tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post1080384901762319065..comments2024-03-29T03:44:30.259-04:00Comments on Cockeyed Caravan: Best of 2014: #8: Captain America: The Winter SoldierMatt Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-39065918549844843162015-02-11T12:17:51.481-05:002015-02-11T12:17:51.481-05:00I didn't really have a problem with that scene...I didn't really have a problem with that scene either, even though I've been infuriated by similar scenes in previous movies, such as "Knight and Day".Matt Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07319984238456281734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-12775369558509516622015-02-10T21:07:45.050-05:002015-02-10T21:07:45.050-05:00Fury's sufficiently advanced S.H.I.E.L.D. tech...Fury's sufficiently advanced S.H.I.E.L.D. technology isn't exactly indistinguishable from magic -- it does break eventually -- but it's certainly magical compared to current known armoring materials. And isn't that kind of the whole point of a comic book universe? I thought that scene was one of the more exciting ones in the film.<br /><br />Superhero films usually bore me to tears but this is one of the better ones I've seen. I admired the way the writers/directors didn't try and pussyfoot around issues like PTSD, how Captain America was forced to relate to contemporary soldiers coming back from wars that couldn't be more different from his experience of WWII. I also appreciate the inspiration that the storytellers took from much smaller artier paranoid thrillers in the 1970s like THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, even going as far as casting Robert Redford, the iconic star of both films.j.s.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13294573.post-46166246380889801892015-02-10T20:08:50.053-05:002015-02-10T20:08:50.053-05:00There was a lot of good fun in that movie, but it ...There was a lot of good fun in that movie, but it amused me that the ambush of Fury's vehicle was so over the top, so impossible to believe, that it threw me out of the movie. I didn't have that problem with "The Avengers" -- which I love (and I'm not a fan of capes in general -- I guess because they still found ways to surprise me, to make me wonder how they're going to pull that impossible feat off. But a bunch of baddies blasting away with rockets at an SUV repeatedly? in the middle of DC? with absolutely no police presence? really? really guys?Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.com