Super Cyborg said:
Johnny Novgorod said:
I'm just tired of Marvel bluffing about how something of consequence is totally going to happen in their next movie.
This is my main gripe with the movie. Action was great, overall liked the motivations, character balancing was good, great execution with the plot and all that. The problem is, especially after watching a second time, it really doesn't feel like anything of consequence happened. The things that felt like were going to be consequences they suddenly went "nope, it's all a okay, things will be good".
It is the latest Marvel movie, so I think it is too early to see if this will change same of the status quo. I would expect in the next Avengers, some effort will be put in the beginning trying to patch up things, since many of them are not buddy-buddy anymore. I don't think we will have that scene of Age of Ultron with them having some drinks together; half on them are fugitives or in prison, and the other half is working for the UN or retired, so I don't understand the complain that nothing of consequence happens...
OT: While I don't think BvS and Civil War scripts are of the same quality, the part of the conflict they share is problematic in comics in general. The idea of real life issues and systems working in comic book worlds is disingenuous to say the least, since a lot of them break down in a setting where the capacity of individuals is limited to the imagination of writers. For example, the judicial system would work very differently when "a man in a wheelchair/a man with purple skin/a dressed baboon made me do it", or "I didn't do it, I was framed by a guy with a fish bowl on his head/a naked blue woman" could be reasonable doubts.
As far as the movies goes, there are no easy answers: Rogers is right to think having powered individuals respond to political agendas opens a can of worms (especially when the last movie dealt with intelligence agencies being controlled by nazies), but the governments are also justified to consider security measures to people that can level up neighborhoods by sneasing, even when unintentional.