I love that Boy works at Alamo Drafthouse. We were out wasting an afternoon looking at fishing stuff at Cabela's Saturday evening, as my fishing bug has been stoked by the idea of getting a fishing kayak, when Boy called and offered tickets to watch the new Captain America movie. It was almost 9:00pm, and he said the movie was at 11:00pm, so I said sure. We rushed on home, only to catch him in mid-game mode, don't bother his Highness when he is killing bad guys. He gave a little attitude to which I responded back "little Shit, you offered the movies, change the attitude." He actually got off whatever game and calmed down. We ended up sitting around for an hour, but we got going around 10:15pm. It was just down Slaughter Lane, we were there in 10 minutes or so.
I wasn't sure what to expect from the movie, but we looked it up and it was 160 minutes long, so 2 hours and 40 minutes. The premise was that Captain America and Iron Man have a disagreement and thus end up on different sides. Turns out Bucky, Captain America's friend from 100 years ago was accused of blowing up a UN meeting and killing a bunch of people. He is to be brought in Dead, not alive. Captain America feels honor bound to stand by his side, but most the other heroes have agreed to sign papers with the UN where they will not respond to an emergency unless told so by new bosses. Captain America was already against this idea. Siding with Bucky made him an accessory to the crime, as he prevents the capture of him for some time.
There is one battle scene where Iron Man has gotten Spider Man to help, while Captain America gets help from Ant Man and about half the regular Avengers. I thought it was cheap of them, because every decision is based on money in the real world, but Thor and the Hulk did not appear this time around. There was a new super hero which I will not spoil, plus a bad guy that turns at the last minute and you can't help but feel a little sorry for him.
I also hate how the US government sends in Mr. Adult and pisses on the Avengers for destroying New York and everywhere else they have fought, completely ignoring the big hole in the sky where evil "monsters" were flooding the Earth. If we suspend reality and believe the movie, "what would the US government do? The Avengers saved the day when they needed to, now you want them to pay for the damage they caused? Even in this movie, some unfortunate people were killed, but they were able to stop some bad guys intent on stealing a biological weapon which could have been used to kill thousands of people. That part gets brushed aside in favor of the handful of people that died, it is sad, but they try their best to minimize accidental deaths.
Overall, I went in thinking I would be on Ironman's side because I generally like Tony Stark more, but I sided with Captain America and what he did. In the end, they were left kind of like the A-Team. On the run, the UN trying to keep those heroes who did not sign the agreement (that they would be bossed around by UN people) incarcerated, but they escaped and would be on the run, until needed. This will no doubt be when the next movie is ready.
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