It really is too bad we didn't get a proper CA movie. I'm sad we never got to learn who Bucky is now. I would have loved for Sam to have more screen time. I would have liked to be able to leave the movie feeling like Steve was a hero.
And it's that last one I'm smarting over the most (though Steve and I have different opinions on the best way to do what's right, so maybe that will never happen for me, I certainly didn't feel he made the best choice in WS either, though I think I was less resentful over that). I'm sad that by doing Civil War this way they took away the big moments of reckoning from both Steve and Tony. That moment when Steve stops fighting because he realizes he's stepped so far over a line that civilians are stepping in to stop him, and Tony's "it wasn't worth it" moment.
I was actually pretty convinced, before the movie came out, that if they were going to kill anyone in the movie that it was going to be Tony. I felt, based on Steve's previous arcs and from what I could see in the trailers, that it was Steve more than Tony that needed the slap-in-the-face "it wasn't worth it moment." Fortunately the movie didn't feel the need to kill anyone, but since that's the case, I wish we had gotten that moment of surrender where Steve, who still believes he's on the right side and that the other side is so very wrong, gets a moment of perspective and realized that no matter who is right or wrong, the two sides are pushing each other too far, that someone has got to give before it all implodes. I feel robbed of that moment, especially since it was a Cap movie and that would have made Steve shine, even in defeat. Instead that movie ended on such a low point.
I've been reading responses on tumblr and akira-of-the-twilight said "Steve basically gets everything without learning or losing anything". Which I can't help but feel is mostly true. He gets to walk away from this with Bucky, with his friends whom he breaks out of prison, with the moral high ground of being the first to apologize and the validation that Bucky was set up. Sure he's an outlaw, but Steve's never really cared about the rules when he didn't agree with them, and he doesn't really care what people think of him.
And look, there are plenty of superhero movies where it's ok and even good to show the title hero as unquestionably good, who always does what's right and who fights the good fight without any need to grow, but this movie was clearly not that, so I find it incredibly frustrating that that's how the ending felt to me.
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And it's that last one I'm smarting over the most (though Steve and I have different opinions on the best way to do what's right, so maybe that will never happen for me, I certainly didn't feel he made the best choice in WS either, though I think I was less resentful over that). I'm sad that by doing Civil War this way they took away the big moments of reckoning from both Steve and Tony. That moment when Steve stops fighting because he realizes he's stepped so far over a line that civilians are stepping in to stop him, and Tony's "it wasn't worth it" moment.
I was actually pretty convinced, before the movie came out, that if they were going to kill anyone in the movie that it was going to be Tony. I felt, based on Steve's previous arcs and from what I could see in the trailers, that it was Steve more than Tony that needed the slap-in-the-face "it wasn't worth it moment." Fortunately the movie didn't feel the need to kill anyone, but since that's the case, I wish we had gotten that moment of surrender where Steve, who still believes he's on the right side and that the other side is so very wrong, gets a moment of perspective and realized that no matter who is right or wrong, the two sides are pushing each other too far, that someone has got to give before it all implodes. I feel robbed of that moment, especially since it was a Cap movie and that would have made Steve shine, even in defeat. Instead that movie ended on such a low point.
I've been reading responses on tumblr and akira-of-the-twilight said "Steve basically gets everything without learning or losing anything". Which I can't help but feel is mostly true. He gets to walk away from this with Bucky, with his friends whom he breaks out of prison, with the moral high ground of being the first to apologize and the validation that Bucky was set up. Sure he's an outlaw, but Steve's never really cared about the rules when he didn't agree with them, and he doesn't really care what people think of him.
And look, there are plenty of superhero movies where it's ok and even good to show the title hero as unquestionably good, who always does what's right and who fights the good fight without any need to grow, but this movie was clearly not that, so I find it incredibly frustrating that that's how the ending felt to me.