i can’t believe civil war is the mcu movie going down in history as the epitome when that title should still hold true to the winter soldier. what is so great about civil war anyway. it’s shit. the cgi is awful. that airport fight looks so fake. the movie did not fit the solo title at all. there were too many characters and at least 5 of them were pointless. the acting was also really subpar at times. i hope people wake up and realize this movie ain’t shit. they were just high on spidey fumes.

paraxdisepink:

Completely agree. I still need to check out BvS for comparison. I’ve always kind of thought that Marvel bribed the critics. 

This movie pisses me off so much. The acting is uneven. At some points it’s downright bad. The cinematography wasn’t good. In some of the fight scenes the angles were too close and it made it harder to follow what was going on. The airport fight was mostly cartoonish and the tone of it was kind of inappropriate for the supposed serious political issues. Wanda, Bucky, and BP are way more interesting than anything else to me. BP gets his own story soon, but Wanda and Bucky have these big stories that should be stories unto themselves instead of being squished into side stories. The movie has no real payoff or any of the earth-shattering impact the trailers promised. The Stark murders don’t count because we already had that information more or less and we knew that bucky did them while brainwashed anyway so it’s not like the revelation is going to change how we feel. The movie is supposed to be a Cap movie, but the big moment the movie builds toward is all about the emotional impact for Tony, and the big question at the end is whether Tony will forgive Steve or not, and the Accords are pushed by Tony’s need for accountability. Steve gets no real development from what we knew of him in previous films. His character gets ruined because – as someone else put it – he becomes another example of toxic masculinity. He can show his feelings for Bucky through violence against others, but isn’t allowed to show much compassion let alone direct affection to the person he’s trying to save. 

People say oh he’s been through so much/he’s just not demonstrative/he’s depressed. Well maybe that’s the reason, but it’s not the excuse. I don’t feel much sympathy for him or his issues, because unlike a lot of actual people suffering depression he’s had the resources to explore the possibility of getting help. But instead he’s become a Designated Hero who needs a fight to function. Or something. Whereas Bucky is something of a Designated Villian who doesn’t want to fight and (as shitty and gross and harmful as that post credit scene was) at least sought out help the moment it was available.

I just don’t get the tongue bath this moving is getting from critics