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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9586535" data-attributes="member: 18">I've read the reviews.It's a crap movie (or at least a deeply mediocre one).Not because it has nothing to say. Not because it's "not Oscar worthy". Those are just symptoms of the weird disease that makes the MCU want to mess with real world issues without addressing them properly, when they'd be better off either avoiding them entirely or actually addressing them.But rather it's crap/deeply mediocre because it's not even a good "popcorn flick"!It's far too long and tedious and convoluted - this is consistent in the reviews. That's the problem. I get that every single Marvel movie will have people defending to the death, no matter how incredibly bad it is, it could be the worse than Ecks vs Sever, and half of this forum would still be saying "Well I'll give it a chance!", because that's MCU fans for you, that's what is keeping these movies being made, and it's what's keeping Marvel from actually reassessing why they're so consistently mediocre-to-bad.But you can't to defend a bad movie as "just a popcorn flick" when its not even that! You can't be a "popcorn movie" when you have hours of boring plotting and weak and unmemorable action.I love dodgy or very simple action movies, I always have. This isn't one of them. That's kind of what makes me a bit mad here. It's not hard to make a good Cap movie. Just have Cap find and bash some badguys (preferably Nazis or adjacent like Hydra, unequivocally bad dudes), face some challenges along the way, give a good speech (not a milquetoast one like FatWS) and exit stage. But instead they wanted to make an overcomplicated bunch of wibble.This overcomplicated wibble factor has been an issue with a bunch of MCU movies over the last few years. It's like they're embarrassed that they're making superhero movies so they feel the need to make them unnecessarily complicated or something, and forget about the basics, like good action in your action movie.Nah.That's a very strange and illogical opinion. The idea that you should go to a movie because it has mixed reviews is just not logical.You should go and see a movie when it has good reviews, not mixed ones. But most people don't even then, unless it's some CU nonsense.Now you might have a case if the movie was divisive, like some people were saying it was 2/10, others were saying it was 9/10, sure. But that's not the case. Here some people are saying it's 4.0/10, and other people are saying it's 5.5/10, and slightly more are saying 4.0/10. That's not divisive, it's just the difference between "Tedious waste of time" and "Not great but it passed the time". I'm sorry I don't go to the cinema for "passed the time" anymore. Not when popcorn costs as much as it does!</blockquote>

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