Watching Captain America: Winter Soldier again on BluRay. I do really like this movie. I think it handles the darker, more grittier modern world very well, because it treats Captain America's, for want of a better term, "boy scout" nature as a POSITIVE, and not a negative.
Just a few thoughts as I watch it:
First fight scenes have TERRIBLE shakeycam, for no goddamn reason!
Why wouldn't they have told Steve that they needed to get important computer data off the ship? And unless they were planning on blowing it up afterwards, why would they even need to get it off of the computers?
Natasha says "that one's on me" when Batrock blows up the room. Um, NO! Bullshit! He was Cap's hostage and he walked away from him. He didn't even cuff him, for crying out loud. Batrock escaping is totally on Captain America!
I like the scene where Steve visits with his now old girlfriend. But there is an odd CGI aspect to her mouth that is distractingly bad. Either they decided to change the lines in post and had to modify the lip movements to fit it, or they had originally given her old craggly teeth in the old age makeup, and decided afterwards it didn't look good. Either way, it's fucking creepy.
It was a distractingly bad idea to cast the asian CEO from The Dark Knight as one of the SHIELD overseeing council.
Waitwaitwaitwait! His neighbor the nurse says "You don't want my scrubs in your machine, I just finished a shift in the infectious disease ward." WHAT?! She doesn't want her scrubs in his machine, implying there is the possibility of infection, but it's ok to put them into the washing machines the rest of the building uses?!
Really, Steve? You couldn't have hidded the memory stick in the back of the machine or something? It's not like The Purloined Letter if it doesn't look like everything aroud it!
I'm a lot less impressed by Redford's performance the second time. He just seems kind of boring, rather than the cold reserved I think he is supposed to be.
As cool as the Falcon suit is, they don't explain why there's only one of them (apparently there used to be at least two) and why they aren't more widely used. Yeah, I get Cap's shield is made of a rare metal so they can't just make a lot more (although why they let him throw millions of dollors around like a frisbee still makes me laugh a little), but this isn't even in the same league. Couldn't they have just said it was an initial prototype he had tested out?
I absolutely LOVE how well they did Winter Soldier's metal arm. They can get away with it in the comics, but I never thought it would look so good in live action, and so practical.
Wait, so Captain America's vibranium shield redirected THOR'S HAMMER BLOW, but a rocket hitting it blasts him across the road?
So...Nick Fury "wasn't sure who to trust."...except the team of docotors that helped him fake his death and the team of people at the facility where he was being taken care of. Personally, I think they should have let Nick Fury be dead for at least a movie or two. Since all of these are intertwined, and there are ones coming out about every six months or so, why not?
Also, this whole "Hydra infiltrating Shield" thing really makes Nick Fury look a LOT less in control or competent than we've seen before. I'm surprised they were willing to let a character we are supposed to still root for and find effective look this bad.
My favorite Captain America suit is definitely the one from the first movie. It's so nice to see him put it back on at the end of this movie.
*sigh* WHY doesn't Black Widow at the very least shoot Redford's character in the leg or something when she first gets the drop on him? It's not like it'd be out of character for her or anything.
Still, none of these things prevented me from liking this movie. But I can understand others who feel differently.