The last paragraph is amusing to me! We have the totally opposite reaction in my house with US politics being what it is. (Also, the last time we watched it, my spouse said to me, "Project Insight is just Facebook with guns." I mean, really, Cambridge Analytica with guns, but that's if I'm being nitpicky.) Yeah, but - they can stop it all with three small McGuffins. In the blink of an eye, it's been stopped and the Bad Guys have to reorganise themselves and think of a new Evil Plan. In reality the Bad Guys won. And are still in charge. And people are cheering them on. Like, I can absolutely see what they were going for, but the metaphor was too simplistic? (This is why I brought up Kylo Ren. All these Bad Guys are so self-assured. Kylo is a walking mess, but all the more dangerous for it. Bucky might switch sides if he can remember who he is, but Ben Solo CHOSE to be Kylo Ren. No torture, no mindwipe.) It may well be that the Avengers verse is more subtle than I give it credit for, after all, I haven't even seen all of it. The plot just gave me Black Panther flashbacks (although I guess it should be the other way around, since this pre-dates it): Big Killing Things to be Unleashed. Stop the Killing Things. World Saved. (Until new dastardly plan.)
Winter Soldier really needs to be seen alongside First Avenger, and not just for the Bucky aspect. Winter Soldier did a good job with the man-out-of-time piece while he's in the Smithsonian, but it's got about ten times the impact if the viewer knows who (and what) he lost when he sacrificed himself. Yeah, I have only seen about 20 minutes of it...
As a bonus, you also see Zola in his human form He is Toby Jones, I could probably name you five British dramas I have seen him in, off the top of my head. :)
Also, First Avenger is fun in a very WWII-era WWII movie sort of way. There's a musical number! Ooooh
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Yeah, but - they can stop it all with three small McGuffins. In the blink of an eye, it's been stopped and the Bad Guys have to reorganise themselves and think of a new Evil Plan. In reality the Bad Guys won. And are still in charge. And people are cheering them on. Like, I can absolutely see what they were going for, but the metaphor was too simplistic? (This is why I brought up Kylo Ren. All these Bad Guys are so self-assured. Kylo is a walking mess, but all the more dangerous for it. Bucky might switch sides if he can remember who he is, but Ben Solo CHOSE to be Kylo Ren. No torture, no mindwipe.) It may well be that the Avengers verse is more subtle than I give it credit for, after all, I haven't even seen all of it. The plot just gave me Black Panther flashbacks (although I guess it should be the other way around, since this pre-dates it): Big Killing Things to be Unleashed. Stop the Killing Things. World Saved. (Until new dastardly plan.)
Winter Soldier really needs to be seen alongside First Avenger, and not just for the Bucky aspect. Winter Soldier did a good job with the man-out-of-time piece while he's in the Smithsonian, but it's got about ten times the impact if the viewer knows who (and what) he lost when he sacrificed himself.
Yeah, I have only seen about 20 minutes of it...
As a bonus, you also see Zola in his human form
He is Toby Jones, I could probably name you five British dramas I have seen him in, off the top of my head. :)
Also, First Avenger is fun in a very WWII-era WWII movie sort of way. There's a musical number!
Ooooh