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This movie fucking rocked. Not much i can say that Eric hasn't covered. I missed what it said on the tombstone. I knew most of the plot lines and twists and still managed to enjoy the movie. The end credit scene ties in nicely to Avengers: Age of Ultron; which is already shooting. Plus they pretty much explained a major issue they were going to have with Fox.
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Originally posted by talismanOriginally posted by AdamLXOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyOriginally posted by 80coupeOriginally posted by Rick ModenaOriginally posted by Jester -
There are also TWO after credits scenes, so be sure to stay until the very end of the credits.. Ain't that right, Carlos?Comment
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Originally posted by talismanOriginally posted by AdamLXOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyOriginally posted by 80coupeOriginally posted by Rick ModenaOriginally posted by JesterComment
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I'm not some movie critic but the wife and I both really enjoyed this movie.De Oppresso Liber.Comment
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So we tried to go see this tonight but didnt know the studio movie grill doesn't allow kids under two after 6pm. Is that at all theaters? We didn't even think about it.
To be continued I guess.Comment
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The regular theaters aren't like that.Originally posted by mstng86 View PostOriginally posted by talismanOriginally posted by AdamLXOriginally posted by BroncojohnnyOriginally posted by 80coupeOriginally posted by Rick ModenaOriginally posted by JesterComment
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I'm glad these films are doing so well; means we'll be able to look forward to new ones for some time to come. Hopefully we'll get all the way through phase 3, and even 4 before characters start getting replaced by new actors.
As expected, Captain America: The Winter Soldier took over the box office on Friday with a huge $37 million. While it probably won't reach $100 million this weekend, it's still on track to easily set a new record for April.
Captain America's $37 million debut is the biggest opening day since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in November. It's up 14 percent from Thor: The Dark World's $31.9 million, and up 44 percent from the first Captain's $25.7 million.
If The Winter Soldier plays similarly to The Dark World, it will inch past $100 million this weekend. Other comparable titles (The Avengers, Iron Man 3) suggest it will wind up in the $94-to-$96 million range.Comment
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Caught this yesterday with my nephews and was pleasantly surprised. I actually wasn't expecting it to be that great as it had a lot to live up to after the first Avengers movies. Great movie and I wouldn't mind catching it again.Originally posted by talisman View Post
WTF??!! I stuck around for the first one but didn't realize there would be a second after credit scene. More than enough reason to catch it againOriginally posted by talisman View Post
That and for Scarlet Johansen
It's a line from Pulp FictionOriginally posted by idrivea4banger View Post
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I've yet to hear anything negative about this movie, I want to see it.Comment
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great movie....really was so intense especially for the main baddy to have just a piece of screen time..spoiler question in whiteI have heard that Chris Evans does not want to renew after his contract is up after 6 movies , possibly after Cap 3 or avengers 3, and i Know in comics Bucky takes over as Captain America at some point. Sebastian Stan i believe is already signed up for 9 Marvel movies... So I will guess Captain dies in either Captain 3 or avengers 3 and is replaced, amazing to see how sneaky these Marvel guys are(see below), i would love to see the storyboard and what they do not say. Cap 3 is setup for Crossbones to be the bad since Brock Rumlow was seen alive in that flash at the end. I believe that Crossbones is responsible for Cap's death to in one series...i do not think he kills him but think he has a huge part in his death. These moviesare probably planned into the 2030's already as long as the success keeps coming.
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Mild spoiler...........
Curious how agents of shield is this week with SHIELD being as it is and all....guessing it will be the final one of the season....Last edited by zachary; 04-07-2014, 09:58 AM.Comment
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Pretty fucking impressive!
Continuing Marvel and Disney's enviable winning streak, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is making history at the global box office, debuting to a record-breaking $96.2 million in North America for an early worldwide total of $303.3 million.
In only 10 days overseas, the sequel has already taken in $207.1 million — eclipsing the entire foreign run of "Captain America: The First Avenger" ($193.9 million). Domestically, "Captain America 2," playing in 3,938 locations, scored the top April opening of all time. The film has a strong shot of surpassing the entire global gross of "The First Avenger" ($370.6 million) by the end of next weekend.
Universal's 2011 "Fast Five" was the previous record-holder for top April opening ($86.2 million).Comment
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Originally posted by Jose View PostPretty fucking impressive!
Continuing Marvel and Disney's enviable winning streak, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is making history at the global box office, debuting to a record-breaking $96.2 million in North America for an early worldwide total of $303.3 million.
In only 10 days overseas, the sequel has already taken in $207.1 million — eclipsing the entire foreign run of "Captain America: The First Avenger" ($193.9 million). Domestically, "Captain America 2," playing in 3,938 locations, scored the top April opening of all time. The film has a strong shot of surpassing the entire global gross of "The First Avenger" ($370.6 million) by the end of next weekend.
Universal's 2011 "Fast Five" was the previous record-holder for top April opening ($86.2 million).
it is still a TON of tickets, but ..not really fair to judge when 2 IMAX tickets are 33$, how many are IMAX and how many are regular! I wish they would do this by ticket sales instead of moneyLast edited by zachary; 04-07-2014, 09:59 AM.Comment
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Money is more fair IMO.Originally posted by zachary View Post
If it wasn't that great of a movie, people wouldn't spend the big money on the tickets.
I go to the palladium by my house that has a 18+ section and pay the premium for it."No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334Comment
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After being led by Captain Asshole for 6 years, citizens want to believe in America again.Comment
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Thought this was interesting.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" Is About Obama's Terror-Suspect Kill List, Say the Film's Directors
There are currently no plans to screen Captain America: The Winter Soldier at the White House, as far as the film's directors have heard. But if it makes it to the White House family theater, President Obama would be watching one big-budget, action-packed, and Scarlett Johansson-starring critique of his controversial terror-suspect "kill list."
This isn't me reading things into a mainstream comic-book movie. It's what the directors themselves will tell you.
"[Marvel] said they wanted to make a political thriller," Joe Russo, who directed the film with his brother Anthony, tells Mother Jones. "So we said if you want to make a political thriller, all the great political thrillers have very current issues in them that reflect the anxiety of the audience...That gives it an immediacy, it makes it relevant. So [Anthony] and I just looked at the issues that were causing anxiety for us, because we read a lot and are politically inclined. And a lot of that stuff had to do with civil liberties issues, drone strikes, the president's kill list, preemptive technology"—all themes they worked into the film, working closely with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
In The Winter Soldier, Captain America and the rest of the heroes (played by Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, and so on) confront the government program Project Insight, which involves three Helicarriers (gigantic autonomous killer drones, basically) that are fed large amounts of data and intel. The Helicarriers process the data to identify and preemptively eliminate potential threats to national and global security. And though the film's topical parts were all crafted prior to the NSA revelations, the directors say it's no accident that data mining is a key element of the plot: "It was all leading up to Snowden," Joe says. "It was all in the ether [already], it was all part of the zeitgeist. The Snowden stuff actually happened while we were shooting."
"If there are 100 people we can kill to make us safer, do we do it? What if we find out there's 1,000?...What if it's a million?"
The politics of The Winter Soldier fit comfortably into the Russo brothers' oeuvre, which has included plenty of political satire and commentary. Prior to The Winter Soldier, the duo was best known for directing episodes of Arrested Development, which produced some of the finest satire of the Bush era and Iraq War, and Community, which is also peppered with solid political humor and jabs. (As for their go-to sources for news and politics, Anthony's top two are the the New York Times and NPR, while Joe's are Digg and Reddit.) The day I interviewed them, they happened to be in Washington, DC, to meet with the Congressional Creative Rights Caucus.
According to Joe, the brothers pushed to make their Captain America political thriller even more political and topical than it initially was. "There were already things in the script that just needed to be pulled out to make it more [relevant]," he recalls. One of the film's stars, Robert Redford, was approached for the role in large part because he starred in the 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
"[That film] was a big influence on this movie," Joe says. "You could really call this movie 'Three Days of Captain America,' if you wanted to. The structure is so similar...We felt like we had a decent shot at getting [Redford] because the script had a political component to it and we thought that might motivate him."
But don't take any of this to mean the film is a stern lecture on American foreign policy. It's thrilling as hell, and also the best to emerge in the recent string of Marvel movies. "We're action fetishists," Joe says. "And we love '70s thrillers." The brothers drew on the influence of some of their favorite action-flick moments: The famous bank heist and shootout in Michael Mann's Heat. William Friedkin's The French Connection. John Schlesinger's Marathon Man. John McTiernan's Predator. Gareth Evans' The Raid: Redemption. (And for the Washington, DC-set car chase in The Winter Soldier, the brothers consulted YouTube, searching for videos of actual car chases. One video—wherein two escaped convicts in Brazil get stuck in traffic and plow through cars as police pursue them on foot—was especially helpful.) "Choreographing action, it's like choreographing a Broadway show," Anthony says.
But at the heart of the explosion and melee -filled film are the political themes, including targeted killing. "The question is where do you stop?" Joe says. "If there are 100 people we can kill to make us safer, do we do it? What if we find out there's 1,000? What if we find out there's 10,000? What if it's a million? At what point do you stop?"
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