 5-10 minutes of screentime each. Spider-Man will just a bit part and the real struggle will be how to not make his cameo a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. It's characters like Crossbones, Bucky, Sharon, and Zemo I'm more concerned about right now because the details are so nebulous.
edited 15th Apr '15 1:05:05 PM by AlleyOop
The Captain America movies have consistently been the individual films most central to the plots of the Avengers films: the first one introduced the Tesseract, the second one took SHIELD out of the picture with major repercussions, and the third one will be dealing with the outfall of Age of Ultron.
The only really major element any of the other films introduced was Loki as the villain for The Avengers, and even in that case, for the purposes of watching The Avengers you don't need to know anything other than "he's Thor's evil brother".
(And yes, for me too the math works out to Civil War being "Avengers 2.5", not 3.anything.)
edited 15th Apr '15 1:15:22 PM by Galadriel
I think that is more an accident, though. Captain America was the last one of the origin movies of phase one, meaning they had better figured out how to connect the movies by adding small elements to it at this point. And when the Avengers worked out better than Marvel expected, they developed the concept even further. But at this point it was too late to change much about Iron Man 3, and even though they did some rewrites for The Dark World, The Winter Soldier being scheduled later than those two allowed a better built up.
Hey guys. So this thread somehow fell out of my watchlist so for some reason I thought everyone was just silent for like the past two months.
What I miss?
Oh, I see, the Civil War thing. Right. That. Still wish the third C. America movie was a pure C. America movie, I always figured if this whole Civil war thing was gonna happen it would be in an Avengers movie proper or... Any time but now. Like later when there are more supers established.
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Interesting perspective from Cap.
edited 15th Apr '15 2:35:09 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!In the clip of the Avengers talking to Ultron, Cap told them that they could still walk away. He seems to have some sympathy for them.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThe difference is that Bucky's was nonconsensual compared to the twins, so that will be an interesting defense for Bucky if other characters try to give him shit for his assassin past. That subtext is pretty interesting though, and I wonder if there are other scenes like this which gain a lot of extra impact from watching The Winter Soldier. I'm hoping for Widow's characterization to follow through from it.
edited 15th Apr '15 9:18:41 PM by AlleyOop
Widow's probably going to give him some shit for shooting her on two separate occasions but it will probably be mostly friendly ribbing.
She just seems to be a rather cheeky girl in general.
In reference to Bucky being less consensual than the twins. Yes Bucky was brainwashed while the twins aren't but in fairness to them they are a couple of confused kids who are being taken advantage of by greater powers while being under the impression that they are heroic revolutionaries standing up for the little guy. They're not evil they just have too much confidence in their (laughably awful) judge of character. Thats a fixable personal flaw.
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins

Looking at the sources on some of the other images I'm also finding Rodney Ramos as the artist for a lot of the other ones. Damn, all of this stuff looks great. And better yet, I think it would be neat if they released Park's art as variant posters since he's an actual comic artist and these are movies based on comics.
edited 15th Apr '15 12:38:51 PM by AlleyOop