'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Review: Pro Edward Snowden, Pro Freedom

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[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.

[mad_as_he$$]

Spiderman was done by a different production company than produces them now. I really enjoyed Ironman one and two. The Avengers was good also.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Great movie, a Conservative movie by any definition of the word

I haven't seen the movie, but National Review has a piece on their site criticizing it as leftist propaganda.

[tanknetter]

I haven't seen the movie, but National Review has a piece on their site criticizing it as leftist propaganda.

You mean This one?

People can stop reading at this line from the review: Instead, the film’s subtitle recalls the 1972 documentary Winter Soldier, in which Vietnam veterans repented their battlefield violence.

The idiot reviewer really has no idea about the origins of the term "Winter Soldier" both as a term and in the context of the Captain America story. He runs straight (do not pass go, do not collect $200) to the appropriation of it by Vietnam Vets Against the War. Maybe we should all hate the Christian Cross too, because of how the Klan uses it?

Instead the reviewer champions "Man of Steel," where Superman helps lay waste to a major metropolitan area (killing, in a reasonable hypothetical estimate, around 180,000 people), but has a major emotional breakdown when forced to make the decision to kill the megalomaniacal fellow Kryptionian who, in the macro, tried to wipe out all human life on Earth and, in the micro, is about to incinerate a family using his heat-ray vision.

So the basic premise of the review (Marvel's characters are too conflicted, DC's aren't) is false. The details of the review (this is AMERICA, we pass on the LEFT) are wrong. The context assumed by the review ("Winter Soldier") is wrong.

Now, I didn't mind Man of Steel and the mass destruction as much as others did (I figure that's a lead in to the future Superman/Batman and Justice League movies). But I'll still take the guy who breaks into the frikkin' Smithsonian to steal his old WWII uniform because it's needed as a symbol of AMERICA for taking down the emerging surveillance/police state.

[Altariel]

Thanks for the ping.

[Tanniker Smith]

It was the lead in to the avengers, but the studio offered it in other countries without the Captain America title, just the subtitle.

[ConjunctionJunction]

Saw it tonight. Highly recommend!

It’s not a Lefty propaganda piece. It does show the dangers of a surveillance state.

[Vanders9]

Well, thats what happens when reality sucks so much.

[tgdunbar]

go ga-ga:
a multi-national, multi-ethnic group, led by one willing to lay down own life for a murderous friend, in ongoing fight against wickedness in high places.

[freepertoo]

I agree. This one was repetitive and boring. And I loved the Cap in the first one.

[BradyLS]

Just saw it this evening. Pretty good, overall. Redford’s role was no stretch.

[BradyLS]

I only watch in in 2-D. Otherwise known as “MuggleVision.”

[BradyLS]

She looks...catatonic.

[Bender2]

Re: She looks... catatonic

Well, Brady, she's got that catty look because I am... like catnip to her--

Yeah, Bendy's got this way that just makes you... go all squishy inside!

We interrupt another of Bendy's shameless testimonials of his prowess with the fairer sex for this Breaking News from CNN Entertainment... Kent Brockmann reporting to get us back to the main subject of this thread--

While Captain America: The Winter Soldier took over the box office on Friday with a huge $37 million... it probably won't reach $100 million this weekend.

Here to give us the straight dope... Statler and Waldorf--

Waldorf, you got to love Captain America: The Winter Soldier for finally giving Robert Redford a chance to act in a film... that will make money at the box office.

I liked it, Statler, because Scarlett Johansson... slept with me to give it a favorable review--

She slept with me... too!

Here we are again, done in by another slutty Hollywood actress... back to you, Kent.

You can catch Statler and Waldorf... in their new film next week

Dan Rather has issued his review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier: "Fake... but accurate, Kent!"

This has been Kent Brockmann reporting for for this Breaking News from CNN Entertainment... now back to more of Bendy's shameless testimonials--

All you bitches back off! Bendy is mine... All mine and I'll shoot to kill!

You changed the channel!.. No, you changed the channel!

[BradyLS]

You win! LOL!!!