but also can’t necessarily think of many more scenes from this movie that are worth highlighting.

best I can muster for anything with Captain America or Thor in it is a big ol’ shrug

I tried to pitch Caroline on doing an Avengers-style team-up with Tom to cover My Super Ex-Girlfriend (a movie I haven’t seen and, from what I understand, is on precisely no one’s list of good, important, or influential rom-coms or superhero movies), but alas, it was not to be.

I agree, I was pleased when Bengelbert Crumdybum was cast; he fits the part perfectly. I do think they could’ve made the character British without too much difficulty so that he wouldn’t have to do an American accent, but such is life.

I think it’s a testament to American ingenuity that a bad Point Break remake somehow became a superhero franchise, but who the fuck knows at this point?

‘Business as usual’, surely. Heroes punching each other is established comics tradition.

The ending also allowed T’Challa to prevent the man who killed his father from killing himself, after spending the film ostensibly searching for him to kill him. Demonstrating his compassion and ability to set aside the personal vengeance that had driven the others to breaking points.

It doesn’t suck because it diverges from the source material, as such - Civil War has almost nothing to do with Millar’s story.

It’s one of those repeat viewing things, but yeah, Zola even shows the exact same footage, if I recall.

If only Tony and Steve realised they both have best friends named James

“It wasn’t him, Tony!”

This was, to me at least, one of the greatest strengths of CW. Even though the film has its flaws, and doesn’t hold up entirely on rewatch (the airport scene was thrilling on first view; now it comes off as a contrivance). But I got the impression that a lot of people hated the fact that Zemo had only a goal, and the…

It’s especially disjointed because Wonder Woman’s mother isn’t named Martha so you are left scratching your head, wondering what her stake is in all this.

A bit of tension? Steve, Natasha and Sam go completely AWOL and are wanted criminals. Tony and Steve haven’t talked to each other since the events of CW and they still don’t talk during IW. 

It would be serious if it stuck. The movie essentially makes it non-serious by just giving him an exoskeleton that makes him no different than before (thus far, anyway. I’d love to see it have real consequences for Rhodey. He’s terribly underused.)

“So was I.” and “He killed my Mom.”

You’ll love the scene where Scott realises that selling the shrinking technology is objectively the right thing to do and joins Yellowjacket in destroying any government regulation of their product.

Man, between Children’s Crusade and Avengers Arena, 2011-2012 was a brutal time to love Marvel’s youth roster... Thanks a lot, Hunger Games.

The Martian is a great movie in which Queen Lilandra leads a team of Luis, Bucky and Sue Storm to enact a plan laid out by Mordo, Wong and The Prowler to rescue the actor Loki hired.

It always irks me when film critics complain that an adaptation of a play or musical is “stagebound” or not “cinematic” enough. It’s going to be the only way some of us get to see them.