Yeah, the overpass scene is such incredible controlled chaos. Love the moment when Nat jumps on Winter Soldier’s shoulders and attempts to garrote him.  BEST action sequence in a movie that is chock-full of terrific action sequences.

Agreed, this scene is a bizarre choice. This is one of the very best movies the MCU has produced; the jailbreak scene, or Peter talking Drax out of killing Gamora, or Drax petting Rocket, or for fuck’s sake, ‘WE ARE GROOT’... And THIS is the scene that...

The only truly bad movie in the MCU is definitely Iron Man 2. It has NO thematic thru-line, it drags constantly, it features several scenes that seem self-indulgently improvised in a way that does the actors no favors (it was filmed during the writer’s strike) and it has a very bro-ey libertarian tone that is…

Yeah the CGI is terrific. The only part where you can see some seams is the very first scene of Steve in the Army clinic. The rest of it is mind-bendingly good. the effects can only possibly be considered ‘iffy’ if judged in contrast to the same technique used to revisit lil’ Steve and Bucky in ‘Winter Soldier’,…

This movie has aged the best of ALL the first gen. MCU. Due largely in part because Cap’s movies all built great things out of the foundation. But also because between Atwell, Jones, and Tucci (and Tobey Jones) it is bursting at the seams with great supporting acting.

Can’t believe the Russos wouldn’t find a way to close the circle with Steve and Peggy in some way. Especially since they avoided doing it in ‘Winter Soldier’ or ‘Civil War’.

THIS. Kang gets a little misty EVERY DAMN TIME he re-watches that scene. It’s everything that a Randian macho lunkhead like Zack Snyder would never think to express about truly heroic character. And T. Lee Jones’ ‘He’s still skinny’ is the perfect one-liner button to release the tension of how much you love Steve in…

Evans’ has got such goddamn gravitas as Cap. It’s a lay-up of a line, but still his reading gave Kang the goosebumps

Oh, Kang is FOR SURE on Tony’s side when it comes to the accords. But the movies do an excellent job of setting up Cap’s resistance— His emotional attachment to Bucky, his experience with HYDRA/SHEILD, and the fact that he’s far from some right-wing macho unilateralist. The movie stacks the deck against Tony, since…

Yeah, that and when she asks Coulson about the bomb he attaches to the door of Stane’s lab “Oh, wow! What’s that? It’s, like, a little device? It’s, like, a thing that’s going to pick the lock?”

This movie was ‘written’ during the writer’s strike.  ‘Nuff said.

Kang wouldn’t say it ‘wastes’ Sam Rockwell, since he’s the clear (only) highlight of the movie. And he dances, which is always a treat.

Oh, Kang would agree. But personally I couldn’t honestly put it above any of the action in Winter Soldier/Civil War. But yes... particularly that last shot of Doc Ock climbing away in a hail of police gunfire. Gotta be one of the most perfect translations of superhero page-to-screen action ever.

Well, sure those would make the top TEN. But still easily sit below the best 4 or 5 Captain America scenes. There’s certainly some great action stuff in the Singer X-movies, First Class, Spidey 2, Blade 1 & 2, and the Nolan Batmovies. But considering how cranky this article is about ‘weightless CGI avatars’, it’s…

Yeah, the generalizations about terrible action in Marvel films only works if you completely ignore all of the Russo bros. films. Winter Soldier alone accounts for 3 or 4 of the top five action scenes in superhero cinema. Civil War probably accounts for the other 2.

Rocket and Nebula are waaaaaaay more useful than Natasha and Clint.  They’re cybernetically enhanced BADASSSES.  The only part of the first teaser that felt silly was watching Natasha target-shooting with her pistol. Like, really? .45 caliber against an intergalactic reality-bending Hulk? Ninja, please.

Kang LOVES that Nebula is poised to play such a big part in the finale. She’s one of the secret high points of Infinity War and Guardians and has the most poignant backstory with the bad guy. She’s 100% toast, but it’s gonna be great to see her make her final heel/face turn.

As if anyone fucking asked you

Here’s the thing: Kang can see what they show was trying to do with this more humanistic, empathetic detective story, attempting to branch out of the grim n’ gritty tropes of earlier seasons. But it did it SO POORLY.

The biggest disappointment was the Hulk. He was the MVP of ‘Avengers’ and we hadn’t gotten to see him in action in any other franchise. Then he shows up and his effects are somehow much worse and cartoony than the first film, and he does almost nothing of note in the whole movie. Well, he fights Iron Man, but Iron…