I remember watching Iron Man 3 before The Avengers and being intrigued at Tony's PTSD and how well that was dealt with. And then curious as to what had happened in the previous movie.
Ah, so Tony's PTSD made you wonder what had happened in Avengers 1? I also liked that aspect of it, as well as various other things about the movie which I had felt were lacking from IM1 and 2.
Re: Maria you probably forgot about her opening scene in Avengers 1 when she chases down Loki and Clint in the jeep. She has relatively little to do in Avengers 2 and only a cameo in the latest film.
You're not alone in conflating Hydra and Nazis, and yeah they do function that way in large part. While I liked the whole "enemy within" and "police state" aspect of Winter Soldier the fact that it was Hydra put it on more of a cartoonish level than the typical spy thriller. OTOH, it worked well enough as a metaphor and made Steve's world and outlook a lot more complicated than what he'd faced in Cap 1. I kind of see his attempt to find his way forward in a moral way a kind of version of Tony's PTSD since Tony had been jaded since childhood and the same plotline would never have worked for him.
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Ah, so Tony's PTSD made you wonder what had happened in Avengers 1? I also liked that aspect of it, as well as various other things about the movie which I had felt were lacking from IM1 and 2.
Re: Maria you probably forgot about her opening scene in Avengers 1 when she chases down Loki and Clint in the jeep. She has relatively little to do in Avengers 2 and only a cameo in the latest film.
You're not alone in conflating Hydra and Nazis, and yeah they do function that way in large part. While I liked the whole "enemy within" and "police state" aspect of Winter Soldier the fact that it was Hydra put it on more of a cartoonish level than the typical spy thriller. OTOH, it worked well enough as a metaphor and made Steve's world and outlook a lot more complicated than what he'd faced in Cap 1. I kind of see his attempt to find his way forward in a moral way a kind of version of Tony's PTSD since Tony had been jaded since childhood and the same plotline would never have worked for him.