Captain America: Brave New World - Official Trailer (2025)

[chuckdee]

It could have, but I see no reason not to throw some more worldbuilding out there. If you prefer a mystery, just pretend they never explained it.

That's not even world building. World building expands the lore of the world. This gave no real insights into it, other than Woody Harrelson tossing him a blaster.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's not even world building. World building expands the lore of the world. This gave no real insights into it, other than Woody Harrelson tossing him a blaster.

Small worldbuilding is worldbuilding, and small lore is lore.

 

[jian]

That's not even world building. World building expands the lore of the world. This gave no real insights into it, other than Woody Harrelson tossing him a blaster.

IIRC the blaster is also part of a set that can be modified for carbine or rifle configuration, but Han didn’t get those parts. Would have been handy sometimes but really not part of the gunslinger vibe he was going for.

I really liked Solo and wish we’d seen more of Ehrenreich as Han (not to mention Clarke as Qi’ra and Glover as Lando). PWB as L3 was fantastic and I’d like to see her as the Falcon in future too.

Favourite lines:

“I hate you.”
“I know.”

Honestly I’d be totally on board with a reboot of Star Wars with McGregor, Ehrenreich, Glover, Clarke, and a couple of fresh-faced kids as the twins. I’d be very happy to see Ingram back as Reva from Kenobi too. Take the plot in different directions, have Kenobi survive, whatever.

(I’ll stop now since this is a MCU thread, not a SW thread.)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Also too much wink wink nod nod fanservice in explaining a lot. Some stuff doesn't need to be explained. His blaster, for instance, could have been left at a preference.

The blaster did not cause the problems with the film. If it had been a different blaster it wouldn’t have made it a better movie.

As I said, the movie’s problem was trying to cram in shedloads of backstory (and more was cut). The actual story started with the failed train heist. It would have been better to start with that as a pre-credits sequence, then have the occasional flashback to fill in only the parts of the backstory that are relevant to the plot.

 

[chuckdee]

The blaster did not cause the problems with the film. If it had been a different blaster it wouldn’t have made it a better movie.

I mean, that's just my point. It was needless, and while it didn't cause problems with the film, it didn't really add anything either. That was just an example, but your statement sort of speaks to what I was talking about.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I mean, that's just my point. It was needless, and while it didn't cause problems with the film, it didn't really add anything either. That was just an example, but your statement sort of speaks to what I was talking about.

Not at all. The blaster scene was needed. It spoke to the relationship between the characters. It did not harm whatsoever to add a little fan service there.

Stuff that wasn’t needed where speeder chases on Corellia.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I mean, that's just my point. It was needless, and while it didn't cause problems with the film, it didn't really add anything either. That was just an example, but your statement sort of speaks to what I was talking about.

I think it added more detail about a setting I am interested in, and that's almost always a positive for me, albeit a minor one in this case.

 

[Stalker0]

But for a chessmaster type villain, the plot was remarkably stupid. Shouldn't he have been smart enough to work out that revenge is dumb? Not to mention escape years earlier if freedom was what he wanted? And to face that kind of villain, you either need a protagonist who is similarly smart (Holmes vs Moriarty) or exceptionally dumb - which is why this guy is a Hulk villain.

Yeah I think this was one of the biggest misses of the movie. Now lets be honest, Marvel has become notorious for cookie cutter villains, but at least the villains are normally powerful...they are just bland and one note.

But when your super power is hyper intelligence....and your plot is something a 3rd grader could have come up with....than it feels like there are was no supervillain at all.