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'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Review: Pro Edward Snowden, Pro Freedom
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Posted on 04/04/2014 3:48:53 AM PDT by Perdogg

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is first and foremost a rousing sequel, the kind that makes you giddy that the Marvel movie pipeline is working at full capacity.

It's also a film we're unlikely to see screened at the Obama White House thanks to its anti-NSA message.

The new film offers some political undercurrents not seen in most superhero epics, from fears of government spying to the need for unvarnished transparency. It's all fused to a Marvel-approved template starring actors who know precisely how to bring two-dimensional characters to the big screen.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: captainamerica; comics; disney; movie; wintersoldier
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To: KC_Lion; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; sickoflibs; Bender2

Uh...no.

WNB.


21 posted on 04/04/2014 7:18:52 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Perdogg
Kind of amazing since Stan Lee is a flaming Liberal whack job who'd live out his days up Hillary's anus if he could.

Perhaps his actual influence at Marvel is severely waning.

22 posted on 04/04/2014 7:43:04 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: RC one
Cool, maybe I’ll see it when it’s $1 at the red box.

The first Captain Marvel film never came to Comcast, Starz or Showtime. I waited and waited. I finally got to DVR it last week on TBS...or TNT...I forget. But I'll be watching it this weekend for the first time...skipping over commercials.

Yup, I'm a cheap SOB.

23 posted on 04/04/2014 7:45:20 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: GOPsterinMA
p.s. Johannson is a dog.

You need to switch the brand of crack you're smokin'.

24 posted on 04/04/2014 7:47:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: Roses0508
Actually, the themes of movies, books, etc. all fall into certain categories. If you think about, strip the stories down to their basics, you’ll find the themes are obvious and readily identifiable.

Literature 101: There are only three.

Man vs. man.
Man vs. nature.
Man vs. himself.

25 posted on 04/04/2014 7:49:35 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; KC_Lion; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; sickoflibs; Bender2

WB till me junk fell off. After forcing her to gargle gasoline to get the taste of cigs and Ryan Reynolds out her mouth, of course. ;D


26 posted on 04/04/2014 7:51:14 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: 1010RD
I am well past the target demo for the Marvel Uverse and I was not a big comic book reader when young but I thoroughly enjoy the Marvel movies and the show Agents of Shield.
27 posted on 04/04/2014 7:52:21 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Like Elvis, my drugs are USP-grade prescribed by a doctor.

But I will take your advice and discuss with Dr. Feelgood. Thank you.


28 posted on 04/04/2014 8:17:29 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Impy; KC_Lion; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; sickoflibs; Bender2

Forget Ryan Reynolds...Sean Penn’s been in there.

PERMANENT BAN ENACTED!!!


29 posted on 04/04/2014 8:24:27 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Perdogg

***the kind that makes you giddy that the Marvel movie pipeline is working at full capacity. ***

And to think, sixty years ago these kind of movies would have been considered B&W cheapie “B” budget movies and fifty years ago, shown only only with other si-fi fantasies at the drive in or Saturday matinee double features with Hercules and the Voodoo Women.

Now, they are given the “A” budget treatment and so many are released every week that, at our six movie plex, the average films are, three fantasies and si-fi movies, two teen movies, and a cartoon movie.

Very few movies of the high quality of 60 years ago are released today, maybe one a month.

We are truly living in a fantasy oriented world!


30 posted on 04/04/2014 8:25:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Ick. Well I think they make special condoms for people with the AIDS, I’d get me some.

He’s banging Charlize Theron now.

If I were alone in an alley with him, I’d throw a brick at his head.


31 posted on 04/04/2014 8:33:28 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

Amen, amen, amen.

Sean Penn peaked as Jeff Spicoli:

http://youtu.be/GPo2RMHgSKQ


32 posted on 04/04/2014 8:35:37 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: tanknetter

Saw it last night and LOVED it, loved how the “Parasite” inside of SHIELD was in a way an alegory to the Parasite inside of the current state.

I loved that Cap was complaing to Nick Fury and later was proven absolutely correct.

I also loved the blatant references to “A New World Order” and how they showed how wrong it is to pursue such an idea.


33 posted on 04/04/2014 9:18:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

Can’t wait to see Agents of Shield this Tuesday either, for the direct followup to the events of the movie. I don’t think there’s ever been that kind of synergy before, with anything else. Marvel has really shown how tightly they can couple together a movie series that is now up to 9 films and will go to at least 16 and have very high expectations to where Agents is going to go from here on out.


34 posted on 04/04/2014 9:42:01 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Perdogg

I’d go ga ga over it IF IT IS A LITTLE PRO-CHRISTIANITY.


35 posted on 04/04/2014 9:45:34 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: who knows what evil?

It was subtitle The First Avenger to tag into the Avengers movie reminding viewers it was the penultimate movie in Phase One of the great MCU plan. Which was a pretty bold plan the likes of which hadn’t happened in cinema before. There was never any real controversy in Marvel Studios about the name, they’ve got the sales figures they knew Captain America was a globally popular character.


36 posted on 04/04/2014 9:48:09 AM PDT by discostu (Call it collect, call it direct, call it TODAY!)
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To: circlecity

That’s true of just about any action film. Good writing makes the difference. How many different fights, explosions, wild rides are there?


37 posted on 04/04/2014 10:58:39 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: rjsimmon

She’s fake, a fantasy, a will-o-the-wisp.


38 posted on 04/04/2014 10:59:34 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Spot on.


39 posted on 04/04/2014 11:04:00 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I’ve never seen Agents of Shield. Every Spider Man movie just seemed the same. Which Marvel films did you like?


40 posted on 04/04/2014 11:16:28 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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